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What was Kitty Hawk useful for?


Twitter has 450M monthly active users. Elon bought it for $44bn. With ~$5bn in operating expenses, that gives you an absolutely insane CAC of $90 to play with.


Yup! That gives you an idea of roughly how much it costs to acquire customers and Keep them!


You're assuming that the individual's labour is the only input into work completion.

I think those questions are good. One benefit is that it can reveal potential organisation-wide blockers:

*Getting design changes could be slow (and hence the design department may be understaffed, or inefficient communication channels)

*Maybe some processes can be ran in parallel. Someone can build the login form while the other does the database.

*They might require git access for another department that could take a while to come through.

Considering engineers' time is often the greatest cost for a technology startup, you can bet they'd be incentivised to maximise the efficiency of it.

Not only might they reveal potential blockers, but answering it also helps both parties understand they're on the same page regarding what the task entails. If the task is building a login form and the response is 'It will take two days to train the neural network', you can nip that in the bud.


Adding a comment as I don't think this is a fair representation of George. He livestreamed the creation of cheapETH as a technical demonstration of web3 development[0] and continually talks about it being worthless while developing it. He's also on record as being a serial 'no-coiner'.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LaIezgiUmw


> continually talks about it being worthless

Kinda weird to try to sneak millions of a worthless coin into your wallet.


That was the whole point of the stream.


That is how you keep cheapETH cheap


You might not be the person the software was being sold to ;)


It hosts your next.js website.


Or Nuxt, Gatsby, Blitz, Hugo, Svelte, Vue, Vite and many more.


Great job! Love the UI. Did you build this from scratch or is it an extended, existing database front-end? The search/filters/sorting would be really useful to generalise as its own package!


Thanks! From scratch -- I think there are quite a few already existing React components / component libraries for table views like this, but I'll think about if there's anything I can generalize.


To protect the device getting cracked, couldn't you just have it send a message if/when the device is opened in a way it shouldn't (e.g. for inspection) and thus make that key invalid?


Sure and maybe that slows people down a bit, but the second device they get their hands on they’ll be smarter. This isn’t a new issue, look at video games, look at blu ray and hd dvd, security against a sophisticated attacker with physical access is almost impossible. It’s rare for video games to last 1 week before being cracked, and that’s not even for something important.


Put it in a Faraday cage.


The CSS is tailwind


who cares, they're asking about the design


Why respond with this tone if you have no idea what tailwind css is?

The "design" is the theme provided by, you guessed it, tailwind css.


> if you have no idea what tailwind css is

I didn't know that taiwind also includes a default theme

I'm not fond of the way it's getting shoved down everyone's throat. Why is it that people won't shut up about their crappy choice of software development tools. Who cares.


There isn't a single example of it being "shoved down throats" in this thread, not even close. One person liked the visuals of the documentation and asked what themed it, another person answered. Then you came along and complained about a bunch of stuff that wasn't even happening. Here you are defending outdated and clunky HoCs, which itself is more off-topic than what's styling the OP's documentation.


> Here you are defending outdated and clunky HoCs

I replied to someone who brough it up

> off-topic

You do realize this is a React discussion?

> There isn't a single example of it being "shoved down throats"

Hey sorry I replied with the wrong tone, but imagine you don't know that tailwind also comes with a style, someone asks about the style or specific component lib or whatever, you see a reply that "it's tailwind", which to you must be as helpful as answering with "it's css"


Love your landing page. I know exactly what you do and how you can be of value for me without even scrolling. Well done!


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