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by bkovitz 18y ago
These sound like fine ideas. Are they how you got your first customer? How did that happen? I'm interested in hearing the story from start to end.
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How did you find your first beta tester?
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We may well bring in a partner who has more sales skills. However, I'm not looking for tips or advice (right now), I'm just looking for stories of how techie types with subscription web sites actually got their first customer.
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When I was a kid, I had friends of all ages: other kids, young adults, older adults. As an adult, I have friends who are much younger than me, about the same age, and older: currently teenage to mid-60s. Age is just not an issue. Geeks ar
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Ask HN: Subscription web sites: How did you get your first customer?
70 points by bkovitz 18y ago|50 comments
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Multiple regexes sounds fine. When you discover a new kind of duplicate, add a new regex.
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Recent Changes Camp(rcc2008.blueoxen.net)
2 points by bkovitz 18y ago|2 comments
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You Can't Do Both: You can't fix weaknesses _and_ build on strengths(daverendall.typepad.com)
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I would love to read what such a think tank comes up with. Right now my brain is fried for coming up with business ideas, but groovin' on doing implementation work. If I knew of a small web-site idea that had a really good shot at making
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Actually, I believe group theory emerged very gradually from many simultaneous developments. Other sources: permutations, symmetries of crystals and linear transformations, quaternions and matrices (though theory of equations was indeed th
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Latest books: _Made to Stick_, by Chip Heath and Dan Heath, about what makes some ideas memorable and others forgettable. Urban legends, for example, propagate quickly on a vast scale despite having no marketing budget. _Mathematical Thoug
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I spent an unbelievable number of hours with William Barden's books on the Z-80. One of them completely fell apart. I loved that CPU. It was the first CPU I ever met.