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by tonymet 775 days ago
what did you expect when they said "startup" and not "shop"
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Free coffee in exchange for all future rights to my productivity metrics.
knowing "startups" i'm sure their vision is streaming SSH subscription as a service . They track your keystroke rate and automatically ship new batches of $2/oz coffee when you get below 90 keystrokes/min
No joke, but "startup" can often be code for, "extremely high-quality items that are subsidized by VC money". The quality doesn't last, but if you get in early, you can often buy stuff that's way nicer than it should be for the price.
i would frame this comment if I could.

Early AirBnB, Lyft, Uber, Lime, Bird, Netflix, online-retail were very high quality for low cost and then inverted.