Great work! Had a similar project i built before COVID and saw the need and value here. Once the pandemic hit I never went back to it but this is a great execution of this!
I had a similar idea running but was AI based. Mirrored some workflows into a personal Product Manager and wanted to help people stay on track. Kinda upset I never pushed it seeing this full for $35 a month.
I still find this hard to believe as ever since 2009s recession, I personally have never met so many people recently who have been laid off and looking for work in a lot of different industries and also the amount of people who work multiple jobs. Almost everyone I know who’s not very wealthy is doing their day job and has some other form of income to be able to pay normal bills
Pickem is straight up normally so would be money line bets essentially.
The spread is designed to make the bet a 50/50 so it would need to take into other factors or compute it’s spread to determine if there is an edge on Vegas.
As someone who has loved Twilio from the early days and have built many apps for small and enterprise cases as well as fully embraced Flex in the customer experience space, I really have no idea what the hell they are doing now. Not sure if they are right sizing after trying to capture markets like video and Contact Center but it seems like even successful sales teams are let go now so curios where they emerge from this.
Most damage is from flooding due to storm surge which exists on coastlines. Wind and power outages happen and can take down trees just like elsewhere in the world but the massive destruction is caused by the force and amount of water on the coasts.
Building codes exist on probability of what can happen. When buildings were built, they had codes to follow based on the current time. When they are destroyed, they are rebuilt with new codes such as on stilts, better windows, different materials, etc. It isn’t like we just keep building the same building and expect things to change.
If you do live on the coast anywhere in the US, it should be a general assumption that at some point, that water is gonna be in your house or that your house is gonna be taken out by the water over its existence.
Most of the state lives in coastal counties, which are the highest risk areas as you mentioned. There isn't much "low risk" real estate to help pay for the high risk areas. Flooding in an already humid environment usually means mold in the house so I can't imagine there are many places that aren't at least somewhat flooded by a statewide hurricane.
Just because a hurricane hits Miami doesn't mean the entire state feels it. It rains, streets may get backed up with water around the sewer just like there was a thaw of snow in northern states. You would be surprised how much of a city on the water is not in a flood zone.
You want to live on the water, you are mandatory to pay the fees to maintain insurance if you have a loan or if you own, you can roll the dice and not. Each storm causes areas that may have not been hit in decades to have higher premiums and areas that have never felt a storm in decades that are older builds get knocked down and rebuilt with new code and higher up to prevent another wipe out.
For the purpose of insurance, a 1% annual risk of flood is categorized as high risk. It calculates out to a 26% risk of being flooded at least once in a 30 year mortgage. "Moderate risk" is considered flooding between every 100-500 years.
You have to go through archives to find them now but Microsoft used to publish reports on all their usability studies and it really gave me the sense of thoughtful and useful design of their UI elements. My favorite is the mouse ballistics https://web.archive.org/web/20110623221617/http://msdn.micro...
Saddly it seems like the latest trend is just to make things new and trendy with junk like rounded corners, low contrast flat colors and no delineation or highlighting for distinct elements.
The only thing I miss from being only a HackerNews/X user is birthdays and events.
As adults realize more and more people are not daily Facebook users, invites has gone back to other platforms like eVite but overall, the lack of seeing the latest TikTok trend is much better mentally and productivity wise than endlessly scrolling through content I don’t care about.
