alexandernl

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Smart glasses ID strangers in Amsterdam – Harvard students inspired demo(twitter.com)
1 points by alexandernl 2y ago|0 comments
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I turned Hacker News top stories into AI art on your wall(alexanderklopping.medium.com)
64 points by alexandernl 3y ago|7 comments
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Hacker News on Your Wall: Transforming Tech News into Art on 32" E Ink Screen(projecteink.com)
12 points by alexandernl 3y ago|2 comments
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by alexandernl 3y ago
A couple of months ago I started Project E Ink, a little venture that began with displaying daily print newspapers on a huge 32" e-ink screen. It transforms your wall into a dynamic canvas. Many of you loved it and I can't thank
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by alexandernl 3y ago
We built our own CMS, so no need for a subscription
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by alexandernl 3y ago
Most newspapers publish a PDF of their most recent front page. We make it easy to find those in the companion app.
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by alexandernl 3y ago
I apologize for the acute mistake.
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by alexandernl 3y ago
I apologize for the grave mistake.
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32“ E Ink screen that displays daily newspapers on your wall (2021)(projecteink.com)
457 points by alexandernl 3y ago|290 comments
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by alexandernl 3y ago
I'm a news junkie, and the power and allure of a newspaper's front page have always fascinated me. When I stumbled upon an article written by a Google engineer who had built an e ink device with the front page of his favorite dail
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Dutch foundation seeks consumer damages over Apple, Google app payments(reuters.com)
89 points by alexandernl 5y ago|26 comments
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Google and Apple may face Dutch mass claim over app commission(dutchnews.nl)
2 points by alexandernl 5y ago|0 comments
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An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall(alexanderklopping.medium.com)
8 points by alexandernl 6y ago|0 comments
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News startup Blendle employee handbook(handbook.blendle.com)
1 points by alexandernl 8y ago|0 comments
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by alexandernl 11y ago
Thanks so much.
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by alexandernl 11y ago
We're currently doing experiments integrating with publishers paywalls on their own sites. More here: www.mondaynote.com/2015/10/18/blendles-secret-weapon-its-toolkit-22/
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by alexandernl 11y ago
On Blendle, the participating publishers have all kind of models: metered paywalls, hard paywalls, no paywalls. Publishers that also put content on the web without a paywall most often charge very little for their content (less than 10ct) i
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by alexandernl 11y ago
Blendle founder here. Really interested to hear you guys' thoughts: alexander@blendle.com
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by alexandernl 11y ago
Yes.
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by alexandernl 11y ago
Founder here. Yeah, we used to send everybody the same recommendations, which makes it all pretty general interest. But we recently started personalizing the recommendations. It should get much better in the next couple of weeks :)
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by alexandernl 11y ago
We don't do bitcoin topups right now, you think we should add that?
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by alexandernl 11y ago
Thanks fixing that.
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by alexandernl 11y ago
Blendle founder here. It's exactly what we're working on (making articles for free on Blendle if you already have a subscription), and are already doing ("blendle links") :)
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by alexandernl 11y ago
Blendle's founder here. Pricing is something that we're going to experiment with. Nobody knows what the willingness to pay for journalism, yet. So we're going to figure that out. I think it'll always be a mix between mic
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by alexandernl 11y ago
I'm Blendle's founder, and I'm sorry that happened. I made sure it was removed as soon as I saw it. I enjoy using HN just as much as you guys and only wat to add good things to it :). Very much appreciate your feedback :).
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by alexandernl 11y ago
Right now, about 20% of users that register start topping up.
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Blendle: Pay-per-article journalism platform that refunds you for clickbait(launch.blendle.com)
212 points by alexandernl 11y ago|118 comments
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by alexandernl 11y ago
Doing my best to balance my inherent tech optimism and pessimism on Dutch TV, while trying to make it interesting enough to have it be on TV at all, all the while trying to take not too many short cuts to make people like yourself not too a
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by alexandernl 11y ago
We're at 650.000 users in NL and DE, out of which 1/5 actually pay with real money. It's not everyone, but it's a start :).
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by alexandernl 11y ago
That's practically what we do by using a wallet -- it's basically batching of payments (with less risk for us, asking for an upfront payment after a user has spent the $2,50 he gets for free when he signs up).

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