[HN Gopher] How many lines of code is Candy Japan? (2016)
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How many lines of code is Candy Japan? (2016)
Author : EndXA
Score : 75 points
Date : 2021-04-02 15:12 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.candyjapan.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.candyjapan.com)
| thih9 wrote:
| Previous discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12611721 (2016)
| bengalister wrote:
| This reminds me of a competitor "candysan.com". It is owned by a
| Japanese woman and her French husband who happens to be a
| youtuber. And the website is currently down because the servers
| burnt with the OVH Strasburg datacenter.
|
| He made some non-technical videos talking about it. Apparently
| there was no backup and was considering moving part of the site
| to Shopify (stripe is used for payment).
|
| The youtube channels are Ici Japon Corp. and icijapon but it is
| only in French.
| bserge wrote:
| Damn, not even a local copy? How so?
| azhenley wrote:
| 8341 lines total.
| tpmx wrote:
| "Because of the coronavirus situation, Candy Japan is currently
| on pause."
| sithadmin wrote:
| Same story for many businesses shipping from Japan at the
| moment. Japan Post has shut down most of the usual avenues for
| shipping overseas from Japan, leaving only cost prohibitive
| international courier and freight forwarding options available.
| tpmx wrote:
| Because of misplaced fears of fomite-based covid-19 infection
| vectors?
| robjan wrote:
| Because there are no flights for airmail to travel on. We
| have the same problem in HK since the border is almost
| completely closed. We can only send mail by ship to most
| destinations unless it's couriered.
| tpmx wrote:
| I had assumed commercial flight operators would have
| MacGyvered passenger aircraft to handle things like this
| by now, to get some kind of revenue stream. I guess the
| economics didn't work out.
|
| Edit: This is also nicely illustrated by Fedex stock
| almost tripling in value since the beginning of the
| pandemic.
| Hamuko wrote:
| I believe there are some passenger airplanes with seats
| taken out for cargo but I have no idea how widespread
| that is or how much of the regular cargo traffic it can
| actually replace.
|
| https://www.aircargonews.net/freighters-world/how-
| coronaviru...
| pm215 wrote:
| One specific postage option I noticed Japan Post had
| cancelled was the "surface air lift" which is a kind of
| middle-option between airmail (fast, expensive) and
| seamail (very slow, cheap). My assumption is that this
| was partly because if there's less capacity on planes
| then you might as well use it all for expensive airmail
| rather than cheaper SAL. But I've not investigated
| whether this is really true.
|
| I think more generally trying to jury-rig cargo on a
| passenger plane isn't economic -- IIRC early last year
| some companies did a bit of it when passenger air travel
| was essentially zero, but they've all stopped now because
| (a) the cost effective way to fly cargo is to use cargo
| planes and (b) air passenger travel picked up a little
| again.
| Hamuko wrote:
| Global shipping is all sorts of fucked right now.
| toomuchtodo wrote:
| Sent cards to friends in Australia from US east coast, was
| told they'd be there in 3 weeks if I was lucky.
| bemmu wrote:
| Candy Japan guy here. Japan Post announced that there will be
| price increases, which seemed to more than double the shipping
| cost. Even if I could ship (haven't checked lately if they
| opened yet or not), the service would need to change. Probably
| going from twice a month to once a month while still costing
| the same, so not sure how attractive that would be to
| subscribers.
|
| While the site was down I started working on some other
| projects which are looking promising, so I'm dragging my feet a
| little bit about restarting it (I already refunded everyone's
| candy balances in case I never restart). Since I spent 10 years
| curating candy I also got a little bit tired towards the end to
| be honest.
|
| I should probably make some use of the organic traffic it's
| getting though. I've actually had more traffic from Google
| after I could no longer ship. Thinking of selling one-time
| boxes on the site instead of subscriptions, as I could then
| spend the time I used to spend on curation on new projects
| instead.
| kernelbugs wrote:
| Have you considered setting up a distributor/forwarder in the
| US? The only relatively fast services I know of operating
| from Japan to the US right now (DHL + FedEx Priority Intl)
| are expensive for sure, but the prices become more
| economically feasible at larger parcel sizes and weights.
| Shipping one large batch to the US and then splitting
| packages there might be an option. (Japan Post Seamail is
| also an option (as the only available offering right now from
| JP), but currently takes 2-3 months to arrive).
|
| I import a good number of items from Japan as a small
| business. Happy to chat more about the little context I have
| about both JP->US shipping and US domestic.
| tpmx wrote:
| > Japan Post announced that there will be price increases,
| which seemed to more than double the shipping cost.
|
| That seems sort of fair, given the situation.
|
| I'm curious - do you think Japan Post subsidized foreign
| package shipment fees (before the pandemic)?
|
| It's dramatically more expensive to ship stuff from Sweden to
| Japan, than in the opposite direction, as an example.
| kernelbugs wrote:
| I think the JP to US prices increased specifically, and
| more than any other price increases Japan post might have
| made. Japan Post removed the US from an existing shipping
| zone and marked it as its own shipping zone with higher
| prices. I have a statement from a US shipping provider
| (PirateShip) about the increase of outgoing USPS shipping
| prices that likely also explains the increase of incoming
| international mail as well:
|
| > In late 2019, the US government threatened to pull out of
| the "Universal Postal Union," which is the international
| treaty that sets what postal services pay each other to
| trade mail & packages. This started a negotiation where the
| USA required the ability to "self-declare" the shipping
| rates it would charge other countries, instead of them
| being set by the treaty. This resulted in other countries
| "self-declaring" rates, too... all of which made
| international shipping through USPS way more expensive than
| it already was.
| sixothree wrote:
| One time boxes sounds good to me. Being able to send someone
| a nice little present would be great.
|
| There's a lot of anxiety for me surrounding monthly boxes.
| troutwine wrote:
| FWIW I don't want candy twice a month but I would be
| interested in something that came every six months or yearly.
| Twice a month just seems like a _lot_ of candy.
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