ayelton

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by ayelton 13y ago
"What he is describing is better termed as "dynamic"." The author of this essay is a woman.
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by ayelton 14y ago
We submitted our PayPal application in January and it has not been either approved or rejected at this time. So, yes, it does take a long time, but no, we can't use PayPal. Not today, anyway.
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by ayelton 14y ago
We have been treated respectfully by Amazon's customer service people, FWIW.
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by ayelton 14y ago
They've given us the impression that they're not onboarding new crowdfunding companies, but KS is not new. I haven't heard any comment from Amazon about Kickstarter specifically and I'm not going to speculate.
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by ayelton 14y ago
When we were initially investigating the space Amazon and PayPal looked to be the only payment processors who supported pledges (as opposed to instantaneous transfers). PayPal actually had some advantages, but they were outweighed by the d
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by ayelton 14y ago
Thanks! I will be writing a proper About soon, and it really helps to have feedback from people who haven't been following us and talking to us for months. Turns out my brain is too everywhere-all-at-once on launch day for me to write coh
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by ayelton 14y ago
It doesn't cost $7,500 to make it. The book exists; we're proposing to make it free to everyone on earth , forever, with Creative Commons licensing. The $7,500 is to compensate the author for potential loss of royalties -- make it worthw
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by ayelton 15y ago
If you have a bunch of developers, yes. But the entry level filter is people who aren't yet developers, and people talking about code. I've found actual developers pretty welcoming, but I also had to skip the entire beginning of the pip
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by ayelton 15y ago
Hey, fancy seeing you here :). And good point on the "self-perceive to know", and how it's not the same as actually knowing. And, of course, ties in with gender issues itself. FWIW I never had a whit of impostor syndrome in the context wher