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Post by shubb » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 11:52 AM UTC

serge2k wrote: post #35

einrealist wrote: post #13

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Isn't that equal to startup or seed investor culture? To me it is the only way to discover new markets or market strategies. It is the best thing Amazon can do and they have the money for these adventures. As a developer, this must be a dream environment to work in, even when only 1 idea in 10 works out.

Nope, not if you aren't coming up with the ideas.

Post by draven » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 11:54 AM UTC

manigandham wrote: post #37

thomasfoster96 wrote: post #3

Amazon can now let me hire a goat herder[0] to get my lawn eaten down. Is there anything they can't sell? [0] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00UBYDXXQ/ref=vas_sf_GoatGrazing

This is a real thing, large companies including bay area tech companies use them to graze lawns instead of just mowing. There was even a Shark Tank pitch.

Post by makeitsuckless » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 11:55 AM UTC

nknighthb wrote: post #38

gchokov wrote: post #20

Really hate when web sites assume you live in the US. Don't make me click around menus and finally ask for US Zip code (And don't assume Zip codes have 5-digits only).

Amazon.com is their US site. If you're there, you've effectively walked into a store in Seattle. If you want a store not tailored to the US market, you'll need to visit one of the sites they've made for other countries (where this is probably not available yet).

Post by franze » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 12:06 PM UTC

MCRed wrote: post #30

dkyc wrote: post #5

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I'm surprised to see this framed so negative. What they do is essentially being the lean huge startup . They launch a product, gather initial feedback, and if it turns out promising (like AWS) they double-down. If it doesn't work, they kill it. I think it's actually nice to see such a rapid-iteration product development done by a company with that many resources and talent.

It is a negative because Amazon doesn't have that many resources or talent. They are short on engineers. The people building things like amazon movies are being taken off of key things like product search. Bugs I fixed there were regressed in later years and are still broken-- this is key product sales bugs that are still there. The team I was on that wrote the code got dissipated away. Here's a key thing that people…

Post by pja » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 12:13 PM UTC

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #48

MCRed wrote: post #2

Remember Amazon Menus? (Scanned menus of local restaurants) Remember Amazon Movie Listings? Remember the "drone delivery"? (It makes no sense on the face of it, and will never happen. But it was a big press release.) Remember Amazon scanned catalogs (eg: Mail order catalogs selling things in competition with Amazon, that you could search) Remember A9? (Amazon's answer to google, biggest mainstream mention was being u…

> Even AWS was a fake product-- they claimed it was "the infrastructure that ran Amazon.com", which was a straight up lie. (I worked for the company at the time.) All they had was S3. This product stuck to the wall and grew and became a real product over time, and so they backfilled. Citation for this lie please. Because parts of your statement here do not really make sense. For instance that S3 was at one point they…