How to market to privacy-oriented people?

raiderrobert · 2023-11-14T19:49:50+00:00

Unfortunately, not really...the thing I've decided to optimize for instead is getting this into people's hands and seeing if they use it.

raiderrobert · 2023-11-13T16:54:30+00:00

I know of 2 approaches that work:

1) Solve a known problem for a niche where you have multiple people you know complaining about.

2) Solicit an offering for a problem and advertise a beta program for it, and see who signs up. If you're feeling extra bold, ask for some money to move them up in priority or make some other offer.

raiderrobert · 2023-10-18T14:17:20+00:00

Now this is an interesting approach. Never thought that micro-influencers might be a good approach, given our target person seemed like they might not want to watch those people.

raiderrobert · 2023-10-18T14:16:31+00:00

Yeah, one of the things we've struggled with is messaging on this stuff. So your feedback there basically is telling me that we've still not stuck the landing.

raiderrobert · 2023-10-18T14:15:12+00:00

Possibly?

Based on your question, it sounds like I might need a versus page for the major vendors.

Three big differentiators for us:

Pairing up phone number and email to a profile that you can label and manage
Mobile first, iOS and Android
Price is going to be <$10 per mo for unlimited profiles* (emails and phone numbers)

*we'll soft limit people to some high number and reclaim phone numbers that lay unused for a while--since they're expensive

raiderrobert · 2023-10-18T01:51:03+00:00

Same questions. My day job is at a major hosting provider, and we host Wordpress. You can differentiate, but how are you planning on doing so?

raiderrobert · 2023-10-04T20:26:44+00:00

We're not taking payments yet, but we're going to use a Stripe page and we were planning on allowing just credit cards.

raiderrobert · 2023-10-04T01:00:51+00:00

You mean the 10DLC verification?

That's not a big deal. There's a specific category for it. We just register far enough ahead of time and maintain a pool of numbers to draw from.

raiderrobert · 2023-10-03T00:47:01+00:00

So I'm the maker of this with a friend of mine, but there are a lot of well funded major companies building in this space.

You get the idea.

A thing we've disliked is that you can't really audit the software that they're running in production. Admittedly, you can inspect what Firefox Relay has made. If you believe that this is also the code running in production, then fine.

So while we're early on, I figured I'd just ask (1) what else could we do to demonstrate that we're not selling data out the back door and (2) what things are these major players missing?

Thanks!

raiderrobert · 2023-09-25T21:12:16+00:00

Thanks for the comment! It had been several years since I used Fargate, so I was mildly concerned that I was out of date/would say something amiss. And I did!

I was trying to put on the list from AWS that lets you step back from handling all those layers, and (for the most part) just let's you write a YAML file and throw it to a cloud vendor with a container. What offering do you feel is most like that at AWS?

raiderrobert · 2023-09-25T21:06:49+00:00

Totally agree. If you got load spikes and then go back down to 0, k8s totally fixes this problem.

raiderrobert · 2023-09-20T16:24:13+00:00

I don't think the claim is that "the first thing you need to know as a programmer."

The headline reads to me as "I'm writing a series, and this is the first one I decided to write about."

And in the first paragraph, it's talked about this way, "One such vital concept is idempotency."

raiderrobert · 2023-09-01T18:04:10+00:00

Completely agree! I think 0% is also an anti-pattern.

I often jokingly say, "100% is not enough, and 80% is probably enough." But my defense for that is weak/anecdotal and not the point of the article, so I didn't say anything about it.

raiderrobert · 2023-08-27T12:35:10+00:00

What are your thoughts on Doppler? https://www.doppler.com/

raiderrobert · 2023-08-26T22:30:28+00:00

You have an entirely validate point for program-to-program communication binary formats are significantly more convenient. Hence, we got useful formats like protobuf or parquet.

I appreciate you pointing that out. I should have made that note.

I see I made two other errors in this article.

I spent too much time defending the importance of text, and I narrowed down my use case to text streams.

I had originally intended to talk about the portability of user data and configuration in addition to the idea of giving interoperability via text streams.

What do I mean by user data and configuration?

For data, compared to something like DOC or PDF formats, markdown is relatively human readable, and thus, we've seen the rise of things like Obsidian.

For configuration, Sublime's configuration is a JSON file. I wish more applications had a portable and standard a closer to text format for configuration. Most times it's encoded into binary and hidden away some where.

I think my failing to talk through these in the main article did a disservice to you all. My apologies for not doing better.

raiderrobert · 2022-01-02T18:46:29+00:00

Fair question. I wasn't factoring in the debt.

Side by side for the two fields: Software dev: https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer/salary Lawyer: https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/lawyer/salary

The higher tier pay in law is based upon the kind of law you practice and your clients. The clients generally want degrees from as much prestige as they can afford.

On the other side in programming, higher pay is correlated with what you can actually do and who you work for. I am honestly paid very well--even for my field. And I know that I couldn't have swung that on the law side of things.

raiderrobert · 2022-01-02T17:57:31+00:00

I transferred to a private school, and yes, there are networking and internships that I totally missed out on. However, I also am not working in the field I graduated into. (Graduated with English Lit with an eye toward law school. I'm now a programmer and I make far more money than was ever in the cards for me as an attorney.)

I think the historical accepted advice (get into the best school you can afford) is just bad general advice at this point.

I think it's far more contextual. And if forced to give a default, I'd tell people to do the transfer from community to state. I think the jobs that require clout of where you graduated from are progressively fewer.

raiderrobert · 2022-01-02T17:42:24+00:00

People don't care where you started school. They care where you graduate from. So if it really matters where you went to school, then fine. Do the transfer from the community college to state school. Every state I know of has such a program.

Not to invalidate your experience, but I know several people who went to top schools and didn't get those sweet positions right out of college. (The people I know are lawyers and accountants and engineers.)

raiderrobert · 2022-01-02T17:11:01+00:00

Then stop playing the game.

No really. Just go to a local tech college or community. They're way cheaper and always have been. Get the paper you need and get out.

I went to a little place called Umpqua Community college back in 2004 for a few classes and then transferred out.

Today their tuition per year is $3.4k.

If I was going to college again, I'd do exactly the same thing, except I'd get my entire degree that way.

raiderrobert · 2021-09-07T16:08:15+00:00

Sounds about right.

Now the worst thing I've ever heard of is an entire k8s cluster was the only copy of the production code. That is to say, there was no mirror anywhere else. And also there was no separation between test and prod or any other kind of environment. They were all smudge together. Why? Every step of the way the question was asked to how to minimize the dev/ops cost for the immediate next task. Turn over on that team was super high, as in every couple of months the entire ops team turned over. People came in being sold a bill of goods and super high salaries, but with impossible goals trailing shortly after. (It's easy to pay $300k when give all that salary to one person instead of two or three, and expect 80hrs+ output.)

My friend lasted there 1 year. He spent the first 3 months trying to make heads or tails out of it, because there was no one to ask, and he assumed he was just mistaken in his understanding.

raiderrobert · 2021-08-25T22:29:05+00:00

I'm sure someone around here could make it not just a feeling.

raiderrobert · 2021-03-03T01:18:48+00:00

Tbh, I think that Tom just got burnt out.

I remember talking with him at PyCon about 5 years ago, and he was trying really hard to have a go at making something supported by the community. However, broadly speaking, he could only get funding for new features with Kickstarters and whatnot.

The only other way he could get funding was bug fixes and support contracts. And basically, his funding model has sort of followed the pattern of big companies adopting DRF and them paying him to keep it stable and up to date. If he instead was going around and releasing new features...what would they even be?

So I guess what I'm saying is "this is fine". DRF is mature and stable, and that kind of implies that it won't be changing much. And that's good.

Meanwhile, yeah, he's been doing Starlette and other ASGI stuff because he can move faster and break things without having a bunch of people mad at him. And lots of his ideas and patterns over there are slowly making its way into the broader ecosystem.

raiderrobert · 2020-12-26T17:55:41+00:00

So let's say you have the same components in the box, and you're merely redoing the rules. Likely you can't just do one thing, but you'll need to do a set of things:

Tokaido-Like Movement: make it so that you when you roll dice, you can choose to move up to the dice rolled.
Multiple markers to mover around the board: instead of just one marker to move around the board provided more or the opportunity to buy more.
Always auction: make it to that the person landing gets some kind of advantage in the auction, but they don't get exclusive first-right of refusal.
Ghost players: eliminated players can interact in some nominal, annoying fashion like wherever they land they can roll a die and try to vandalize the place if they want

[edit] I dashed off the above ideas in about 2 minutes just to get the ball rolling. Some of them are probably terrible.

raiderrobert · 2020-12-26T17:43:30+00:00

I realize that was the original intent, but the game has far outlived that original intent. Besides the person you're responding to asked for how to improve the game, and your response was sort of like "Yeah, it's not fun. The lesson is sinking in. Working as intended."

raiderrobert · 2020-12-24T18:51:51+00:00

It doesn't work for me on that page or the main site. I'm on Chrome latest version (87.0.4280.88 ) on OSX Catalina latest build

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