Don't under estimate all the bad luck that happened to them as well. Your point is 100% valid all those startups look great on paper and fail. That also means startups that do NOT sound sound might be the next big thing.
Agreed! That's why we have the saying of something being "ahead of its time", an idea that failed at its time but later succeeded when circumstances were more favourable.
Absolutely accurate, but I think to your point this is the same relationship between companies and employees.
As your product becomes more monopolistic, demand more from users, and you also become the company really smart people want to work at. Thus furthers your innovation which leads to more monopolistic products.
I was the biggest fan of Unroll me! Anything to get rid of junk from my inbox is a godsend. When I found about this data selling issue I was already getting "Unroll has stopped working" emails. After reading the article my motivation for reactivating was surprisingly quite low :(
At AirHelp we're not selling your data to any third party companies. We simply do not do this. We only use the data we find to do 2 things:
1. Find compensation for you if there are any.
2. Show some cool flight stats
Our business model revolves around helping people get compensation not selling user data to external companies.
According to the current management under the current financial circumstances. What happens when they run out of money, get sold, or get their C-suite management replaced by investors who want to make back their investment?
If it's stored somewhere at a cool startup, odds are it will make it into a third-party's hands eventually.
And originally we had a Tripit integration. But we decided to remove it for launch because we ran into a few bugs (on our side).
That is a super cool hack with Zapier, thanks for sharing. I'm currently using Fantastical 2 (on of my fav products) with connection to Google Cal. Gmail already populates my calendar with the flight times but unfortunately not the travel time to the airport. Maybe I should add some kind of buffer for all my travel events.
They 'complicate' it because your simplified version is inaccurate. If the only good thing in my life is a party I'm looking forward to in 6 months time I can assure you I will be unhappy for the vast majority of those 6 months. If it was as easy as you say we would all be happy and that is far from the case.
Very good. See https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/search.html for an overview of what it can do. It's also quite fast, I have a decade of email in my account (tens of thousands of messages) and a search through all of these messages takes only a second.
He got offended by the term "IT" when talking about engineers. In Europe and most of the world that's actually the proper term for an engineering department.
Writing buggy code does not an engineer make. The pervasive, wanton disrespect for the title in the valley and the tech industry at large is absolutely disgusting.
