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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
This was a tongue-in-cheek remark for "Canadian Shark Tank for you Americans" (we're not Americans!).
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
Honest answer: YC encourages you to launch on HN, not only because some of your users might be on it (in our case, HN is not a great lead generation tool), but because investors scout new startups on HN too. We plan on raising a seed round
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
Feather is only for rental furniture (you can rent individual items) but doesn't offer interior design. Here's an excerpt from a previous comment: > ...Feather (YC S17) which is ecommerce + rental furniture. For us, the interio
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
> This is actually really cool, and something I would seriously consider for my house. Thanks so much! Excited to serve you! > Would you be able to handle that without too much of a dent in your costs? Since we fully insure the furnit
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
Absolutely, this is a great idea! We're in early stages of exploring partnerships with large employers, especially in tech, who typically arrange homes for expats. They sometimes use serviced apartments (which are significantly more ex
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
It (optionally) is! Here's an excerpt from a previous comment: > All your monthly payments go towards ownership. Say you have a contract for $400 per month for 2 years, and your furniture costs $12,000. At the end of this period, yo
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
We try to furnish your apartment based on your taste and needs, the two case studies or the sample proposal on our website aren't the full picture (we're working on more photos from some of our other apartments). We first get to k
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
Yep, we've seen homeowners or long-term renters especially interested in the buyout option. Fast furniture is a big climate problem, and although IKEA tries to show itself as sustainable, it's really the other thing. This is we on
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
> An alternative approach might be to let subscribers browse a warehouse of inventory This is closer to Feather (YC S17) which is ecommerce + rental furniture. For us, the interior design aspect is a large part of our offering because yo
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
> I'm not sure how a professionally designed interior is a good option for saving money If you have to manually hire and pay a professional interior design, it's not very affordable, I agree. At Pabio, we have several in-house
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
> The benefits of living in a nicely arranged and furnished home can not be overstated Same! Even though we're based in and only service Switzerland for now, I live in Groningen, the Netherlands (we're a fully remote team), and
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
Great question, this has been something we're thinking about for a while now. We can do a much better/more realistic render if people upload floor plans, but not everyone does that (maybe they don't have one and don't kn
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
You won't find any abusive managers at Pabio... I'm just not very cool, that's it, I promise!
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
Yes! We've been focused on B2C, but we already worked with our first B2B housing complex in Bern, but that's it. This is an avenue that we still have to explore, but you're right, this could be a great channel for us.
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
I'm the uncool one
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
> The lead time is the problem (along with the pricing in CHF) We're currently only available in Switzerland, so the pricing is in CHF. I hope we're un Austin soon though, you're the second person who told us that they&#x2
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
You're absolutely right, we currently only offer three distinct styles ( https://pabio.com/get-started ), although our interior designers get to know you better and design something that's unique for you. We are cur
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
Oops, missed that last one. > I wish you luck, there is certainly a market out there for something like this. Thanks so much! We're looking forward to more feedback!
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
> At ~$4,800 / year as with the sample proposal, it might be a tough sell (or "rent", in this case). Thanks for the feedback, I agree that it's not extremely affordable yet, and we're trying hard to get the price
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by anandchowdhary 5y ago
> Can you talk more about how the buyouts work? How the buyout works in general is that all your monthly payments go towards ownership. Say you have a contract for $400 per month for 2 years, and your furniture costs $12,000. At the end
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Launch HN: Pabio (YC S21) – Interior design and furniture rental as a service
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by anandchowdhary 6y ago
I love the idea, I had a similar one two years ago ( https://github.com/AnandChowdhary/notes/blob/main/notes/2018... ) to use “face unlock” but as an MFA method. The one problem I had was that face de
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by anandchowdhary 6y ago
> Interesting idea, and props for well-executed landing page at Koj! Thanks so much! This isn't Koj's "Show HN" (expect that soon!), but we're doing some interesting stuff, both tech- and "home and living&qu
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by anandchowdhary 6y ago
This is where the `curl` happens: https://github.com/upptime/uptime-monitor/blob/master/src/he... It is utilized by this function here: https://github.com/upptime/uptime-monitor
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by anandchowdhary 6y ago
> It's got me thinking of how I might otherwise leverage Github Actions in unconventional ways. I'm glad! I've been using GitHub Actions for many interesting things apart from building Upptime, like: - COVID-19 nonprof
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by anandchowdhary 6y ago
I think I'm just lazy now... I first built Uppload ( https://uppload.js.org ) and now Upptime, so I guess I need a list of "up"-starting words to continue building projects!
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by anandchowdhary 6y ago
Open-source is just "the source code is available under a permissive license", I don't see why having a project based on GitHub infrastructure is not open-source. All the code is MIT licensed here...
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by anandchowdhary 6y ago
> I like using GitHub Actions for small automation tasks like this as well, but I'm curious what the execution time is for each of these runs. I did a quick calculation and got to ~3000 minutes per month: https://twitter.
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by anandchowdhary 6y ago
Maker here, I made Upptime as a way to scratch my own itch... I wanted a nice status page for Koj ( https://status.koj.co ) and was previously using Uptime Robot which didn't allow much customization to the website. It starte
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by anandchowdhary 6y ago
Actually, it can! One of our users set up a proxy server for the GitHub API and used that as the source for the status website: https://github.com/upptime/upptime/discussions/54

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