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I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

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851 points swyx | 2 comments | 18 Jan 21 20:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.42s | source
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raverbashing ◴[18 Jan 21 21:21 UTC] No.25826771[source]▶
I think this was posted already (a couple of years? ago)

Anyway, yeah, it wasn't a good value proposition (and is it just me or GlacierMD is a bad name for this)?

Because in the end, it doesn't matter much if you don't get "the absolutely best choice of drug". If it solves your problem great, if not, doctors can exchange it, but that's when the drug or dosage is bad, not "not great".

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jaywalk ◴[18 Jan 21 21:25 UTC] No.25826821[source]▶
From Glacier, it's a very short mental route to Titanic. So, yeah I'd say naming your product that brings up thoughts of the Titanic is not great.
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1. rusteh1 ◴[18 Jan 21 21:27 UTC] No.25826844[source]▶
Iceberg != Glacier. AWS manages to market Glacier without people expecting S3 to sink to the bottom of the Atlantic
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2. jaywalk ◴[18 Jan 21 21:48 UTC] No.25827062[source]▶
Good point, but AWS Glacier also has a very clear connection to the word since it's a cold storage service.