gathersight
Joined 5 years ago
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Comment · 2 years ago
Bad signalling to insist on 6 months. Unless I'd worked with someone already, I'd be extremely wary of signing away a quarter of my business to them within such a short period of time.
Comment · 3 years ago
I agree. Four years ago I dove deeply into blockchain and token models for a marketplace project I was working on and failed to find any startups or initiatives that looked anything like a customer facing product or platform. Four years on and nothing has changed. Still no case studies, no success stories.
Here's an illuminating transcript from Molly White (crypto sceptic) around the idea that blockchain is a 'solution looking for a problem' https://blog.mollywhite.net/blockchain-solutionism-lecture/
Comment · 3 years ago
Changing the 'birth' date of a Twitter account to anything less than 13 years old results in the account be immediately locked without warning and without a mechanism to reset.
This is obviously an age consent control but the undo has disappeared.
Lots of posts complaining about this to the Twitter support account. Especially problematic for a brand or organization account younger than 13 years. Ironically @twittersupport was born in March 2021, so they seem to have slipped themselves through the net!
Comment · 4 years ago
Prospect Path | Web development engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | prospectpath.com
We build innovative marketing platforms that help connect buyers and sellers of enterprise software. Thousands of organizations use our data and insights to improve the selection process.
We’re looking for somebody to join our small dev team to:
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- expand and maintain existing features
Full job description here: https://careers.prospectpath.com/o/web-application-developer...
Comment · 4 years ago
Yup! My curiosity is this: at what scale does using contractors instead of employees start to break? Is it possible to build an infinitely large business with contractors only?
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks, builtwith.com is a pretty useful tool too.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks, as you say the issue with this is the need for a proprietary wallet to receive payments as this will add a fair amount of friction to the process.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes, the prepaid visa is something we've looked at although the payments to users are recurring so we really want time to be able to store ongoing payments as a balance and then transfer to their own bank account whenever they want.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks, but this group of users don't pay anything to us so there's nothing to discount against. Good idea though.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thanks, it looks like it could work really well for us. I'm checking it out now. There's also a discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25289796
Comment · 4 years ago
Cheers, I'm looking now.
Comment · 4 years ago
For context, average payment in the low hundreds.
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