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Alexa's done an admiral job of showing us what's possible. Still impressed how good it is (and how good it could become)

Sorry - good point.

My question is SV-centric, but broader viewpoints would be useful as well.

The one year stock graphs for LNKD and TWTR now look remarkably similar (or at least they will tomorrow when the price is no longer "after market").

That seems surprising to me, all things considered I actually believe LNKD is a company with real value - TWTR seems far more shaky.

This is probably a leftover opinion from just a few years ago using AWS. At that time, the pricing model increased shockingly fast with AWS. I know a few startups that were caught off-guard.

AWS is far more competitive now and relatively inline with offerings from Digital Ocean and Linode.

Although there's a strong "email sucks" sentiment in the world, I believe the truth is that email is a complex system that has actually already evolved quite well. Gmail is quite an adept tool.

The inherent issue is volume - which isn't per-se the fault of the medium. Filtering and categorization has been the primary answer there - and those things (including this post) have helped evolve those issues.

In my experience, people/companies will pay and in fact, want to, once they rely on a service enough.

People generally get that payment gives them some semblance of rights (whereas consuming for free does not).

If you're running a free service - make payment an option. It really does benefit some class of users.

Inspiring.

This was a fascinating (and daring) experiment. Sad it ended up like this.

Beautiful beautiful program. Some of the preset scenarios are great (i.e. galaxy's colliding, Jupiters moons)

(also, often on sale on Steam)