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by ahoyhere 14y ago
> If a million users is enough to keep you afloat sustainably, congrats! If it's not, perhaps you need to ask yourself why you chose that business model (or lack of business model) to begin with. Startups don't happen to you. You desi
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You're assuming they don't already pay for connectivity for an existing system, which all existing stores with POS must. Which means the additional cost over what they're paying is probably $0 to switch, vs possibly having to cancel and sig
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Thanks, that's really good to know.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Sure, it's Now Foods Mood Support. Be careful, IANA doctor.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Not headaches, but I would start to feel faint/dizzy during (causes a drop in blood pressure) and a day or two later, intense pain in any of the muscles I worked, and I would feel like I got hit by a truck. Like my limbs weighed a thousand
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
She's my mother-in-law who is a doctor, but not my doctor. I probably substituted the name of another drug in the same family… the German name is hard to remember. The point being, I heard it, I looked it up, I said "heeeeell no."
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
This article looks like a really amazing resource. I haven't read it all but did a little Cmd+Fing to see if it broached the following topic, and it didn't, so I thought I'd chime in in case somebody else was where I was with these particul
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I am truly not sure why you're arguing with me and slinging ad hominems -- "you're wasting time talking about design and its origin and meaning" etc -- considering I never contradicted your personal opinion. The person I replied to was sl
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
> It means I can look at it and get it without having to think about it. It has nothing to do whether or not it floats someone's boat, like the rest of your post alludes to. Here's what you didn't say: "The PAGE is confusing and I didn'
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
> Design isn't someone's aesthetic or someone else's taste, it's the ability to communicate. This page is confusing a lot of people, so by definition, it is not well-designed. I don't really have a dog in this race but I am a designer a
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Not at all. But you don't establish that A) the landing page in the post doesn't create money, NOR B) that the landing page that "makes you feel" does.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I wrote that headline, and I'm acutely aware that a funnel has TWO holes in it. :) Why do we use the word "funnel" then? Why write "Your funnel has a hole in it" even if you're thinking "Well, duh, it actually already has two holes"? Here's
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
What is a rip-off? The free article detailing the writing process?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Considering the post was all about the content (and the progress from very-designed-to-it-ought-to-be-designed-less on the design front), how can it be about landing page design? The whole post is about the words. Copy is made of words. You
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
This may be true in the US but it's not true in Germany and Austria. In Vienna, you can get a very tasty bottle of local white wine for $3, at any grocery store. Spend $10 and you'll have something amazing. It'll be fresh, crisp, and tasty.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
> Because forming a core identity and a core business is actually tremendously hard. Picking up one that is already socially validated seems easier. Truth.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Believe it or not, what follows is meant to be a SUPPORTIVE comment. > I wanted to be one of those founders, you know, the type that gets silly valuations and love from the name brand ventures firms, the type that gets written up by the
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If it's totally a fantasy, it can be anything they want. The moment reality barges in, suddenly there's cold hard math to be done.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
> Neither am I, I'm just trying to describe the majority of humans, based on my own experiences. Oh, that makes your impotent intellectual assertions suddenly defensible again. My mistake.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
From where I'm sitting, you hit the nail on the head. They COULD have monetized, theoretically, but not once the die was cast. Yes, lots of people have built CMS platform businesses where they charged money. But Posterous was probably, as y
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
>> You think we're having a big debate, but we're not > True, because you're not coming out and saying what you think is true; you're just attacking my statements. Yes. I don't have to have a position, nor do I have to share it
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Do you take a lot of aspirin or something that's aspirin-like, like Pepto Bismol? That's what caused tinnitus for me. When I quit the Pepto, it slowly disappeared over a few months.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Seconded. My first regularly updated site in 96 was updated by hand; then I created a daily news site that was custom-roll; then I moved to Movable Type; then I custom-rolled again; somewhere in there I tried Drupal (for a year or so, not j
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Sadly, not having a relationship can be a cause or… a symptom. Not speculating about this commenter cuz who the hell knows, but… most of the people I've known who were truly alone were people who drove everyone away.
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You think we're having a big debate, but we're not. Your central thesis: "Most couples are like this. Women are like x. Men are like y." You have zero evidence for this. We're not having a discussion at all. I am saying "There's no evidence
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
If you want a book full of studies on this very topic -- many of which show the perils, yes, of trying to do non-manual-labor for extended hours -- get the book Be Excellent at Anything, which is a misnomer. The book used to be titled The W
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
You convinced me. It's a fact! It's a fact because you called it "the fact that." On a serious note, I'm sorry you feel* that way (* not think, no matter how much you think it's "logical"), but have you ever considered that it's you?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
I don't "work" at a "startup," I founded the business! I designed every last bit. That's all me, baby. True cheer doesn't come from denying reality, it comes from understanding life and laughing at the joke. In this case, understanding mean
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
"Sure, they're babies! But they're babies with POWER!" I guess you live in the movie The Incredibles?
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by ahoyhere 14y ago
Watch it again and look closely at how the video focuses on the woman the entire time. She's child-like and the only one who seems emotionally involved in the relationship… but in almost exclusively passive way. (All the dude does is smirk

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