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cathoderaydude
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every three months a new parking payment app appears. the market is 1000% saturated and has been for five years. there is literally no possible value add over "we take the credit card payment."

every single one of these companies is created with the assumption that they will convince some city government to switch to them for literally no reason. the existing company gets pushed out and there's nothing they can do about it because it has nothing to do with whether they were delivering a service. bob got to joe in the elevator and by the time the doors opened a contract was nullified, with no functional change except that now everyone has to install new software, sign up again.

pure, pointless churn. these are chaos demons. they exist for no reason except to make things more complicated and unsolve solved problems. they are copper losses. they are heat inefficiency. they are drag. we are a species of engineers. we should put our society in a wind tunnel and fix its aerodynamics.


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

I know a New Orleans startup that got way too much money was building one of these, but it was on "The Blockchain."

I think the state of Louisiana has given about half a billion dollars over the last five years to these weird ass startups just for the sake of creating "Silicon Bayou."

one potential explanation is that they aren't new ones cropping up as much as old ones getting consumed. wikipedia suggests both spothero and parkwhiz are over 10 years old and both of them purchased a few other companies in the process

not that it makes it any better (and maybe even makes it worse)