DanBlake

Been working on this for about a year. Basically my first real 'startup' since I launched Tinychat nearly a decade ago. Essentially, this is google analytics for where you have been. It makes use of a local database on the phone itself so you have control over your data. The only external calls it makes are anonymous ones to either google or foursquare to get names of places if you stay there for more than 15 minutes.

This app was created to answer questions that are not possible to easily answer now, like "What are my top 10 restaurants in miami" or "when was the last time I was at the dentist". While perhaps the audience for such data isnt as large as social platforms, I believe that there is enough utility in this for it to succeed.

The app itself is built in react (so android version coming in next few weeks) and makes use of custom geofence zones to accurately (in testing, more accurate than any other app in the ios app store) get your location and track your path with minimal battery drain of about 3-5% per day. All this done in the background.

Right now, the analytics options are just getting started but we are building out a full suite of detailed 'drill downs' for people to explore their data, even with the ability for you to write your own queries if you choose.

Id appreciate any comments or criticisms, be as harsh as you want- This app was a huge undertaking and if there are shortcomings I want to hear them.

Hogwash. The worth of a company is what someone will pay for it. Thats literally the definition of the market cap. Trying to say "But these shares are overvalued right now!" means nothing. The value of anything is what someone will pay for it- Just ask the guy walking in the desert what he will pay for a bottle of water.

I think its been around 7 years since a public exploit has been dropped for the apple airport extreme. YMMV though, as Apple has stopped selling them which means support is likely going to be minimal in the future if something does pop up. Alot of it is likely security through obscurity though as obviously the code is closed source and it uses a custom management interface vs web-access.

If you want to go the modern (better) route, enterprise equipment such as ubiquity or cisco with strict rules are likely your best bet. The budget option being a openwrt install with one of their recommended routers

So, thats more code you want me to write, to support how many total potential users on the planet? I'm good. They knew what they signed up for when they chose to use an email like that and I am sure every single one of them has another email they use for this case.

In fact, I bet many of them are so frustrated with the errors of nothing working that they dont even attempt to sign up for things with the email most times.

I disagree. While n@ai might be a technically valid email, its such a extreme edge case ( maybe 1 out of 1,000,000 people have a email like this) that its worth denying that person registration to keep the likely thousands of erroneous emails from being entered incorrectly and the time that goes into correcting them. Same thing goes for addresses like "<>;@\'`{}|.a"@παράδειγμα.δοκιμή

Honestly, if you decide to use a email like n@ai you already know what to expect. Most services wont let you sign up, And even if they do most will likely incur errors in the application when you attempt to do things.

In reality, while it may be 'in spec' to use such a email, we can all hope that edge cases that allow it are changed and the legacy 'rules' that allowed it in the first place phased out completely.

So, in practice in the 'real world'- n@ai is not a valid email address and never will be. If I create a web application you can bet your bottom dollar I wont allow it and I will create less work for myself by doing so.

My first instinct reading this was to think about the gothamist/dnainfo kerfuffle.

However, Checking the new yorkers revenue shows around 200 million/yr, I definitely did not expect that and likely means it can easily support a union. (unless the new yorker is loaded with debt, which it might be)

Considered this before, but it doesnt work. IIRC, the law applies to euro citizens both living in country and abroad. As such, geoip blocking is not a working strategy. (a french citizen who lives in japan still had GDPR rights) A better one would likely be a clickwrap agreement for all users stating "European citizens are not allowed on this service" which they have to click a "I am not european" tickbox to.

11 million distributed around is going to be close to nothing on a per-publisher basis. I wouldn't be surprised if the spread was more than 100 to 1 on owed vs collected. (so if you lost 100k from a terminated adsense account, I doubt you would even get 1k from this settlement)