bobberkarl

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by bobberkarl 6y ago
No the citizens are not willing. Just look at the median income of small cities, then look at their budget. Some cities have a 5M$ budget, and police is half of it. No mayor will raise taxes for a SAAS.
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by bobberkarl 6y ago
Right. On a bill, it will show a 80/20 ratio for the tech/support pricing, but in your internal cost structure, you put 30% for the tech and 60% in support. Because they are small organizations, they are used to pick up a phone
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by bobberkarl 6y ago
The problem is, in smaller cities, the local consultants are your competition. They are the one providing the cities with decade old technologies and ugly U.I./U.X. Truth is, and i can't stress it enough, you are a 100% right. If
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by bobberkarl 6y ago
x0xo is perfectly right. I did not own a car, so it costed me 4k$ just in car/hotel/food/printing for my first client. PRINT EVERYTHING. Buy a nice presentation template online, print it on glossy paper, and you will always h
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by bobberkarl 6y ago
For most cities, YES. If they can pay for X with a credit card, and it`s cheaper than 1k$ a month, they will. The only problem is, are you willing to take up to 3 meetings for ~8 hours with 4/5 different people in person in a small cit
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by bobberkarl 6y ago
You call every city that might need the thing you are proposing, you talk to the receptionist and ask her who you should talk to about $SUBJECT. She will give you multiple names, extension numbers, and email addresses.
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by bobberkarl 6y ago
I did. I had a startup selling transportation software to small cities (<40k population). Sale process was 6 months. The tender process is excruciating. You will need to meet them up to 5 times to get an informal yes (3 months), and up
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by bobberkarl 6y ago
How is keycloak compared to Pomerium for example?
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by bobberkarl 6y ago
Droidcam pro was excellent to me.
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by bobberkarl 6y ago
I'm trying my best to understand what is zuck building. But I can't do far. A global surveillance machine will serve what purpose, and how does he benefit from it? The guy has everything bar being liked.
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by bobberkarl 7y ago
I just ran some pretty dumb queries. I can assure you something is missing.
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Ask HN: What is your marketing “stack”?
20 points by bobberkarl 7y ago|2 comments
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by bobberkarl 7y ago
How can a database become 500 components? What are they doing???
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by bobberkarl 7y ago
So basically webflow?
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by bobberkarl 7y ago
Bu there's no penalty if this target are not met.
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by bobberkarl 7y ago
Just to say you're not completely right. the mali empire existed back then.
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by bobberkarl 7y ago
Fast and easy. Are you sharing your source code?
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by bobberkarl 8y ago
What would you recommend then?
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by bobberkarl 8y ago
Thank you !
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by bobberkarl 8y ago
A blog post about specific advertisement targeting on facebook. Something along the lines of specifically making ads for some identified users.
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by bobberkarl 9y ago
I was a zune then xbox music then groove music subscriber. It's a shame. They were right at the beginning. What happened to them?
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Ask HN: What's the best architecture for a websocket api?
2 points by bobberkarl 9y ago|1 comments
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by bobberkarl 10y ago
AWS requires you to give up your ip to use their services. Microsoft is lending its customers his patent portfolio umbrella. [1] Am i correct? [1] ttp://www.iam-media.com/blog/Detail.aspx?g=b1c57b03-5b9c-4cbf-b8dd-e209da
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by bobberkarl 10y ago
The day the easiest way to buy anything will be electronically, is the day cryptocurrencies will prevail.
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by bobberkarl 10y ago
LEt's not play doctor after death. He shot 4 times someone who revealed he was open carrying, and had his daughter in the car. Then he didn't provide basic assistance to someone shot even though he his trained for it.