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Agree but this is bigger than an Onstar feature clone. This is data. Now there is always on driving data from everyone with a new ford, not just a Ford AND AA plugged in.

What about Thumbtack, Angies, Handy, Yelp and HomeAdvisor? What did Homjoy do that these guys aren't? Tidy gave it a shot for a while and has pivoted to SaaS. They also used contac…

Docker and AWS ECS or Fargate are what your're looking for.

I think you're heavily discounting the "that's the way we always done it syndrome". However, they were willing to give the "kid" a shot.

Additionally in a court decision from last year, accessing public data is legal. https://parsers.me/us-court-fully-legalized-website-scraping...

Curious about your food choices. I've been experimenting with IF. More specifically I'd call it more like timed eating because the bulk of my fasting hours and during sleep. I'm do…

State specific rules are all trumped by IRS rules when federal withholding is involved (always). The reason companies use contractors is to make the contractor responsible for fede…

In my view theft is the same contractor or not. Both has an obligation to the company providing the work. I agree that a happy employee is less likely to try to steal customers but…

Then many more business are equally bad. ETF on your phone contract? Why? Because number portability. Lots of other businesses have implemented something similar. WAG has investmen…

Lots of mention of disintermediation here. What about the relationship between the customer and the company? There are many ways a company with many employees provides value over t…

I see this "match making" idea come up a lot. Why do you consider Wags in the same way as Tinder? If a dog walker (let's call him Bob) was doing well and wanted to scale his busine…

I think Homejoy failed for more reasons than Disintermediation. One major issue all the early versions of this model missed is that a service like this are not a car ride. One time…

Not trying to be rude, but have a real question. Why do you feel that it's ok for you to cut Rover out of the deal? Disintermediation is always mentioned in these sorts of conversa…

I agree with everything here, except the implication that this is only related to the self employed or ACA. Health Insurance companies have been pushing these high deducible + HSA …

This, plus, just start. There are lots of things you won't know, always. You'll need to dig in and figure out what you need to know. Outsourcing is a good option for things if you …

This is exactly right. I live in a large TX metro area and we're inundated with these "ER in a Box" facilities. We also have at least three major full service hospitals in that 5 m…

Going to the ER is a very common thing for many people. Even for cold and flu. So yes, they aren't getting general exams or long term care. They are getting immediate symptom based…

The "middle class" you're referring to is literally everyone who has insurance. This has nothing to do with income. Non-payment is not the cause of the high prices. The system is b…

This. "Then" is also capitalized. I'm glad I'm not the only one who sees this.

Yes, this is an interesting question. Watching PathJoy become HomeJoy and then close, I assumed (wrongly I guess) that they had moved from the match making concept into an actual c…

Sure if you assume HomeJoy as a lead Gen model, loyalty on both sides could be a problem. HomeJoy generally positioned their service like that. However, I don't think that was the …

I think you have this a bit backward. The cleaning business is at it's core, a recurring revenue business. Cleaning at regular intervals keeps the cost down (time) and builds back …

That part of the story is just an example. The point of the story is the argument Uber is using in the lawsuit. Uber maintains it's not a taxi service and therefore not responsible…

would you be interested in sharing your setup or pointers toward a good solution with Serilog? I found that something other than a basic setup requires a good chuck of effort to ge…

I think you're asking about Dapper (ORM) which could be compared to Entity Framework. The two major things to think about if comparing would be simplicity and speed. Dapper is simp…