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by aacook 8y ago
You can, at least for a few hours a day, or even for multi-day streaks. Your friends might think you're weird at first but they'll get over it.
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by aacook 8y ago
That's incredible. Have you interviewed him with audio or video yet?
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by aacook 8y ago
I left a comment about this on HN the other day ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17562306 ) - 8 months ago, I launched a product to serve the older population, blending old and new, called NanaGram ( https://n
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by aacook 8y ago
Thank you. That's been one of the surprising moments of the project. While debugging the captions feature I started sending a set of the photos to myself every month. Now my fridge is covered with fresh photos of people I love, like it
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by aacook 8y ago
Awesome, glad to hear it. We've had lots of interest internationally and released in Canada most recently. Australia, the UK, and Germany are likely next. Where are you hoping to ship to? You can subscribe to be notified when we releas
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by aacook 8y ago
Thanks so much. I'm having a blast. Feel free to email (alex@nanagram.co) or text/call with any questions (617-356-7849).
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by aacook 8y ago
Heck yes! This makes my day. I am printing this comment out and putting it on my fridge for my wife to see when she gets home. :)
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by aacook 8y ago
Cool. This is timely for me. I launched https://nanagram.co about 8 months ago. We help people send printed photos in the mail to their grandparents with a text message. I've been bootstrapping it with contract work in para
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by aacook 8y ago
I sometimes feel guilty for not keeping up with the world of crypto but love being here in the physical world focused on smiles.
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by aacook 8y ago
Thanks a bunch. We started with a default 2 weeks, 1 week, 3 days and 24 hours and recently changed it so you can tweak which reminders you get. A thing I like about the phone number implementation is I can snap a photo and push it to a lov
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by aacook 8y ago
I agree email is a good input too and will probably build that soon. I had these concerns at first too. I did a bunch of testing and there’s no noticeable difference on the prints. We haven’t had one customer complain about it. SMS is also
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by aacook 8y ago
We'll probably build an app at some point but one of the reasons was just to get something built as quickly as possible, just for our family, and an app seemed like overkill. Another thing is that it's super tough to get my younge
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by aacook 8y ago
Thank you. At the beginning (and even now, really) we didn't treat it as a start-up, more of a passion project. So during the first few months when I was building everything out I threw out all the standard advice and just focused on m
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by aacook 8y ago
Thanks so much, appreciate the kind feedback and words of caution. The credit for the awesome Rusty the dog photos ( https://imgur.com/a/3cRZu ) goes to my Grandpa and his brother Arnold who took the photo in the 1940s a
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by aacook 8y ago
@andygcook, Best Middle Brother Ever, thanks for posting. NanaGram is a super simple service for sending regular printed photos in the mail to your loved ones. Our service acts like a Netflix account. After you sign up, we give you a unique
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by aacook 9y ago
I've been reading Leland's book, Happiness is a Choice You Make, the past couple weeks. I'm about half-way through it and totally recommend it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073P1HP8P/ref=dp-kindle-redi
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by aacook 9y ago
I've been working on a product to help families stay more connected with the elderly people in their lives, https://nanagram.co . In addition to spending a solid amount of time w/ my 94-year-old Grandpa the past couple
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by aacook 9y ago
I've been practicing deep work since reading Cal's book just after it was released. Like any of the good habits it's a tough one to form and keep but the outcome can be tremendous. Deep work has allowed me crank on https:&#x
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by aacook 9y ago
I stumbled on this article while hanging with my 94-year-old Grandparents today. It popped up on their new Amazon Echo Show and my Grandpa pointed at it, wondering what a "minister of loneliness" was all about while enjoying a 5-G
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U.K. Appoints a Minister for Loneliness(nytimes.com)
38 points by aacook 9y ago|7 comments
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Unboxing the Amazon Echo Show with my 94-year-old grandparents(blog.nanagram.co)
1 points by aacook 9y ago|0 comments
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by aacook 9y ago
* and-more-handsome
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by aacook 9y ago
Love that. Do you ever send photos to print as well?
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by aacook 9y ago
Hi HN, So happy to share this project, born on my Grandpa's 94th birthday party. Over the years, we've tried to teach our grandparents tech but nothing stuck. As our habits have shifted our grandparents have sort of been left behi
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Show HN: NanaGram – Text your photos and we'll mail 4x6 prints to your Nana(nanagram.co)
5 points by aacook 9y ago|5 comments
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by aacook 9y ago
A bit of a bummer to hear, especially when Massachusetts is shutting down its only nuclear power plan in 2019. The plant produces the vast majority of the State's renewable energy and about 15% of its total power. It doesn't sound
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by aacook 9y ago
Thank you!
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by aacook 9y ago
Thanks for sharing. Hadn't seen this yet. There are a ton of products in the space. One of the things that makes NanaGram different is the group aspect. Most photo sharing apps are one-to-one. Usually, it's one person curating the
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by aacook 9y ago
This is a good point - need to get those images on the home page up to date to reflect the current functionality which inserts the name. Thanks a bunch for all the feedback.
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by aacook 9y ago
Thank you. Means a lot. It's been the most interesting journey I've had to date. Unsure of where it'll lead but I plan to push through the end of December. I've been at it essentially full-time since the beginning of Sep

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