Posted by pseudolus 5 days ago
The daily goal tracker she developed is really neat, and I would love to own. The profit margin on it must be insane though at the price.
https://yetch-shop.fourthwall.com/en-nzd/products/every-day-...
I really hope it succeeds but I think this is one case where someone with good marketing and sales skills could help her out a lot while she's able to focus on product.
Ideally, you not only have multiple sources but you choose the sources so that they have different economic dependencies. That way, conditions that adversely impact one of them don't adversely impact the others -- or, even better, so that conditions that adversely impacts one positively impacts another.
Sometimes we do need custom tools even for the most basic needs. Mine is built to track not only that I did it but it allows me to comment on it. I can then go back and read through different entries. It’s super useful.
One of the use cases is tracking medications. I then share the notes with my GP (they appreciate things being timestamped).
Btw, love your website!
I use it for multiple things like writing. I will just create an entry to track it and then just write away. I also track when I work on my projects. One button click and it records the time when I start working on my car for example. Then I can track how much I spend on it and calculate how much a given repair or modification might take to complete.
Yes, I love tracking things …
The day to day benefits are nice. It's easy to use, doesn't need batteries, and is always with me. What I didn't anticipate when I started doing it was how cool it is to look back on what I've tracked - it's like a weird little art piece I get to have as a reminder of the hard work.
Am I missing anything or was that an _extremely_ short interview. 3 questions? I kept looking for a "read more" link or something.
> Giertz: Make things that you want.
Few things make me so cynical as a successful entertainer doling out "do what you love" advice. It's what the audience wants to hear, but your life isn't going to work out like that of your celebrity friend.
The bar is much higher when you're making something you wouldn't personally use. It's certainly possible, and occasionally profitable, to do just that, but boy are things easier if you're solving a problem you happen to also have.
It much closer to Hewlett's view (of Hewlett-Packard fame) that "if the engineer at the next bench liked it and thought it would make his job easier, then it was worth doing." (quoting https://hpmuseum.org/hp35.htm )
> A lot of people make things that they think that other people want, but the main target audience, at least for myself, is me. I trust that if I find something interesting, there are probably other people who do too.
See also “dog fooding”
However, that advice doesn't please the audience, so few entertainers will give it.
I don't see how "build something you want" is different from basically how 99% of businesses start.
That being said, I've enjoyed Simone's wit and creativity for several years. I tuned in after one of my friends mentioned her, and she's been tenacious throughout her personal health journey and the vagaries of making ridiculous stuff on-camera. I feel like it's great that she's branching out to making stuff for other people to have.
"Was starting a product business a mistake?"
1. Hack it with an additional display on top to display different calendars according to the task you're keeping track of and the ability to scroll though them, while showing the calendar state for that task.
2. Make a similarly sized touchscreen calendar which allows one to switch between them, and also add stuff like reminders, challenges, gamification/gratification stuff. The BOM cost for a DIY should funnily enough be roughly similar, or if you're savvy enough, possibly much less.
That's almost certainly the answer to the headline.
Her citizenship is not mentioned in Wikipedia, so her health insurance coverage may be a matter of private, personal funds, because she probably has neither Medicaid nor FTE with benefits.
I would hope she has health insurance. Whenever I was self-employed I still made sure I had a private plan of some sort, and she has a whole company with employees, so it would be pretty easy for her to get a group plan.
If she had gone back to Sweden to do it, the surgery would have been free but she would first have had to reestablish herself in Sweden and then struggled with waiting time for her first doctor's appointment and possibly multiple referrals before she would have been put on a waiting list for surgery ... during which time her condition could have worsened. (I live in her old home town and have gone through something similar...)
If she had been diagnosed at a hospital in the US she would already have been in its system and would probably have been put on its priority list right away.