Had a bunch of time on my hands so I picked through hundreds of Instagram posts, YouTube videos, and race footage to document all the swim, bike, and run gear the top 43 long-course pro triathletes are using. It also includes bottle setups for different distances per triathlete.
The thought behind this website is that the equipment the pros are using is a decent guide to what to look for when I need (want) new gear, most pros don't have a place that lists all their gear, and it might help sponsors more easily find un-sponsored athletes more easily.
I used Google Surveys which handles the cleaning of responses for representative sampling for U.S. 1,500 people took the survey but only 1,128 were recorded after cleaning.
I do believe that investors are pro bullshit detectors. You mentioned some great misses but even Steph Curry misses open threes every once in a while and he's a professional 3-point shooter.
Sorry to hear that you hate your job, that can drain all other parts of your life.
Right now is an especially difficult time due to covid so if the feeling of isolation @home is a part of it you definitely are not alone.
My recommendation is to reach out to a handful of other folks who do what you do and see if perhaps your situation in this company is unique and could be different in a different company. Then, I’d recommend brainstorming some new jobs and, asking to chat with people who do that. People tend to be very receptive to cold reach out like this lately because we’re all feeling a bit lonely @home all day everyday :)
To successfully outsource your MVP on a budget you need to do five things:
1. Talk to ten users who aren’t your mom and understand if this is a problem that needs solving. It’s ok that this takes time to find these people and get them to agree to chat with you, it’s worth it and will save you a lot of money because you’ll know the first feature you need in the mvp and some marketing that might resonate for your landing page collecting emails.
2. Create the mock-ups of what you think the software should look like.
3. Hire three talented designers on Fiverr to take a single screen and design it. Then hire the best person and have them create the rest of the designs - go mobile first.
4. Hire three developers on Fiverr to develop one tiny part. Choose the best developer (most responsive best end product, etc) and get the to develop the mvp.
5. Stick it in front of people and see what they do with it via analytics, more user interviews, usability testing.
This does not have to cost $25k, it will cost a lot of time, good judgement, a very high level of skepticism, and a lot of reading.
Autonomous vehicles. It’s a lame answer but hear me out. When you look at many of the major developments in human history many of them have been about connecting things. Often times connecting people but sometimes goods, if you look at containerization (not docker, real containers on ships). Autonomous vehicles just open up a massive new wave of being able to connect people to people, things to people, and things to things on a scale and speed that is not possible today. It will likely change all infrastructure around us, and therefore may be the thing that “replaces” the mobile phone. Not saying all interactions will happen in person but communication will change to something we might be able to imagine in this moment.