ahoyhere

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by ahoyhere 15y ago
There are plenty of books on market research, customer development, and internet marketing (real books and serious ebooks/classes) that go much deeper into the topic. Have you been reading those, or just blog posts? Blog posts are by nature
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
We have big companies just chomping at the bit to pay us - their words, "when can we pay you?" and our beta testers are ecstatic. We have 2000 people on our advance notice list. I think it's safe to say that it is going to go very well for
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
This is Hacker News, not "Write A Business Book For Me For Free Then Hold My Hand" News. There's a lot out there on how to do each one of those steps, in books mostly and some of the better software-biz blogs. The fact that I didn't write a
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Here are the products I've planned & designed, which sell well: 1. Freckle 2. JavaScript Performance Rocks 3. Various JavaScript workshops 4. my entrepreneurship class (30x500) And, by the end of June, we'll be launching our 2nd SaaS, C
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It's not hard at all. Here's what you need to do: 1. Pick a tool you can build which will make money for people. 2. Build it for people who will pay. 3. Market to them. 4. Build it. 5. Ship it. 6. Market to them. (Over and over. It's not a
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I didn't sell candy but I sold other stuff in middle school. (I'd burn custom CDs for a few bucks… those were the days!) For extra quaintness, when I was 11 and change, I had a yard sale and sold a lot of my stuffed animals and all of my My
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback! You actually told me something very important, indirectly -- our SaaS app got to $1500/mo (start) to about $4,500 on a very part-time basis, before we put much time into it. Clearly I should talk about this part of
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
You mean like admit that my communication style might be part of the problem and ask for pointers? Oh wait - did that. Hmm!
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
You're creating a strawman -- there's a big gulf between "being rude" and "being excessively polite." On top of that, I've never seen any proof that suggests that leaders who create shame & embarrassment & anger work better than lea
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Hey, mootothemax, I wasn't knocking you! Sorry if it came across that way. I only added the time frame because our time frames were the same. If we look at stories like ours PURELY as inspiration fodder (vs personal sagas), wouldn't you pre
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
I agree, kinda. I'm glad for the author's success so far (and, as another HNer said, that the word "lifestyle" has not yet reared its head in discussion). On the other hand,back in October, about how my products had brought in $216,000 in r
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
I don't think anyone has really argued about WHAT he said. It's just a question of how he says it. There are many, much politer (and probably more effective) ways to say the same thing.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
I have, often. Why would you think I hadn't? You must not have looked at my comment history. Here's an example from the first page of my comment history. Me responding to pg: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2342860
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
It's not really about credibility, it's about status. Bad behavior -- and being this rude is bad behavior -- is much more tolerated in high status individuals, in every type of community. Just like (extreme example) how senators and Goldman
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
None of it matters if it doesn't lead you to be a more thoughtful, flexible, inquisitive, humble, introspective person.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
It doesn't matter what you do -- writing, design, code, philosophy, advocacy, lemonade -- if you want it to get out there, if you want people to use it, you have to market. It doesn't matter whether you're "selling" in the sense of exchangi
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Yes. Additionally: lots of people aspire to be well-read, but disagree with her choices. As far as I can tell, they're all fiction. She doesn't list Michel de Montaigne, Thoreau, Emerson, William James, or other authors of "classics" that
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Thank you so much. You really made my day singletear :)
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Slexy, I didn't know about this. Because 5 days ago, I was too sick to do anything but lie on the sofa and moan, and Thomas was taking care of me while holding down the business all by himself. It's unfortunate that Dustin assumed that not
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Hi Tom, it's hard to believe your snarky-sounding italics were intended innocently when you also had such lines as "Mr. Fuchs has apparently never heard of dependency hell." That is clearly meant as a personal jab, one way or another. That
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Fair enough. You must have also hated the original article then ;)
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Tom indirectly calls Thomas Fuchs (author of Scriptaculous, Zepto, Emile, core committer to Prototype.js, etc.) disingenuous because... " Of course Mr. Fuchs is able to tell you which JavaScript library will precisely match your requiremen
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
It's not. Twitter has JS management issues. This has been true since the first time they added JS to the web UI.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
There is plenty of evidence that, at least in the US, that simply thinking "black people don't do well on this test" or "women aren't good at math" lowers the test scores of both black people and women. Since these are both "common knowledg
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Now now, tptacek, you know that thinking you're superior isn't an emotion if it's a fact ;)
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
The Bubble is very narrow in scope. You can "start a company" while being totally immune to the Bubble. For example: there isn't a bubble for making & selling value-producing tools & services to small business. Just like there's no
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
Yup, that's the way to win women - be the one who spends the most money on them. Read: Your comment shows A) poor taste B) poor logic. Tack-y.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
It's a Blue Honda problem -- or whatever the name was. You buy a new car, suddenly you see them everywhere. A type of selection bias. You probably don't see it because you aren't tuned into it.
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
It's not about identity, it's about choice. Alex has made his choice, now he's trying to force it on others as if it is in fact gospel. I don't care what people call me. I don't care personally that Alex slammed my business. I know what I
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by ahoyhere 16y ago
We are more vocal because we are in a tiny minority, constantly trashed (e.g. "lifestyle business"), and most of the people who are "living the life" are too busy running their own businesses to blog. Or they don't see it as a movement, lik

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