Im curious about what you're building and what techical challenges you're facing/solving? Does it involve a token, nft, or getting rich quick? If yes my curiosity will probably be very very low since it sounds like 99% of crypto projects.

and they are friends and like minded. Even more impressive when you consider that is close to half the population of Vermont

This will work for a while, before thieves know to check for multiple airtags. Better to not detect any in the first place

> Smart users will see TikTok doesn't really have a good recommendation engine, just good content, bite sized so lots can be produced.

This. Nobody has invented a Recommendation engines that really works, the ones that seem to work just have lots of content they can throw at you. I really think tiktok would be no less succesful with an engine that simply threw a random video at you. Recommendations is a really hard problem and anyone that solves it had essentially solved AGI

Not AI but Ive seen a lot of social startup apps in my time all trying to be the next facebook with a twist. They all end up in the same place. If you have any idea along the lines of "Do/share X with your friends" it has probably been tried a million times before so just don't. Another one is dating apps. Everyone thinks they all suck and everyone thinks they have the new twist that will make it not suck. End result is so many shitty 'ghost town' dating apps that end up looking and functioning like the other 99%. Once in a while a Snapchat or Tindr will break out with a genuinely fresh idea but for every one of those there are a million carcasses of failed startup ideas

I worked in a consultancy/agency 15 years ago for less than a year (it wasn't for me) and in that short span I witnessed 3 "facebook with a twist" projects. Code was delivered, but they naturally failed to gain any critical mass whatsoever. Also having startups getting a consultancy to do their code was already quite strange.

I specifically remember one of them being "facebook for dogs" and another being for restaurant professionals.

Lol, I was thinking this exactly

You're merely reinforcing their point. Its so out of fashion it would be considered a bold or even edgy choice just as dressing casually once would.

I don't know where you live but for most tech jobs here even outside of sv its almost as bad as putting your photo on a resume. Even for very senior non-technical roles you're better off showing up in slacks and a blazer than the whole enchilada

This was the most hilarious part to me:

  That went wrong also, because my retraction said that campus administration was not considering charging per-page fees when in fact they actually were, so I had to retract it and send a new retraction that didn't call attention to that fact

Probably because they were considering more per page and 5 cents was too low.

Right? It actually kinda makes it most believable!

Build startup and exit for +$20m before you can unlock your apps for the extra motivated