We are there. I’ve got fuck you money in the bank. I’m just kicking back waiting for the company to fail. It’s free money until then. Make up some shit and go back to doing other stuff.
They have lost money for the last two quarters, customer satisfaction is at an all time low, staff morale is gone, defects are piled up, costs are escalating on tokens and cloud, nothing is getting done but everyone thinks it is.
Let it burn.
We need a total reset. The entire market is overblown, overhyped and sells things nobody needs. Layers and layers of stupid to get nothing done. It’s an extraction economy. I’ve seen people replace simple stuff like a spreadsheet with a cloud hosted vibe coded turd. What the fuck is wrong with people?!? Have we collectively forgotten simple and elegant solutions?
So if you want to go to see your favorite artist perform in a different city in six months time, you'll drive there today to get tickets?
There are many things which benefit from being digital, which aren't digitized enough. Usually this means third parties are making a lot of money by offering a platform until digitization happens.
If you sell any product or service to the public, these are generally the steps you go through to benefit from digitization:
1. No digital presence at all.
2. Digital presence through a third party which takes a 15%-25% cut of sales.
3. Digital presence through a SaaS which has a monthly fee.
4. Digital presence which you own yourself.
Step 3 and 4 are still very underserved markets, where customers could make massive savings or sales increase. And those who offer these solutions will profit.
Do you also understand that most people fucking hate to use computers? The only reason normal people use computers so much and even have their entire careers in front of computers is that those machines can perform tasks extremely efficiently.
In French a computer is called "an organizer". In Swedish it's called a "data machine". And with the Internet, it's also a communicator.
If you run a business, would you like to compute everything in your head and organize all your things in filing cabinets and have all your data on papers everywhere?
sdcfgy · · focus · HN ↗
They have lost money for the last two quarters, customer satisfaction is at an all time low, staff morale is gone, defects are piled up, costs are escalating on tokens and cloud, nothing is getting done but everyone thinks it is.
Let it burn.
We need a total reset. The entire market is overblown, overhyped and sells things nobody needs. Layers and layers of stupid to get nothing done. It’s an extraction economy. I’ve seen people replace simple stuff like a spreadsheet with a cloud hosted vibe coded turd. What the fuck is wrong with people?!? Have we collectively forgotten simple and elegant solutions?
carlosjobim · · focus · HN ↗
So there will always be value to be made and markets to serve.
sdcfgy · · focus · HN ↗
carlosjobim · · focus · HN ↗
There are many things which benefit from being digital, which aren't digitized enough. Usually this means third parties are making a lot of money by offering a platform until digitization happens.
If you sell any product or service to the public, these are generally the steps you go through to benefit from digitization:
1. No digital presence at all.
2. Digital presence through a third party which takes a 15%-25% cut of sales.
3. Digital presence through a SaaS which has a monthly fee.
4. Digital presence which you own yourself.
Step 3 and 4 are still very underserved markets, where customers could make massive savings or sales increase. And those who offer these solutions will profit.
sdcfgy · · focus · HN ↗
My favourite artist is dead and I have CDs.
carlosjobim · · focus · HN ↗
Do you also understand that most people fucking hate to use computers? The only reason normal people use computers so much and even have their entire careers in front of computers is that those machines can perform tasks extremely efficiently.
In French a computer is called "an organizer". In Swedish it's called a "data machine". And with the Internet, it's also a communicator.
If you run a business, would you like to compute everything in your head and organize all your things in filing cabinets and have all your data on papers everywhere?