Annie Kadavy

A seemingly average story of a NYC boy's life… some unexpected twists and turns, all written amazingly well. Only ding is that it is loooooonnnnnggggg - 700+ pages! But flies by; I couldn't put it down.

i use angelist as a directory or a quick way to roughly see how many teams (in this crazy environment!) are going after the same market or business model. i've met with several and even invested in 1 company that i first found when searching in a specific genre on the site.

@johnnyhwin yes definitely! Waffles are on me next time. ;)

A great perk for your team that ALSO ups productivity... admittedly likely not a huge business here but an awesome local business started by some awesome guys including @johnnyhwin :)

Nice find @_jacksmith! ;) I agree completely with you @mulligan. Repeat use/engagement is what makes a product sticky and, unless you have a huge payoff in any 1x transaction (e.g. buying a house - you also don't do it often but when you do, that RE Agent makes a killing), it is a hard business to get huge. Thanks for the loop in @rrhoover too - I agree this should be part of a platform...

@allnick yep. i think these tools expand the market 10x or more. interior design today is an oldschool agency industry (personal trainers might be an interesting proxy) where the agency takes a majority cut in their comp. to your point, not only are there a lot of people who doubt/can't afford it today but there are also not that many interior designers who are able to be found/hired. the...

@allnick haha totally! I think it depends... the vast majority of the market (both office/home) do "interior design" themselves and don't outsource it at all. So, that was the reason for the tag line. Maybe something like "outsourced interior design" or "marketplace for furniture purchasing" would have been better. But you are totally right that, for those who already get services, it is, as...

Two companies in the "interior design as a service" space - Decorist (SF based) and Homepolish (NYC based). For anyone with a new apartment or new office, this is a phenomenal service assuming you don't want to have the same IKEA desks and HumanScale chairs as every other startup out there. Well worth the $$ spent on either of these platforms.

big congrats @ShaanVP! and the fact that you reference SmarterChild... I'm sold. that thing was awesome. curious to know how you've seen people learning to use it so far. do they understand the hold --> send concept? is that confusing/frustrating for some? how do you feel blab is different from other video/photo communication apps - thinking Context, FrontBack, etc. specifically?

thanks so much @Jacob_Heller!! super helpful. love the idea of knowledge management for law firms - i am not a lawyer myself but from my conversations with many others who are, this is a HUGE problem that needs to be solved. let me know if i can ever be helpful to you - i think what you are doing is very cool. :) thanks also @razvanr for looping him in!

thanks @razvanr for posting this! @rrhoover do we have the founders of casetext on here? i am fascinated by companies disrupting the legal system... of the 3 major pillars of "work" from literally thousands of years ago - business/commerce, medicine, and law - legal is the last to be touched or transformed by technology. it's actually amazing to watch how lawyers STILL use fax machines,...

will @niice also let individuals add content to create a crowdsourced search engine or will it always be hand-picked/curated?

Was first sent to me as a joke... but I now use this at least 3x per week. Hilarious, really. I do recommend trying it out if you're trying to flow as there's some real science behind background noise and it's ability to help focus.