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Downloaded the app and paid for premium. Still no wife. Devs pls fix.
(This is satie for those of you who needs to have it spelled out :-)
Downloaded the app and paid for premium. Still no wife. Devs pls fix.
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HN: All of the negativity and toxicity of a Reddit discussion, without having to get disturbed by something as unproductive as smiling or a laughing ! In all seriousness, the average HN comment thread feel a lot less pleasant than the average Reddit thread. Granted, Reddit has way worse places, but comparing HN to all of Reddit is illogical - HN compares more to a single (large/active) subreddit.
> In all seriousness, the average HN comment thread feel a lot less pleasant than the average Reddit thread. I disagree strongly actually. HN'ers to me make sense, in many ways. Redditors are a crap shoot. I go in with the HN mindset on Reddit and it's 50% reasonable and 50% "what the hell am I reading?" HN is 95% reasonable. I understand that to some it's an acquired taste but it was home to me from the moment I dis…
'unable to connect' - are you geoblocking me (UK) or something? I had this with something else here recently, who's it hosted with if you don't mind?
was this the website? it's hosted on cloudflare so maybe they think you're a bot or something?
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> You need warehouses, logistics, and all sorts of other fixed costs that exist before you can start recouping your investment. That type of business is rarely appealing to VCs. VCs seek rapid growth and quick exits. Warehouses are the antithesis of that. Hard to scale and even harder to sell. It is an investible business for the right type of investor, but VCs and investors are not synonymous. > once it's past the t…
You don't need to be rich to fund your own digital service business, if the only costs (while you're small) are a server and your own time. You merely need to be not poor . There are many people unable to do that, but people with the time to post on Hacker News probably have the time to start a business. There are plenty of logistical barriers other than access to money, that prevent people from starting businesses.…
You do if you want to transcend beyond the noise. Which you claim said business has. I'll take your word for it. It isn't technology that makes a technology company. Technology is easy. The hard part is getting to know the world. That's what takes tremendous resources nowadays (as before, it wasn't always so hard, but unless you have a time machine...).