It certainly appears like the short term impacts of this war have been:

- martyrdom of the previous ayatollah

- increase in energy price globally

- increased ability for the west's adversaries to sell their oil at higher prices through reducing sanctions

I wanted to make it exceedingly easy to learn vocabulary in Catalan and Spanish.

To me good is - Pre-determined lists of words - Audio examples - Sentence examples - Native app with offline support

most importantly: - No business model that requires a subscription

I'm trying to see it more as writing a text-book, than starting a business

https://learnthewords.app

The idea that Bezos' specialty is taking government subsidies and not ecommerce is hogwash..

Apparently 4.7 billion worth. https://www.vice.com/en/article/amazon-has-received-at-least...

Ecommerce itself involved exploiting government regulations around sales taxes. Amazon didn't charge sales tax for over a decade because it had no physical location outside of WA. That alone gave it a massive price advantage over every other retailer. When the laws finally caught up, many competitors had already closed down, the biggest of them being Circuit City and Borders.

The parent is talking about needing _brighter_ headlights, not headlights in general.

I love your landing page, it makes it very easy to determine how the product would be useful to ops.

Thanks! Really happy with its current state but it'll be further fleshed out a lot more in the near future with dedicated pages for each major feature set, e.g Bookings, Safety Management System, Simulator Management etc.

Whilst that might true as per your observations, I've also seen people do zero research, take a substance in the wrong place/frame of mind, and subsequently had a more turbulent experience than they were expecting

Yes to both.

We often attract certain types of people, and have a wealth of experience with that type.

We probably all take this as obvious knowledge. But only when I uncomfortably enter a group of people unlike me -- and feel totally alienated not just by their norms and assumptions, but their misunderstandings of my own -- only then do I truly confront the implications in a visceral, non-academic sense :)

That's true with anything, though.

Does anyone have a view of the 80/20-type automations I can make?

It seems like there's an endless amount of automations that can be done, but are there any simple ones that provide outsized returns?

As someone who thought smart homes were just a gimmick but now has a reasonably complex HA setup; these are some of the things I use it for:

* Controlling items I don't have easy access to:

  * AC in baby's room (as well as checking on temperature) while baby is asleep  
  
  * Subfloor ventilation fans and set up clever timers for them (I'd have to crawl under the house)

I also have a motion sensor connected to a light for the hallway which has logic that is a bit more clever than the out of the box motion-controlled-lights (e.g. it stays on if people are in the vicinity).

Other than that, the rest is pretty much gimmick: Every blue moon I will change the light in the living room to bright purple for fun.

When making LearnTheWords[1] I had to wait 6 weeks for approval from Google. They weren't happy with how I documented what this testing process was like. I had to wait 3 rounds of 2 weeks between submissions, writing ever more kafkaesque descriptions of the insights i gleaned from the definitely-not-paid-for test users that i'd required.

I wasn't expecting it to be easier to launch on iOS than Android, but here we are.

[1] https://learnthewords.app

> They weren't happy with how I documented what this testing process was like

Their testing is done by the user. Testing your own software is so strange for them that they don't underestand your docs. /s

Yes there is, look on Fiverr.

It's crazy to have to pay someone to do this, particularly because Google don't want you to use paid testers.

The idea was to stop spammy apps, i believe. But they've really thrown the baby out with the bathwater here, making it really hard for small-scale innovation.

You state it as if it were a coincidence. The important point is that the author identified the problem and filled the gap.

> I started reading forums, comments, and online discussions. It turned out the built-in Wiki in Microsoft Teams annoyed users really a lot.

I admit I didn't read the entirety of the post, but I read the following:

> Many of our clients came to us after trying the Microsoft built-in Wiki. It was clunky, inconvenient, and didn’t do the job well. We focused on simplicity: the essential features only, nothing extra — and everything should function inside Microsoft Teams.

So I know it wasn't a coincidence, and rarely are such software built without understanding the needs first.

I just wanted to point out that in this case, the business relies on Microsoft not doing a proper job. Otherwise they would be at a serious risk of being Sherlocked by the provider.

They already expanded it to Slack and other platforms.

Slack is, I think, mainly focused on the messaging and relies on third parties to integrate other features. Microsoft is a behemoth that wants to sell their complete software suite and tries to integrate all of them together for a "seamless" experience. They do have an incentive for their own products to be good and used instead of third parties.

Plus once they realize how much data is in these wikis, they will want to ingest them for AI (if not already done), so there is an incentive for them to have more users on their solution instead.

Edit: And even if the OP is not relying only on MS for sales, they still depend heavily on them and their App Store. They are not competing with Confluence or other systems, they are competing with Teams itself.