arjunvpaul

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by arjunvpaul 6y ago
Awesome! HaaS is a thing. You just made it one. Regarding the business model: You ever thought of a Franchise model? Perhaps train a few folks (perhaps folks who were incorrectly greasing before) who can then take contracts for the large jo
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by arjunvpaul 6y ago
Can share what we do at our startup. (8 people, 100 - 200 customers). We create a WhatsApp group for every customer and stay with them right from onboarding onwards. Beauty of it is they sneeze, we know. Everyone in the team kinda knows wha
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by arjunvpaul 6y ago
In those United States, you would be right to think so. Yes, there are other chat apps. A flood? No. A (cess)pool, maybe. Outside of WhatsApp (2 Billion Monthly Active Users), Messenger (1.4 Billion MAU) and WeChat (1.2 Billion MAU) the oth
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by arjunvpaul 6y ago
From Businesses - small and large. Using the WhatsApp API. That alone is a multi-billion dollar opportunity. For example, people like my startup ( https://www.zoko.io ) provides software that enable folks to run any business on (o
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by arjunvpaul 6y ago
:-) Interesting to read many describe that feeling you get when you read Chekhov. A Russian friend once told me it is тоска (toska) - an unbearable, inescapable anguish - "Really you have to be Russian to understand it. toska is rent f
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by arjunvpaul 6y ago
First of all, good job on launching! Hopefully you inspire many others here to take that all-important step. Not a native english speaker. So take my advice with a grain of salt. Not sure if you actually meant "eccentric". I initi
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by arjunvpaul 6y ago
I see that you have a WhatsApp button on your site. What do you use that for?
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by arjunvpaul 6y ago
Yes. not necessarily. Once you are able to observe active users, have paying users or even sizeable traffic to test conversions. You can experiment to find out what that "right" or "best converting" price point would be.
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by arjunvpaul 6y ago
May not be issue you need to solve right now. Your's is not "a project that gives context to news through history" @$1.00 per month. If the market wants it, it should work at $1(+$0.30 +2.9%)per month also. So just charge $1.
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by arjunvpaul 7y ago
That would be like car dealer asking "should I get a LOI before I let folks drive the new car." For a 7-day trial dont waste your time, or their's, on a LOI. LOI's are not worth the paper its written on. A no commitment
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by arjunvpaul 7y ago
Not sure where the icons are showing up. I had removed all such links. (forgot to mention its a 3 person team. me, cto and an entry level coder) > Maybe you can flesh out that scenario on the website to explain the process to a prospect.
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by arjunvpaul 7y ago
Thanks for the pointers on the shortcomings of the website. Have added them to my long list of to-do improvements to the website. > How would you take me from now to paying customer? How do I give you money? - Customers start an an inc
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by arjunvpaul 7y ago
Thank you for the pointers. Good point about "Zoko not using Zoko" :-) Will change that before teh end of the month. >Where is that from? I found a Medium post with dubious "stats". Maybe include testimonials in text
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by arjunvpaul 7y ago
Thanks for the comments. > I think sharing a bit of the technical side would help attract the people you're looking for. For example, sharing your technology stack would attract the people familiar with that stack. Mostly React and
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Ask HN: How would you take this business to the next level? (part 2)
12 points by arjunvpaul 7y ago|9 comments
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by arjunvpaul 7y ago
Work Rules by Lazlo Bock may give you some good insights. It references a rigorous study by Frank Schmidt and John Hunter. The gist of it is that the 3 best indicators of on-the-job performance is a work sample test, general cognitive abili
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by arjunvpaul 7y ago
"Expecting the world to be fair with us because we are fair, is like expecting the lion not to eat us because we didn't eat him" - Paul Graham I am no Paul Graham, but I think you are wasting your time. Let's say you win
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by arjunvpaul 7y ago
like this - https://media.giphy.com/media/HNg3DbNsZ38Zy/giphy.gif
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
FYI - http://sijinjoseph.com/programmer-competency-matrix/
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
The Mississippi would, but doesn't to that scale today, because the Army Core has leveed/dyked in most places. You can see in the pictures here http://bit.ly/2u7f2ta that there is a lot of "marsh" beyon
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
Always happy when bridges get discussed here. Having built (a couple of) bridges across the Mississippi, i can attest that it is possible to build a bridge across the Amazon. This headline is appears to be click bait A river rising 30 feet
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
Your co-workers are keeping a secret. They probably took a lot of time and numerous attempts to prepare a final document with "phenomenal word economy". Mark Twain (or was it Blaise Pascal?) put it best - “I didn't have time
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
For people who prefer videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cX0I8OdK7Tk
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
I have my doubts too :-) but then I fall back on two things 1. The Raj were apparently sticklers for record keeping. 2. The nature of Corbett himself. He never killed a cat, unless he had proof that it had killed a human and he would hunt
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
Tigers can hold a grudge alright. Remember Tatiana? the siberian at the San Fransisco Zoo that leapt out her enclosure and hunted down the 3 guys who had taunted her. Leopards are equally scary and more sneaky bast *s. They come kill your
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
True. Wagons were the only reference I could find. I had researched this and seriously considered applying to YC with a idea for mailorder-homes that could be move-in ready in 7 days. Not DIY but DI4U (Do it 4 U) and done with mostly aircre
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
They actually came in railway boxcars. Roughly 10,000 to 30,000 numbered pieces (depending on the model) with detailed instructions. You would then haul them on horse wagons or motorized wagons to the lot.
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
Suggestion: when you folks send out that "You were in the top 10% of startups....please re-apply" email, would be great to receive it along with the rejection. Would be a much needed ray of hope at that point :-)
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
Put yourself at the receiving end of some arrogant prick for an extended period of time. You will then discover a myriad of ways to achieve your objectives with being one.
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by arjunvpaul 8y ago
Use "the newspaper test". If an article appeared in a local newspaper about the decision and action you made, and your family and friends read the article, would you feel good about it? Here is a video of some ol' man explain

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