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Student loans are increasing the cost of college(medium.com)
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
This is really really cool. Am I the only one who wanted to play just because I wanted to hear more of the song? It makes sense that the motivation to play a little more could be tied to how much of the song you hear. Even though I have hea
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
It is really hard to substitute good teaching for kids K-12 with a video of someone drawing things on a board and explaining it. I work with kids all the time, and I see implementation of Khan Academy in US schools not really working. The o
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
I don't think a lot of consumers will be ok with trying to find the optimal place to fit a Leap on their computer desks. It is a forced behavior not covering any specific need. Leap has a long way to go in defining a use case for the t
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
I think your right, that it might be prove useful in edge cases and custom application scenarios. But as a consumer product, it's just confusing at the moment. I make mobile applications for kids and I made a prototype of one of our ga
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
I have actually developed on the Leap Motion device and here are my few critiques: 1. There are way too many gestures and motions available. The SDK needs to provide a solid framework for fewer gestures/motions and the company needs to
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Aaron Swartz, Marc Andreessen, Richard Stallman to Internet Hall of Fame(businessinsider.com)
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
Yea see then it makes sense to me, sort of. If you have your own manufacturing ability then for sure go for it. However, I will still say that most of the money to be made is in actually selling your own designs.
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
On fulfillment: Order to fulfillment has manufacturing essentially baked into it. The process goes from manufacturing > shipping. The manufacturing part is where most of the hard work is and will remain. The pain point of some company ma
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
I really like the concept but I don't understand why anyone in tech would want to be in the bulk tshirt manufacturing business. I used to be in the tshirt business: albeit we used to make high end stuff which was sold to premium retail
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
1. The multi-tasking, switching between apps thing is exactly as it is in the android. 2. The tabbed view in safari pretty much mimics Chrome So much for apple creating their own distinctive UI/UX. I don't think you can convince a
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
Always try to think of alternative ways to sell/market your product. How products are sold in any market is defined by incumbents; to get through them, and stand out, you will always have to go a different route. Don't rely on the press to
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by ahsanhilal 13y ago
To the best of my knowledge, app store ranking algorithm is not heavily weighted by ratings, rather mostly by downloads, velocity of downloads, active users etc
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"Too old to be new, too new to be classic"(youtube.com)
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Show HN: Yelp is breaching privacy rules(i.imgur.com)
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
We do consult and work with teachers to get our content
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
we currently have 5 of them in the app, and will probably add 4-5 more in the next month. Since all these are games it takes a while to build them for us
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
Thanks for the input...will definitely consider removing some things
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
Yes we decided on making a parallax scroll. I will make some design changes to ask people to scroll down to get more information. Thank you for the input
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
Certainly. The current games we have in there are for age ranges 4-6, but it varies drastically on individual abilities of children. Right now the lessons include most stuff that would taught to a first grader in mathematics. We plan to hav
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
Sure...I call it evolutionary because what we are trying to replace is the workbook. I have personally tutored plenty of kids and see them struggle with a workbook consistently was a pain. Kiddom makes learning fun while making sure that pa
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
More information available on our website: Http://www.kiddom.co
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Show HN: Review my startup, Kiddom - made for kids(itunes.apple.com)
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
I dont think Krugman's analyses are foregone conclusions, as Greg Mankiw very reasonably proves here: http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-krugman-puzzler.htm...
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
two different kids of startups: 1. Ones that empower ecomerce, by building the infratructure for it 2. Ones that are actual ecommerce websites and sell directly to the consumer If you are talking about commerce in general: stripe, gumroad,
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Apple Shake-Up Signals Tim Cook Era(online.wsj.com)
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Ancestry.com gets sold for $1.6 billion(online.wsj.com)
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Fashion Site Gilt Puts Jetsetter up for Sale(online.wsj.com)
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by ahsanhilal 14y ago
(Another disclaimer from another enterpreneur) I am one of the founders of kiddom, an interactive learning environment on the iPad. We initially focus on math skills, and all learning happens in a story telling environment. We should be liv
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Facebook fought SEC to keep Mobile risks hidden before IPO(bloomberg.com)
94 points by ahsanhilal 14y ago|43 comments

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