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slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: Fortnite dev launches Epic Games Store that takes 12% of revenue

Fortnite skins have become somewhat of a social status amongst kids and their friends, especially since its a game where they play with their friends. Many times kids are asking parents to buy these add ons to keep up with their friends, and may feel excluded (or even bullied) if not staying with the latest trends (AKA latest Fortnite skins). Parents denying kids that can definitely impact the kids even outside of the game itself. To these kids it is much more than bit flips in a database even if that's actually what it is.

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: Facebook ends platform policy banning apps that copy its features

Of course Facebook would made this change now. They have the freedom to do this now. They have effectively won social at this point. They control 3 of the biggest mobile social apps in the world: Instagram, WhatsApp and Facebook itself. No startup really poses a realistic threat to them anymore. This policy change is just FB saving face in the eyes of regulators (and developers like here on HN).

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: Waymo CEO Says Alphabet Unit Plans to Launch Driverless Car Service

Uber has done the hard work of normalizing ride sharing everywhere and giving consumer pricing expectations of rides, just for Google to sweep in with it fixed-cost self driving car ride sharing service to start collecting massive profits. It is going to take a while to spread nationwide but Google will do it eventually, really just a matter of time (not even money for a company as rich as Google). I'm really wondering where Uber goes from here.

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: Lyft speeds ahead with its autonomous initiatives

Uber definitely has the levers to become profitable anytime they want since they are entrenched in hundreds of major cities in the world. At the end of the day they control the supply and demand of their own platform and most Uber users will pay whatever the price is since they have been a necessity in many of their user's lives.

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store

Office 365 operates at scale. Of course they can offer prices that low for so many valuable services. They have millions upon millions of users. The more customers they acquire, the cheaper it is for them to offer those services per customer.

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: Getting 1Password 7 ready for the Mac App Store

Of course it's all upside for the company and down for the customer. Which company wouldn't love predictable revenue from customers every month. It's an amazing business model for software businesses, especially when the customer completely forgets about it and just let's their card be charged every month.

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: How I targeted the Reddit CEO with Facebook ads to get an interview at Reddit

There have been a good few of stories of people trying to get jobs, internships, client meetings with clever hack like this. I don't why this hit the front page.

Related to your story, it's either this person really wants to work for your company or you're part of a huge bigger list of employees whose company the person wants to work for. So the person might have just lumped your company with the others in the ad targeting set up.

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas

The reality of business is you don't have to be innovative. A lot of successful businesses are not even new ideas. Of course there is the whole concept of the first-mover advantage but in the world of SaaS there is plenty place for competition. Making a 30% improvement on one specific feature of a popular product or service can very well be a business on its own. I think a lot of people get held up on the idea that it's unethical to just steal an idea so they try and start something brand new. Innovative businesses are the riskiest.

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

Pretty sure that is exactly the case. GDPR went all out on user privacy that is simply a burden for small businesses to deal with EU citizens, it's financially more sensible to just block the entire EU from their services.

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: GDPR: Removing Monal from the EU

I'm convinced this is the start where EU citizens become second class Internet users. Many businesses just don't want to go through the troubles of GDPR regulatory hoops. For most businesses, there's enough customers to sustain their business in the US, Canada, rest of the world that they can ignore all EU customers.

slackoverflower | 7 years ago | on: The Entire Economy Is MoviePass Now

Amazon simply does not need to have cash on hand. They can attain massive profits at literally any point by just increasing their margins ever so slightly across whatever business lines they operate in. This is the benefit of the scale they operate at.
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