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Yeah, we now recognize that as propaganda. Maybe the web is finally helping people wake up to the fact that news was never really working.
This is what we're trying :-)
Especially the paragraph:
pg is Nostradamus, this list is amazingly prescient - #5 explosion of upstream SaaS - #6 tons of higher-res components of CRM software - #9 instagram - #11 google drive - #22 smartsheet wonder if the few on here that haven't been solved (wrapper for customer service) are simply unsolvable, or something has to shift for the economics to make way for them.
1. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom. Music became irrelevant. 2. Simplified browsing. The web became irrelevant. Replaced by Wikipedia, Amazon, and Facebook (none of which YC funded). 3. New news. Journalism never covered itself in glory, but approximately half of the separation between the NY Times and Weekly World News has been erased since PG wrote this. Reddit probably didn't have anything to…
For #8. Dating, it has progressed pretty significantly with the likes of OkCupid, swipe-based apps (Tinder, Bubmle, Hinge), CMB to name a few. Heck it has done so well that IAC spun off its dating group as a separate business entity with its own IPO of The Match Group.
Tinder has changed everything here. Top grossing app last year. Real genius is not the swipe interface it’s the double opt-in that solves a lot of the signal v noise problem on old time dating sites like okcupid, match, etc.
For #8. Dating, it has progressed pretty significantly with the likes of OkCupid, swipe-based apps (Tinder, Bubmle, Hinge), CMB to name a few. Heck it has done so well that IAC spun off its dating group as a separate business entity with its own IPO of The Match Group.
Tinder has changed everything here. Top grossing app last year. Real genius is not the swipe interface it’s the double opt-in that solves a lot of the signal v noise problem on old time dating sites like okcupid, match, etc.
I would love it if someone tackled the auctions market better. Ebay continues to focus more on being a marketplace, and promoting buy it nows. A real auction house should extend the time limit as long as people are putting in bids.
To the broader point, I do wonder to what degree participating in eBay auctions was something of a fad. eBay was a bit of a hobby of mine for a while. In part, my buying habits have changed but I'm not sure you can separate out the "thrill of the hunt" from the more utilitarian aspects of using eBay to buy and sell.
1. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom. Music became irrelevant. 2. Simplified browsing. The web became irrelevant. Replaced by Wikipedia, Amazon, and Facebook (none of which YC funded). 3. New news. Journalism never covered itself in glory, but approximately half of the separation between the NY Times and Weekly World News has been erased since PG wrote this. Reddit probably didn't have anything to…
please enlighten us on how music is less relevant than it was in 2008
1. A cure for the disease of which the RIAA is a symptom. Music became irrelevant. 2. Simplified browsing. The web became irrelevant. Replaced by Wikipedia, Amazon, and Facebook (none of which YC funded). 3. New news. Journalism never covered itself in glory, but approximately half of the separation between the NY Times and Weekly World News has been erased since PG wrote this. Reddit probably didn't have anything to…
please enlighten us on how music is less relevant than it was in 2008