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Let's Build Google Alerts for HN on the New API, Together(assembly.com)
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Compliments on the thing as a whole, but one thing stuck out to me (negatively). When I read about vegetables and interaction and saw the screenshot of how interfaces haven't changed much, I got rather excited about the idea of a veget
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HackMIT(blog.assembly.com)
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A relevant post arguing for Reddit to implement this on top of the Bitcoin Blockchain: https://medium.com/@barisser/an-open-letter-to-reddit-why-yo...
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An Open Letter to Reddit: Why You Should Build on Bitcoin(medium.com)
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Why Really Good Emails Matter(builtsocial.wordpress.com)
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Wal-Mart Names Instagram Co-Founder Systrom to Board(bloomberg.com)
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How MHacks reignited my optimism about hackathons (and Silicon Valley)(venturebeat.com)
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by awwstn 12y ago
Good questions. Things like marketing, sales, maintenance, and support can be handled with the Assembly bounties. Over time I imagine we'll make bounties more easily map to these functions, but we've seen bounties work for each of
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by awwstn 12y ago
In most cases, Assembly will help cover costs of things like domains and hosting during development, and in cases where someone in the community spent money on a product, that will be tracked and reimbursed when the product starts to earn r
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by awwstn 12y ago
Hey, Austin from Assembly here. Here's an example of what an ownership breakdown might look like: https://assembly.com/helpful/partners When a new product is created, 10,000,000 App Coins are created, and 500,000
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by awwstn 12y ago
Lyft should come up with a way of flagging and hellbanning these accounts. The user could continue to think they have booked a ride, and think they have cancelled it, when really the whole system ignored them.
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by awwstn 12y ago
Building a viable business on top of an open source project is totally possible. But, like building lots of other types of businesses, it can be difficult. These challenges cut close to some things we are aiming to solve at Assembly [ http:
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by awwstn 12y ago
Good points. Each product on Assembly has a Core Team, which takes the lead on vision, quality, etc. The Assembly Getting Started page ( https://assemblymade.com/getting-started ) covers a lot of this. Here are some relevant
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Coderwall open-sources codebase and business model(hackernoons.com)
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True University(trueuniversity.com)
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Apple/Beats(lefsetz.com)
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Fantastic. But, am I limited to anonymously chatting with people in the same Applebee's as me? Or can I chat with Applebee's diners across the globe? With the current trend of unbundling [1], it seems clear that a great approach w
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by awwstn 12y ago
Google invested $258,000,000 in Uber [1]. Why would they have plans to roll out a competing ride sharing service? [1] http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-i...
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by awwstn 13y ago
Here's what I think led to this: UberX was priced appropriately for the market, but Uber wanted a larger cut of revenue. (Say average ride was $12, Uber gets $2.40.) In January, Uber announced a 20% decrease [1] in UberX prices. (Conti
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ZenDesk IPO Bears Striking Similarities To Box(techcrunch.com)
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The way I've thought about this is in terms of available attention and routine. I may spend more time staring at a computer monitor, but that time is spent on my work routine, where new tools and apps are added sporadically at best. My
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Intel Acquires Wearable Startup Basis Science for $100 Million (techcrunch.com)
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How to start a startup: Find a process that requires tedious work with lots of different tools, and make that process simpler and easier. Start with something that works well enough to be of value to some people, and improve until the old p
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by awwstn 13y ago
For better or worse, if you create software that plays a key role in a tectonic shift in a massive industry (Napster) and later become president of one of the fastest growing and most impactful companies of the past decade(Facebook), then t
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by awwstn 13y ago
Having a writing staff may get you part way there. Colbert is really smart and equally thoughtful and passionate, and I think these are the qualities that lead to his work never appearing "phoned in." [disclosure, I guess: I once
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by awwstn 13y ago
PG points out regularly that there is no way of predicting whether a startup will succeed. So, I'd guess that much of what they do is try to filter out companies that are likely to not succeed. If YC has nailed down the process, then o
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Introducing Yahoo Gemini(yahoo.tumblr.com)
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This isn't a "rich get richer" kind of thing; it's a federal regulation. Well, it may be a "rich get richer" kind of thing, but it isn't something for FundersClub to decide, it's something the gover
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Interesting Times: The future of Pando(pando.com)
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