Very nice project! Can you tell us a little about your tech? How did you crawl Amazon's USB listings, did you use their API? And then how did you figure out if an item has the feature you are looking for: What was your parsing and extraction logic like? Finally, how often are you refreshing your index?
I'm always interested in projects that have a clear path to monetization.
In related news, I built a simple tool to track real estate. For e.g. in San Francisco prices are down by about 3% across all property types (Condos, Townhomes, etc) compared to 6 months ago:
You can very quickly get a snapshot of the latest price trends with just a few clicks for each of the 300+ cities in the Bay Area. Check it out - https://agentsunlocked.com/
So you'd be best served to Google for the contact lens of your choice and pay for whats the cheapest.
Note: When I tried to re-order from EZContacts, they were charging close to $50. So always start a new search when you are trying to order Contacts online!
Been an early beta user of outclip for a few months now. Robust app, works well and looks very polished. I like that the devs have started to focus on the bug reporting use case. Looking forward to seeing where they take this!
another thing this article fails to address is what is the supply of homes in a given region and how wealthy are people there. if you take mountain view where google is headquartered there are many wealthy people near by thanks to rising stock prices of goog, fb, aapl, Netflix etc. because of this and the lack of homes getting built house prices are just going up.
in 2017 less than 250 single family homes sold in mountain view. just put that in perspective. 250. thousands started working at google but only 250 homes sold. and the average days on market for a home was: ~10 days.
if these firms continue making money and if they continue to see their stock prices going up then you'll continue to see house prices rise in these markets.
articles like these fail in markets like mountain view / Palo Alto. they probably make more sense for markets that have abundant housing like Las Vegas / Denver.
the number of voice based startups that have built business logic on top of this fundamental api is staggering. some names: voicera (automated meeting minutes), voiceops (call center call analysis), chorus.ai (phone call analytics)
the focus on improving call center performance is where the money is. plenty more vendors will enter this market.
1) Stay solvent
2) Buy high growth assets when everyone is selling. There's a lot of value to be had during recessions/bear markets. Asset prices invariably go up when the market turns around.
I really wish Strava would do a better job helping you discover new routes around you for activities that you do. I'm a long time user who uses it for Mountain biking and short runs but I've never selected a route because Strava told me to. If you are a PM at strava there's so much you can unlock with all the user's activity data you are sitting on.
They aren't doing nothing of course. I can see their product efforts are focused on 1) growing the user base 2) growing paid subs.
1. you need a free tier or a try for 3 months before you pay. $29/mo is a high commitment.
2. also why not give your service for free to early adopters and get some testimonials.
3. do you have adwords setup? do you know what your target market is? do you know who your competitors are? bid on those keywords and you may get a customer that decides to pay.
While her post did send shockwaves inside Uber and the Silicon Valley at large, I think, it was Mr. Kalanick's incriminating involvement in the Waymo - Uber lawsuit that ultimately sunk Mr. Kalanick. He simply had to go.
the author of the post really grabbed my attention for his slick copy to get my to sign up for his mailing list. as soon as you get on the list he has a link to a tweet he wants you to RT. excellent copy, very good marketing and product skills. I'm going to be following this author because he could be onto something.
https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-antitrust/