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by aacook 9y ago
At some point, Shark Tank could be fun. Someone on Reddit mentioned a similar postcard app and I still need to find and watch that episode. Right now the plan is to spend as much time as I can talking to customers and improving the product.
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by aacook 9y ago
I hadn't thought of metadata yet. I'm unsure if it comes through MMS. I'll have to check. We do know who is sending in the photo and we support captions (scroll down to the mushroom hunting photos for an example). When captio
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by aacook 9y ago
Thinking about things like that but don't want to end up like Saul Goodman. Reddit suggested an Adopt a Nana last week ( https://redd.it/7fg6q3 ) which I love in theory but would need to go deep on to make it work in pra
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by aacook 9y ago
Same issues in Plymouth, MA. Noticed it first w/ Stripe but now other sites like Reddit too.
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by aacook 9y ago
HN can be counted on to find any and all bugs! Squashed. Thank you.
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by aacook 9y ago
Very good feedback about marketing to Grandparents. We've got some further testing to do. On pricing, just want to confirm that you're seeing the price of $7.99/mo for 10 photos and not $0.79/mo for 10 photos?
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by aacook 9y ago
Oh dude, good thing Mom isn't on HN.
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by aacook 9y ago
Awesome feedback, thanks. HN launch could be fun. We haven't done that yet. Andy left this comment a couple hours ago on a whim and all of the sudden we're getting tons of crazy feedback! Right now we're just focused on tryin
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by aacook 9y ago
The best side benefit so far is probably how it's getting Grandkids to visit their Grandparents more often. My fiance and I visited my future Grandma-in-law on the day her photos were delivered. They made plans to get together for brea
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by aacook 9y ago
That was totally my bad. Thanks for the heads up. The f` has been nuked.
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by aacook 9y ago
Thanks for signing up Matt. Just sent a response to the support ticket you sent. Thanks for taking the time to let us know about that bug. We have the ability to do matte or glossy already and I just need to get in there an add it as an opt
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by aacook 9y ago
Haha, yes. They were placeholders that ended up going live. Premier is named after our Grandpa, who calls things he loves "Premier". His friend he was in the Boy Scouts in during the 1940s is the Grandfather of Andy's best fr
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by aacook 9y ago
Brother Andy. I read this article and before clicking into the comments I started drafting an email to you with a link to it: "Hey, didn't we send Chris a t-shirt and he sent us back some dino stickers or something? I remember him
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by aacook 10y ago
I don't really understand your point. In 2012 I was working on a startup that was DDoS'd and it was not fun. This was back before Cloudflare offered a DDoS service and we ended up having to hire a random company in Canada to help
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by aacook 10y ago
I think the term is "functionally extinct". The blight doesn't affect them until they're 20-30 years old. There's a very good chance they'll die. I don't think they've found a blight-resistant strain
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by aacook 10y ago
Reminds me of the Sean Ellis 40% survey: http://www.startup-marketing.com/using-survey-io
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by aacook 10y ago
TL;DR - Two good ways to measure if you're making something people love: 1. Your users actively tell their friends about your product. 2. NPS surveys. In the beginning it seems like the best way to measure if people are telling their f
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by aacook 10y ago
I think a good NPS survey asks why instead of just collecting a number and a great founder follows up to learn even more about why.
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by aacook 10y ago
Really dig Go Go Grandparent. About a month ago my 93 year old Grandpa was hospitalized for pneumonia. His license was taken for 30 days (either by his doctor's recommendation, or by mandate, I'm not sure) so he was house bound. M
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by aacook 10y ago
Now I'm curious about Puerto Rico and other territories. Anyone know the basis of the research?
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by aacook 11y ago
There are people who get paid to manually plant trees. They're called Tree planters. Seeds seem more scalable but the industry appears to use saplings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9wPTwlGGJs Maybe a drone could c
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by aacook 11y ago
Thanks for asking. Figuring out how much I'd charge is a weak area of the project right now. I don't think I'll charge for the tool as you currently see it, but instead for a future version that includes more (maybe things li
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by aacook 11y ago
This is really neat. It sounds like you're learning quickly. 22 houses in 11 months sounds like enough to learn from. Are all 22 houses rented out currently? I've never been to India and don't understand the market too well.
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by aacook 11y ago
I dig it. StubHub and others don't seem to be innovating much and appear to be designed for scalpers instead of fans. Doing user acquisition for this product would be fun. Given tickets are inherently event based and each band (hopeful
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by aacook 11y ago
Interesting idea. I really like the idea of a seed exchange. What Monsanto and others are doing with seed distribution is alarming.
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by aacook 11y ago
A while back I was thinking about a trip planning product and my enthusiasm was deflated when I read Gary's post. I remember one of my main take-aways was that travel just isn't something people do very often. So even if they use
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by aacook 11y ago
Here's the story I read recently. I think I may have first heard about it on NPR. http://www.cbsnews.com/news/va-suicide-hotline-calls-went-to... It's a heartbreaking story about the VA suicide hotline going
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by aacook 11y ago
I like the idea and a point-of-sale like system seems like it would make a good product. A couple years ago a new bar opened up across the street from me. At the same time, a liquor store down the street was going out of business and put mo
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by aacook 11y ago
I've thought about writing a post mortem but could never bring myself to do it. After we decided to shut down I entered kind of a dark time of my life. I needed a break to really separate myself from the startup. I might tear of small

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