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Sure, if you gather the investors from the start to have a unifying theme other than money, that's fine. But it's very difficult to take a random company with a bunch of unrelated …

Companies can prioritize things other that money if the shareholders all agree. The more shareholders a company has, the harder it is for them all to agree on anything aside from "…

I run a small CRM company that serves some travel agents (we're not travel-specific, but we have a lot of small broker/agent businesses using us). We have ~11,000 customers with ~2…

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm currently working on getting my company HIPAA-compliant, so I know more than the average person about this. My understanding is that there's a thing calle…

I was going to say the same thing. I only saw two things that are sort of about the future and not the past: - BIMI (I hadn't heard of that before) which seems like a very minor th…

Those "message centers" aren't just about security, they're also about compliance. For example, insurance companies need to be HIPAA-compliant which requires that they can only sen…

Agreed. Unless it's a really frequently used UI, my company defaults to showing all options to all users regardless of permissions. It's better to see "Manage users" in the setting…

I think that's the point though. The AI companies can't compete without hiring very talented employees and raising lots of money from investors. Neither the employees nor investors…

When we used Stripe, we opted out of all their fraud prevention stuff to save money (not sure if that's still an option). As a b2b SaaS where payment happens after a free trial (no…

My small SaaS app has been DDoSed a handful of times, always accompanied by an email asking for a ransom in the form of bitcoin. The first time we switched to Cloudflare which save…

This is the main thing that's been bugging me about the AI discussion. People seem to forget that capitalism is competitive, and if everyone gains the same advantage, then it's not…

As someone who switched from Dropbox Paper to Notion... There's no question that Paper is a better pure writing experience. If you're viewing Notion as just a note-taking app and n…

I think there are two common definitions of startup, and neither require VCs to be involved. One (seen elsewhere in these comments) is any small business. I personally don't like t…

I agree that LLMs turn short prompts into long code blocks, but I don't agree that it's fluff in the same way that email pleasantries are fluff. The short prompt leaves a lot of ro…

This is basically what Google's reCAPTCHA v3 does: https://developers.google.com/recaptcha/docs/v3 The other versions of recaptcha show the annoying captchas, but v3 just monitors …

Many people who want to work from the office are mostly interested in doing so because they want to be around their coworkers. If their coworkers are remote, they won't get what th…

I think this is the right answer, and I especially want to call out the second part, because it can be a bit counterintuitive. The reason for having security documentation isnt so …

That's an interesting thought. Any company that raises money from VCs will ultimately either fail or end up publicly traded (via IPO or acquisition), and at that point it's just a …

From what I'm seeing, Photoshop only costs $20/month (actually $20.99) if you commit to an annual plan. It's $31.49/month if you want month-to-month. And in the past, every time I'…

Right now, a lot of "creators" use Twitter to generate leads to sell premium content of various sorts (e.g. paid newsletters, ebooks, etc.). But the premium content has to live som…

Yeah. I'd argue this is quite a bit better. People can comment on the image, add it to their dropbox, view entire galleries, preview things like word files that couldn't open nativ…

Since people are commenting on how they hate Dropbox offering additional products beyond the basic file syncing, I feel compelled to say that I really like Paper. I use it for all …

This is still a feature. It's actually "Copy dropbox link" but it's very much still there. Here's a screenshot of the feature I'm sharing with the feature itself: https://www.dropb…

I agree with a lot of what you're saying, but I don't think it's true that optimizing for profits makes you more competitive. When a company makes a profit, it essentially means th…

The tax benefits and better rates (which I think is a myth btw, but it shouldn't effect the argument either way) would be there regardless of who pays. It's still a group plan, the…