I would actually say that the selling point here is that affiliate revenue goes thru your website.
I had tried to sign up for affiliate sales a while back, but:
It is complicated to sign up for it – depending on the vendor you have to fill in a number of forms, or sign up via a different affiliate network to even use them.
Wait times for a response are long – I remember some networks or individual sellers got back to me months later.
There's a high bar to entry – I had a tiny website, so I didn't get approved, but I had a good CTR. I eventually had to shut down the website since I realized there was no viable option to monetization and was just burning money on name registration + hosting.
My website was also not in the blog-space, i.e. I didn't do reviews, but I did offer good info, and Amazon for example specifically denied me affiliate permissions because of this.
I might revive the website and see if it'll work again with you guys. This is a path to monetization that could make it sustainable. Thanks and good luck!
Love this! This is one of the key painpoints we're trying to solve. It takes building in the space to know how hard (/impossible) monetizing products on your site is, but we think once people try to do so, they'll end up building with Channel3!
Excited to hear about what you were building. If there's anything Channel3 can do to support, feel free to dm me at george@trychannel3.com.
Why bunch Node w/ Express together with the others and dismiss it? (genuinely curious).
Rails has a high learning curve. Perhaps people working with it for years don't notice it. Node + Express seems faster to learn and ship, but my experience with Rails is limited.
Taxes make a government accountable to citizens. While not paying taxes because of oil wealth might seem enticing in the short term, it'll lead to disaster in the long term if a government becomes accountable mainly to the resource industry and neglects to invest in a diversified, productive economy.
Norway has high tax rates despite having oil wealth-- this ensures citizens remain productive and don't get too complacent by depending on a fluctuating commodity.
The vast majority of oil tax revenue never enters the Norwegian domestic economy but is instead funnelled into the State Pension Fund (The Oil Fund) which invests outside the country. This means that the oil has little effect on inflation in the country. There is also a rule that only 3% or less of the fund can be used by the state in any one year. 3% is the expected real return so the fund should never shrink thus preserving the value for the future.
Norway has successfully avoided the Dutch Disease. But whether we will be able to successfully negotiate the decline of oil in the long run remains uncertain.
It might just go back to what it was before / intended to be originally: no private jets, no helicopters, or oysters on the half shell in the middle of the desert
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Quest 2: 20 million (installs?) from oct'20 - q1'23, so lets say 2.5 years. (makes sense, Qualcomm said 10m in dec'21)
Quest 3 Sold an Estimated 900K-1.5 Million Units in Q4 2023.
Vision Pro is nice and all, but it's such a high price to pay although you're essentially buying a macbook pro. Still, in terms of revenue is still $1.4B for the quarter
This proves that there are at least 400k die-hard-price-insensitive Apple enthusiasts who are willing to spend that much for Apple’s latest gadgets. If I was Apple’s executive, I would double down on more high-priced novel products, even niche ones, that integrate in various ways to the Apple ecosystem.
That's a projection for the rest of the year and probably still way optimistic. It's quite possible that the current trend is for a much smaller number.
Yeah I'm the only person I know who has one (I know one other buyer but they returned it). I'm honestly shocked it's over 100k sold since I feel like i'm in a pretty tech-early-adopter bubble
I had tried to sign up for affiliate sales a while back, but:
It is complicated to sign up for it – depending on the vendor you have to fill in a number of forms, or sign up via a different affiliate network to even use them.
Wait times for a response are long – I remember some networks or individual sellers got back to me months later.
There's a high bar to entry – I had a tiny website, so I didn't get approved, but I had a good CTR. I eventually had to shut down the website since I realized there was no viable option to monetization and was just burning money on name registration + hosting.
My website was also not in the blog-space, i.e. I didn't do reviews, but I did offer good info, and Amazon for example specifically denied me affiliate permissions because of this.
I might revive the website and see if it'll work again with you guys. This is a path to monetization that could make it sustainable. Thanks and good luck!