In part, Japan has good geography for passenger rail. Most of the population lives near sea level and therefore a lot can be done without significant grades, and because the island is long and skinny, even the highest point in the network is less than 5000' and there's just one mountain range to cross.
You take off your solo technical founder pants and put on your solo marketing founder hat.
In business, selling is much much much more important than making because if you have money you can hire technical workers. But nobody will care nearly as much about survival as you.
And if you have a technical background you are much more likely to have technical people in your network. Good luck.
HN is HN because its endless September prevents ossification.
There are two simple tools to deal with problematic behavior: downvotes and flags. There’s also the almost simple tool of emailing the moderation team…oh and there’s also hiding stories and collapsing comments.
It might not feel worth doing any of those things, but that’s how proof of work works. Good luck.
I was too young to have experienced the era of BBS
I wasn't, but I didn't...beyond trying to connect a few times unsuccessfully and connecting once or twice and not knowing what to do.
Which is to say the era of BBS's was very much unlike the internet because only a very very small handful of people ever actively participated in BBS's in a meaningful way...remember the famous BBS's like The Well were a long distance phone call for most people...and there was no Google to tell you about BBS's you could call toll free...and long distance was expensive.
If a person was online, it was probably Compuserve or later AOL.
The commercial internet changed everything. For the better.
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