binarysolo

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by binarysolo 9d ago
Sousveillance is one of the few acceptable use cases for these meta glasses that I can support.
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by binarysolo 1mo ago
Long time Amazon seller/brand here (and ex-academic/game theorist) -- it's a little more complicated if you think about the various parties' incentives, but yeah we have a half-assed market equilibrium that sucks for eve
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by binarysolo 2mo ago
Another PL seller here with a few brands and a couple hundred products: "No brand name" flag is tricky because the Amazon catalog team actively does A/B tests to hide brand names as part of their goal of commodifying all the
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by binarysolo 3mo ago
I run a remote-first ecom business with a dozen or so team members. About a year ago, one of our account managers had a life issue, ghosted us, and she held a fairly critical role in the business and gate-kept a bunch of knowledge to some h
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by binarysolo 4mo ago
I love SMAC -- I wish they had a real sequel to this complete with storyline. Most Civ clones really don't nail the narrative feel of SMAC as you explore the planet and grow your settlements.
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
I see a buncha folks complaining about how the high end macbook laptops don't have color -- for what it's worth there's plenty of fun colors to be had from buying case covers and skins, but yeah they add bulk or interfere wit
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
I audibly LOLed mid-standup call, and now my entire team is playing with this and it looks like this is eating up what little productivity we have on Friday. Thanks Endless Toil!
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
As someone affected by this: -The old kindles are great products that last a long time -I don't expect Amazon to support them forever, but kindasorta bricking them on their way out is a dick move -Jailbreaking is straightforward but th
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
+1 to this. I was around for the 90s and early 2000s to see when MAP wasn't tightly controlled by the brands; the B&M stores got destroyed because they simply couldn't price-compete because their footprint was way more expens
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
I mean, 1-2 day shipping is a huge part of their consumer-first policy, which is why every seller has got to do FBA -- for the longest time until COVID, the algorithm heavily penalized FBM fulfilled by merchant from ranking in the search re
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
So game-theoretically: if I know the price for an item is the same everywhere, I'll buy it at the place where I see it first (one of the big values of brick and mortar stores). If I know I can go online and it'll be some % cheaper
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
Long-time Amazon seller/brand here, so here's the crux of the case: 1. Amazon is a search engine for product 2. It values being the cheapest destination for products (MFN most favored nation clause to sell on their website), and b
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
Long-time seller/distributor here -- the main reason for this is mandated by brands, who want to make sure their MAP (minimum advertised price) is respected across all channels. Basically different distribution channels (speciality sho
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
"I think about salsa almost as much as I think about software." I feel you on this. :)
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
Love tango as a dance form... but the scene is limited and not very accessible, which limits its popularity. As an ex-organizer of the salsa scene, IMHO a scene is defined by its ecosystem of newbies converting into regulars, the regulars i
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by binarysolo 5mo ago
Social dancer here -- without hyperbole this was a lifechanging hobby for the better, and while I haven't been able to "meaningfully contribute to" as a criteria, I am a much better person for it. I'm primarily a salsa d
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by binarysolo 6mo ago
Ooh good point. Out of curiosity, have you compared the relative effectiveness of ChatGPT and Claude vs Copilot? Given your existing enterprise contract, does copilot have a monopoly on your AI usage due to its superior compliance?
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by binarysolo 6mo ago
My loose understanding as someone adjacent to the AI model space is that you have good models that are costly and cheap models that are decent, so a lot of the publicly visible fights where Claude and ChatGPT leapfrog each other is the comp
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by binarysolo 6mo ago
So if I understand this correctly, Medvi is basically a frontend to white label telehealth services, with wildly successful targeting on an exact niche (GLP-1 served online). So the 1.8B is effectively sales on a lead-generation opportunity
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by binarysolo 6mo ago
It's prob the other way around -- for almost a decade, Amazon's made it incredibly accessible for any Chinese factory, trading company, and middleman to spin up new brands on Amazon to reduce American brands and resellers' pr
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by binarysolo 6mo ago
FBA products only
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by binarysolo 6mo ago
I dunno why that's a whole meme, but nobody of any scale is doing that. We produce products through factories like most established sellers.
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by binarysolo 6mo ago
Amazon third party seller (low 8s) here: last time this happened was during COVID and it ended up being a permanent FBA shipping price increase. Practically speaking shipping accounts for 10-20% of the sale price, so realistically it's
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by binarysolo 7mo ago
So consider the alternative (because this happened to us): 5-6 years back, one of our brand stores sold a thing ( https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DKG3NX7 ) that created an entire niche of products, and 6 months after our su
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by binarysolo 7mo ago
"Aligned interest"
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by binarysolo 7mo ago
That is probably part of the court case: does Amazon.com searches favor VC purchasing in any way, shape, or form. This would require disclosure of their algorithm weights and what not, which they would then need to redact so people can&#x2
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by binarysolo 7mo ago
Amazon seller/distributor/agency here; I've been in the space for over a decade. The title is a little clickbait-y. As far as I understand it: 1. Think of Amazon as a search engine for products. 2. Amazon wants its site to b
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by binarysolo 7mo ago
Practically speaking, in 2026, are there any big ticket items an American could buy abroad and have the travel economics work out to their favor? The big one I do is medical tourism, though I have family in Taiwan. I've done a bit of
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by binarysolo 8mo ago
Is there something a little more general/accessible that you guys have as a demo? It looks super cool but I'm not a rocket scientist so I can't tell how good it is... (am def into agentic AI and am mildly involved in this in
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by binarysolo 8mo ago
For my product niche, Amazon has (many) more buyers at my pricepoint and value prop (moderately well-designed kitchen gadgets at a price point between your run-on-the-mill gadget and OXO). Maybe I also know how to SEO better on Amazon vs Wa

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