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by Brushfire 12y ago
I'm not surprised - I know of at least 3 companies that were abusing the free tier -- running thousands or 10s of thousands of simultaneous dynos on free and keeping them awake. Honestly, its kind of amazing they let it go on this long
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by Brushfire 12y ago
There is an added item at play here: the equity stake and future pro-rate amounts are based on invested capital, so for $75k you can get 100k (or more) in pro-rata. (The more comes from the fact that a lot of times this is convertible note
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by Brushfire 12y ago
Simple: use put.io.
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by Brushfire 12y ago
It is also very similar to the FDA.
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by Brushfire 12y ago
I'd be pretty surprised if the US employed people to do anything like this on domestic US sites at any scale. What would they post? Wouldn't a smart individual from a US site have detected this and shared, or a whistleblower have
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by Brushfire 12y ago
I'm getting no results for SFO->ORD or SFO->DFW in January 2015. Am I doing something wrong?
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by Brushfire 12y ago
What makes you think Excelerate was 'bought'?
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by Brushfire 12y ago
If this works the way the article describes, it feels like a fundamental shift forward for humanity as a whole. Critical in that step forward is the notion of open access, even if it isn't free.
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Elon Musk confirms plans to provide global Internet from 100’s of satellites(rt.com)
5 points by Brushfire 12y ago|1 comments
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by Brushfire 12y ago
Hrm. Interesting concept. There is definitely a problem to be solved here -- I have no idea what to buy. But I also hate shopping in person. I don't want to go to the mall or stores and wait in line or try on clothes. I suspect that th
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by Brushfire 12y ago
I was really surprised they didn't discuss, or even mention, the primary issue of direct polling like this that seems top of mind to me: that no one I know wants to sit through a poll. Aren't these just polls of the segment that i
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by Brushfire 12y ago
Yeah, but it still isnt the same -- because for the first investor, you still have to get them to agree to pony up the full 500k. When dealing with smaller angels, its easier to get your first 250k - 500k in 50k-100k increments. I do like
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by Brushfire 12y ago
The benefit of convertible notes / SAFE's is that you get the invested cash IMMEDIATELY. This is a non-trivial benefit for most startups. When raising a full round of capital, say 1M, you don't get any of it until you 'c
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by Brushfire 12y ago
It's kind of interesting to put HN in context of all the other services you use at least 1 time per week. I have a (relatively) old HN account -- 2287 days -- and now that I'm thinking about it, the only accounts/service that
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by Brushfire 12y ago
The amusing part about not doing business with people wearing suits is that it's the exact same attitude as those who only do business with suits. This is really age old - people want to work/invest/befriend people similar to
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by Brushfire 12y ago
I really like this post, but I think the success (or lack thereof) is really more about the competition than the product or the app market in general. There are tons of RSS apps that are good, with great ratings, and are free.
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by Brushfire 12y ago
I'm surprised that sending the same message didn't get picked up by CL email-proxy spam filters. Maybe they found a room fast enough.
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by Brushfire 12y ago
+1. It would be great if they would set up some a kickstarter or another mainstream mechanism for people to contribute (?dogecoin?).
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by Brushfire 13y ago
Not at all. I suspect that I'd want to save: - 50% of photos - 5% of emails - 1% of chats - selective tweets and links I come across. Definitely not everything.
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by Brushfire 13y ago
Obviously you know your customers better than I do, but I bet you could keep the free plan, 2x-3x your middle plan, and 5x your upper plan and still service the same number of customers. The delta from $20 to $50 isn't going to break a
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by Brushfire 13y ago
Great stuff. $20? You should be charging 10x that.
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Paint the Streets: Explore SF’s Outdoor Art(blog.delightful.com)
1 points by Brushfire 13y ago|0 comments
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by Brushfire 13y ago
Kin, I think scaling will be something we have to deal with, but we have some good ideas for the product and team to deal with moderate scale. Will be good problems to have! :) Brian
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by Brushfire 13y ago
HN -> We've been working on building Delightful out for the past few weeks, and we'd love your feedback, thoughts, or criticism. Our goal is to build a platform for interesting date ideas and offer a concierge service that will
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Show HN: Delightful.com - Date Concierge For Two(delightful.com)
7 points by Brushfire 13y ago|3 comments
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by Brushfire 13y ago
All the images are becoming rate limited by google.
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by Brushfire 13y ago
I guess my point was that if they only use it 300 times, is it really worth having the program around given the combo of costs both in privacy and dollars? Of course there is more at play here, but they should be selling how many terrorist
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by Brushfire 13y ago
This is pretty amusing, but they've just made a classic apologists mistake. Either they need all this access and funding to surveil a large number of dangerous people, or they dont need either to surveil such a small number of people.
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Hater Dater(haterdater.com)
1 points by Brushfire 14y ago|0 comments
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OkCupid Labs SF announces new service: DateCourier(okcupidlabs.com)
4 points by Brushfire 14y ago|0 comments

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