mikeveilleux

Author here - happy to launch Fuel today and excited about the impact it can have on startups.

Our goal is to make market research and competitive intelligence more digestible, continuous, and free/low cost.

We have 3 main components included with this launch today, and a big roadmap ahead. 1) Fuel News - curated news from operator companies in key B2B SaaS markets (just where we focus best for now but will continue to add more markets over time) 2) Watchlists - curate your own groups of companies for competitor watchlists, strategic partners, etc... Receive news and updates from the companies. 3) Market and Company profiles - data profiles with a focus on digestible insight.

Happy to answer any questions or take feedback!

Got it. I guess I was thinking like bundling an AWS AppSync type option here so you could easily plug CRUD functions behind it, where Divjoy continues to take care of auth and permissions.

Awesome to see this pull together a lot of the core elements that are fall into the "other stuff" needed when launching a SaaS startup.

I think a lot of developers have prototypes or code that can bring value to customers but packaging the business functions around it slows them down if it doesn't scare them off altogether. This is a great step toward helping that.

Do you have any thoughts on how this might eventually integrate with some sort of functions as a service?

Also, any plans to support AWS cognito/dynamo/s3?

Having been part of the email ecosystem where well established spam filtering and reputation management systems have been in place for years, I've found it interesting how close these more recent conversations are to those we've had around email messaging abuse.

> Thus, as soon as a censorship-resistant social network becomes sufficiently popular, I expect that it will be filled with messages from spammers, neo-nazis, and child pornographers (or any other type of content that you consider despicable).

Unfortunately, I agree this is likely the case, and also agree with many of the other points where there's unlikely to be an agreed upon approach at scale.

I feel the two most important aspects of any moderation are transparency and consistency. I'd always like to know what community I'm joining.

We'll likely see more niche communities continue to pop up on centralized and decentralized networks where the moderation, content and community can be more tailored to their own expectations.