So what email address should I get that will most reduce my risk of crashing my car?

Probably Hotmail, since without insurance you won't be allowed to buy a car at a dealership, thereby reducing your overall likelihood of acquiring a vehicle, which in turn reduces the likelihood you drive, which in turn reduces the likelihood you crash your car.

How about @nasa.gov ? If you can help build rocket you can probably drive.

The point here is not what the advantage of phone support is but to provide the service personally. You can outsource anything, but if you read the article, the learnings you get from doing it yourself are invaluably useful.

I (mis?)interpreted the GP comment to mean a service that makes it easy to charge for the phone support they provide.

> The article is clearly written by someone who has a vested interest in the incumbents.

How is that clear? Have you researched this author and established that they have ties to competitors, or are you just flinging poo with no justification at all?

> Uber burns cash like pretty much any funded startup

See the title of the article: Big tech is built on predatory pricing

To be clear the author is a friend of mine. He just writes shit that interests him. Believe he has a few tech investments himself as well.

Me and my co-founder refined our pitching skills somewhat. Overall I wouldn't say it's worth it.

Not generally a good idea, but please post a link to the product to get more specific feedback. A product is not a business yet. Before you sink money into a launch you'd want to go from "I think I have a good product" to "I know I have a good product" (some people refer to this as product-market fit).

Work out which company you would actually want to work with (ask questions) and just do do their friggin puzzles if that's what gets you in the door.

Does orthodontics really fall under cranial deformation? ;-)

I know, it wasn't a perfect comparison :-). My jaw, not my cranium. But--it really was basically cosmetic, as are most braces (though our orthodontist invented enough of a reason that my parents didn't feel like they were being extravagant and superficial, and I think insurance even covered it).

This is more than ironic: statuspage.io was affected last week by the Amazon DNS outage! That doesn't seem to get a mention.

There is no way you can know exactly that two workers and two dynos are right. Just start off with Heroku. Maybe even pay for a worker or an extra dyno. Remember you can run multiple instances on a single dyno with eg. unicorn. Once your idea takes off you can deploy using the other posters' suggestions. By that time I thoroughly recommend Cloud 66. https://www.cloud66.com/