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by SoftTalker 71 days ago
Laundries have offered pickup and delivery since ... forever? It's like pizza. The markets are very local, and the growth opportunity is limited.
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nyeah 71 days ago
Taxis have offered pickup and delivery service since forever, and yet here we are.
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SoftTalker 71 days ago
OK, again, the context is a "laundromat" business. Laundry as a service with an app to schedule pickup and delivery? OK, people have tried that. Not that exciting, not that scalable. You still need a lot of facilites, machines, and humans to make that work. It's not something that exists as a virtual product that can be scaled up with an AI.
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nyeah 71 days ago
Ok, again. Taxicabs are not exciting, not scaleable, and involve a lot of machines and humans to make them work.

How many iterations do you have in mind for this?

EDIT: My answer for "can a rapidly growing start-up successfully take on taxicabs?" is "yes."

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SoftTalker 71 days ago
Will AI take over the taxicab business, somehow eliminating the need for cars and drivers?
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