A good product opportunity isn’t always a good business opportunity.
Someone certainly could challenge Glassdoor on the product front, but as other commenters have noted, they’d be pitted against a well-entrenched incumbent, prone to legal challenges, and stuck with a convoluted business model.
Looks great! I built a similar system a few years ago as a dashboard for a home weather station, and ended up using Joan Home devices instead of assembling the hardware from components. Highly recommend e-ink as a format for these sorts of low-key displays around the home.
While this might have the effect of symptomatically addressing visible prison problems like fights, it would only further exacerbate some of the worst soft problems like the overall inhumanity of incarceration, and its emphasis on punishment instead of rehabilitation.
If I were incarcerated, the forced interaction with other prisoners would be the biggest punishment. Include read-only internet access and I could carve out a meaningful existence in the environment described by the parent comment.
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Someone certainly could challenge Glassdoor on the product front, but as other commenters have noted, they’d be pitted against a well-entrenched incumbent, prone to legal challenges, and stuck with a convoluted business model.