what are the dodgy meds? it provides a discount at the pharmacy if you pay cash and skip insurance. are you from here?

have you seen some of the websites they've developed? they're actually quite nice. maybe joe hasn't gotten to mobile yet

edit: oh wait, thats https://ndstudio.gov/

"Accessibility Matters" they chortle between giant images of text https://ndstudio.gov/posts/accessibility-matters

“I absolutely agree that consumers and wage earners should not be exploited by the use of their data,” he said. “But it’s still overly broad and it’s still overly vague in very important parts. And I believe it’s overly simplistic in its definition of wage setting.”

That's standard conservative speak for "don't interfere with business practices". "Overly broad" is just a way to shut down discussion.

That’s juicy coming from the current Republican Party.

Tesla’s manuals are all online and many of the parts sell for cost plus. You may be thinking of Ford and Toyota

The North American car market is more subsidized than any other. It is why it is so uncompetitive.

North America imports cars in large quantities from every car making region in the world (that is not banned). What parts of the world sell high volumes of NA vehicles? They are not banned, just unwanted.

It's not like the US hasn't proped up our own industry to push out competition and dominate global markets. Nope, definitely never did that.

There’s controlling competition in your own country and dominating global markets. Nothing wrong with either. It’s not like it’s not happening anywhere else in the world.

It just makes me laugh when people complain about China propping up it's industry to complete globally. The US has overthrown governments to protect its geopolitical priorities.

I've got no love for China, but I'm not gonna shed a tear for a large corporations crying over someone else having an unfair advantage.

It should be monetized to support the long term commitment

I have no problem with monetization. I do have a problem with rug-pulling, especially if it's a tool I'm adopting into my workflow. I ask about monetization strategy because it can be an indicator. If the answer is, "never thought about it" then rug pull is a strong possibility. If the answer is, "planning to offer paid hosting" then that can be a positive sign.

Very good points. Including the AGPL, that is definitely a better license for this type of project. I am just used to starting with MIT when I start a new open source project, but you have a point.

About monetization, that is definitely very important. For now, and not sure how long, could be days or weeks, I am offering api-keys at no charge, because I want the feedback of real users. But obviously that is not sustainable in the long term, servers cost money and monetization also help keep the project alive.

At a second stage, I am planning to offer monthly or yearly plans with different limitations or unlimited also. But I am also planning on offering pay per use with short lives api-keys targeting agentic workflows, for example or people that dont really want to pay a monthly fee, but instead just cents for a short-lived tunnel.

For the monthly plans, I am planning to keep as low cost as possible, just enough to maintain the infrastructure and development + some overhead.

You also have the option of buying low and increasing your share of the market

The premise is that you have a bunch of unsavvy people dumping savings into the market. As an individual you can try to play the game, as a system most people will lose.

What is the game? Who has been losing from buying broad-market index funds? Even if the market falls from recent highs all but the most recent investors will be ahead.

Retail investors do just fine fleecing themselves on their own

The term fleecing means „there’s nothing left here, jump ship”. Do you really believe they’re going public to cash out this early in the game?

If any of this were true they’d be doing much better and not pivoting