OoTheNigerian

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by OoTheNigerian 6y ago
It's more of a comment on your previous response than a question. 1. Older companies tend to have wider footprint of real world use in various contexts thereby having a wider "body of work" for objective analysis and review.
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by OoTheNigerian 8y ago
There is a shorter period to prepare for a YC interview than to get into the program after passing the YC interview. Once you get into YC, you can take your time and it is easier to make a case at the embassy. First of all, the US visa spac
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by OoTheNigerian 8y ago
FWIW, not one of over >30 people interviewed and rejected from Nigeria stayed back in the US illegally. That includes myself and my co founder who were the first Nigeria based founders to get an interview in 2014. After all, there is a b
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by OoTheNigerian 8y ago
Great first steps. Any plans to have one in a "no visa required" location for people from other parts? The struggle and stress attending YC interviews puts on Nigerian founders is - to put it mildly, very unfair. Rwanda, Ethiopia
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by OoTheNigerian 8y ago
Hackernews refuses to disappoint. I bet the comments would have be less sceptical if it was about an 11 year old Nigerian cyber fraudster. Sorry lads, positive stuff comes out from my country from time to time. Just don't get too upset
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by OoTheNigerian 8y ago
Using Brave browser is how I tackle this.. With it you can selectively disable Javascript, ads, etc on any or all sites you visit.
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
This is madness (in a good way ;)) If you're in a neutral country where will you be evacuated to? Say for instance, I'm from Syria and I get ill in Venezuela, where will I have the option of being treated?
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
If there's a pay wall, kill all scripts on the page
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Stripe Acquires Index PoS(businessinsider.com)
4 points by OoTheNigerian 9y ago|1 comments
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Done https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/6027#issu...
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Anytime I hear about signal, I try to sign up and my verification code never comes. It may be something this simple that is holding it back from adoption.
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Nice. Would have been more helpful if specifics were mentioned. E.g what Remittance service was used to pay with your US bank account? What network of telco? What did you use to build your app. PWA? That way people that are well versed wit
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Upset? Ha! Why would I be? I just asked what I think to be a sensible question. How will those far away cope? Or how does YC expect them to cope? Considering they are running big businesses full time and cannot miss one of the weekly dinner
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Have you considered how this will impact people who are running a business with 50+ employees 10000km and 9hours time zones away from the Bay Area? As it is, it's definitely optimized for US companies who can afford to fly in for the w
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
It should be left to people to decide how public they want their stories to be.
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
I have a feeling that if SnapChat allows sharing Od urls outside of the app (profile, stories etc) it will experience growth. No idea why it isn't that way today.
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
>"Facebook is an American company. So is Apple and Google. Even if they are not legally bound to serve the interests of the country, their employees are overwhelmingly American and probably patriotic and so we have to expect that wh
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Foreign to whom? Just the US or to all governments? Will this transparency be available to the Russians? Saudi Arabians? Egyptians? Nigerians? Brits? French? Iranians? Even though all nations interfere in everyone's business,the undisp
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Good stuff. I noticed an error: Flutterwave and New Incentives are supposed to be in Nigeria not Niger. Niger is above Nigeria (the darkest country in Africa).
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Paystack’s Y Combinator Application(blog.paystack.com)
4 points by OoTheNigerian 9y ago|1 comments
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Where in Nigeria are you? I'm currently in Abuja but I live in Lagos. Let me know if you need any pointers in getting around the startup scene. My details are in my profile.
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Silicon Valley controls a lot of the world's communication and we should be really worried if silencing of unpopular opinions is the order of the day. As a "minority" I perhaps disagree with a lot of what this person has writ
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Design Index – A curated list of ui/ux resources(designindex.io)
3 points by OoTheNigerian 9y ago|0 comments
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
I'm amazed at how YC has successfully executed the ultimate startup by funding startups. Going from investing 15 in 6 companies to have a one billion dollar fund. I wonder how this will alter the market considering they'll have fi
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Uber Cedes Russia to Yandex with $3.7B Merger Agreement(bloomberg.com)
109 points by OoTheNigerian 9y ago|41 comments
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Is a service really free if it needs the "free user" to make money? We should differentiate between free and non paying. Hackernews is free (to an extent as it supplements a business) while Reddit is not free. You just don't
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
We have what is known as dark patterns. They could easily have highlighted such a critical change but they refused to. The service wasn't free, it was paid for by advertisers. It can be said to be a ransom if your bait and switch makes
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
And you left out the part that was the main issue which is that they gave no notice. That's very insincere of you at best. Pathetic!
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Hi Justin, Welcome back to the game. What happens to the other products in your incubator?
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by OoTheNigerian 9y ago
Finally, I get to be an "expert" on Hacker News :). I have hired a number of great designers from dribbble some of which went on to work in places like Apple. First step: Get Dribbble pro for $25. It'd worth it. Step 2: first

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