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How did you decide to build your one sync engine instead of use an off-the-shelf solution?

We’re exploring Zero (by Rocicorp), PowerSync, ElectricSQL, and a few others

After the recent NCAA settlement, college athletic departments will (in the next year) be able to distribute as much as $22M+ to student athletes — aka revenue sharing

We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay players.

Basically Moneyball-as-a-Service

This is entirely anecdotal, but reading the comments here it feels like compensation for the bottom 50% of creators has gone down in the last 5-ish years

I ran a Minecraft YouTube channel in high school in 2014 (I thought I was too late to get big on YouTube and shut it down in 2016!) and made $500 a month with 2,500 subscribers. I happened to have one video that got a few hundred thousand views, which helped

I understand the justification for UBI from a labor perspective if all “mundane jobs” are automated, but where I haven’t heard convincing justification is on the more abstract “life purpose” side of things. What happens, regardless of UBI, if we move towards a system that provides little to no purpose in working towards anything, or at a basic level, working for a living at all? I know many friends and relatives who reached retirement and faced anxiety and depression due to lack of “a reason to get up in the morning” - it feels like UBI would introduce this problem at a larger scale, and I’m not convinced by the general “we’ll all just be artists” concept either…

“You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain”

Not to be anti-capitalist, but you’re describing capitalism lol

I swear I’ve seen this article title a dozen times over the last dozen years

100% it is - wealth is a predictor of “risk-taking” in general (in quotations because the relative risk is actually fairly small when you’re wealthy)

Congrats! What are you focusing on to differentiate yourself from Supabase?

Your sentiment is not specific to the tech industry. Many who work in tech are quite blessed to have careers that, despite the supposed realities you mention, give them a quality of life others can only dream of.

Interesting about the reading text… I can’t recall ever dreaming about written word in any form

Random thought dump here.. it’s kind of crazy how we all discuss the implications of the internet and social media on society and culture whilst all seeing dramatically different “versions” of the internet

The TikTok/Twitter/Instagram that I know is totally different than the version you’re familiar with. Dropping into your feeds would give me a totally different impression of what those platforms are

Basically, the way everyone mentally models and perceives these platforms is unique. YouTube in my brain is literally a different application than the YouTube in your brain

We’re probably really underestimating the impact of these differences on the way we view the world around us

The target market (for now) is probably their existing customers looking for better risk management by checking balance data through an authentic bank connection before initiating transactions through other Stripe products they already use.

I’m sure Stripe’s hope is that this becomes a full-blown Plaid killer, but as you mentioned that’s certainly not yet the case