You either need:
- distribution: have some community effect, where the more users you have, the more valuable the product is (and the harder it is to replicate)
- a proprietary dataset: so that it can't be replicated
- a cost model others can't afford to replicate
- something incredibly catchy (luck!)
I figure that I should (finally) post about the thing that we built / launched. Compass is an AI product trained to give you specific answers to challenging questions about software vendors.
Marketing, Product, and Ops teams use Compass to get critical information they can't find online—like:
- Where customers struggle with their product (and their competitors')
- What terms you should redline in SaaS contracts
- How software vendors price and how to talk them down
- and… any other question they need answers to.
How it works: We trained Compass on InsightDB, our repository of >20,000 firsthand experiences from people who recently purchased and implemented software. (Basically, we have a small army of contractors doing in-depth interviews with people who have bought software). We interview our customers about their experiences using software—you're joining a community of people helping each other.
For any information not already in InsightDB, Compass Pro subscribers get the answer within a 2-week AnswerSLA. (Compass Scale subscribers get answers in just 1 week).
Also what would count as "no issues" by and large depends on the dog breed I'd say. If a rottweiler tried to attack a rabbit that wouldn't be out of the ordinary, but if a border collie did the same it would.
Haha. Assuming this isn't sarcastic—I would assume that (1) sentiments on the last day are probably similar to many of the days before it, and (2) you should weight the wisdom of those days higher than days early in life, because they have more experience.
It was not sarcastic. I meant it. I believe that every day is equally valuable.
Life is not an optimization problem, where we maximize happiness. I prefer to just let life flow in its natural waves, sometimes correcting course to achieve my goals.
_What if they want to sleep on the street?_
Let's start by sheltering as many people as we can, and when our problem becomes "too many empty beds", then we can move on to that problem.
_Where do we build them?_
I bet there are choices we can make that house 100+ people for every 1 person who is mildly inconvenienced.
_Are there barriers to living in these dorms?_
No.
Homelessness is not a single problem. We can't pretend there is a single solution. Reality is more complex than just saying "build beds" and not adding any rules or guidelines.
Why should recovering addicts be forced to live in a setting where they are tempted by drugs? Why shouldn't they be given a chance to live in a drug-free setting?
Why should victims of abuse be forced to live near potential abusers? Shouldn't we consider their needs?
Clearly we need shelters suited to the needs of individuals.
But what are those needs, and what do we do if someone refuses the opportunity? I don't think "ignore them" is a satisfactory answer.
Nobody in these threads is saying that housing them is the silver bullet. But shelter is part of the foundation of a human's hierarchy of needs, and being anything but single-minded about people's right to shelter distracts from helping them obtain it.
I think you're right -- if only because it's probably the most viable path to growth.
If your value prop is 'we're stable and you can trust us', and your buyers are 'large enterprises that don't like to take risks', your biggest impediment if you have a great product is that you aren't part of a company like ServiceNow.
What's the saying? "The battle between every startup and incumbent comes down to whether the startup gets distribution before the incumbent gets innovation."
Even harder when you need enterprise proof-points...
I think blackmailing someone in the closet is almost always wrong -- I'm sure there's some contrived edge case that could be thought of, but as a whole, it's never okay.
Just because most / all intelligence agencies do something doesn't mean it's okay. It's unambiguously wrong.
A theme of this article is to say that you are reachable from the metaphorical armchair of your residence. And if you are gay, you are within reach. If you have a reason for insurance companies to cut you off, then that is the smell of of leverage.
Israeli intelligence is working around the clock to disrupt the actions of terrorist groups like Hezbollah and Hamas. There are countless terror factions who's sole purpose is to destroy Israel and execute a second Holocaust. You don't hear about the terror plans which were foiled. You don't have sympathy for Israel because they are winning.
No, they also work for money and would snitch on friends to make money. It’s not like other secret services don’t have similar patterns but they’re unequivocally bad. What comes to mind is Saudi Arabia dissidents info sold for money, iphone security broken, lives destroyed or severed completely and solely for money.
This will backfire as more and more friends turn away and become suspcious of what Israel allows to happen
There is no moral high-ground for Israel. They are the colonizing force and they're committing war crimes and illegal annexing of Palestinian land. They're also blackmailing people for being gay as per the article.
This is a really smart acquisition for Twitter to make. I'm subscribed to a number of substacks (and Patreons) that I only discovered through creators on Twitter.
Job #1 for twitter should be making it easy to subscribe to Revue newsletters from within Twitter. Please do not put the team that rolled out Fleets in charge of Job #1 ;)
I don't normally answer questions for others, but I feel uniquely qualified to chime in on this one!
I am a pretty heavy Twitter user and have been for a long time. It's really the only "social" thing I use.
I know Fleets is a Twitter thing... I remember seeing it someplace, maybe a story on Hacker News or something? Was it something like a replacement for Vine maybe? Or was it something with threaded conversations? Am I seeing Fleets in my feed? What do they look like? Are they being used at all?
I really have no idea what Fleets is and I use Twitter all the time. Whatever Fleets is I agree with pboutros, don't put that same team in charge of anything else, this rollout didn't work.
(I may be missing something totally obvious and awesome here! Maybe Fleets is the greatest thing since Google+ and I'm to set in my ways to notice or care? This could very well be another "It's not you, it's me" thing and I'm too dense to see it.)
They do appear on the mobile app. One person out of the hundreds I follow uses them, so therefore I am reminded that they exist, even though I never watch them. If that person happened to stop creating them, I would not know what they are or that they exist.
You would, because the app will still waste the screen space for the fleets bar even if nobody is using it, just so it can push the button for creating a new one in front of you all the time.
