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The title suggested that they stole/borrowed a train in an Italian Job style heist...


and that they rammed it into a building.

When it was actually a smart mayor requisitioning a train locomotive to use it's engines to produce electricity for municipal buildings.


5. You can’t build a story / brand around it

Many articles focus on the idea of building your community etc, but few actually focus on how to do it amidst all the noise


This might make me fire up my Windows box... I miss MS Flight Simulator


I enjoyed the write-up. Iteresting that you say you invested too much time in writing. What are your readership stats if I may ask?


Back when I was freelancing, I noticed how other freelancers had to deal with non-payments and trying to get hold of clients to no avail. I’ve had it myself, and thought of the least professional thing to do with said toxic clients - send a daily email… It worked

But emails can be ignored, and WhatsApp too… Then something caught my eye. You’ve probably seen the videos of someone’s phone going crazy with notifications and such… Bragging rights though.

So with that idea in mind, I thought of the one “app” that everyone has - SMS - and thought what if you could send a crazy stream of SMS messages to someone AND have the bragging rights of paying large to do it

It’s a crazy and silly idea, but imagine sending 50, 1000, or 10,000 text messages each second to one individual?!

Here is https://pesky.badideas.life


An app that lets you send thousands of messages to one person every second..


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