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   by alexmingoia 5y ago

   Mine is https://sumi.news . I use it, others use it, and I consider that a success.
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   by alexmingoia 5y ago

   What is it that Google Reader had that the many RSS readers lack? Maybe I could incorporate it into my reader ( https://sumi.news ).
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   by alexmingoia 5y ago

   Why don’t you use an RSS reader now? As a maker of a news reader ( https://sumi.news ), I’m curious what was it that made Google Reader special.
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   by alexmingoia 5y ago

   Thanks for your response. I’m just kind of blown away by the possibilities of such a revenue model and have never heard it talked about before. I had no idea it was possible to get a cut of the merchant fees. One of my competitors is doing
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   by alexmingoia 5y ago

   It’s not just ads, but non-results content like “other people searched for”. Search for “shoes” for example. With an adblocker, Google shows no results on screen for mobile. With DDG I just get results. It’s not the same for every search, b
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   by alexmingoia 5y ago

   User interface. I'd prefer search results to appear above the fold. A few years ago Google started putting ads and contextual widgets above search results. Sometimes on mobile not a single result makes it onto the screen due to ads and
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   by alexmingoia 5y ago

   How much does it cost?
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   by alexmingoia 5y ago

   Thank you for clarifying Dan.
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   by alexmingoia 5y ago

   So why are there posts that have 1 point and no comments in "Ask HN"? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30140909 I had specifically tested this with a post the other day, and deleted it as soon as I saw editing
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    I took “Stripe” out because it wouldn’t appear in “Ask HN”. At first I couldn’t figure out what was going on, since it appeared everywhere else. On a hunch, I figured maybe HN was silently excluding “Stripe” from Ask HN. As soon as I remove
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    I use Apple Reminders. I have a few lists: - To do: Tasks I’ve decided to do some day. They are specific and actionable. They may or may not have a due date. These are things like filing taxes or forms, selling an appliance I don’t need any
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    Ask HN: How to get revenue from card merchant fees?

    3 points by alexmingoia 5y ago|8 comments
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    <person> <has_diagnosis> <diagnosis> <diagnosis> <diagnosis_type> <ADHD> <diagnosis> <diagnosis_probability> <high>
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    Apple via iCloud+. For $2.99/mo I get email w/ custom domain, photo storage, VPN, password manager, and more. It's hard to beat. They have a few data centers outside the US, but I think if you're a US customer email is h
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    Consider, you don’t have to be a software engineer.
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    Yes, that would work. Consider purchasing a hardware wallet for better security and cold storage. Besides Coinbase, you can buy Bitcoin in person or with alternative payment methods using localbitcoins.com
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    Datalog.
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    RSS feeds which specify comments (like HN) now show a comment link. So as new HN posts show up they will have comment links.
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    From my perspective you have four options: 1. Find a salesperson who works on commission. 2. Get a job to pay bills, and use the business revenue to hire an RFP expert/sales person. 3. Sell the business (on microacquire). 4. Devote you
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    It's not a rise in subscriptions, but a rise in software services. Much of the software we use today is a cloud-based continuous service. In the past, software was mostly an unchanging application run locally.
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    I don’t think they make any money from Google News. I don’t see any ads. I think ads may give them trouble from the news companies. Google is already practically printing money from ads on search results. How much could they make if they so
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    Free Is Never Forever(world.hey.com)

    4 points by alexmingoia 5y ago|0 comments
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    Probably very little. Without the Google brand, URL, and link from google.com the traffic would disappear. Did you know Google News is actually just a front-end for RSS feeds? Most of the value is in their tagging by category and geographic
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    “It’s a bloodbath”: U.S. companies are pillaging Latin America’s tech talent(restofworld.org)

    4 points by alexmingoia 5y ago|0 comments
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    Yes, very similar to skimfeed. However with sumi.news you can add custom RSS feeds and newsletters. I’m not sure what you mean by integrating with archive.is?
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    Good suggestion, I’ll add that.
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    Software can be shipped on time. Professionals meet deadlines. Deadlines are beneficial for creative work.
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    If you’re not satisfied I offer a full refund, no questions asked. What you see is what you get. If you go to the sources page, adding or reordering sources is disabled - which is unlocked if you pay for an account.
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    Great suggestion. I’ll add that.
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    by alexmingoia 5y ago

    I read the entire Internet at once using https://sumi.news