Blue Lobster is a platform that allows direct sales with sustainable fishermen.
We are looking for a third leg on the founding team - specifically someone with a strong technical background who has the work ethics, strategic inclinations and passion to bring us to the next level. You will be joining the founding team, consisting of Nima, our CEO, and Christine, our COO. Nima has a strong background in international development and has been named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 and is one of the Obama Foundation’s European Leaders. Christine has 10+ years as a researcher and data analyst.
Our current tech stack includes Python, Django, Postgres, React Native & Elixir, but you will of course guide this as we move forward.
Stuff from that era was really good. High quality woods and good finishing work. Then it went downhill with the low point somewhere around '97 or so and since then it has been slowly climbing back up. But there is a long way to go if they ever want to get back to their old quality level and their profit margins would likely suffer as a consequence.
> their profit margins would likely suffer as a consequence
They would certainly have to raise prices if they raised the quality, and then they lose their customers to competitors who are cheaper (and even worse quality - have you ever tried the cheap furniture from a hardware store?)
Furniture is a competitive market, and IKEA are very aggressive at undercutting their competition (they have directives to never let their competitors be cheaper) and they manage to sustain profits though their scale of operations (and some good engineering - IKEA have hollow tables filled with cardboard that's more durable than some competitors solid MDF stuff).
Basically people aren't willing to pay for quality. IKEAs trick is to be both cheap and have an acceptable level of design and quality.
IKEA has several price/quality options. I’ve shopped there for a long time and slowly moved up the product line. Their breadth makes it hard to compete with.
On the low end, pretty much anything cheaper than IKEAs entry level is total garbage. I’m looking at you Target! That stuff is little better than a cardboard box.
On the high end, price rapidly outpaces quality. Every time I think “maybe I’ll get real furniture this time” the prices jump 10x. That’s just not worth it to me.
I agree. The jump to “real” furniture is ridiculous. Suddenly the dinner table cost $3000. And if you try to find something in between there are the stores whose main selling point seem to be that they aren’t IKEA. Their prices are double and the quality is worse than IKEA.
I’ve no direct experience with CB2, but my experience with furniture in that price range is that the quality usually is worse than IKEA. They might use mor expensive materials, but QA is usually bad.
No. I like the idea but I haven't got time every day. I might be able to do an hour or two a week. I'm also probably not in a timezone where it makes sense like bbcbasic also points out.
> A lot was covered in this post so this is a great point to end on. Look for the next post soon, covering API endpoint creation, including views, serializers, and URL routing for the Retail application.
This reminds me of the kickstarter to build django tutorials. Lots of talks and finally halting halfway ... That's the difference between Django and Rails (and now Node). Ressources are scarce and unreliable ...
Blue Lobster is a platform that allows direct sales with sustainable fishermen.
We are looking for a third leg on the founding team - specifically someone with a strong technical background who has the work ethics, strategic inclinations and passion to bring us to the next level. You will be joining the founding team, consisting of Nima, our CEO, and Christine, our COO. Nima has a strong background in international development and has been named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 and is one of the Obama Foundation’s European Leaders. Christine has 10+ years as a researcher and data analyst.
Our current tech stack includes Python, Django, Postgres, React Native & Elixir, but you will of course guide this as we move forward.
If this sounds interesting to you, apply below or email christine@bluelobster.app. https://thehub.io/jobs/617a84011e09707707746b87