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by HHalvi 7y ago
Context is google's strong suit: Local search, using my email/location/phone data to enhance or outright create a new category of results. For everyday search terms DDG wins hands down. I end up using both accordingly to the
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by HHalvi 7y ago
Do you have money to spend on Promotion? Invest on (converting) Ads Do you have no money to spend on Promotions? Get Creative with how you promote stuff. Reach out to Instagram/Twitter pages that post related to your niche and aren’t t
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by HHalvi 7y ago
I think Slack is a bit undervalued more than over valued. The market is big enough for Slack + Microsoft, Amazon Chime, G Suite and so many other players to coexist. Also Slack to me feels like a good enough messaging apps. P.S: I hate it&
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by HHalvi 7y ago
I find myself hearing about weird titles & demos in a lot of places (IRC's, Comments on Gaming Forums and Other places) and search for their videos all the time. And I do go back from time to time to appreciate how far gaming has c
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by HHalvi 7y ago
iOS app backs up to iCloud and Android version of the app to Google Drive and they are locked down with no other choice.
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by HHalvi 7y ago
As someone who keeps on switching from iOS to Android phones as my primary and daily driver i am still waiting for a way to effectively sync my Whatsapp messages over when i pick up a phone that doesn't run the same OS my previous phon
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by HHalvi 7y ago
This still puzzles me since most other remote companies of similar size and shapes offer much better compensation than Gitlab.
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by HHalvi 7y ago
Do you want to monetize it ? - You can use it as an enabler aka Lever to get your next job, consulting gig, projects etc. - You can run small ads that are contextual to your visitors and call it a win - win - You can understand the type of
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by HHalvi 8y ago
I miss not having a new Nexus every year given that Pixel lineup has neither lived up to be a worthy contender for the iPhone nor has it managed to appeal to the Nexus audience. Second to that is probably the void that Sunrise, Carousel and
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Replied in the follow up comment above
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Adding more info to the post, all of those images were procedurally generated stereo 360 degree photos directly from Unity(Exported at 5K or 4K res). I had built a PoC for a Game Store of sorts that allowed you to view 360 degree images of
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Whenever you get stuff wrong show "Oh, That was a Black Swan" somewhere ;)
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by HHalvi 8y ago
I had a landing page with 37 high quality images spread across 5 pages. Used Squash at first to bring down the aggregated size of the images from ~550MB to ~320MB and voila my bounce rates started going down. A few months later i tried out
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by HHalvi 8y ago
I am super glad that Doom, Wolfenstein, Mortal Kombat, Shadow Warrior have not got as popular as PUBG else I would have a really hard time with India.
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by HHalvi 8y ago
I hate the hassle of setting up Keybase on Mobile andDesktop so i have never bothered about it till now.
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Things i learn't the hard way on transition from a Founder to Product Manager being a non technical guy: Firstly understand the transition means a lot of unlearning, sometimes with parts that you hold dear to you. My advice to you is t
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by HHalvi 8y ago
I used Spotify at first via VPN and then went for a premium account and it's been around 3 years since then. I know a lot of other folks that did the same (using it via VPN, not really the premium part) and most of them ended up switc
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Couple of nitpicks that can change your bottomline first: 1) Add a description of the same in the Site Title (Also change the favicon while you are at it). 2) While the gold coin animation is cool, it fails to convert me or in simple words
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Quick fix Suggestion: Add a comment explaining what the product is all about. People here might revisit it post 4-5 hours if the description of the product is enough to keep them interested till then.
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Its back to its usual speed now. real 0m0.012s user 0m0.000s sys 0m0.001s
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Here are the things i learn't the hard way: Say no to Hammer and find your Nail(s): When you think like a hammer everything is a nail, startups are rarely that (especially early on). Nails are the actual problems you want to solve and
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by HHalvi 8y ago
My takeaway from this post was google saying : We acknowledge that Hangouts, Duo, Allo exist and we think they were orphaned for too long and we are adopting them back. Hangouts to me is like Flash, useful but so out of touch with everyday
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by HHalvi 8y ago
I remember someone launching pg2epub.com here on HN. Maybe reach out to the guy who did it and see if he is willing to give out the code? I clip all of the good articles to Evernote (via their web-clipper) maybe you can do the same and then
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Here is what has worked well for me until now : 1) Breaking down every task there is no matter how big into small sets of doable tasks. 2) Emailing myself about the problems, writing about it helps me think about the problem in a much deep
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by HHalvi 8y ago
I read somewhere that people who invented ships also invented shipwrecks. You work (design, sell, market, manage & ship) on something hoping that a lot of people use your baby and sometimes when it takes off you end up knowing that its
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Can someone explain Ray Tracing to me like i'm five? Assume that this 5 year old loves playing a lot of different varieties of games and would be glad if his favorite developers end up making better experiences for him using ray traci
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Barely a few hours ago at Apple's iPad Pro keynote the presenters compared to Xbox One S and they showed off a games playing at 60 FPS and pitted it against Console Quality Gaming. I won't really be surprised if they end up pullin
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Off topic : Ben's articles on Stratechery were pretty much only becoming about one or two things only i.e Bundling and Aggregation. I am happy that from the Instagram's CEO article to this one all of the posts did not disappoint m
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Carousel and Mailbox by Dropbox. God i loved the design language and maturity of Dropbox as a company/product in the 2012-2014 era compared to the trash it has become now.
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by HHalvi 8y ago
Really slick for something that was solo founded and developed within 3 weeks. Couple of suggestions : The folks with good roasts rating can be invited to become experts that ways you are incentivizing everyone involved to give good and pr

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