You are partially correct describing that some delivery drivers already batch their orders. But that's still a different use case. Foodsby can't scale to 15 min increments for all restaurants in the city. While some people can preplan and are OK ordering food from a specific restaurant that Foodsby works with, most people don't want that. How many people want to order food from an expensive Spanish (i.e. Spanish, not Mexican) restaurant I order from sometimes? So my options are going to be: #1 not ordering from this restaurant because it's not a common food preference and is expensive or #2 wait for 15 people to join the order for this restaurant and get food hours or days later.
It's a good business idea, it's just a different usage pattern. I order food when I am hungry. I don't preplan, don't like food from the majority of popular local places (pizza, Mexican, Chinese).
At the end of the day this is all driven by market dynamics that affect everyone. Uber Eats doesn't have a secret sauce that makes it cheaper for drivers to deliver food in cities with lower restaurant density. Someone has to pay for gas, someone has to pay for drivers' time. Even in large cities Uber Eats is now more expensive than ordering directly from restaurants in the past, why would it be different for cities with fewer restaurants?
You are describing a completely different service though. Prep-meal delivery also works, but it's addressing a different usage pattern.
In the same way you could propose to replace Uber with... buses? 15 people get on the same bus at a specific time and get dropped off within 5 miles, thus optimizing the process.
Do you know by any chance if wiim is capable of streaming music independently, without relying on a separate computer? I.e. my smart Denon speaker can stream Spotify, so if I start playing on my laptop through that speaker and then close the laptop, streaming continues. I don't have to keep my laptop running. This doesn't work for Apple Music and I am looking for a device that can stream Apple Music without an additional computer.
I see, thanks. So basically a suite of networking hardware solutions? What I found the most confusing is that they sort of differentiate UniFi from WiFi. E.g. "Instant WiFi for retail POS" - yes, like any other WiFi router? Or is this box going to connect to a global mesh that's called UniFi?..
Exactly, I only understood that it's basically a WiFi router by reading this thread. I guess I am not their target buyer... still, would appreciate more clarity.
Read this several times. Still don't know what I am looking at. What is "UniFi Networking stack", what is "UniFi Network"? Is it a WiFi router? I use a TP-Link router at home, and they don't sell it as "TP-Link Networking stack".
There is a distinction to be made between a parseable string and a valid URL in more complete terms. While it's nice to have a new standard function that checks whether a string is parseable as a URL, it can't, of course, validate that string in terms of whether the TLD is a real one, and not something like "https://super.hacker/".
So maybe the post should have called it what it is: validating parse-ability, since the method itself is called "canParse()".
I had success in the past hampering the process by linking to various legislations (e.g. GDPR, CCPA) and asking my PM to reach out to legal to approve the implementation. At larger companies legal is usually pretty cautious and takes a very long time to respond.
My guess is that the author chose to approach this in a softer way, without shaming the designers. He is leaning into education without assuming bad intent.
Not going to lie, this might be more effective than shaming designers.
This is such an annoying pattern that was adopted by almost all websites. It almost always breaks password managers (requiring 2 invocations). I guess it "helps" people who can't differentiate between "log in" and "sign up"... at the cost of annoying everyone else.
I read about Prime being hard to cancel several times now. It's not harder than any other membership. It feels weird defending Amazon, but just go to your Account, you will see a large card right at the top saying Prime. Click that, on the next screen, again, right at the top it says "Membership. Update, cancel, and more". Click that and it will open a large popup with the End membership button.
Yes, it's true, that on the next screen it will tell you how much you saved using Prime and will offer to look at other plans or to continue cancelling. So this screen is sort of a dark pattern, I guess. Even then, privacy-oriented companies like Proton show a similar upsell screen on cancellation.
Overall Prime cancellation is very straightforward, compared to scummy companies that require you to email or call them to cancel membership. Unless the (unreasonable) expectation is that the CANCEL PRIME button should be front and center on every page on amazon.com. And clicking it should immediately cancel the membership without any confirmation.
Edit: the shaming element of the cancellation process was removed by Amazon long time ago.
> they have no ability to measure the effect of any given design intervention over anything more than the duration of a test
It's actually pretty common to have a holdout group that's basically a long term control group for a series of experiments. This way companies are able to measure long-term impacts, including negative ones.
It's really not about aggressive goals. OKRs are always tied to a single metric (in some cases secondary metrics exist, too). So if no one on the team has a strong ethical compass, the way that goal is reached is not a concern, the only thing that matters is reaching that goal. At every step the participating roles would bump the responsibility to think about the ethics of the proposed solution to the next role in the process. So at the end, no one cares or speaks up because the ethics are not embedded in any process, and are not included in OKRs.
Yup, that's a good point. The current model doesn't seem to be sustinable.