ezl
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Comment · 2 years ago
i think the scary thing about onboarding teams onto products like this is the fear that it won't exist in a year.
i wonder if the "lite" solution looks something like a chrome extension for gmail.
an auth layer that lives on top of an existing mailbox that just adds the "last touched by michael" or "assigned to sally" and "seen by X, Y,Z" gives me: (A) the security that the underlying layer will exist in a year (B) a light solution to some of the coordination problems
Comment · 2 years ago
I truly admire when someone takes an hint of an idea iterates and iterates and iterates and gets into every nitty gritty detail.
I salute you.
Comment · 3 years ago
Can you share more about what you've built? I've got a bakery in Chicago and I'd love to learn more about the things you're building. Contact info in my profile.
Comment · 4 years ago
Years ago I saw a post on HN (or maybe reddit) about using reverse dutch auctions for these sort of situations and how it provided the fairest outcomes for all parties.
It was the first time I had ever heard of that concept, and since then I have felt that it really is the best way to create a fair market clearing price for all participants where the maker with a limited stock of product (taylor swift) and the buyers (fans) get to participate.
Edit: oops - I can't find the original article I referenced, but someone else posted this on the same concept which is now on the front page of HN: https://barnabas.me/blog/2022/11/selling-tickets-fairly/
Comment · 4 years ago
i would go!
Comment · 4 years ago
the world's first...
Comment · 4 years ago
yeah! Could definitely do that.
I built this years ago, before the pandemic. While QR codes existed, pre-pandemic, it didn't really feel like something that was ever going to get mass adoption.
Maybe just in my circles.
Now, it seems weird to imagine that people wouldn't know. :)
Comment · 4 years ago
oops! Yeah, to be honest, i rarely type my own url... should obviously make the trailing slash optional...
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah, I'm just a careless person in some dimensions to be honest.
Last summer I lost my wallet on a golf course, and twice at bars. I do a "wallet , keys, phone, airpods" check when I leave the house, but it wouldn't have caught those events for me.
This solution isn't failsafe, but for a few hours of work and almost no ongoing costs, it makes it POSSIBLE for people to get things back to me (and significantly increases the odds)
Comment · 4 years ago
Yeah i have all these ideas for what I would do to market this eventually. Life keeps getting in the way, but because at this point it provides me a lot of utility it doesn't matter to me that other people don't use it (i have stickers on my phone, wallet, airpods, etc. I have iron on patches in clothing items, my backpack, etc)
In a world where I have more time and energy for this, I would implement tipping systems, sell the actual stickers and iron on patches to users, try to partner with schools and PTAs so kids who lose their stuff can recover it, etc.
Comment · 4 years ago
https://www.lost-item.com
I lose stuff a lot. It started as a URL (https://www.lost-item.com/eric/) that I can put on a sticker on my stuff so that when people find my phone, wallet, credit card, keys they can contact me.
I preferred that over my phone number or email address because I didn't want to put anything that identifies me on the items, so a form on the internet acts as a barrier.
In general, I find that people are really nice about it. I've recovered my full wallet at least 3 times and my phone probably 5 times.
Yes, I am forgetful. If I were smarter, I would just not lose stuff. But because I'm not, I have that.
Hosted on github pages and uses firebase, so basically it costs me $1 a year + the domain registration fee. So after I recovered my cell phone just once, I basically figured it's been paid for for life.
Lifetime revenue from strangers on it is less than $100. Value of items recovered to myself, probably $3k.
Comment · 4 years ago
I started a wholesale bakery.
It does about 20k/mo in revenue (we are not profitable).
It's been super fun and rewarding. It's much more like building a software / tech startup than I expected it to be.
Running a bakery
Previous stuff: options trading and risk management, real estate software, original art
Like: whiskey, woodworking