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by aculver 13y ago
Haha! This is great. Along the same lines, I was getting a shave from a super hospitable barber last November in Gifu and the topic of conversation in very broken English (from him) and correspondingly broken Japanese (from me) was basicall
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by aculver 13y ago
Hey Alex, Churn Buster ( http://churnbuster.io/ ) is available via Stripe Connect to solve exactly this problem. We're in private beta right now, so please email me at andrew@churnbuster.io if you'd like to take it
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Our Family’s Entrepreneurial Obamacare Success Story(medium.com)
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by aculver 13y ago
Inputting "こんにちは。元気ですか？" caused an application error: [ArgumentException: Error serializing value 'ᄳᅳᅋᅁᅏტ㈣䳷ᅇᄹᄫ�' of type 'System.String.'] After realizing it was "？" that was breaking everyth
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by aculver 13y ago
Storing metadata in Stripe will be a very powerful combination for third-party services that are built on top of Stripe Connect. I operate http://churnbuster.io/ and the entire feature shown in the screenshot at http:&#x2F
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by aculver 13y ago
Stopped reading at: "[Apple is] selling products that are little if any better than competitors, at premium prices. How can it do that?" This is such a ridiculous statement. Apple's notebook line is dominating, not because it
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by aculver 13y ago
No. Book volumes are not certainly merchandising. Book volumes are selling his work, which was amazing. His argument against the licensing (as I understand it) was that letting other people license it and create derivative works (e.g.
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by aculver 13y ago
Just to avoid any confusion: The words are Bill Watterson's. The artwork is Gavin Aung Than's, although clearly a homage to Calvin and Hobbes. What a beautiful combination!
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by aculver 13y ago
Any examples of what the "Skeuo" style looks like?
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Domestic startups sparkle as Japan Inc. names fade(japantimes.co.jp)
1 points by aculver 13y ago|0 comments
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by aculver 13y ago
I believe the better solution to most of these problems is to find your freelancer, consultant, etc. through personal channels where their reputation is already established and their past success verified. For example, you may not have a te
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by aculver 13y ago
If you're the sort of person who thrives in a quiet atmosphere or is really sensitive to sound, I can't recommend Bose QC-15 noise canceling headphones enough. They've totally transformed my life and I still lament for the da
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by aculver 13y ago
I totally agree that Stripe is easy to get started with and I believe their documentation is the best in the industry. But, as someone who processes payments in the six figures annually with Stripe, I feel there is definitely still room for
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by aculver 13y ago
For any Ruby on Rails developers in the UK who may now be jumping into Stripe for the first time because of this, Pete Keen has just released (or is releasing today) a new book called Mastering Modern Payments ( http://www.petekee
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by aculver 13y ago
I recently bought Shaun Inman's book "Lift Off", which was essentially his development journal for an awesome iOS game he created called The Last Rocket. Although the journal wasn't public while he was writing it, he bun
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by aculver 13y ago
I don't understand the convergence here at all. Isn't it better to just have whatever laptop is best for you and whatever solar power source is best for you?
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by aculver 13y ago
Any estimate how many additional hours you spend maintaining these systems vs. what you would if you hosted on AWS?
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First Customer(productquest.andrewculver.org)
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by aculver 13y ago
In addition to being candid, it also never ceases to amaze me how normal he comes off, despite being John Carmack! I love the bit about how funding this company has always been a negotiation with his wife.
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by aculver 13y ago
Thanks so much for the feedback! Re: Koudoku. I hear this a lot. I need to do a better job of promoting it, but until now I've been telling myself I would do it when it gets to a certain point. I need to stop procrastinating. :-)
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Product Quest II(productquest.andrewculver.org)
2 points by aculver 13y ago|3 comments
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by aculver 13y ago
Thank you so much! I maintain a gem for drop-in subscription support which integrates with Stripe[1], and improving test coverage and implementing more robust webhooks support has been on my to-do list for a few months now. Seeing this on H
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by aculver 13y ago
Does anyone have any insight into how this affects residents of the suburbs like Livonia, Farmington Hills, Dearborn, Ann Arbor, Royal Oak, etc.? I've been visiting "Detroit" since I was a kid, but in reality was always stayi
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by aculver 13y ago
Unlike a viewer on YouTube, when someone hands over their email address, you have the ability to follow-up with them, to continue building the relationship and (when the time is right) ask for the sale. It's also a lot of validation th
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by aculver 13y ago
Here's a choice piece of code we have in production along the lines of what you suggest: if prorated_amount > (cost_per_month * 2) raise "critical! we were about to prorate-charge someone #{prorated_amount}"
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by aculver 13y ago
By far our most desired feature right now is to allow a single customer to have more than one subscription. It's crazy what we go through right now to allow people to have two or more recurring products on the same account. :-)
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by aculver 13y ago
Could you elaborate? I used to think Heroku was a premium "managed" service with pricing to match, and I paid for it because I really didn't want to think about servers, routing, etc. etc. But I just recently provisioned a small "cloud serv
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by aculver 13y ago
Yeah, I was a little confused by this at first because Heroku also has "workers" which are dynos provisioned to churn through queued background jobs, but unicorn "workers" are totally different: They're processes forked within the web dyno
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by aculver 13y ago
We switched over to these shortly after they were available. The primary solution to the technical problem facing Rails apps on Heroku (made broadly known by the excellent Rap Genius blog posts) was to switch from the stock 'thin' web serve
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by aculver 13y ago
As someone developing a "customer development tool" ( http://www.petriapp.com/ ) I'm confused why you would label this "meta"? I (for one) am not building it because I failed to do customer development in the past. I'm building it because I

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