YC even funded one of them! I'm curious about how this is possibly legal. If it is legal, it would of course be cheaper for me to simply scrape the website I need instead of paying one of the apis.

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My personal projects in the past have often utilized a Node.js backend (Express) that served a React frontend, with a postgres db with Knex. I have a bit of familiarity with Rails.

I'm wondering how much things have changed in the past few years. I'm reading that React should probably be avoided, Vue seems popular, Svelte seems like the shiny new thing. I'm considering looking into Django as learning Python might be worthwhile.

My day job uses Kotlin, so Ktor or Spring seems like an option.

The project I'm building will basically scrape some data every day, store it in a database, and serve a front end primarily consisting of graphs. Is there a particular tech stack that is more suitable to that these days? Are there any stacks that should be avoided for such requirements? "Overengineering" is something I want to avoid.

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I was in the market for a year and was interested in something outside of a city. I could afford the larger 5 bedroom homes, but had absolutely no use for that amount of space. Nice 2 bedroom homes in the suburbs just aren't a thing for some reason. Smaller homes exist, but the quality drops dramatically.

Perhaps there is an untapped market for high quality 1-2 bedroom homes outside of cities. I'd certainly buy one.

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That's absolutely fine, but I feel like a reservation/ticketing system such as the one proposed is not the best solution. Again, a tourism tax across the city might achieve the same effect without such a system.

In my opinion, the cost (within reason) is absolutely irrelevant. Raising money for the city and locals is a great effort and I applaud it. It is simply the requirement of yet another "hoop to jump through" that bothers me. After years of a pandemic with legally questionable restrictions and requirements throughout daily life, I simply don't want more "hoops to jump through".

If raising money via tourism is the goal, a more widespread tourism tax on food and services would likely both raise funds and partially reduce tourism overload, without the burden of requiring visitors to go through the arcane process of booking a visit.

I've been prescribed a "fairly serious" antibiotic for a skin condition that has been plaguing me for several years (I've gotten like 5 different diagnosis and tons of different Rx). I'm otherwise incredibly healthy, so this antibiotic scares the shit out of me and I have yet to start taking it.

There's been this trend of new firms popping up that acquire small ecommerce brands (in fact, there was one on HN just the other day). I'm wondering if the same model can (or has) been applied to small "indie" companies and projects.

However, I'm certainly not a domain expert in most of these topics, which makes reading these papers difficult. Is there somewhere where I can read summaries about the newest developments in some topic (e.g. math, cosmology, etc.) in layman's terms?

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It sounds like you decided to build a business before coming up with an idea that could be a business.

In the end, how did you decide what to build?

Is that simply a perception you think many might investors have? Tesla has lost money every year, while Toyota has showed substantial profit. Without knowing anything else about these companies, an outside observer might think Tesla was the "bloated" of the two.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/stock-comparison?s=net-income&axis=single&comp=TM:TSLA

Is there a reasonable explanation for this, or is it a complete bubble?

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