I noticed that the Shorts pedaling is causing a major deterioration of the service and it started a few years ago.
At some point I looked too long at a thirst trap and now all I get is OF girls jumping on trampolines and stuff like that, despite spending literal days of time on longer form content for every second I've glanced at that stuff. They just really want me to interact with their Shorts doomscroll. It certainly has the scent of enshitification since Shorts.
No they don’t. They just have to price the product to reflect changing user patterns. When backblaze started, it was simply “we back up all the files on your drive” they didn’t even have a restore feature that was your job when you needed it. Over time they realized some user behavior changed, these Cloud drives where a huge data source they hadn’t priced in, git gave them some problems that they didn’t factor in, etc. The issue is there solution to dealing with it is to exclude it and that means they’re now a half baked solution to many of their users, they should have just changed the pricing and supported the backup solution people need today.
Sorry but unlimited has never meant unrestricted. TOCs always have restrictions. If it were unrestricted it would be used for all kinds of illegal stuff they don’t want on their servers, child pr0n and whatnot. They can’t legally offer a service like this without restrictions as they operate within an existing set of laws.
Unlimited however, they can offer. I don’t see how people get into mental block of thinking something is nefarious when a company offers you unlimited hosting or data. Yes, they know it’s impossible if everyone took full advantage of that. They also know most people won’t and so they don’t have to spend time worrying about it. It’s a simple actuarial exercise to work out the pricing that covers the use of your users.
Back in the early 2000s I ran a web hosting service that was predominantly a LAMP stack shared hosting environment. It had several unlimited plans and they were easy to estimate/price. The only times I had an issue of supporting a heavy user, it would turn out they were doing something unrestricted. Back then, it was usually something pron or mp3 related. So the user would get kicked off for that. I didn’t have any issues with supporting the usage load if it was within TOS. The margins were so high it was almost impossible to find a user that could give me any trouble from an economic standpoint.
Except, the thing is, a decent portion of the population enjoys throwing money away in casinos. If they feel a similar level of enjoyment/entertainment from this type of market, then it's no different and they're playing for a non-financial purpose that your calculus isn't pricing in. Maybe a stretch but theoretically, if they enjoy it enough, it can serve as a much cheaper alternative to a casino and thus could actually have a positive net return to one's personal finances even while losing.
And, I'm not even contemplating gambling addiction. There's a huge market of people that just go to Vegas once or twice a year and come home thousands of dollars poorer. But they don't need it, they may not gamble outside of Vegas, or nothing that would signal an addiction.
> I don't have a gambling addiction, I just enjoy throwing money away in casinos. I come home thousands of dollars poorer. It's a net return to my finances. Totally healthy.
It's all hypothetical of course but I know Vegas has some high table/game minimums and these markets can be pretty cheap if you just want a piece of action. Also, eliminates the cost of actually traveling.
Again, no idea if anyone sees this as a true substitute or not. My guess is not as Polymarket bets don't feel entertaining at all (IMO). So it's not filling that void for anyone, but it hypothetically could.
Bravo on the learning! Now regarding the app idea, is it really that hard to just change the native alarm by a minute for someone that was interested in this? If that's hard, actually waking up when the alarm goes off earlier seems more of an issue as well. Might just be me but I'm a perpetual snooze button user.
> is it really that hard to just change the native alarm by a minute for someone that was interested in this?
Not OP. In theory? No. Takes a second to change it. To be quite honest, its yet another thing to keep track off and do. I know, for myself, I would remember to do it for a few days and then forget.
Its a tiny thing but the more I can outsource the better. My brain is occupied with enough other stuff.
Makes sense there is a divide in how people like to enact changes like this. For me, the mental shift of using yet another app would be more of a headache than just doing it manually in the native app. I've been using the native app for almost 2 decades, have some solid muscle memory through fumbling around with it late at night and early in morning during partial stages of sleep. Learning a new app, changing my muscle memory, honestly just opening it instead of the native app when thinking about alarm will be a big hurdle that I'm not taking on unless this app added more than a minor convenience.
Then there's the problem of discovery, if I wanted to do this, it's so easy I would just do it, manually, with native app. It's such a minor problem, I'd never even look for other solutions.
Probably. It’s already happening with SaaS as an example. I’ve mentioned this on HN a lot in past but my (established) company has been rolling its own CRM and some other tools with AI.
It seems we can build a product ourselves in the same time it would take us to talk to saas vendors and draft the RFP/requirements. We can build it and iterate as the requirements are being forged, so can essentially have completed software with just the features we care about, with full ability to add features in future (something saas doesn’t promise) often before an implementation would even kick off. We’re searching through all our SaaS products and i expect we’ll cut 50% of them in 1-2 years. The ones that are sufficiently complex or regulated have some protection (like accounting systems).
Interesting they went from 90 minute manual booking time to microseconds. I’m unsure of what the landscape was really like before Unix and such, maybe this was just how software was and everything was a bespoke ordeal. But, it makes me wonder if something less fast could have been “better”. As in, faster to build or easier to maintain/improve, something where we still weren’t talking about wrestling with legacy software that runs the world, those kinds of things.
Even 1 second transaction speed sounds slow today but if it’s replacing a 90 minute manual process I’d rather have that solution now than a microsecond fast solution that takes 5-10 years.
I read this as 2020 was Covid related drop, it then returned to normal for 2 years, then began dropping again in late 2023. The covid blip is explained by what was going on at the time, nothing since 2023 has any explanation and could be flock
It looks like that rapid increase was a return to pre-covid normal. It never spikes above pre-covid. Given the world was returning to normal, this is precisely what you'd expect most trends to look like, something like in-restaurant dining probably looks similar.
That’s why I said “how I read this chart is ….” I don’t know what pre2018 looked like either. But on this chart, it was the precovid portion.
Nowhere on here am I seeing how covid caused a spike up, that’s what you said though and signifying our differences in reading the chart that was shown.
It kind of reminds me of grammar police type personalities. They are so hung up on the fact it reads “ugly” they can’t see the message; this code powers a rapidly growing $400B company. They admit refactoring is easy, but fail to realize they probably know that too and it’s just not a priority yet.
At some point I looked too long at a thirst trap and now all I get is OF girls jumping on trampolines and stuff like that, despite spending literal days of time on longer form content for every second I've glanced at that stuff. They just really want me to interact with their Shorts doomscroll. It certainly has the scent of enshitification since Shorts.
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