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by ameyamk 11y ago
Uber's valuation is now starting to makes sense if this is true. Marginal cost of revenue for uber is very very low. You can argue that gross margins can run as high as 60-70% of revenue. Giving uber gross profit of over 3B for 2016. G
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by ameyamk 11y ago
This is good - but isn't this problem is now solved with redis cluster?
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by ameyamk 11y ago
Well. Setting up your own Solr/ elastic search would cost lot more than $49. Here you have a benefit of having platform as a service too
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by ameyamk 11y ago
Algolia is mind blowing. We are replacing mysql backend with algolia and its bringing down latencies from 300-400 ms down to 10-20 ms. Things like out of the box multi location support and full text search etc makes algolia compelling choic
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by ameyamk 13y ago
Cofounder of Tringify here. Would love to get feedback from the community.
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Show HN: Twillio powered Click-to-Call service for small business websites(tringify.com)
2 points by ameyamk 13y ago|1 comments
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by ameyamk 14y ago
They should compare redshift with hadoop + Imapala, OR hbase with Phoexnix from Salesforce. Comparing with hadoop + hive is not a correct comparison
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by ameyamk 14y ago
You can't compare amazon with facebook. Amazon is fundamentally low margin business. FB can at achieve/ maintain profitability levels of high margin google like ad business. Both companies are investing heavily for the future, and that refl
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by ameyamk 14y ago
Many times the idea behind distributed systems is to avoid single point of failure. by using Database for communication, you are essentially creating another single point of failure in the form of database (unless database is running on som
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by ameyamk 14y ago
This is why I am bullish on Google. I think motorola with Google will eventually figure it out and will take half of those $5B+ mobile profits from Samsung.
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by ameyamk 14y ago
great marketing!
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by ameyamk 14y ago
Whats the best way? Avoid creating spam? or let there be spam, but build algorithms to detect the spam. FB seems to be choosing latter. It seems like apps like these are basically destroying "open graph" fabric that FB wants to put in place
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by ameyamk 14y ago
I wonder why companies like apple keep so much goodwill at stake with "get every penny from customer" moves. I can understand why BestBuy would do it (They are already dying with high cost low margin items), but apple?
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by ameyamk 14y ago
I remember meeting Neil 4 years ago at Stanford's new startups career fair, when they were trying ReelSurfer back then! Its nice to see him stuck to the idea, getting into YC and then launching it on much bigger stage! Now I think about it,
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by ameyamk 14y ago
We had the same experience. We were able to get a "like" for our page under 10 cents (In Indian market). Number of likes grew from 500 to 5000 in matter of days. But drilling bit more, it seemed like most of these people were having hundred
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by ameyamk 14y ago
After reading several reviews, and looking at MS Surface website, I am still not clear what this is. Is it going to run full featured Windows OS? Whats the price point going to be? Is 10.2 inch keyboard really going to make it possible for
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by ameyamk 14y ago
Bug: If you add a task to "today" and then switch couple of times between monthly and future tabs, and come back to "today" tab - task is gone! If my task tracker drops my tasks I'd be very worried! But good effort overall
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by ameyamk 14y ago
Not all 16B is going to go into FB's bank. Insiders are selling in the IPO. So not all of it will into FB's books.
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by ameyamk 15y ago
Interesting analysis, but with one flaw - Assuming 1-2% conversion rate, and $1 on avg on google ads (thats what I have seen at least for most keywords with decent frequency), your formula is yielding $50-$150 for everything you build.
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by ameyamk 15y ago
You seem to have awesome history of bosses!
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by ameyamk 15y ago
I was taken aback by support for 'JOIN' but this comment makes me less excited about the service.
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by ameyamk 15y ago
Hi Mike. You are making this thread really interesting. Can you give us some feedback on http://www.tringify.com ? we are still in beta phase, but would love to have some feedback.
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by ameyamk 15y ago
I think Sample code has its value. It helps you learn stuff rather quickly. Just because some people push sample code to production does not justify not providing/ using sample code in the first place. But to agree with you, thanks for spo
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by ameyamk 15y ago
I get ideas when I am sleeping.... all the time...
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by ameyamk 15y ago
I love instapaper, but I really really want search built for it...
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by ameyamk 16y ago
question is, is google willing to put salespeople, and build organization which is by nature very 'high touch' business? Putting a shiny offers page is one thing, and following up with the daily deal strategy is another...
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by ameyamk 16y ago
video does not explain how exactly payment split would occur. My understanding is, its easy to calculate how much each person owns, but thats easy part. hard part is to split the bill on n credit cards...
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by ameyamk 16y ago
Are they using twilio/ tropo on their back end? Just curious
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by ameyamk 16y ago
I had thought about this idea earlier this year, and immediately killed it, realizing most people would just use smart phone for this. So we developed the idea further in some other use cases: eg. 'take medicine pill' reminder call for your
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by ameyamk 16y ago
Due to Amazon’s lax policies, the EC2 IP blocks have been blacklisted due to spam and the like. If they maintain this lax policy, it will only be a matter of time before SES gets blacklisted and becomes largely unreliable if you actually wa

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