The professions with the least negotiating power will have the most draconian "oversight". Imagine a cashier graded in real time on how many customers they smile at. Or tracking how many glasses in a restaurant are empty.

Wild to me that Bitwarden raised > $100m from VC. Seems like the kind of thing that would make a nice lifestyle business.

The enterprise version never went beyond password management so I'm not sure how this could have generated a viable ROI.

> Seems like the kind of thing that would make a nice lifestyle business.

Don’t see too much of this talk around the comments, anymore!

If you’re seeing this comment: Are lifestyle businesses on your radar?

Please do share.

Maybe this is me being a little wet behind the ears, but I don't know if lifestyle businesses are really possible to start at the moment, given the uncertainty of the current software sector.

See this thread from a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118727

The economics of software creation is changing, so it stands to reason how people engage with software will change too. Finding a niche may be a game of luck more than observation/perspiration at this stage, similar to discovering oil on your "barren" property rather than building a farm. As someone who's generally independent, though: I'd love to be wrong here!

I’m betting the farm that you are =]

Your accountant will be configuring their own work software.

Your project manager will be developing their own work software.

Custodians will not necessarily be developing work software.

Most non-tech desk-staff start to lose focus after the fifth reply on a social media thread…

I do not believe they’re going to be able to perform the three required steps for building software solutions:

1. Know what you need (vs want).

2. Know how to ask for it.

3. Have a process for validating it.

I also don’t think it gets too much simpler than Docker et al for self-hosting, yet those concepts are genuinely a foreign language to even “tech-savvy” consumers.

I think we’re in a bubble, here,

and I am personally betting on one niche (of many) where value ($$$$) is still placed upon having another team to outsource responsibility to.

Responsibility for keeping an important tool up-to-date, keeping it able to capture data,

and most importantly: rigorously tested to ensure it’ll perform calculations correctly.

Responsibility for peak tooling, so a busy end-user can stay responsible for their craft without taking a sabbatical to build software is not going anywhere.

Whether these “peak tools” will be (validated, packaged, delivered to the user, maintained) by me,

or OpenAI/Anthropic instant-agents in 10 years,

is what I believe we should be watching.

Better commit messages, better and more up to date docs, etc. It's not all slop!

Why would an investment manager choose a CIT over an ETF? I can't help but think there's additional fees being collected somewhere.

To adapt a popular phrase to personal finance, "If you don't understand the product, you are the product."

CITs are cheaper than an ETF, which is why they might be chosen.

This seems like the kind of thing that the right kind of engineer could turn into a lifestyle business. Two mobile apps, two or three browser extensions, a server, and a marketing website. A lot of care for the core security decisions and a bunch of CRUD UIs.

I know I'm being "that guy" so tell me where this gets more complex than I think.

tbh, I do that with Uber/Lyft, too

Thank you, Sunnyvale man, for hitting this edge case before I do.

Interesting way to encourage competition for its competitor. A single, scaled self-driving company is a massive threat to Uber.

During peak hours Waymo is more expensive than standard uber/lyft - I don't pay attention to black/premium pricing. Off-peak the price can be comparable. I mainly check because my wife prefers it.

Anyone know how much harder water resistance gets with replaceable batteries?