DarrenMills

It may exist only to push the consumer to a higher price. 16GB is a low-friction pain point that pushes many people into to an option with more profitable margins for Apple.

This is a shadow, a hint of what AI and machine learning will bring us.

This is a great idea. Discovery is becoming a much needed tool with the explosion of indie gaming.

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It's a great way that learning to code can produce a ton of content and experimental innovation. Code Academy (and others) listen up: What if everyone produced content while learning to code?

It's such a simple concept though: remove the user's ability to determine how long they have file access for. You could apply that frame to any media; in this case the hot topic is photo sharing. I'm sure tons of people are already trying to make a 'Snapchat with video'.

You could do it with audio too. You could do it with GPS coords. You could do it with any data feed. Photo sharing is just huge right now.

I'm sorry this happened to you, but I don't think the power of crowd sourcing should destroy a small start-up based on what still may be a misunderstanding.

Hell, perhaps this will gain them some needed attention.

"Promotional consideration paid by Microsoft." Curious.

I agree. I'm a co-founder with a start-up that just joined a prominent accelerator, and we do two of the five things listed: book-swapping and daily deals. While my opinion may be slightly biased about book-swapping because of that, I have done a ton of research into the market and there is definitely a market-pull for something that allows simple, intuitive book-swaps. Obviously, it has to be safer and simpler (or at a decent fiscal advantage) compared to craigslist, ebay, amazon etc, but I think that it is do-able with the right business model, team, swapping algorithms...

You often hear about this idea (and maybe the other 4 as well, but I can't say from personal expertise) because there IS a need for a service like this and entrepreneurs know that. But I see two main problems that keep these book-swap start-ups from succeeding, and keep these ideas from going away.

First, there's a TON of variation in the way you can setup this business model. There are dozens of different ways to make your money, a handful of drastically different customers you can try and target, and endless ways to setup/code the swapping process. Not every solution will be successful; most will be unsuccessful.

Second, I don't think this idea works as a stand-alone product for a start-up because of a handful of factors. One such example: book swapping "season" (start & end of semesters) only occurs a few times a year. For a start-up with cash flow like that (or none), each "book season" is going to be swinging for the fences, after months of work, and hoping you can grab the attention of the market during the only few weeks they might care about your product.

Sorry if I was vague at times, I didn't wanna get into details.

I would enjoy being able to sort by color (availability etc) so I can quickly see a grouping of which ones are taken.

Short and simple; two-fold.

1. Read the advice on this page so that you've allowed yourself to see all possible angles. 2. Call the police and take it one step at a time with them.