This. The problem with YouTube is often enough, I’m looking for something specific that takes 10 secs to convey. I don’t want to watch a 10 min video to get the 10 secs I need.
Maybe LLM’s auto transcribing and pinning timelines to them (like loom does) is the solve.
While perhaps a nominal iteration of improvement, cable was this way too. You didn’t have to have the $100 /month service package. There was always the $30 /mo basic cable (no guide box).
The industry simply recycling its business model in new delivery methods is a valid complaint/perception.
Innocent until proven guilty, not guilt until proven innocent.
Being de-platformed from financial infrastructure is tantamount to being economically jailed and instantly forced into life altering poverty. This isn’t some silly app you’re getting banned from…
Banks shouldn’t be allowed to ban anyone. They should need a court order to lock up/ban someone from access/mobility of their own property.
That said, this is likely a narrow lens statement. The problem is more complex around governments/judicial systems incentivizing banks to behave like governments. In reality, our regulatory agencies need to do their jobs: regulate/enforce and be held accountable when they don’t (instead of passing that enforcement on to banks through threat of liability).
Match rates where true for me as well in comparison to other apps. However, what I found interesting is that I’d routinely run out of matches on my last month of being “premium”. As soon as the paid gig was up, all of a sudden, profiles of potential matches in my area that I had never seen prior are numerous. BUT.. to like or match, I have to resubscribe… hmm…
Another obvious manipulation by Hinge (and the other apps) is I’m almost 100% positive they artificially limit who they show you by stacking the deck with a bunch of profiles of women they know haven’t logged into the service in awhile. Basically priming the pump with “possibility” to keep you engaged; diluting the active profiles and spreading any likely match possibilities out over time.
It’s things like these two realizations that made me decide these apps are not in existence to help you find a match. They’re incentive is the same as Facebook, engagement. You matching means you no longer using the app and that’s bad for business.
Yeah, I honestly think this is an overly complex analysis that’s genuinely simple in reality:
You get out what you put in.
We spend attention bandwidth to those we relate to. Those that don’t, we naturally let those text messages go unattended. We don’t think about it, we just naturally decline to foster any meaningful connection or development of one to those we don’t relate with.
It’s not all that smart sounding list of reasons, it’s simply subconscious behaviors that have created this reality.
I don’t understand how this rating is calculated? The fide profile doesn’t have any recorded matches or statistics on him, just the rank number that I can see.
I think there’s a future where phones are all-in-one devices. When in my pocket, it’s a screen-first mobile device. When plugged into a dock, it’s a full-blown MacOS machine. I could then have “profiles” for personal and work environments.
I think these devices are going to become more tied 1:1 to our individual identities. Where my phone is a digital extension of my self. Acting as my wallet, gov ID, work ID, stores any info about me (or the private keys to get at the data in the cloud). Etc.
It’s really already to that point, it’s just not fully baked the way I describe above. But I think it’s highly likely to be exactly this eventually.
As a person in IT, I see an obvious change where hardware is still separated for people from person and work. people say they don’t want work on their personal devices, but then they’re the first to break that rule. Convenience is key.
So I think the solve is the same we’ve done elsewhere: 1 hardware device, multiple virtual spaces on top, all tied to the me that is the ID.
I use ‘Paste’ on my Mac and I LOVE it. Search, easy hot key to a reference window, unlimited history that syncs to iCloud, paste as plain text and I can exclude certain things like my password manager.
Isn’t the real value of things like OnlyFans the marketplace and discovery for consumers?
If you remove that component, then it’s just a personal content blog with a paywall, which is not exciting at all.
I don’t intend to be rude, I’m just genuinely curious to the motivation in creating stuff like this when it completely misses the value of the product it mimics.
How do these way early startups put together such animated, great looking website / landing pages?
Are one of you founders just brilliant front end designers? Is there some kind of easy/cheap service I’m missing out there? Did you just spend some crazy money on getting the page custom done for you?
This isn’t just some theme that was altered for you. The graphics, animations and layout are all matching to your message in a customized way in both copy and content.
As a person that’s been in development, devops, secops, network engineering and now co-runs a software backed IT service startup focused on SMB’s, this doesn’t actually work well IRL in my opinion.
Hosted desktops require a consistent, reliable data connection. Which means any time mobility (car, plane, train, etc) is on the agenda or if an employee needs to work from an area without 100Mbps or better broadband (rural), work or access to work is complicated at best. Further, accessing that hosted environment still requires some kind of user hardware anyway.
Dedicated hardware per employee is still the best route in my opinion. At least then, if data connectivity is nowhere to be found, they can still get stuff done.
They were/are the answer for me once i didn’t enjoy having to play troubleshooter anymore on the less polished type setups like Home assistant.