JeanMertz

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by JeanMertz 11y ago
In fact, refunds have proven to be a great way to combat click-bait links. The example we've given before is gossip magazines, which thrive on click-bait (purchase-bait?) titles on their front covers. In Blendle, we see a high refund r
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
One way we try to solve this is that you can refund "no questions asked" for the first ~20 seconds or so (since you probably weren't able to read the article past the first paragraph, and maybe accidentally clicked). After th
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
We've recently launched our "Pay with Blendle" micropayments button on a Dutch publisher's site[0] which allows you to read the article on the publisher's site, but pay using your Blendle wallet, using the same prin
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
No, you pay per article OR you buy the whole newspaper/issue. In fact, if you pay for separate articles in a newspaper and we notice the accumulative total is more than the price of the issue, you automatically get free access to the r
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
There are no subscriptions. You sign up, and only pay for what you read. Articles cost €0,30 on average, with smaller news-type articles being cheaper than longreads (interviews, opinion pieces, backstory articles). On signup you get €2,50
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
We don't like popups and ads either, so you most certainly won't find them on our website. You only pay for what you want, and can always refund with a single click. We have a good privacy policy, here's the (loosely translat
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
We're already got The Washington Post, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, and soon The New York Times in our kiosk. The interface is still in Dutch (for now), but it's a start: https://blendle.com/kiosk/e
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Pay-Per-Story Platform Blendle Goes Live in Germany(medium.com)
75 points by JeanMertz 11y ago|32 comments
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After Successful Test: Blendle Deutschland to Go Live in Two Weeks(medium.com)
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
Sorry, no student discounts in our plans right now. But this is a very interesting idea. You can however couple your existing newspaper subscriptions with Blendle, giving you access to all of their articles in our kiosk.
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
We already support world-wide account creation by simply clicking through the "launch" page in the top right corner. Of course, the site will still show up in Dutch, but there is an "international"[0] section where you c
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
Awesome that you got it working. We are working on launching an English version in the near future. Regarding the refund reasons: If you refund within a given amount of time, you actually don't have to provide any reason at all (since
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
We're hiring! Send me a mail at jean[at]blendle[dot]com and I'll make sure it gets to the right person.
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
Other than "stay tuned", not really. If you're interested, visit https://launch.blendle.com and leave your email address. We'll let you know once we launch in Sweden :)
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
We don't have an active editorial policy as far as I know, but we are limited by resources. It can take a lot of time and attention to "birth" new providers (as we like to call it internally). We pay a lot of attention to det
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by JeanMertz 11y ago
It's also something we are very proud of. It turns out, if you give people the opportunity to read in an elegant and easy way, and provide articles written by great journalists, the refund ratio stays very low (avarage of 5%). Of cours
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by JeanMertz 12y ago
This. At my old job we had a repository of résumés which management used to promote the company and the people working there. The repository was full of nice-looking and sometimes funny (in a good way) résumés. One of them even had a nice x
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by JeanMertz 12y ago
I live in the Netherlands, but drive through Belgium when driving home from work. There is one area where a permanent two-lane road merges into a single lane. The funny thing is that (mostly) Belgians never use the second (left) lane that e
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by JeanMertz 13y ago
It's interesting listening to Decode DC's podcast, episode 6: http://www.decodedc.com/home/2013/1/17/episode-6-the-future-... In it, they talk about how Washington (politically speaking) feel l
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by JeanMertz 14y ago
Ctrl/Cmd-U is a "soft undo" that undoes your last selection. I agree that Cmd-K,D isn't ideal, but that, combined with Cmd-U works perfectly.
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by JeanMertz 14y ago
I guess full control over the VM stack is a big plus compared to Heroku
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by JeanMertz 14y ago
Dan is "on the air" several hours a week. He also has several high profile co-hosts on the air 1+ hour a week. He is also pretty active on Twitter. Plus he has million(s) of fans/listeners of his shows. How on earth could he let this go wit