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I spent 2 months building a business problem roulette(gotaprob.com)
3 points by syel 4mo ago|1 comments
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by syel 4mo ago
I saw a lot of "startup idea" content that either hands you a full business plan or is too abstract to act, where I think problems should be the first step. So I built a database of real problems instead.
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by syel 5mo ago
no, cause I personally think the past was more affordable
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by syel 5mo ago
I like to call it satire actually
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by syel 5mo ago
Yeah, I actually live in Toronto, and this was one the design decisions I was thinking about before building this, it's just that more people relate to the US. And I agree with the reasons you listed, immigration imo can be controlled,
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by syel 5mo ago
Yeah, I am pretty sure that you can buy a house for less than $450k in multiple cities, commentary is meant to be humorous for most part
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by syel 5mo ago
You are right, I think I mention that most experiences on the site are satirical but I don't mention it on the landing page to this experience, will add this today, will also add "not inflation adjusted' until I change the nu
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by syel 5mo ago
I think it depends on your financial literacy, I know a lot of people who have no idea how to invest their money, you would be surprised how many people would be more comfortable with someone else managing their life savings for them
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by syel 5mo ago
Appreciate the feedback, will definitely be making some updates based on the comments I got here. There is social pressure definitely when it comes to buying decisions, I think over the past 15 years, the world has gone crazy in terms of ca
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by syel 5mo ago
Agree, but if we take a wholistic approach, most things were more affordable. This is a satirical take not a literal financial comparison and I designed it to be that, but I think no can disagree that life in 80s and 90s was way more afford
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by syel 5mo ago
Will review the numbers this week and see how I can update all numbers to adjust for inflation while keeping the satirical angle
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by syel 5mo ago
I've seen this story in the Tetris movie, he came off as a terrible businessman who was stealing people's money to save his company from bankruptcy
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by syel 5mo ago
No, as it's mainly supposed to be a humorous/satirical take similar to other experiences on the site. I didn't intend for it to be a finance piece originally but I know if inflation adjusted, whole experience will change.
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by syel 5mo ago
Thanks for the feedback , will work on this today.
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by syel 5mo ago
Thanks for the feedback. The whole experience/site is mainly satirical/humorous. It's not inflation adjusted cause I didn't want it turn into a finance piece tbh, but you're definitely right, if inflation adjusted m
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by syel 5mo ago
Yeah that must have sucked tbh
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I built "Middle Class Museum", a tour of things that used to be affordable(ideagames.fun)
70 points by syel 5mo ago|102 comments
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by syel 5mo ago
I spent the last 2 months building ideagames.fun : satirical browser experiences about work, money, and modern life. The Middle Class Museum is a guided tour of things that used to be affordable. Starter homes. Pensions. Blockbuster Friday.
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by syel 1y ago
Hi, my name is Syel and I built gotaprob.com. The purpose was to inspire other builders and entrepreneurs find ideas to build businesses around. It came from my experience of trying to find an idea to build business to find that most people
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Show HN: I couldn't find an idea so I created a problem bank(gotaprob.com)
6 points by syel 1y ago|1 comments