The value in the video editor and music licensing can't be overstated. It would be awesome to have a nice cross platform opensource video editor for mobile. There are some commercial services selling SDKs that provide similar video editing capabilities.
Couple things to look into if you are thinking of running a marketplace:
1. Tax gets complicated in marketplace model. Marketplace facilitator tax laws in US and some European countries require the entity running the marketplace to collect and remit tax.
2. If your channels have multi-warehouses and ship from different US states its important to remember there are 11 origin-based states in the US.
I'm looking for a solution in this space that lets you plot the waterfall effect. What I'd like this solution to do is the following:
1. Enter all my bills that require full payment each month
2. Enter my bills that can be variably paid (ex. credit cards, medical bills, etc)
3. Enter my monthly income
4. Enter my budgeted personal/home expenses (food, gas/transport, etc)
Then the solution should be able to model a few different paths to maximizing my savings and plot out a waterfall that says if I payoff X over 6 months and pay the minimum on Y then here is what my savings would look like.
I'd like to be able to see what my projected payoff dates for different bills are and what my projected savings look like if I was to follow the model.
This was an absolute joy to read. Isn't it fun how many years later we remember stuff like this? The thrill of hunting down a complex issue, peeling away layer after layer to find the solution. Thanks for sharing.
I went to community technical college in 2005 and the primary course load was COBOL and JAVA. The college was a pipeline to to bring fresh COBOL talent into these big financial institutions. I'm not sure how many colleges are doing this across the USA currently, but I'm sure there are a handful.
This is pretty neat. If you could take it a step further and have integrations to send the response payloads to other services like S3, SES, SQL insert into Redshift, etc then it would be great.
Piggybacking off this... Has anyone built a really good tax exemption system. I know Amazon has a pretty decent system for their B2B that allows you to upload a tax exemption certificate for your state (US). Then they have some sort of auto validation process. I assume it calls out to each state's secretary of state system to determine the validity. I would be interested to know if anyone has seen a SASS service like this that other B2B providers can leverage for fully automatic tax exemption validation.
Random aside on marketplace tax and using Stripe Connect. It would be especially useful if Stripe had a field that allowed marketplace facilitators to ensure they are collecting the tax. Using connected accounts with destination charges allows platform account to receive the tax by placing it in the application fee field, but if you happen to also collect a commission that means you are combining your tax + commission and storing that value in the application fee field. Since marketplace facilitators are responsible for tax collection in the US having an extra field to put this tax in would be great.
We haven't tried anything yet. I'm about to get some users setup with ODBC access in Excel to make some manual data edits. Essentially we have some core data and some metadata that is managed manually and I'm looking for a light weight UI that these users can use to manage the metadata tables in Redshift.
Is anyone aware of something similar that supports Redshift? I have some colleagues that would benefit from a UI on top of a few Redshift tables to manage data (edit/import/delete).
Thanks Ken. It's more ops focused. I'm overseeing a project and want a degree of visibility to see the pulse, velocity, and work distribution across multiple repos. Think of it as a way to get a snapshot. I'm looking at some of the tools you suggested and your own tool. Thanks.
I'm looking for a product owner view that gives me a pulse across all the repos involved in a larger project. The key would to be able to see velocity, whos working on what, distribution of the work, and what they are working on all in one dashboard.
Does anybody know of automated waterfall budgeting solution? I want to be able to forecast the future if I stick to my pay off plans. I want to be able to enter my bills, what I owe on them, then run scenarios on my financial future if I payed certain things off before others in waterfall fashion. Having an idea of the future helps motivate.
Ah the dial-up ISP days. As an young enterprising middle schooler 20+ years ago I started one with the help of my father. I remember stringing together a bunch of modems to a Postmaster and getting a rollover PRI line from the local telco. If my memory serves me it had 24 lines and would roll over if one was busy. We even made some of our own installation floppy disks and placed them at the local video rental store so people could self install. Fun times!
"A Judas goat was a female who would be captured from the wild, tagged with a GPS tracking device, and then released to find other goats, especially lovelorn males.
The sharpshooters would take to the air again, track the Judas goat, find her hidden companions and gun them down, always leaving the Judas goat alive so that the whole process would begin again. Track, slaughter, repeat. The team eventually used 900 Judas goats over the course of a couple of years."