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It has a live chat and five different tracking solutions implemented. What about this doesn't look like a tech business?


That’s just table stakes for a generic retail store Just because I drive a car wouldn’t make me a car business.

I think of tech businesses primarily as those that develop novel technology and secondarily as those who use technology in a novel and unexpected way. In both cases technology is the differentiation.

The only novelty of this business is its message and while that might make a perfectly respectable business (I am not part of the target market so I can not judge) there’s no “tech” in their business plan. Think of it more like Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein: the clothes are made in the same factories by the same workers; the only differentiation is market positioning. Nobody would criticize them as not being “business” or even “clothes business” but their differentiator is marketing.


I'm pretty sure Wordball's response was meant as sarcasm.


Hah, whooshed over my head! Everybody wants the pixie dust these days.


hmmm, odd that you're getting downvoted...


>My day job is to think about my 16-year-old daughter's piss

Ok Joe


Can you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to HN, regardless of how provocative something somebody says is?


If you have a Ring camera pointed at the street, this is literally what you are asking for.


I have a camera pointed at the street but it is not a ring camera... am I asking for it?


Not necessarily. What security measures does the camera have implemented? Have you told the police that they are free to ask for footage?


I prevent it from accessing the internet, but I guess they could hack my network and access it that way


Can anyone elaborate on this?


Ios and Android keep Bluetooth on to support things like air drop and location services. You have to dig deeper in the settings to fully disable it.


This but unironically


is this bait


Thanks for the recommendation, I didn't read the article either.


Darn my pinning in google keep and reading the thread the next day has backfired on me! :)


You know what they say, old habits, they die hard.


Thanks for the high-quality computer science and entrepreneurship related content


My intellectual curiosity has been gratified


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