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In the spirit of Jeff Bezos’ “your margin is my opportunity”, we believe it’s possible to build a highly profitable business and make the system more efficient at the same time.
Didn't Amazon try this and is now shutting down part of its healthcare (pill selling) play?
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There are two factors to consider though. On the one hand, you're correct that it does nothing for the American worker to bring manufacturing back if it means huge buildings with skeleton crews and machines that effectively run themselves. I don't particularly have a solution for this. Americans have gotten used to the price of goods being artificially low because of inexpensive labor in impoverished countries. Unles…
> On the one hand, you're correct that it does nothing for the American worker to bring manufacturing back if it means huge buildings with skeleton crews and machines that effectively run themselves. This seems analogous to the transition from bespoke manufacturing of goods to mass production. I think what we need is leadership that can get people excited, in good faith, about a future where small groups of people ca…
> NEW ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SOFTWARE Very curious if anyone knows how to pull this off. There's so much value to be unlocked but it's just impossible to break through. I've personally met three very talented founders that tried and failed (one was accepted to YC as a mid-market ERP and successfully pivoted into an application tracking system) and failed very quickly. I'm guessing an important feature would be…
An nothing of this has anything to do with SAP, and everything with ERPs and the messy reality of businesses.
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I am surprised at the interest, thank you! One note: technically my software isn't quite Open Source; it's source available. [0] I will have my first release in less than two months, hopefully. It will include a scripting language and a build system. If the language gets interest, I'll expand it and build the standard library. If the build system gets interest, I will expand it. The end goal is Nix for mere mortals.…
Why would anyone pay for what you’re building? SQLite is not a business model anyone in the world could meaningfully replicate, don’t hope for it.
However, there are rumblings that standards and liability will be imposed on the industry.
In that case, I would be well-positioned as someone who could accept that liability for a price. Your run-of-the-mill build system created by volunteers? Not so much.
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> On the one hand, you're correct that it does nothing for the American worker to bring manufacturing back if it means huge buildings with skeleton crews and machines that effectively run themselves. This seems analogous to the transition from bespoke manufacturing of goods to mass production. I think what we need is leadership that can get people excited, in good faith, about a future where small groups of people ca…
Is the narrative incorrect though? I feel like the underlying situation is described pretty well by that narrative in most cases. Inequality has increased pretty massively since tech has taken over the economy Maybe take a crack at it, what is incorrect with the "feudalism" narrative? what is the better way of framing it that you're implying exists?
Let's look at "Inequality has increased pretty massively". One anecdote paints a picture of billionaires getting richer and wages of the working class stagnating. Another narrative paints the opposite picture that tech has brought billions of people out of extreme poverty over the past few decades. Both are true and can be supported by data.
I haven't quite put it into words yet, but I think the key to a narrative that gets people excited about the future is one that makes it very concrete how people will benefit.
I do regularly see gaps that I find unsatisfying, which I think is a better place for me to start so I'll take a crack at that:x
Often I see tech people saying things like, "in the future we'll be doing amazing things that we can't even imagine yet". This scares the hell out of people who don't understand tech. We need more people to understand tech, but I'm not sure how. Education seems like a logical place to start, which gets into very complicated socioeconomic factors.
Another thing I've seen lately is e/acc disparaging opponents as "deccels". Regardless of that being true or not, it's not going to get people excited about the future and instead builds up a group of antagonists. That said, I'm not sure if e/acc is trying to be a diplomatic or political movement, but I think improving the messaging here would be helpful.
I think about this a lot and hope to one day put into words a more satisfying answer to this problem.
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I’ve met a few people who’ve been on the buyer side of an erp migration. It’s a multi million dollar affair that takes years. Two approaches I can think of: 1. Target mid market or smaller and grow with customers (will be slow) 2. Take a front-door-wrapper approach
Or 3. Target a small slice of ERP/CRM tooling and gradually evolve into something more fully-featured.
I am building a company that falls under two categories (commercial Open Source and developer tools based on internal tools), but I would never take YC money for it. Because of that stake, they want an "exit" in some form, and the drive to that exit will pave the road to user-hostile software and make it the path of least resistance.
I'll just put my two cents as a YC alum here — I never felt pressured to "do an exit", and YC is probably one of the least pushing investors in that field by a margin. Though, a lot of advice given to YC companies is on how to build big companies that scale (unicorn+), so if you don't plan on doing that, you may not get very much out of the program.
I do admit that I don't want a unicorn either, so YC wouldn't be a good fit.
Eliminating middlemen in healthcare In the spirit of Jeff Bezos’ “your margin is my opportunity”, we believe it’s possible to build a highly profitable business and make the system more efficient at the same time. Didn't Amazon try this and is now shutting down part of its healthcare (pill selling) play?
Especially not VC backed start-ups...
> NEW ENTERPRISE RESOURCE PLANNING SOFTWARE Very curious if anyone knows how to pull this off. There's so much value to be unlocked but it's just impossible to break through. I've personally met three very talented founders that tried and failed (one was accepted to YC as a mid-market ERP and successfully pivoted into an application tracking system) and failed very quickly. I'm guessing an important feature would be…
Some cool ideas here, but Garry Tan really can't be leading this organization after his death threats at elected officials.