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It there a secret sauce or barrier to entry here? This seems like an a weekend project to replicate...
by yodon 9y ago
It there a secret sauce or barrier to entry here? This seems like an a weekend project to replicate...
- Topgamer7 9y agoYeah that's what I was thinking. I could replicate this with a knockoff rpi and some arcade buttons in like a day.
- jeromegv 9y agoYes. Will you hire a sales force to knock door on every store chain in the US to sell them on the idea? This isn’t about technical abilities.
- oftenwrong 9y agoDoing it at scale. Making the terminals. Selling the service to businesses. Deploying the terminals.
- cryptonector 9y agoSales is the hard part.
- suprfnk 9y agohttps://danluu.com/sounds-easy/ https://danluu.com/sounds-easy/
- tptacek 9y agoEven easier than smiley-face buttons is a Javascript metrics bug you can embed in different places on your website; most of us could hack that up in about 20 minutes. But we don't so much wonder why Mixpanel and Google Analytics are so popular.
- oftenwrong 9y agoThat's one of their offerings, actually: https://www.happy-or-not.com/en/web-smileys-2/ https://www.happy-or-not.com/en/web-smileys-2/
- Corrado 9y agoI wish AWS would employ this type of thing in their support department. Currently, support tickets are worked by multiple agents but you don't get the "survey" until the ticket closes. What do you do if one agent is great and the next agent is terrible? Using something like a HappyOrNot button on every interaction would give you a lot more information about individual agents and their interactions.
- pessimizer 9y agoBut could you get an article about it in the new yorker, or get financing? It might be a largely purposeless, technically primitive product, but it provides something for management to buy, and numbers to put in reports.
- bsder 9y agoGetting the PR piece published on HN ...