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by ABrandt 16y ago
Even though dropbox is probably simple enough to use without one, their "getting started" walkthrough is really the golden standard in my mind. Grooveshark is a little different, but whenever you access the site from a new IP, their little
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by ABrandt 16y ago
...could this be the warning signs of YC news starting to become reddit ? I hate to pick at straws here, but this single phrase has been repeated across HN threads for years. No, we are not becoming reddit. Some past references: http:&#x
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by ABrandt 16y ago
Many Celiac patients are asymptomatic. Would this pig out test still be conclusive?
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by ABrandt 16y ago
Well ultimately you'll be the judge of whether a market is large enough--it just depends on your goals really. As far as actually quantifying it though, there's several methods. I personally think the easiest traditional way of doing it is
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by ABrandt 16y ago
I can appreciate your desire for brevity, but I do believe the OP had a larger point than just "posterous has balls". Ultimately this covers the issue of competition that many entrepreneurs constantly fret over. Many people loathe being com
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by ABrandt 16y ago
I knew there were others lurking among the discussions on Erlang... :) 1.) Geo filtering is definitely going to be key for us at some point. Right now the system is designed to handle this, its just a matter of implementation really. 2.) D
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by ABrandt 16y ago
This is all awesome stuff, Pete (Gotta love HN for this, getting instant feedback from someone whose work has influenced my own). The little things you pointed out are definitely on my todo list, and a demo video is in the pipelines. There
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by ABrandt 16y ago
clickable: http://beatnex.com
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Ask HN: Critique my simple service for musicians: booking shows online
6 points by ABrandt 16y ago|5 comments
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by ABrandt 16y ago
Seems like this could be a huge leap towards the unified locations database many have called for. Sure it'd be nice if it was an open sourced database, but just like with Facebook and identity, corporate control is currently far more practi
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by ABrandt 16y ago
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but a fellow HNer (hajrice) is working on questionify.com They're still in private beta but I know Emil would be more than willing to offer an account. Good luck!
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by ABrandt 16y ago
This is true, we did put quite a bit of effort into properly forecasting demand. At the end of each day I'd count every piece of food we had left, feed that into some software along with some variables such as weather, and try to calculate
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by ABrandt 16y ago
And mine has "austin brandt god". Slightly more flattering, yet equally as disturbing.
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by ABrandt 16y ago
I worked at Panera (St.Louis Bread Co. actually) for three years back in high school, and this new store is literally down the street from me. Every one of their locations already donates a huge amount of baked goods to local charities each
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by ABrandt 16y ago
Poole will be sitting on the Digital Crowds Into Dollars panel along with Judy Hu, Global Executive Director Advertising & Branding, GE; Brian Pokorny, CEO, dailybooth; and Andrey Ternovskiy, CEO, Chatroulette. Just curious if anyone
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by ABrandt 16y ago
True. But I've always believed when you're dealing with a C2C business, you have to choose one of the C's to attack first. On the other hand, sellers who pay to sell something that doesn't sell probably don't make great repeat customers. Pe
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by ABrandt 16y ago
I really have to admire Zed's use of all things lean here. It looks like a bare-bone site with no architecture to speak of, but there seems to be just enough content to create a compelling value proposition. This is an MVP if I've ever seen
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by ABrandt 16y ago
I think its been particularly interesting growing up during this transitional period. I'm 21 now, but I can remember up to about the 6th grade when card catalogs and encyclopedias were still pushed on us at school. But the internet was comi
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by ABrandt 16y ago
Seems like the real value is derived from the incentives system. I don't think I've ever used those common 'email a friend' links. There's two potential reasons for this: 1) I don't get any results. Not even confirmation if the person took
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by ABrandt 16y ago
I could see the dropbox reciprocity tactic working here. The recommender may get a cut of revenue, but the recommended could be given a discount as well. This could turn companies off from the CPC model though.
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by ABrandt 16y ago
Sounds like an interesting side project. How can I contact you about it? I work with a number of independent musicians who might be interested in exactly that. Shoot me an email if you'd like--address is in my profile.
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Ask HN: How to follow up on promising investment leads?
4 points by ABrandt 16y ago|1 comments
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by ABrandt 16y ago
Clickable: http://matchio.com
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Ask HN: Review local used textbook startup
4 points by ABrandt 16y ago|7 comments
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by ABrandt 17y ago
I think the more this concept (open startup ideas) gets fleshed out, the more appealing it has become. This is a huge improvement over the original spreadsheet, but I could see even more value being created with a better interface yet. Orga
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by ABrandt 17y ago
My guess is that they were trying to skim off as much revenue from the potential customer pool as possible. If you charge $49 and only get 100 takers, you still make more than if you had 1000 paying $1.99. I know there's different threshold
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by ABrandt 17y ago
Phone: Blackberry Storm 9530 Text: Received Link: Loaded Barcode: Nada I just got a little outline of a box with a message trying to convince me that "this is my ticket." If you want to know more, my emails in my profile. I'd love to offer
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by ABrandt 17y ago
I agree this is pretty cool, but the more I search the more I feel that the results are targeted solely towards early adopters. Google is the behemoth that it is because normals mistake it for the very Internet itself. If duck duck go wants
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by ABrandt 17y ago
You can teach an engineer business, but you can't teach a businessman engineering. I know what you're trying to say here, but it sounds slightly condescending to me. First, I firmly believe that picking up "business" isn't as easy as many
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by ABrandt 17y ago
Welcome to HN, Reid. I'm a pretty big fan of what you guys are doing over there at echo nest. Any plans to beef up the documentation (i.e. tutorials) in the near future?

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