After the recent NCAA settlement, college athletic departments will (in the next year) be able to distribute as much as $22M+ to student athletes — aka revenue sharing
We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay players.
This is entirely anecdotal, but reading the comments here it feels like compensation for the bottom 50% of creators has gone down in the last 5-ish years
I ran a Minecraft YouTube channel in high school in 2014 (I thought I was too late to get big on YouTube and shut it down in 2016!) and made $500 a month with 2,500 subscribers. I happened to have one video that got a few hundred thousand views, which helped
How often did you post a video, and how long were they, roughly? I'm asking because my YouTube channel has about 2,500 subscribers but I've yet to see a penny.
I understand the justification for UBI from a labor perspective if all “mundane jobs” are automated, but where I haven’t heard convincing justification is on the more abstract “life purpose” side of things. What happens, regardless of UBI, if we move towards a system that provides little to no purpose in working towards anything, or at a basic level, working for a living at all? I know many friends and relatives who reached retirement and faced anxiety and depression due to lack of “a reason to get up in the morning” - it feels like UBI would introduce this problem at a larger scale, and I’m not convinced by the general “we’ll all just be artists” concept either…
We don't have a fix for this problem now, we barely paper these social cracks by requiring people to work extended hours in jobs they don't value at all. Most people don't even have the time to think about how unfulfilled they are.
Both are great products, here's my biased (obviously) way of choosing between them:
- Appwrite is really focused on a simplistic experience. If you check out our SDK documentation, we try to keep everything dead simple.
- Supabase allows more verbose control over their PostgreSQL instance, i.e. you're actually writing SQL and interacting through a SQL console. This might be your cup of tea. They also use Deno for their cloud function equivalent, which is cool if you love Deno.
I would say Supabase is more opinionated, we try to give more options. Neither is necessarily better, there are pros and cons that you can decide on.
Other than that, Appwrite does some things that I find special.
Appwrite is simple to self-host. Like really simple. Like a single line of Docker command simple:
This gives you the full Appwrite experience for local/dev environments and you only need a few more environment variables to be production-ready.
We try to make Appwrite agnostic to your tech stack. You can use or disable any of the services when self-hosting, saving resources on your precious servers. You can integrate with frontend, backend, or both, or just use a single service, like our function runtimes.
We support a ton of SDKs, and we're always adding more. Our vibrant community makes this possible.
We have a lot of languages supported for Appwrite Functions, not just Deno ;) We have lots of storage adaptors you can choose from, or local storage if you want to keep all your data. We will support MANY databases (you can contribute your own, too).
I hope that helps, it really is down to personal preference, developing on the platforms feels very different. Try both!
Really impressed with how easy appwrite was to start up from Docker! (Try doing that from Directus -- they give no help at all for any self hosting.) Can't wait for the GraphQL endpoint to get going! Appwrite isn't as evolved as Directus but I love the open source approach it has, instead of the push towards their cloud offering.
> Appwrite is simple to self-host. Like really simple. Like a single line of Docker command simple
Is is possible to use Appwrite without Docker? Docker is super-slow on Macs so I tend to run everything natively. With traditional tools (e.g. Postgres, Redis, etc) this is super-easy. I can just `brew install`.
Side note: I don't know if these were your issues, but Docker for Mac in the last couple of months has drastically improved its memory usage (finally!) as well as its filesystem performance. Obviously nothing will beat running natively, but Docker on the Mac is no longer frustrating.
Yes, we are working on a more native alternative with the likes of a Makefile or some Ansible scripts. However it has not been a major priority since we didn't have many community members ask for it yet.
However, we'd be more than delighted for contributions from the community
Random thought dump here.. it’s kind of crazy how we all discuss the implications of the internet and social media on society and culture whilst all seeing dramatically different “versions” of the internet
The TikTok/Twitter/Instagram that I know is totally different than the version you’re familiar with. Dropping into your feeds would give me a totally different impression of what those platforms are
Basically, the way everyone mentally models and perceives these platforms is unique. YouTube in my brain is literally a different application than the YouTube in your brain
We’re probably really underestimating the impact of these differences on the way we view the world around us
> We’re probably really underestimating the impact of these differences on the way we view the world around us
I don't think we're really underestimating it that badly. If you participate in the discourse around these platforms you'll find a discussion that very much understands and centers the mechanism over the outcome. You'll find researchers replicating what their subjects see on TikTok, or lamenting the tendency of the YouTube algorithm to lead people down the alt-right pipeline.
When you see people complaining about specific content. It's either a surface level analysis, or rooted in wanting to puncture the pipeline. I think It's pretty clear that interested experts are very much aware of the uniquely multifaceted nature of these mega-brands. Even if the general public is yet to catch up completely.
We’re building the tech that General Managers need to manage their roster, valuate players, construct contracts, and pay players.
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