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The Elimination Strategy – Why More Makes Your SaaS Worth Less
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#22It's called "Vertical integration". It's not about eliminating things.
You can vertically integrate shoemaking, but this won‘t automatically disrupt the space.
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#23I don't know about you but I dread looking for products on AMZN. If I know exactly what I am looking for it is not too bad but it seems AMZN has been overwhelmed with "AI Slop" quality product listings since before there was Generative AI. One step on my quitting Prime journey was contacting AMZN about an obviously fraudulent product listing and them telling me they didn't want to hear any complaints about a product…
What I've noticed is if there's 1 product, 500 sellers will buy the product on Alibaba, create 500 different "brands", and when searching Amazon it appears there's thousands of products but it's actually a handful of the same product white labeled by many different sellers. The actual number of unique products in many categories is quite low but there's thousands of listings.
Seems like a convenient way to get around their Most Favored Nation anticompetitive policy.
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#24Uber did not eliminate pickup uncertainty for me.
At least twice I canceled and went for public transport.
Other times it is well app saying I will be on destination in 20 mins yeah if a driver is just around corner otherwise it is rather random up to 40mins of waiting easily.
Of course you cannot cheat physics so it is not Uber fault but saying it eliminates pickup uncertainty is a stretch.
Being picked up in 40mins for me is a lot of times same as not being picked up at all. Especially if I could walk to public transport and in those 40 mins be where I needed.
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#25Hubspot is now a conglomerate of features. They are the anti-thesis of eliminating for value
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#26I don't know about you but I dread looking for products on AMZN. If I know exactly what I am looking for it is not too bad but it seems AMZN has been overwhelmed with "AI Slop" quality product listings since before there was Generative AI. One step on my quitting Prime journey was contacting AMZN about an obviously fraudulent product listing and them telling me they didn't want to hear any complaints about a product…
This 1000%. The number of fly-by-night Chinese “brands” with inscrutable names selling garbage-tier products makes Amazon’s search almost useless without a ton of extra filtering. More often than not, I end up on Amazon product pages by way of The Wirecutter or other product review sites.
The people who I imagine hate this the most are the Chinese brands that make really great stuff and support it well. I want to do business with people like
https://us.kandaovr.com/products/qoocam-3-ultra
It is such a breath of fresh air to find actual product manuals on the web site compared to snooty Italian tripod vendors whose web sites have nothing but warnings about how they’ll never support you if you bought your product from the wrong vendor.
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#27Why is this on HN? Another attempt at self promotion building another saas starter kit.
Totally. Cheap, superficial clickbaity lists generating traffic via HN. But TBH though, it worked, respect.
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#28>Tesla eliminated: > Gas stations (home charging) > Oil changes (no engine) > Dealerships (direct sales) > Annual maintenance (software updates) > Price negotiations (fixed pricing) Excuse me? Software updates cannot replace maintenance for mechanical wear and tear. No one is sending out over the air updates that rotate your tires.
I'm not saying they do this, but Tesla has computer-adjustable suspensions. If Tesla announced that they had the ability to adjust the wheel angles and did to over time to make tire rotation unnecessary, it wouldn't be out of the question. You are correct that mechanical wear and tear cannot be fully eliminated. No one can OTA a new set of wiper blades. But the amount of control that software has over a car absolutel…
If Tesla that they had the ability to adjust the wiper blade angles and did over time to make blade replacement unnecessary, it wouldn't be out of the question.
Similar rhetoric could be applied to most maintenance. Summer/winter tyres? We'll just adjust the tyre pressure and handling characteristics in software! Battery replacement? We'll just optimize the charging curve in software! Brake pads? Software adjusted braking force and regenerative braking!
The idea that software can solve everything comes from people who've only ever worked on software, get paid to work on software, and get paid speculatively to work on ideas that haven't been proven to work.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
This 1000%. The number of fly-by-night Chinese “brands” with inscrutable names selling garbage-tier products makes Amazon’s search almost useless without a ton of extra filtering. More often than not, I end up on Amazon product pages by way of The Wirecutter or other product review sites.
The people who I imagine hate this the most are the Chinese brands that make really great stuff and support it well. I want to do business with people like https://7artisans.store/ https://us.kandaovr.com/products/qoocam-3-ultra It is such a breath of fresh air to find actual product manuals on the web site compared to snooty Italian tripod vendors whose web sites have nothing but warnings about how they’ll never sup…
Yes! Agreed. I have some 7artisans lenses and have been extremely happy with them for the price.
I can't remember the name of the company offhand, but there's a big Chinese OEM that makes soft cases for guitars on behalf of many of the big international brands. They sell some first-party stuff, and it's high quality and super affordable.