The value in the video editor and music licensing can't be overstated. It would be awesome to have a nice cross platform opensource video editor for mobile. There are some commercial services selling SDKs that provide similar video editing capabilities.

Couple things to look into if you are thinking of running a marketplace:

1. Tax gets complicated in marketplace model. Marketplace facilitator tax laws in US and some European countries require the entity running the marketplace to collect and remit tax.

2. If your channels have multi-warehouses and ship from different US states its important to remember there are 11 origin-based states in the US.

I'm looking for a solution in this space that lets you plot the waterfall effect. What I'd like this solution to do is the following:

1. Enter all my bills that require full payment each month 2. Enter my bills that can be variably paid (ex. credit cards, medical bills, etc) 3. Enter my monthly income 4. Enter my budgeted personal/home expenses (food, gas/transport, etc)

Then the solution should be able to model a few different paths to maximizing my savings and plot out a waterfall that says if I payoff X over 6 months and pay the minimum on Y then here is what my savings would look like.

I'd like to be able to see what my projected payoff dates for different bills are and what my projected savings look like if I was to follow the model.

This was an absolute joy to read. Isn't it fun how many years later we remember stuff like this? The thrill of hunting down a complex issue, peeling away layer after layer to find the solution. Thanks for sharing.

I went to community technical college in 2005 and the primary course load was COBOL and JAVA. The college was a pipeline to to bring fresh COBOL talent into these big financial institutions. I'm not sure how many colleges are doing this across the USA currently, but I'm sure there are a handful.

This is pretty neat. If you could take it a step further and have integrations to send the response payloads to other services like S3, SES, SQL insert into Redshift, etc then it would be great.

That's a good idea, we've been focused on getting up to speed to run your own code (which could just be a lamda uploading to S3, etc.) but directly integrating with some services is definitely possible. We just want to be careful not to become another Zapier, we want to help the tech teams!

> we've been focused on getting up to speed to run your own code

When this happens, ping me on twitter! I'll send some customers your way. One of my most frequently asked questions is if I know of an easy way to host webhook handler code. I usually point to Zapier, but I'd rather point to Hookdeck. :)

You can easily do this with AWS Lambda and the boto3 library. You get logging, metrics and alerting if you want too. AWS has a generous free tier.

For python devs, this is a great framework to easily create and deploy them - https://github.com/aws/chalice.

Provided your request and response payload is guaranteed to be <6MiB (for synchronous invocation) or <256KiB (for asynchronous invocation).

These are AWS Lambda's hard limits, and are too low for many webhook applications.

Random aside on marketplace tax and using Stripe Connect. It would be especially useful if Stripe had a field that allowed marketplace facilitators to ensure they are collecting the tax. Using connected accounts with destination charges allows platform account to receive the tax by placing it in the application fee field, but if you happen to also collect a commission that means you are combining your tax + commission and storing that value in the application fee field. Since marketplace facilitators are responsible for tax collection in the US having an extra field to put this tax in would be great.

Piggybacking off this... Has anyone built a really good tax exemption system. I know Amazon has a pretty decent system for their B2B that allows you to upload a tax exemption certificate for your state (US). Then they have some sort of auto validation process. I assume it calls out to each state's secretary of state system to determine the validity. I would be interested to know if anyone has seen a SASS service like this that other B2B providers can leverage for fully automatic tax exemption validation.

Good idea!

Is anyone aware of something similar that supports Redshift? I have some colleagues that would benefit from a UI on top of a few Redshift tables to manage data (edit/import/delete).

What tools have your tried with redshift ? which has helped.

Does a spreadsheet like thing help for columnar database ? Please let us know usecases.

We haven't tried anything yet. I'm about to get some users setup with ODBC access in Excel to make some manual data edits. Essentially we have some core data and some metadata that is managed manually and I'm looking for a light weight UI that these users can use to manage the metadata tables in Redshift.

Thank you for the answer

Thanks Ken. It's more ops focused. I'm overseeing a project and want a degree of visibility to see the pulse, velocity, and work distribution across multiple repos. Think of it as a way to get a snapshot. I'm looking at some of the tools you suggested and your own tool. Thanks.

I'm looking for a product owner view that gives me a pulse across all the repos involved in a larger project. The key would to be able to see velocity, whos working on what, distribution of the work, and what they are working on all in one dashboard.