If anyone has any general questions (it seems like my little “startup lessons” page is as popular as the others) I’m be happy to answer them as long as they’re not too technical or related to my finances. However, the specifics of the technical side of my site are best found on TorrentFreak, and, in short: curl commands.

> Contrast what society says rehabilitation is versus what it actually feels like. How much of it depends on luck, personality, or privilege?

> people want linear redemption stories, but real self-improvement is messy, nonlinear, and impossible to A/B test.

> There's a certain freedom in owning your story publicly. People can't weaponize what you've already made peace with.

It's interesting to me how from his account, everyone is fairly sympathetic to him regarding his charges (he mentions his employer showing up to his interview in a sports jersey in reference to his charges!), and how he mentions he knows several actual sports players used his site. It really goes to show the state of modern streaming.

Yes, do that. Also a tangent: remind me why you're sending me an email if you haven't sent one in many months.

Sometimes I see an interesting project that hasn't launched. They just have an "sign up for news updates".

Then 12 months later I get a standard news email and I have no clue what it is and ignore it.

At least start your email with something like "Hey, 12 months ago you signed up for the mega cool electron thunder splitter. We've launched!"

One could probably spin one of these up in an afternoon (if making money was not the goal). The barriers of entry to this ecosystem are a lot lower than I ever imagined.

Those aggregators serve their own ads (what you get through the API is a link to a web player embed, not to the video directly). I suspect that bigger sites get some kind of kickback for bringing in traffic to those players.

[1] https://torrentfreak.com/mpa-highlights-rapidly-expanding-hy... [2] http://vidsrcme.ru/ [3] https://streamed.pk/docs

I would call it a hero-site. That's what they are - they are heroes for unrestricting information.

Take ublock origin. Now, many say it is an ad-blocker; the ublock origin author says the extension is a generic content blocker. I agree with that but I go further: I call ublock origin a hero-blocker, or better, a heroic blocker. It blocks unwanted things in general. For similar reasons I think the term "piratebay" is old. It made more sense in the 2000s. Now I would call it herobay.

People may wonder about those terms, but I think it is important to use better terms than old terms. The old terms often were hijacked by the law system and mega-corporations with their own particular interests. It is time that the people re-define the law. Law should serve the people.

ah, it's this kind of pirate streaming

the reason noreply addresses exist is to avoid endless autoreply loops caused by poorly programmed mail software

What does this mean? what is this 'trust' that is built ? how does an email build 'trust' Is this to do with whether I beleive the email came from where it says it does ? or somethign else. A lot of this article seemed a little vague in the business buzzword bullshit type way.

Bro, you gotta just build Trust(tm) for this one growth hack(tm)

>I gave my users lists of those posts and encouraged them to comment

A service doing this would instantly be on my shit list. I'm trying to buy a service in exchange for money, not get spammed about being someone's guerilla marketing team for free / and or getting roped into a referral scheme.

I don't mind organically advocating for things I've had a good experience with but not like this

Any goodwill I felt towards this guy evaporated at the end. Reddit spam, unraveling the social trust in user recommendations, is a scourge. I’m sorry he wasn’t sent to jail longer.

And as with most criminal cases, it’s astonishing how little money he made for his trouble.