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by _lex 13y ago
This is a straight up attack on yelp, targeting local commerce. Their goal is that instead of searching yelp for massage therapy, you search google maps. That sort of query is extremely valuable (trust me - my company pays for it every day)
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by _lex 13y ago
Most people skim websites - they don't do a full read. And most people stop reading once they think they've gotten the gist of what it is. The large header reading "why is it free" is so far below the fold that I never saw it. I revisited t
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by _lex 13y ago
Put it under your pricing section.
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by _lex 13y ago
That white clean look is going to start looking disgusting once it gets use in the real world. I see them imitating apple's design aesthetic, but they really should have learned from the white macbook - because this is going to be worse. C
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by _lex 13y ago
This is NOT being upfront. Without coming into the comments I would not have known you'd try to poach my candidates.
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by _lex 13y ago
That was the first objection they raised. I pointed out gramatical issues and other flaws in the contract that made them have to send it back to the lawyer anyways, and it came back w/o that clause.
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by _lex 13y ago
I don't understand. You want me to outsource calling my mom on mother's day? Is this for actively deployed troops or something?
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by _lex 13y ago
Ask for an out. Explain that it's how you keep your skills up to date, and that it lets you be a more productive and effective employee. In the past I've had this clause in my contracts and had them take it out. They did.
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by _lex 13y ago
This is pretty cool Jason. It's clearly not perfect, but that's a feature rather than a bug - it means you launched at the right time.
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by _lex 13y ago
This is true for facebook, but false for 99% of other companies. At the end of the day, revenue - costs (profit) is what you're optimizing for. I think dmor's point is that revenue can be a lagging indicator, and that some startups can sudd
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by _lex 13y ago
Employers already do - but they pay places like linkedin, craigslist, monster.com and every other job board out there instead of paying you. Listing a job can easily cost $400.
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by _lex 13y ago
No problem - nobody's perfect.
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by _lex 13y ago
USA taxes citizenship, as well as residency (both physical and legal). As a non-us person, I paid more taxes than my friends did. As a permanent resident, I still have to pay taxes if I leave the US - even though I'm not a citizen.
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by _lex 13y ago
I like it. To limit spam, use twitter for auth and connect ideas to twitter profiles, then let people flag other people as spam - and hellban their account. If you don't want auth, you can still just let people flag spam and hellban machine
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by _lex 13y ago
Grammar issues: 1)You can expect regular update to InstaBilling, based on your feedback" - Please pluralize update - (make it updates). 2)Timesheet made easy - Please pluralize timesheet - (make it timesheets) 3)Simply add your clients and
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by _lex 13y ago
Apparently, one of their innovations is a longer loan term - it might be 7 or 9 years.
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by _lex 13y ago
Programmer market is ~12M. I agree that very few will pay though. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/453880/how-many-developer...
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by _lex 13y ago
I don't think a visual regex debugger is a tiny market- it's every programmer who doesn't totally understand regex, or who will have regex that he needs help decoding. This is probably close to 99% of programmers.
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by _lex 13y ago
See my answer above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5614106 . It's more rational, and more about focus than it seems.
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by _lex 13y ago
This is slightly less stupid/mean than it seems. Supporting only one set of systems (only mac, on latest OS), is much less complex and makes surviving hardware failures easier. At this stage, they probably don't have a guy managing hardware
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by _lex 13y ago
I do run the site, and you can email me at lexsebro@stanford.edu if there's anything else you want to add, or to continue the conversation privately. Yip - I need to add a favicon, and I've been playing with the amount of content to figure
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by _lex 13y ago
Thanks a lot - it's really appreciated!
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by _lex 13y ago
@bvdbijl - I'm on it. Looks like a S3 issue.
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by _lex 13y ago
Also, it looks like the link to follow myclean on twitter in the upper right corner of the website is broken - it links to https://twitter.com/mycleandotcom instead of https://twitter.com/myclean
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by _lex 13y ago
We're building a company in a similar, but different space ( http://www.massagejoyspa.com : in home and office massage therapy), and I'd love to spend 15 minutes on the phone with you picking your brain - can you add a contact email on you
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by _lex 13y ago
The biggest problem for her and her company may be that this exotic arrangement may make it difficult to fund her company.
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by _lex 13y ago
This is a really just a disguised angel investment - it converts between a 100% ownership in her company and 10% of her salary for 10 years, at HER preference. It's actually a great deal for her - she's got very little skin in the game: If
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by _lex 13y ago
That sucks.
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Ask HN: Is Now.JS Abandonware?
4 points by _lex 13y ago|3 comments
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by _lex 14y ago
Thanks for responding - I've been wondering about this ever since I heard the story behind ZeroC. It adds a different sort of color to things, and shows that you were trying to help him reach his goal of doing a startup the whole time. Kudo

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