Hisoka

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by Hisoka 15y ago
You're right. You don't have to solve a problem. But you do have to create something people want, or something that appeals to them. Technically, there aren't many "problems" in life besides survival. Everything else though has to appeal to
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by Hisoka 15y ago
And again, Twitter hasn't figured out a business model yet. No wonder Jack Dorsey left to do Square
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by Hisoka 15y ago
No need to be overdramatic about this... I doubt the average mom is worried in the middle of the night about what circle a friend belongs to. .
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by Hisoka 15y ago
So they're just betting on an acquisition? How about explaining how they're gonna make money w/o resorting to that?
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by Hisoka 15y ago
DDG has been around for more than a year or two...
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by Hisoka 15y ago
don't overestimate it either. I know people who make tons of spam thin pages ranking for searches like "Nikon D40 camera Amazon coupon". All they have is a link to the Amazon page, and they make lots of money thru it. That's a sale Amazon w
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by Hisoka 15y ago
How is this gonna make you a million dollars? You're applying to YC, this ain't a hobby project, so that's why this is a legit question. For the record, it doesn't really solve a pain for me. Just a minor annoyance, and it's not something I
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by Hisoka 15y ago
I meant convert it to a real native app, not wrap it. I meant actually converting the Javascript to Objective C. So when you do: <div>Hi there!</div><div padding="5px">Hello!</div>, it gets converted to: fram
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by Hisoka 15y ago
Can I write in Javascript and your framework will convert it to a native iPhone app? If so, I'm gonna spread the word to my followers and make sure everyone at least tries this
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by Hisoka 15y ago
It's funny. Google Profiles actually exposes your email addresses to harvestors: (ie profiles.google.com/GMAIL_USERNAME). Google+ at least fixes that.
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by Hisoka 15y ago
I definitely agree. Google+ isn't that revolutionary that people will continue talking about it months from now when it's open to the public. They should've made it open to anyone and capitalized on all the press happening. And I don't thin
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by Hisoka 15y ago
please send me an invite: vzhou218@gmail.com
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by Hisoka 15y ago
I suspect Amazon secretly wish they could just get rid of their entire affiliate program. If it was so profitable, they wouldn't be getting rid of affiliates left and right. If you think about it, most people who buy thru an Amazon affiliat
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by Hisoka 15y ago
Noone will care, and noone will use it. If it won't help you get laid, or boost your ego, it'll be useless. We human beings are not rational.
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by Hisoka 15y ago
I think you're wrong. Yes, a lot of very good domains are taken, but you can spend as little as $200 in Flippa.com to get a decent one that people can at least remember.
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by Hisoka 15y ago
The combination of a steep learning curve (probably easier than ObjC but not by much) plus the less than robust support for all of iOS features still makes me prefer native. Make something as easy and simple as JQuery, and make it 95% robus
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by Hisoka 15y ago
It's not significant. In the world of search engines, you need to be the #1 or #2 player to earn major revenue. People aren't gonna wanna waste any time/energy advertising on your platform if you're getting just a handful of searches per mo
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by Hisoka 15y ago
I suspect DDG is having trouble making money hence the need to make a commotion about filter bubbles and generating some linkbait. No surprise... < 1% of a search engine market is not gonna even make you much at the end of the day.
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by Hisoka 15y ago
This is a problem where technology is actually a very huge obstacle, probably a huger one than marketing. How are you gonna get all that data? It's not structured on the web so you can't easily crawl it. You have to rely on people uploading
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by Hisoka 15y ago
AOL has a responsibility to its shareholders first and foremost. Making employees write about stuff they don't know about is not exactly slave labor... if they don't like it, then just quit, it's that simple.
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by Hisoka 15y ago
The people who determine whether to do a Groupon most of the time are not the waiters and service ppl who have to put up with horrible tips.
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by Hisoka 15y ago
I'm sorry but the attitude in your post really bothers me. Scvngr is a business, if you give them money, you expect to receive the services you promise - case closed. Customers don't care if you're short on cash, stressed out, overworked, o
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by Hisoka 15y ago
You'll be surprised at how many non-hackers google for it. People even google for "ebay.com", and domain names rather than typing it in the browser URL bar.
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by Hisoka 15y ago
This is misleading because if LifeHacker hadn't found your article on HackerNews, everything else probably wouldn't have happened. So I don't know if I would want to build something people wanted, and not focus on marketing... and hope one
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by Hisoka 15y ago
Myth #6 describes me. I prefer authentic one on one connections rather than spreading myself "too thin". I think that's a problem w/ people with too many friends. Having too many friends is good but it also means you can't be great friends
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by Hisoka 15y ago
I think HTML5/Javascript does stand a chance, and the article makes a good point about how most business apps don't need the fancy functionalities of a smartphone (camera, GPS, etc). But having used Sencha Touch, and JQuery Mobile (w/ Phone
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by Hisoka 15y ago
Could the same thing be done for iPhone apps or would Apple not allow such things?
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by Hisoka 15y ago
Great advice. The problem with just blindly collecting emails is that you may be able to accumulate a bunch of emails passively. But by the time you release the product and email all those folks, the conversion rate of people reading your e
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by Hisoka 15y ago
I fail to see how you can recommend good songs to me based just on my username? Seems very random.
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Ask HN: What are the economics of making mobile apps?
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