HenriNext

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by HenriNext 7y ago
That is just not true. Many market dominating companies/products aim for the exact opposite: try to be "platform" instead of "product". For example Google Apps and Salesforce.
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by HenriNext 7y ago
I had very similar idea a few years ago, did some quick numbers and came to conclusion that it was not going to fly commercially. Interestingly the working name for my idea was also "ResearchEngine", so i guess it summarizes prett
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by HenriNext 7y ago
Fair question, I totally get your point. But yes, i've been full-time entrepreneur since i was 19. 6 companies, 20+ years, and lot of mistakes by now.
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by HenriNext 7y ago
Fair point. But if after 2 years you haven't found a business model, it might be better to fire couple of the product people and get dedicated biz people, as opposed to waiting 5.5 years and then go belly up.
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by HenriNext 7y ago
No, it didn't become VC, because it ain't giving me any moneys. I even said "AI" and refreshed my bank account balance, but still nothing.
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by HenriNext 7y ago
> "We are a team of 8. We are 2 full-stack, 1 iOS, 1 Android and 4 product people." And that leaves 0 for business + marketing + sales. Maybe you didn't find the right business model during 5.5 years because you had nobody
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by HenriNext 7y ago
I didn't say it was law enforcement directly taking down the domain name, I said that it was collateral damage from law enforcement operation against botnet. As the original operation was run by interpol, europol etc i think this was a
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by HenriNext 7y ago
Sorry, but that is a broken analogy. Wikipedia's revenue model and cost structure is nothing like startup's.
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by HenriNext 7y ago
tldr; Collateral damage from law enforcement taking down a botnet, resolved reasonably fast.
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by HenriNext 7y ago
Click-bait redirects here. The figures don't look anything like growth rate of cancer, they look like growth rate of a toenail.. 10-15% a year. Then the author claims that "spending is growing at an ever-increasing rate" like
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by HenriNext 9y ago
First, congrats on launching! Second, to give your idea a change to take off, i'd guess that you need to: - Bring the pricing to realistic level; You are asking for Splunk level monies for beta quality side project. $500 per month for
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Interesting idea. I already track/log my decision making process for everything important, so i'm right in your target audience, but I think your approach has the following problems: - Decisions and opinions brew over time, but in
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by HenriNext 9y ago
This is a command line tool, not a library. It's not feasible to spawn python process 30+ times per second (during scrolling).
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Minimaps make sense as a navigational aid in editors and IDEs, but what is the use case for command line tool that creates static minimap picture?
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by HenriNext 9y ago
I don't think lack of real "chat" is a problem, as long as you are clear about it. for me the real attraction was that this looks like a more fun way to answer boring survey questions, and thus hopefully higher percentage of
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Very fresh approach, but based on the video this is not really a "chat bot", but only works with predefined answers? The landing page is also very thin on details... what kind of survey elements are supported? Can the surveys bran
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Yep, but I think "architectural differentiation" etc. often doesn't matter to customers directly. More important is what that architecture allows them to do, or how that architecture makes you better/faster/cheaper
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Nice. Some ideas for the landing page: - You don't have any use cases. Good technical explanations for sure, but generally people "get" a product better/faster with some examples of what it can do for them (instead of &q
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Though, if the mentors poach mentees, then the company of the mentee won't be happy paying for the service.
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by HenriNext 9y ago
The idea seems extremely useful for the mentees. However, i'm curious how you convinced YC, as this seems to be against what YC normally wants: - Your market seems very small: only software engineers, and only at specific career stage.
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Well A/B testing has been around for ages. We did traffic splitting to two variations in the 1990's. No fancy tools, but fundamentally same. In regards to one-liners, there probably were multiple changes occurring over long time,
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Well, the transition from "proper text and descriptions" to one-liners was thoroughly A/B tested too, over the course of a decade, by millions of web sites. Ultimately, on majority of sites large majority of visitors didn&#x2
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Congrats on launching! My first impression was extremely positive: the look of the landing page is really professional, but then disappointingly the text content was really unprofessional. Here's two specific examples of what you could
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Great, just downloaded and trying now. What is the updater tech that you are using?
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Personally, i wouldn't care at all for some like/clap counter by itself, but I'd be interested in honest, brutal, in-depth, professional dissecting of landing pages. I haven't surveyed current alternatives so there might
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by HenriNext 9y ago
> too many landings focus on the "one-liners" that look more of an advertisement rather than an actual tagline I'm not sure how you judge "too many" -- every major site has A/B tested their one liners to dea
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by HenriNext 9y ago
This would be great with discussions and perhaps ratings. Basically instead of just looking for inspiration, people could dissect the landing pages and share opinions/ideas about them for learning purposes.
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Slick looking. For tuning your website, here is a story of the ADHD age, aka how i ended up NOT downloading it: 1. Scrolled through the page and screenshots, thought: "looks interesting" 2. Arrived at 'Try for free' down
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Looks cool, but from marketing point of view you'd probably convert much better if you: - Allow users to start creating their game without registration (lesson from early facebook games), and only after they're hooked ask them to
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by HenriNext 9y ago
Actually it's on both. The 'show' has recent top submissions, selected and sorted by ranking algorithm [1], and 'show new' has all recent submissions, sorted in reverse chronological order. [1] https://me

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