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syel

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    Comment #48278123

    I saw a lot of "startup idea" content that either hands you a full business plan or is too abstract to act, where I think problems should be the first step. So I built a database o…

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    Comment #47935989

    no, cause I personally think the past was more affordable

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    Comment #47935872

    I like to call it satire actually

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    Comment #47935750

    Yeah, I actually live in Toronto, and this was one the design decisions I was thinking about before building this, it's just that more people relate to the US. And I agree with the…

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    Comment #47935623

    Yeah, I am pretty sure that you can buy a house for less than $450k in multiple cities, commentary is meant to be humorous for most part

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    Comment #47935601

    You are right, I think I mention that most experiences on the site are satirical but I don't mention it on the landing page to this experience, will add this today, will also add "…

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    Comment #47935560

    I think it depends on your financial literacy, I know a lot of people who have no idea how to invest their money, you would be surprised how many people would be more comfortable w…

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    Comment #47935518

    Appreciate the feedback, will definitely be making some updates based on the comments I got here. There is social pressure definitely when it comes to buying decisions, I think ove…

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    Comment #47935487

    Agree, but if we take a wholistic approach, most things were more affordable. This is a satirical take not a literal financial comparison and I designed it to be that, but I think …

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    Comment #47935424

    Will review the numbers this week and see how I can update all numbers to adjust for inflation while keeping the satirical angle

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    Comment #47935373

    I've seen this story in the Tetris movie, he came off as a terrible businessman who was stealing people's money to save his company from bankruptcy

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    Comment #47935339

    No, as it's mainly supposed to be a humorous/satirical take similar to other experiences on the site. I didn't intend for it to be a finance piece originally but I know if inflatio…

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    Comment #47935317

    Thanks for the feedback , will work on this today.

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    Comment #47935301

    Thanks for the feedback. The whole experience/site is mainly satirical/humorous. It's not inflation adjusted cause I didn't want it turn into a finance piece tbh, but you're defini…

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    Comment #47935263

    Yeah that must have sucked tbh

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    Comment #47932686

    I spent the last 2 months building ideagames.fun : satirical browser experiences about work, money, and modern life. The Middle Class Museum is a guided tour of things that used to…

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    Comment #44633461

    Hi, my name is Syel and I built gotaprob.com. The purpose was to inspire other builders and entrepreneurs find ideas to build businesses around. It came from my experience of tryin…

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    Show HN: I couldn't find an idea so I created a problem bank

    After 6 months looking for an idea, procrastinating and over analyzing what I should build. I built a tool that allows people to find problems using custom plugins built with Grok …