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by _lex 14y ago
When you had him book orders for your friends, did you see it as a business opportunity, or just a problem that needed solving?
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by _lex 14y ago
His argument seems to say that the LIQUID supply of bitcoins is shrinking because people are hoarding them. You can make the same argument for stocks or anything else that is traded for cash, but it's wrong. Everybody will have a price that
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by _lex 14y ago
I think evil is a little strong. It's similar to the "pay with a tweet" and the "sign up to our newsletter for a discount" schemes companies regularly run.
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by _lex 14y ago
Check out http://teamtreehouse.com/ as a basic business model that's similar and works.
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by _lex 14y ago
It'd probably make sense for you to suggest that the user tries a different browser - like IE, Safari or Firefox for uploading. For the average user, that's a much less difficult thing to do than disabling pepper.
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by _lex 14y ago
He gets better data, and the ability to restrict how people vote. For example, HN polls allow you to upvote several options simultaneously.
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by _lex 14y ago
That's definitely on our to-do list.
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by _lex 14y ago
We are NOT a sexual service - I'm not sure if you were joking, but I'm honestly offended. At the same time, if you were being serious, I'm happy that you asked instead of making an assumption. One more time: We ONLY do professional massage
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by _lex 14y ago
I completely agree. When you're a small startup, few things are in your favor. It's worth every minute to pour over creating a great experience, even if it's done by hand. @MassageJoy ( http://www.massagejoyspa.com ), we're currently going
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by _lex 14y ago
I think we were also thinking of it as a platform for community thought. Imagine embedding a brainstorm widget at the end of your blog article to get ideas for a problem your company is solving.
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by _lex 14y ago
We definitely will.
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by _lex 14y ago
What did you think of soneca's suggestion of essentially having a widget that lives in popular project management apps / gmail, that provides this functionality at the click of a button?
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by _lex 14y ago
I've found these questions pretty helpful. Anyone interested in building a therapy chat bot that helps entrepreneurs using those same questions?
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Startup Therapy(blog.asmartbear.com)
19 points by _lex 14y ago|3 comments
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Interesting. We're targeting business problems and coworkers since workers have better incentives to contribute (compared to friends), and businesses can see tangible cash value from being more creative. The thought was that if a coworker s
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by _lex 14y ago
That would be awesome, and it was our first idea, but it doesn't work. It would draw direct issues - there are seedy massage providers out there offering sexual services under the guise of "massage". So it's very dangerous to use the words
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by _lex 14y ago
We also thought about saying Aspirin-As-A-Service. The truth is, it's a much more dangerous risk for us to die without anyone knowing we exist.
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by _lex 14y ago
I'll add it to the ask HN now, and to the app later today. Thanks!!! For others who see this comment: We serve the SF Peninsula: Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Stanford, Atherton, Mountain View, Portola Valley, Menlo Park, Redwood City, Los Alt
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by _lex 14y ago
Hey HN, we really want your support and your feedback - I'll be hanging our here in the comments and I'll be as responsive as possible. We serve the SF Peninsula: Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Stanford, Atherton, Mountain View, Portola Valley,
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Show HN: MassageJoy is Exec for Massage Therapy
2 points by _lex 14y ago|7 comments
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by _lex 14y ago
Hi Soneca - thanks for your feedback and for giving it a shot. I think your hesitation about sharing may be linked to the fact that sharing the brainstorm feels like it's real-time, so to share with your coworkers would involve breaking the
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by _lex 14y ago
I'd be interested in hiring for hourly work, but I'm not sure how much work I need to send out per week. I suspect others are like me. It would be nice if we could pay a monthly maintenance fee and then just pay $10/hr, or whatever. It woul
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MassageJoy Delivers In-Home Massage Therapy(massagejoyspa.com)
1 points by _lex 14y ago|0 comments
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by _lex 14y ago
Sounds like you're speaking from personal experience. My startup is working to solve this problem, and I'd love to chat with you. Drop me a line - lexsebro@stanford.edu
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by _lex 14y ago
I don't mean to be rude, but I'd love to see a similar article on pricenomics. I've never really understood your business model.
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by _lex 14y ago
That's not evil; that's capitalism. Apple is literally doing it's job: they are extracting maximum rents.
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by _lex 14y ago
This article is completely accurate - there's nothing new or innotivative about fusion drive when compared to what was in the market years ago- it's pure marketing. I know the anti apple tone of the article made it seem unfairly biased, but
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by _lex 14y ago
I'd love to deploy on Heroku, but it's so dramatically more expensive than aws. For a startup, is it really worth that additional cost?
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by _lex 14y ago
An index fund just mimics the market and has no research behind it. It's meant to perform just as the market does.
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I think half your problemwastgat you were selling something with a predictable market price of $0, and asking people to pay early. They woukd only pay if there's some huge, non- app based benefit for them, otherwise you'd wind up with trage

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