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ProductHunt is just a useless hype machine for starts that don't hold any real value at all.
Not true, Product Hunt delivers quality traffic, with high-level people who are hungry for products and convert very well.
In other words I'd be interested to find anything on the quality of its traffic.
Idea to scale: As a non-coder, I love reading the responses of programers here. "Automate this!" "There is no way to scale." "This needs AI." As an outsider looking in, my idea to scale is similar to Uber. Have workers that can sign on to work whenever they have the time. The workers handle the orders and receive a cut of the fee you charge. It would be great if you could have some kind of rating system where the con…
You're basically describing ODesk, Elance, Mechanical Turk, etc... Not saying this execution will/won't work, but there are lots of firms that seemed to have make it work to solve a similar / the same problem set.
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Things like Mechanical Turk are just creating minimum wage jobs and we were better of without them, I think. Magic will create many call-center like jobs...
Call-center jobs in US are not minimum wage?
From someone who's tried and failed: performing a large amount of high-quality labor for cheap is not a sustainable business model in the West, and riding hype can make you oblivious to that fact. That said, I do hope this team has some amazing trick under their sleeves that has eluded everyone else, because I do want this service to exist.
I'm sure they've thought about it since it isn't their first business, so i'm really curious.
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Things like Mechanical Turk are just creating minimum wage jobs and we were better of without them, I think. Magic will create many call-center like jobs...
Call-center jobs in US are not minimum wage?
Idea to scale: As a non-coder, I love reading the responses of programers here. "Automate this!" "There is no way to scale." "This needs AI." As an outsider looking in, my idea to scale is similar to Uber. Have workers that can sign on to work whenever they have the time. The workers handle the orders and receive a cut of the fee you charge. It would be great if you could have some kind of rating system where the con…
You're basically describing ODesk, Elance, Mechanical Turk, etc... Not saying this execution will/won't work, but there are lots of firms that seemed to have make it work to solve a similar / the same problem set.
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The problem isn't theoretical, just sufficiently unlikely for them to take no action at this point. Consider the scenario where my phone is stolen and the thief transfers money out of my bank account with Venmo (which has no passcode or similar auth). It's unlikely, but not theoretical.
I think it's quite conceivable that both examples would never happen. And then if it did, is it that big a problem?
This needs to be really awesome to be good, really awesome. So awesome people get dependant.
Where do you draw the line on "anything"?
Also, this whole thing is April Fool's joke, right?
This seems like another one of this startup ideas that will blow up, sell for $X,000,000 in a few weeks/months, then die as the fad wears off. Congrats on being so successful so far, but my advice would be to sell out before the investors loose interest!