Agreed. Our site was almost completely delisted a couple of months ago due to a completely fabricated claim. https://playerassist.com/4000-playerassist-urls-removed-due-... We’re still submitting the urls one by one. 10 days ago they said the complainant had 10 days to file suit or they would relist. Still waiting on relisting.

Unfortunately we didn’t generate the negative pr that the intercept was able to generate. And I’ll never know who did this either. Very frustrating

I understand, the part that's insane is having to press a plus button and copy and paste each url into a text field. Also, the lack of notification of any sort

Agreed, at $8,400/yr I feel like I might as well just pay my devs an implement something like introjs. Granted, not as powerful, but still.....

I did immediately think to myself that this was a needed product when I saw.

Definitely, thanks for the kind words and feedback here. Pricing is something we're still iterating on and a plan that's palatable for startups is in the future. Stay tuned!

https://neilpatel.com/blog/buying-websites/ Looks like this link explains it a bit. Neil Patel bought the blog for 500k

My mind is blown. I never knew this could be done. I have always hated selecting text on the iphone

On the other hand I have a new MacBook Pro with Force Touch and can't drag and drop anymore. It's stupid. I attempt 5 times until I manage to grab one icon. Apparently it's a feature, not a bug.

I always enable three finger drag in touchpad preferences for this very reason.

ideally that would be true, but 95% of the people i know who have bought cryptocurrency have bought it for the investment.

And do you not see why this is a problem?

Why? It helps preserve and stabilize the value of the currencies.

True. That's the role of speculators in any market. They buy stuff that nobody wants, this way preventing the price from falling too hard. I always buy my T-shirts in the winter. They're cheaper.

The market makes up its own mind

Does anybody else not worry about providing access to their investments via direct access to the various exchanges? If they are hacked, they have a direct pipeline to my accounts? Surely not all exchanges are setup to provide secure read only data? And what about the initial auth connection?

I just hate to add another point of vulnerability into an area that is no doubt being heavily targeted by hacking groups

You can create read only API keys in most cases, and revoke them once you upload your transactions.

to be honest anything with "tracker" in the name gives me the creeps, to begin with.

Perhaps the business unit wasn't doing well and the alternative may have been lost jobs?

I don't get it. This is completely baffling to me that this is a company worth 9 figures.

You can't assume an efficient or even real market. Valuations are designed to benefit certain people. There's virtually nobody that would benefit from marking down the valuation of a company, and there are motivations that would lead to acquiring at inflated prices. For one, if you're buying something for the prestige of owning it you don't want to prove it worthless.

And worth nine figures to another company which appears (from TFA) to be worth nine figures itself. The Valley is amazing sometimes.

1. Raise $100 million.

2. Hire 100's of talented engineers for above average salaries and perks.

2b. Make them do something that sounds challenging and hard to understand, but ultimately useless.

3. Sell to a greater fool as an acqui-hire for $150 million

4. Earn a few million in profit.

5. Repeat! (because you didnt get a 100X return, just a slim one)

Perhaps the take-away lesson here is that the hiring process hurts a lot, and companies will pay millions of dollars to avoid it.

So, a startup that hires a bunch of developers to hack as a team on some open source project and fires quickly then flips the team to a bigger company[1] could work?!?

sadly, I thought of a domain name for this: teamchurn.com

1) obviously paying a chunk to the team

It's only worth it because someone was willing to pay it. The last chump to hold the stock before the company unravels eats the loss. Early founders and VCs have cashed out long before that. It's an unfortunate game, selling dreams instead of substance.

It's about generating noise rather than value...because humans.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but sometimes, companies are left with no other solutions. We had some websites hosted with Wordpress VIP. Because of their full page caching and just general restrictions, creating a login and user registration system like we wanted was not possible. We had to use a 3rd party hosted solutions that loaded with javascript(we used Gigya). Before that, I thought exactly as you do.

There is a reason Gigya just raised 25mm more dollars. Granted, they do more than just user login as a service.

Gigya looks to be a lot closer to a DMP in an advertising world than a SaaS login service. They help getting visitors to identify themselves, that's a completely different positioning and feature set.

Knowing my audience and being able to monetize that is not the same as managing billing.

That said, it does sound kind of interesting, but from my own experience, I'd probably choose to build payments and billing myself.