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Rock on man. The contrarian attitude reminds me of the “I Sell Onions on the Internet” guy https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
Your machine has jammed, doesn't work in Firefox (macos). The words dropdown doesn't populate, nor does the style dropdown. I see a JSON.parse uncaught SyntaxError.
Hey man he's out drinking free beer with his buddies, not losing sleep when the machine jams. (Paraphrasing TFA for anyone confused)
But you didn't even lose two quarters. Shrug and move on.
That was an interesting read, thanks for sharing! How does the postcard logistics work? I.e. is there a platform that offers sub $5 drop shipping with three different templates and on demand print? Or is the author sending the postcards themselves? Vending machine suggests automation, so the former; but I looked at some drop shipping options and couldn’t find anything like this.
there's a post about it here https://threekindwords.com/blog/building-a-postcard-vending-...
The platform for printing postcards looks cool but I’m from the EU and it sadly doesn’t work for EU addresses. I’ll search again I guess, maybe there’s something similar here too.
> The machine was jammed. It wasn’t a big deal. I shrugged and moved on to buy my groceries. I resonate with the sentiment, but this is very far from my experience selling cheap software products. I had multiple people reach out to me because a software upgrade they paid $2 for 8 years ago stopped working. And they were, like, pissed about it.
That sucks, but with the stakes as low as $2, I'd happily give the money back and move on.
The problem is with our payments infrastructure there isn't a practical way to make a "machine" on the internet that accepts two quarters. OP's machine charges $5. The Stripe minimum charge is $0.50, and their fees on that charge would be almost $0.21.
Rock on man. The contrarian attitude reminds me of the “I Sell Onions on the Internet” guy https://www.deepsouthventures.com/i-sell-onions-on-the-inter...
The WHAT. Did I seriously go my entire life without knowing there's a better type of onion?!
OP is in for a nasty surprise when they discover that the customers who complain the loudest are those that pay the least, and that it is difficult to turn a profit on a low-priced service due to the cost of acquiring customers. Edit: And credit card fraud. A $5 price combined with a Stripe payment process is very attractive to people who want to test stolen credit card numbers.
The title of the post reminded me of a certain, famous, coffee pot! [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
[0]: https://csh.rit.edu/about/projects.html
Full disclosure: I was involved in a hardware overhaul on all those machines, about 15-20 years ago.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey man he's out drinking free beer with his buddies, not losing sleep when the machine jams. (Paraphrasing TFA for anyone confused)
It's not just Firefox, and it's because https://threekindwords.com/words.json is not json. But you didn't even lose two quarters. Shrug and move on.