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"if my product were a success in the US market it would make more profit." The "If" in your statement is exactly my point.

You're right, the US government has zero corruption. haha jokes aside, that's a fair point. But if you're selling there, you can still manage to avoid a lot of the red tape, bureau…

What about it? Solid business

Talent in Brazil is far cheaper and as good - I would argue that that is part of the setup ease. US has overinflated salaries making it inaccessible without private funding. That w…

Brazil is a great example. 218M+ people. 1 Language. Sure there's less willingness to pay/wealth, but the fruits are lower hanging. You can sell less complex products at a wider sc…

Sure, but how many apps does the average Manhattanite already pay for? You think they care about your app? In Brazil for example, the fruits are lower hanging it's 200M+ people, th…

Yeah but Brazil is homogenous and has 200M+ people - not as wealthy but far less competition there. Why would you try to capture the US market if there's lower hanging fruit? I don…

The equation is $$$ X ability to capture $$$. US is oversaturated with products, solutions, competitors, etc...

I agree - I just think that there are far more enriching businesses to build than social media. Especially with the current business model. Not much good in that IMO

Yeah but we don't need another social media site... Such a waste of time building more of those. I'm talking valuable businesses that add to society. I think you can achieve "scale…

I wanted to emphasise as usually the product that works is the "simplest" - we made lots of pivots and wrote lots of code before we came up with this more simple solution

Why do so many founders build for the US or with the ambition to go sell in the US? I get the consumerist culture, higher willingness to pay, etc, but there are so many other marke…

We don't build on top of WhatsApp Business API - we enable sales teams to use WhatsApp personal and WhatsApp Business accounts to talk to clients. This is something that lots of bu…

There is - it just involves us helping get you setup. We haven't built the UI side of things for self-serve so a quick setup call and we can then configure things in the backend fo…

Didn't fit in the title haha - just wanted to emphasise that its just serverless

I've been working on my startup for years to no avail. Raised VC money and burned through millions - now built a simple service that lets you add a "chat to us" button (or can hook…

Thanks for the feedback! I haven’t optimised nor tested on those platforms as I don’t have access to them. It should be working on all mainstream OSes/browsers.

Heyy, I've been building this game for the past few weeks and I'm excited to share it with you all. What is it? WikiWho? is a Wordle-like guessing game where you are shown a Wikipe…

Afraid I don't have much in the way of experience with Rust or WASM so can't help there. Maybe instead of lat/long, you expose a dropdown of popular cities? Again not bulletproof b…

It is the just Forest haha. Yeah, having a target number of ants or varying sizes could be interesting but I don't want small ants dying either :'( Agreed in game time is nice to m…

I'm curious to know how something like Google Analytics can tell where traffic is coming from to your site? Do they just rely on document.referrer? or is there more happening under…

I like the concept and I'm a big fan of it being a mental health companion - a bit like that forest app that went viral (sorry cant remember the name). But I do think that the mech…

Thanks - already have a couple. See you there :-)

Update: Have been digging into this more and it looks like we're going to switch to QuestDB. Seems like a solid bet with clear roadmap, pricing and strong performance. Also, looks …

yeah AirTags did that for me too - I put one in my suitcase. Gamifies waiting for luggage haha