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What we offer:

- Fully white-labeled invoicing

   - White-labeled Invoice PDFs

   - White-labeled payment portals & domains

   - Customized notifications & copy

   - Customized ACH statement descriptors

   - Use our same-day ACH & card payments or BYOPayments provider

Please check out the video and let me know if you have any questions or thoughts!

We're always looking for feedback (and early users!)

turdness.com

The site grew from my personal frustrations with Finland Post Corporation. In four months, three packages were returned and three others were almost returned, most from different parties. Apparently this was due to a systematic error. I did everything in my power to get them to fix it, but to no avail. They did not want to even acknowledge the issues exist. Everything was my fault.

I found some companions in this misfortune in the Facebook group Suomen Posti - Paska laitos (engl. Finland Post - Shitty Facility). The group had over 20k members that really hate Finland Post Corporation.

After reading experiences in this group, and thinking about my own experience, I started thinking that maybe it is possible to classify organizations based on how irredeemable their "turdness" is:

Level 1: Core process fails

Level 2: Even backup process fails

Level 3: Failed to monitor success

Level 4: Customer service fails to help in case of failure

Level 5: Escalation via customer service fails to help

Level 6: Executive escalation fails to help

Level 7: Filing an external complaint to overseeing organization fails to help

Idea of the site is that people can vent their frustrations about an organization, and we can collectively collect systematic data of the turdness level of that organization. This could then potentially help the organization to see and overcome their turdness.

It would be great to work with somebody to finalize it and get it running in production. Platform is python/django, but some non-coding help would also be nice, beta testing, figuring out what needs to be done with the site together etc.!

Couldn't find an easy setup uptime monitoring service with some advanced features, so i built one. The features i missed in existing tools:

- monitoring databases (sql, mongodb) with simple queries, checking rabbitmq queues, checking OS memory and disk space.

- monitoring private resources not exposed on the internet and/or on private networks.

A platform for creating and hosting dating sites, for free.

Lovezone is based on the observation that in the physical realm, mating often happens in smaller circles: within a group of friends or within hobby groups. Lovezone makes possible for such small circles to have their own dating site. The sweet spot for the users of this service is probably existing communities such as Facebook groups with perhaps 1K-10K members, such as "dog owners in Finland", or "hiking enthusiasts in Finland". In such groups, the Facebook introduction threads are no longer feasible.

Lovezone is not a dating site, but a platform for making dating sites. The idea is that anybody can start a group, which is kind of a miniature dating site, in the Lovezone. They can do it just in few minutes, and it is free.

The problem with commercial sites is the short-term profit thinking caused by economic incentives. It is in the interest of the dating sites to hold on to paying customers as long possible. Each pairing will cause them to lose two customers, so pairing is not in their economic interest.

That is the reason why such sites show you only some of the profiles, and it seems that you do not necessarily see the profiles that would be a really good match for you.

On the other hand, showing people endless number of profiles skews the attitudes. Why settle for getting to know this one person behind this one profile, when a slightly better person might be just around the corner? This causes dating exhaustion, which is a real phenomenon. Under this stress, people start over-emphasizing superficial things, such as the looks.

Therefore, Lovezone will never be monetized by charging the users a monthly fee. If the running costs become an issue, I want to figure out a monetization scheme where the incentives are aligned with the users really meeting people.