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My personal project, https://rate.house, is kinda like goodreads but for all types of media.



This isn't surprising to me since most of us upend our lives just to be in US, so we have more of an incentive to try harder to make it.


And people know that the US is friendlier to startups/business than other countries, so founders will come to the US. They didn't just happen to be here.


Does the "I can always go back whence I came" also lower the perceived risk? If a domestically-born founder fails they aren't apt to have anywhere else they can go, thus having to stick around to deal with the fallout.


I can imagine the opposite "This place is so nice and I don't want to go back to what I perceive as a hellhole", and so they work harder to succeed.


A significant number of these founders are from Canada. It is not that much different from the USA. Canada is less business friendly, perhaps, but that isn't important after you've failed.


Ah yeah, if lazy Americans would just try harder, they’d be richer.


tons of studies show children of bottom income quintile immigrants have far more economic mobility than non-immigrants children in the bottom quintile, so there is something to it, even if it is not as simple as laziness.


I completely agree with the sentiment of the article but the general user behavior is changing. Young people are always asking for an app. It's what they're used to. My nephew never even opens his web browser on his phone.


I'm making a little by sharing all my nonfiction book summaries/notes on https://littlerbooks.com.


Thank you for sharing, that is a neat side project and was actually just looking for something like this. Can you share how your summarisation process works and if you use any specific tools or approaches to generate them?


I'm sharing all my nonfiction book summaries/notes on https://littlerbooks.com/.


I'm making some money by putting all my nonfiction book notes on https://littlerbooks.com/


Nice! I thought about doing this at some point. Did you have to run ads, do SEO or anything to start to get traffic?


https://littlerbooks.com is where I summarize popular nonfiction books into bullet points so I can remember what I learned better.

https://rate.house is a user generated media database. It's like IMDb but also has music, literature, video games, and podcasts.

https://newsasfacts.com provides the most important news around the world concisely.

https://wordhoot.com is a word guessing game inspired by Wordle featuring multiplayer, unlimited plays, and detailed playing history/stats.


Can you talk more about the underlying feeds for newsfacts and then identifying “the most important” news from around the world.


i'd be more interested in the "unbiased" part, because there is no such thing as having no bias. bias is everywhere and usually people or sources claiming to have no biases just don't know about theirs or actively try to hide them.


Littlerbooks is so nice. Thank you for this.


I have a few.

https://rate.house is a user generated media database. It's like IMDb but also has music, literature, video games, and podcasts.

https://newsasfacts.com provides the most important news around the world concisely.

https://wordhoot.com is a word guessing game inspired by Wordle featuring multiplayer, unlimited plays, and detailed playing history/stats.


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