throwawayftphub's comments

throwawayftphub | 4 years ago | on: Apple removes ‘Fakespot’ app from iOS App Store following Amazon request

My small business manufactures the product in the link below and sells it on Amazon. It has over 1000 reviews and on my honor I have never purchased or posted a fake review anywhere including Amazon.

Out of curiosity can one or two readers with the Fakespot App go to my product page and see what the App reports. Preferably two people, just to see if there is randomness to the result. This assumes you can still use an app that has been removed from the App store. Or is it automatically deleted from your phone ?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MCV1QZF/

throwawayftphub | 4 years ago | on: Zillow Is Manipulating the Housing Market

I had planned on selling my own property without an agent but a different video warned if I did that, Zillow would immediately reduce my Zestimate by ~20%. Because of that I ended up using a agent, only to find that Zillow immediately removed the zestimate once we listed the property which defeated the whole purpose of hiring an agent.

The above was for Austin and whether or not a zestimate appears for an active property seems random.

Now I would like to sell my property in Reno, NV without an agent and I am not sure what will happen to the zestimate. Perhaps I am overvaluing the importance of Zillow's estimate. There are other stories that Zillow will immediately knock down the estimate of a For Sale By Owner home and then call the seller with an offer that is slightly above their lowball estimate. But that level of manipulation seems hard to believe.

throwawayftphub | 5 years ago | on: FTP is 50 years old

Tangentially related. About 10 years ago I considered an idea that would allow websites to accept large files. The web admin would either embed our company's page as an iframe or just link to our whitelabeled url, such as "mydomain.ftphub.com". The admin would then get an email with a download link. Or they could reverse the process and send a link to a customer the way yousendit does.

I still own the domains ftphub.com and ftphub.net, and I put the domains at auction since it looks like I'll never get around to it.

Should I work on this ? Or has this opportunity been commoditized to the point where I there is no way it could turn a profit ? Also has anyone under 30 even heard of "ftp" ? The abbreviation in our brand but not sure it's meaningful anymore. Thanks and sorry if this is too off topic.

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