Being able to search the web is critical to day-to-day life. Why wouldn't you pay for it? I pay for all sorts of dumb stuff I barely use. I use Kagi every day.

Because I am paying for their service, I know that they are trying to provide me the best service they can - we are aligned. I want to pay for good service, they want to get me good service.

I pay for Kagi not because of political value system. I pay for it because it's just better than Google. I encourage you to try it. It's night and day.

Go find one or two companies with a lot of packages. Focus on delivering packages whose delivery time is not critical (say 7 days) and whose registered value is low (say $500 or less). Focus on deliveries that are just outside of ubers practical range (say LA to SFO).

Find a bunch of uber drivers who are already reliable. Over pay them to make runs. If they screw it up have them drop the package off at a ups store and over night it as a catch all.

Do 1,000 packages to get your logistics worked out. Don't market or launch or promote until you have it nailed.

Then find 10 more companies with lots of packages. Your goal is to develop profitable routes (e.g. 5 packages per car) and customers who are delivering 1000s of packages a month.

Your pmf is about reliably servicing one geographic region at a time like yelp and LinkedIn did.

Do not try and roll out a national service day one.

Do not focus on people shipping packages. Not enough repeat business.

Do not take high stakes runs day one.

One big advantage is your ability to do small heavy objects. Ups and FedEx are very weight sensitive.

As the dead web continues to emerge, content looks less like apples on a tree and more like sand on the beach.

And the act of looking for a misshapen grain of sand becomes absurd.

I want a calm internet. I ask it answers. No motive. No agenda. Just a best effort honest answer.

These guys are doing great work and this news product is exactly what I want... Once a day hit. What is happening in the world? As far as pmf goes they hit the mark for an old fart like me.

I for one would welcome a set of deeply integrated ui improvements in a Mac that included a better file manager, better window management, better desktop search, a contact manager just that worked, a messaging client that just worked, audio and camera controls that just worked, a calculator that didn’t suck, etc.

I’d pay at least $100 a year for that tool set.

Context ...

https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/motor-vehicle/historical-fatalit...

However, you're doing the right thing. It's important to not let the great become the enemy of the good. Yes, there is work to be done to make batteries zero impact. But no matter what's happening in the world of batteries it is nothing compared to the extraordinary destructive force of coal, oil, and gas globally.

https://acespace.org/blog/2024/01/12/top-10-oil-and-gas-indu...

https://www.miningreview.com/coal/the-top-10-coal-mines-of-t...

https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/new-california-ru...

https://youtu.be/9bRiFEvxlp8

It's hard to perceive clearly what you're looking at when a new thing comes along precisely because it's new. I think GPT3 fits that.

It's Netscape. A messy buggy rapidly evolving piece of software that's opening up new ideas faster than it itself is iterating.

Anyway, what else you gonna work on? Yet another lightweight typescript framework for making web apps? Heh.

https://youtu.be/LpxT9TLGoLI

Here's an article that gets into it a bit with some data to boot...

https://evanmorrison.com/swim/posts/manhattan-swim-tides/

Giving and getting feedback is hard. It's a skill and it doesn't come easily to most. Sometimes hurting someone's feelings is inevitable, but starting from a place of "toughen up buttercup" is really self-serving and counterproductive.

There is always someone better than you, and always someone worse. Always someone who knows something you don't, and always someone who can learn from you.