RepressedEmu

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by RepressedEmu 9y ago
I think its meant to be wordplay: salt + lime + tequila
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by RepressedEmu 9y ago
Machiavelli also warns not to become hated which seems to be a growing sentiment from the industry towards Uber.
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by RepressedEmu 9y ago
Its doing a frontflip not a backflip but I guess thats secondary to how efficient this kind of human-AI collaboration might turn out to be. Similar in vein to the human-AI "centaur" chess teams.
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by RepressedEmu 9y ago
Actually I'm fairly sure (at least in newer SC like HoTS and LoTV) you can select a hotkey group of units with the mouse since they are represented visually in an icon on the screen that can be clicked. I think the main point was to sa
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by RepressedEmu 9y ago
I tried doing something similar a year ago but had a lot of trouble finding the right type of customer who needed an MVP. Being able to start fresh and move quickly on a new idea sounds like the perfect kind of work :) Just curious how many
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by RepressedEmu 9y ago
Could you link to the study in question? Right off the top of my head it could be that children who are left to sit in front of the TV all day and night do not have actively engaged parents(reading to them, taking interest in their schoolwo
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by RepressedEmu 9y ago
I used to get very discouraged whenever this happened to me (which is often since very few ideas are original). But then i had a thought: "If you want this offering and have never heard of this other company then THAT is your opportuni
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
This is an interesting service and I love your website design! I'd be interested to know how many paying customers you have? I don't know many people who need 50+ reminders.
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
This bot i'm building is less of a "recommendation engine" and more of a "customized web alert engine" where the customization interface is the conversation with the bot. Recommendation engines are a non-trivial pro
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
whispe.rs
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
Right now I am just working on getting it to understand "topics" such as Technology, Science, Fun Facts, Business, Politics etc. and then use those topics to create a personalized channel that pushes you updates of the "best&
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
I actually was just thinking about this problem the other day in the context of active vs passive systems and customization. I used to use Reddit a lot and found it to be a powerful tool for finding things related to my interests but nowada
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
Without any authority or credentials in this space you are going to face a very rough time with sales. The kind of startup willing to hire a random "general startup consultant" without a proven track record is also the kind that w
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
I've been through this cycle too many times to count. Eventually it sunk in for me that having a great product/website doesn't mean much for its success rate. I've realized finding cheap ways to promote the product to it
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
If you've started on the MVP then you definitely know enough to Pre-Launch and start building momentum behind your business. The problem is doing all the research and execution for a successful Pre-Launch can be a big time-suck(dozens
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
Nugget > Protolaunch > LogoJoy > Namecheap API > Sendgrid powered with emails scraped from AngelList. Throw in a startup buzzword lorem ipsum generator and this sounds like a winner. Instead of domain squatting it will be like s
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
I'm working on a service called Protolaunch that does exactly that. You get help finding your ideal customers, a custom landing page optimized for conversions, and a digital marketing strategy to promote your brand and grow your email
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
I built something very very similar at Whispe.rs except it took me a bit longer than 2 hours :P I built it first using Twilio but didn't think the ad revenue would pay for the messages so I switched it to using SMS-email gateways. Grea
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
I spent a few months working on a biz lead generator for web dev freelancers which still hasn't been released. Then I spent a couple months on a news summarizer called Kiwi which never got finished enough to be useful to anyone. Eventu
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
Haha I actually stole the idea from dollarfuckyou.com but have yet to reach his level of success. I hadn't heard of spoiled.io but from their FAQ I can tell we have the same sense of humor. I'm actually planning to rebuild the sit
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
I'm using Stripe.js for the actual payment which uses SSL and sends the payment info directly to Stripe without ever touching my servers.
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
There is already bitcoin integration. Click on the blue "Send Message" and click on the bitcoin tab.
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
There should be a bitcoin tab on the stripe payment form. Is it not there?
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
Thanks! The hardest part right now is finding the right audience to put it in front of. I definitely will! Another benefit of actually finishing a project is being able to share with others the challenges/successes/unexpected that
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
Well I think Whisper is more of a social sharing site while this tool is about sending anonymous messages to a specific target number. As for the stack it is Rails(which was probably overkill but I have yet to do much with Sinatra), Twilio,
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
Hey guys! I built this little tool after seeing all of your wonderful side projects in a recent Ask HN post. I decided it was time I stopped working on multiple large projects that I never wind up finishing and just build something small. S
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Show HN: Whispe.rs – Easiest Way to Send Anonymous Text Messages(whispe.rs)
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by RepressedEmu 10y ago
My friend and I are currently working on an app called Krux that aims to resolve this problem. We found that in most news stories fifty percent or more of it can be fluff/intro/unimportant so we built a summary algorithm to cut th