DevX101

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by DevX101 16y ago
Tell that to the multi-billion dollar advertising industry. Having the perception of value is THE necessary condition to selling your product. Having actual value may create this perception of value, but this is not necessarily so. I've se
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by DevX101 16y ago
Where do I find the 'Joe Ades' of web apps?
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by DevX101 16y ago
The ability to sell is getting the customer to choose YOUR product over alternatives. There are very few products out there that we need and cannot be substituted. I've got a perfectly sharp knife in my kitchen, but after watching the sales
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by DevX101 16y ago
Hmm..just tried it again and now it shows them correctly as being as unavailable. Not sure what happened first time around.
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by DevX101 16y ago
It's giving me wrong information for .org domains On my first search, it shows chat.org and wizard.org as being available. Not so.
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by DevX101 16y ago
OK, I'll be the contrarian here but although their pricing/compensation structure is off for a small entrepreneur, I don't see anything morally wrong with the concept of this type of business. There are many business owners who want to sel
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by DevX101 16y ago
Sites currently down. If you're going to be featured by TechCrunch or big media, please contact your hosting provider and make sure you can handle the hits. This is exactly the WORST time to have your site down.
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by DevX101 16y ago
Well give the guy back his money less the re-adjusted transaction fees. They just robbed this man of $2500.
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by DevX101 16y ago
"link their vesting to hitting those clearly-defined milestones" Great advice here. If I bring on a business guy who claims he can land the first 10 major accounts that will be critical for the business, that's all well and good. But unle
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by DevX101 16y ago
Most young children don't fully understand WHY they need a good education. Many students that do well in school in the early years, did so because their parents forced them to study. If a child doesn't have that parental pressure and suppo
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by DevX101 16y ago
You need to work on the visual design. I didn't have time to figure it out but its not clear if the percent is the 30-day change or the percent of relevant users that liked a certain candidate. Some of your calculations are off. See Nancy
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by DevX101 16y ago
This is really surprising. The volume for teens completely blow everyone else out the water. At this rate, they're sending 7 texts per hour ALL day and night, assuming they take 8 hours to sleep. What the hell are these kids talking about
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by DevX101 16y ago
If this really enables web programmers to make functional phone apps as it seems to do, I predict two things: 1) More useful apps will be out on the market with an influx of new developers. "The best will get better" 2) The amount of money
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by DevX101 16y ago
If you can get your book published and marketed by a 'top publisher', there's still money to be made the old way: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2010/08/23/seth-godin-a...
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by DevX101 16y ago
...and financial returns are not Gaussian
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by DevX101 16y ago
Unless Nicholas Taleb's page was hacked, he's dead. Taleb is a close personal friend of Mandelbrot.
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by DevX101 16y ago
He's the richest man in the world. He has enough liquid assets to aggressively pursue charitable giving if he wants to.
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by DevX101 16y ago
Does it matter?
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by DevX101 16y ago
Sounds like a good question for quora.com
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by DevX101 16y ago
So, you do marketing, production, distribution but only take 5% of retail price? Sounds too low at first glance.
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by DevX101 16y ago
I just emailed them to come post a thread at HN. If they're smart, you'll hear from them tomorrow.
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by DevX101 16y ago
Was it an uphill battle getting dealers? A system like this cuts into the profits that they'd normally get from naiive customers walking through the door. How did you pitch them?>
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by DevX101 16y ago
There are a subset of people who are just loud. And they like everyone to know. Malcolm Gladwell called them 'mavens'. These are the type of people that when they try a new cool restaurant, want to tell EVERYONE about it. Never piss thes
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by DevX101 16y ago
I second the "free for ___ months" then pay strategy. If a customer can't see the value in your offering after a few months of using it, they probably never will. On the other hand, if you just charge customers off the bat, there are many
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by DevX101 16y ago
Sounds like he's trying to have his cake and eat it too. Many of these loud obnoxious protesters were probably the same ones who were singing your company's praises early on.
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by DevX101 16y ago
Yup. You're the guy.
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by DevX101 16y ago
Start by looking at geothermal heat pumps. They basically use the earth as a heat source or a heat sink to maintain the temperature of your house at a comfortable level.
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by DevX101 16y ago
I haven't look too closely at this space, but someone here at HN made the claim that bank APIs are sometimes inaccurate, which is why Yodlee scrapes in the first place. Can you confirm/rebut?
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by DevX101 16y ago
Newspapers have a huge amount of unrealized value. They are probably one of the most trusted sources of relevant local content available, even today. But if newspapers maintain business as usual and don't fully leverage this advantage, th
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Proposed design pattern -- autohide viewed items
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