Don't flatter yourself... There is a lot that goes into building an advanced economy beyond startups...Not to mention start-ups need educated workers to become successful. This whole meme about education not being necessary is utter nonsense. Only someone who has the narrowest understanding of how our world works would subscribe to such a notion... do you want "half-assed"/"Sam teach yourself aerodynamics in 21 days" engineers building your aircrafts? I don't think so.
Some of us moved from entirely different continents, leaving friends and family behind...hang in there, that is how you grow as a person... 2 months a definitely too short a time to make that determination..it seems you are just homesick which is not a valid reason to want to go back home, if there are other problems then maybe, but homesickness by itself would be a childish reason to run back home... Join a meetup group, join okcupid and look for dates (saying you're new to the area is an easy way to get dates)...definitely don't lock yourself in the house programming, it wont help, get out and meet people.
Anti-trust is about anti-competitive behavior, size doesn't (or shouldn't) really matter. It just so happens that big entities have more incentives and capabilities to be anti-competitive which is why anti-trust charges are often brought against big companies by smaller rivals.
I did take a dig at Facebook at the end of that post, I must say now that I am more than happy to eat my words!! Kudos to you Marky Mark, as a Newark residence this is very much appreciated:)
One way I intend to ensure trust is to have shippers use either Paypal or Amazon payments to accept shipment payments... By proxy, a shipper's identity will not be anonymous anymore since those services do require bank account information which is a thorough form of ID.
Most of these concerns are the same as with any site that deals in blind transactions (ebay, used things on amazon, paypal in general), but these sites only require you to risk your time upfront where as in the case of this site the customer is risking something they already own with the hope of future payment. Essentially its like requiring people on ebay to send items before they receive payment.
The most basic way I can think of to deal with this imbalance is to have the shipper make a deposit up front to "insure" the item being ships. Upon arrival the shipper gets their deposit plus payment. There is probably a more elegant way to frame this so that the shipper does not feel like they are risking so much.
yeah... I made provision for carriers (people carrying packages) to specify by how much they are willing to deviate from their planned route. That is a key aspect in the search algorithm i developed. Say you are willing to deviate 5 miles then any package that is within 5 miles (both pickup and delivery points) of your planned route is a match. There are other issue of last mile that will be addressed only if the site grows, mainly how do you deal with receivers who aren't available to pickup their package at time of delivery, considering that carrier is traveling?
