Can it actually do something difficult like apply for jobs? So far I know of five or so websites that claim they can apply to jobs for you like sonara.ai and usemassive.com and Skyvern AI but when you try to actually use them all they can do is the one-page job applications and not the much more common Workday 10-page job applications with annoying "create an account" and annoying questions like "Do you have any relatives that work at Sony" and annoying "fill out all your work experience" where you have to click 50 times for one application. That's like half of all job applications. https://jobs.spectrum.com/job/-/-/4673/76746020384?utm_sourc...
while we don't auto-apply to jobs for you, our browser extension, Simplify Copilot, makes it easier to apply to those multi-step application forms (workday, taleo, sap, etc.)
I consider using bad hiring software like that a red flag, and suggestive of other things the company must be doing wrong too. I noped out whenever I saw Taleo.
All big successful companies do "something" wrong, thats how they make money. Steal your OSS, not pay taxes, avoid overtime payments, low wages, outsource slavery, destroy the environment, gaslight while they steal your data and subject millions to dark patterns of advertising and marketing, screw over suppliers, intentionally sew discord as a distraction. The list goes on. To me the bigger the company the bigger the red flag.
Do the biggest companies not create the most value for the world?
Consider this. If the most successful companies are simply cheating customers, then most consumers are stupid; handing offer their hard-earned money for bad deals and to be exploited.
But most people are not stupid, and most people highly value their money. So, they only buy something because they want what the seller is offering even more than their money. This means that companies create great value because they offer something that people really want.
This assumes there are compelling alternatives in the market that I can choose from. In reality, there are only a few entrenched players in any established market that work hard to limit competition. So yes, even if I'd like to choose not to hand over my hard-earned money to Evil Corp #93, I can only do the "stupid" thing and watch myself and my environment get exploited.
Also, I don’t think my previous comment does assume that there are compelling alternatives.
A person always has a choice not to spend their money. Even if they need expensive healthcare, they can choose not to buy it. By buying the product, they want the service more than their money.
They might think that the price is too high, but prices are a function of market forces.
It doesn’t make sense to me that a person can say they feel exploited because they have voluntarily chosen to buy at a particular price. They probably want to pay less, and might feel that the consumer surplus is low, but they still value the service more than their money. That isn’t exploitation to me.
I disagree with the general comment that “any established market” has “only a few entrenched players”. I’d say that most markets provide compelling alternatives. Where they don’t yet, the product is either a commodity, or there is an opportunity for a new business to serve the customer!
But let’s say your point is true. How do those players become entrenched? I’d say it’s from providing great value.
i never realized that was a programming game but now that I think about it I think it is. I liked that game a lot because it had such nice visuals and gameplay. I still have the CD too.
I'm passionate about how in Ray Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Nearer" he predicts that $1000 of compute hardware will be able to simulate the human brain by 2023-2032. I think this means life will change dramatically very soon and we will soon have lives free of repetition.
Is it just me or somehow our day to day does not seem that changed at all and yet as humanity we all are leaping forward exponentially with our inventions.
I think it is the graph not showing the full picture. I assume there are a lot of contractor and spending not shown on the graph because they are "services" and not people officially employed by the government. eg contractors or Crisis Tech Line that gets all its money from government.
I think a better way to validate ideas is to go to acquire.com and actually see what people are paying for already. They are frequently 1 person businesses and already have paying customers
If you had some further validation like someone actually clicking pay besides someone just saying they would pay for it then the website would be worth paying for. You should just give the tweet database away for free and then charge for the actual validation. I think your website still has value though, I know users saying they would pay is step one on the way to paying
Am I right in calling this a direct competitor to https://www.gumloop.com/ ? I would probably use that since there are more options right now unless you have an option exclusive to you
Yep , it seems to be a much mature product, they are have much more integrations going on. FlowRipple is at a very nascent stage and very much figuring out it's path. I've put together this project in a month along with my full time day job, so the motive to showcase it here was to just get some eyes and opinions on it.
Related: to save on cost, Hacker News is already summarized and available in feed form which I find better than the default front page where you have to read the same headlines repeatedly because the order of the headlines changes on the front page.
https://hackernews.betacat.io/
I also dislike how the titles on hacker news are so short that often they dont give enough information. e.g. headline: "Amazon Penterhorse". What is that?? that doesn't exist but the point is I have to click through to see it and its annoying. And on some posts when I click on some links the person's blog post is just way longer than my interest level so it doesn't get the point across. These summaries are just the right length.
