AlexMuir

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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Easy Auction is long gone sadly.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I like ByeByeBox. FromYourDoor would be a great one for a taxi company.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
What a list! SloughOffYourToffStuff - I used to live in Slough, that made me chuckle. TossitAndProfit - as a marketing tool like CompareTheMeerkat would work very well.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I'm torn here - the branding person in me loves unpackage [though sadly the .com isn't available]. The businessman says box2cash is going to appeal to the mass market and be memorable. Copy - simply brilliant.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I'll take it if you're in the UK. You don't have to send it - I'll arrange a courier to collect it. Drop me an email: me@alexmuir.com
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Amazing - I literally had this idea just before lunch. I've dropped you an email with the details. For anyone else in the UK, I'm happy to order a courier to collect your box from you. Shipping (£6 I think) will be deducted from the proce
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
But how big can it be? Almost by definition dedicated servers are always going to be cheaper. Any business that needs a dedicated server is going to get one, with lower/flexing demands sure, they'll go with cloud. I love AWS as much as anyo
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
That's the plan - we'll link their boxes with ebay listings so they can follow it themselves if they want. It's totally transparent.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Yeah, put your junk in my trunk would be a very sensible name here, and wouldn't raise any eyebrows at all! I guess junk is tits?
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Those boys are all about the old furniture. They want real wood and the odd china figurine - they're also very old school. But it's an interesting business - I'd be up for house clearances too.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
It's a trust issue. This way, our interests are aligned, and people aren't going to think 'Hey, this might be worth something - I'll hang onto it'. I'm going to get the best price for their stuff, and they can see it. Cash4gold pay as li
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I don't love this to be honest. I don't want to be seen as an alternative to the bin - if it's ready for the bin I'm not going to be able to sell it. I want people to feel comfortable putting an old laptop in there, perhaps a 19" TFT scre
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I'm not started yet - I just used the present tense for brevity above. I'm going to test the market over the next couple of weeks with a sample dropoff. I founded a student storage business [ http://www.thebigspace.co.uk ] 7 years ago and
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I really like this one - it's not really fun but I'm not sure it hugely relates to what I'm doing.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Not sure I follow you, can you elaborate?
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
box2cash.com
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
the .com is gone sadly.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
cash4box.com
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Some belting ones in there. Well done.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
lol, cheers. I'm not sure I want the whole thing built around my own name though! And, somewhat unbelievably, a good number of people seem to be able to spell my name wrong.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Coloured cardboard boxes cost a surprising amount extra (almost double). BrownBoxAway doesn't have the same ring to it. MagicBoxAway is pretty good though.
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Ask HN: Simple little business - what should I call it?
43 points by AlexMuir 16y ago|109 comments
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Remove adverts in Live Messenger(apatch.org)
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
This shows that not only are ideas cheap, implementation is now cheap too. Just monetization left...
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
This is a novel idea. Storing contact details for concurrent people and presenting them to each other in a randomised way. I've not seen this anywhere using telephone numbers, skype, email addresses - it's novel. Chatroulette connects peo
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
I'm glad google keeps it's money and invests in developing google maps, streetview, and gmail. The government would (and does) pay billions to IT consultants to build much shitter systems. In the UK our government has sunk billions into the
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Groove salad.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Well I didn't watch the video I'm afraid - 2 minutes is a long time to watch a demo. Perhaps you could get some feedback by paying people on Amazon's mechanical turk.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
Where's the site? I don't see a startup, I see an idea.
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by AlexMuir 16y ago
That's shit. No-one says homepage, and hotness is not something I associate with a webpage.

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