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by brackin 14y ago
I think this is very exciting and I love that they're targeting the cheaper market and also emerging markets where Android, iOS and Blackberry tend to cost too much and Symbian is losing marketshare.
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by brackin 14y ago
I can't say from personal experience having only met the team behind it and many founders but can refer you to a number of people that know a lot about it. I've heard it's on par and similar to the 500 startups accelerator in Mountain View
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by brackin 14y ago
Perfectly, especially in this case as there are hundreds of CRM's available. In other cases I'd probably say the same, only that it's sometimes hard to be passionate about a clone. Make sure you're in it because you want to improve where so
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by brackin 14y ago
The central guy comes across as a total psychopath. Twisting everything he says in a strange way. Almost saying the fact that he uses his name on Twitter makes him self-obsesed. I've just looked at my list of @replies and the last ten are a
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by brackin 14y ago
I'm 18 and have learned a lot in the last year or so. I've spoken at length to investors and founders to get advice so understand your situation. I've been able to build a profitable startup with 100k+ users and am now working on my next th
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by brackin 14y ago
Runkeeper doesn't require GPS you can manually enter thousands of workouts. Anyway, good luck to you. I guess it's up to the users to download it and prove your theorem!
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by brackin 14y ago
I have the version from when it was first on HN a while back. I will definitely try it out when you have more gestures :).
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by brackin 14y ago
The competition is too good in this case. RunKeeper actually tracks my runs, GymPact pays me, Fitbit uses Hardware and Fitocracy is highly incentivised by social. Not sure where this fits in.
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by brackin 14y ago
I had to uninstall Flutter because it opened on install and I couldn't find a way to delete it. I don't have a problem with pausing Spotify because I have play, pause and skip keys on my Mac and I just hate having my webcam on, I know it's
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by brackin 14y ago
Linkedin is focusing on content. They need to start building a voice, I think the voice and conversations on Linkedin will be very different to those that occur on Twitter or Facebook. There is a core audience that loves linkedin, my dad is
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by brackin 14y ago
He swears a fair amount in real life even though I've only met him briefly on a few occasions.
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by brackin 14y ago
Thank you, first company was bootstrapped. Second is for now but will eventually raise money or look at accelerators.
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by brackin 14y ago
I just graduated from high school and am starting to work on my second company full time. The first is still profitable and being run by my co-founder. Also starting to look for a co-founder on this next project.
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by brackin 14y ago
You get what you pay for I guess. Their mobile app looks terrible, tries to copy the Path sharing functionality in a completely strange context. When something like this could be created with a far cleaner interface. In a strange way I unde
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by brackin 14y ago
As a Mac user I hate this but I do think you should (on applications at least) use different models for each platform. Angry Birds monetizes differently on Android and iOS. This isn't a justification for Orbitz' behaviour though.
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What do you do?(brack.in)
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Reflecting on EU 'Cookie Directive'.(brack.in)
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by brackin 14y ago
Yes, I find it very valuable to attach my email and Twitter to my HN profile, definitely worthwhile. Having a way to contact you is important and you can get a lot of great feedback on a community like Hacker News.
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by brackin 14y ago
A hacker isn't something that is part of a criminal enterprise that breaches computer security, that would be a Cracker. I think 'hacking' can be used in other contexts and makes sense. I wouldn't say the meaning has changed as it was alway
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by brackin 14y ago
I love the idea but I think it could go even further in terms of rules. If it could do a bit more I'd pay. I'd love for it to put attachments into Dropbox (maybe sort by sender or file type). If the message is under a certain amount of char
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by brackin 14y ago
There's a number of 17 - 18 year old founders that applied instead of college. Not sure on dropout numbers.
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by brackin 14y ago
Genius. I've been looking for something like this so will buy shortly! Make it universal so that I can use it on my iPad, the device that I use for apps like this.
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by brackin 14y ago
CrunchFund has no website at all. Google ventures has an awesome new site. Isn't a big deal to the established firms as people will flock if they have one or not. In fact the big firms almost wholly rely on recommendations and introductions
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by brackin 14y ago
Don't think of YC as the only option. Many seem to on HackerNews. Consider alternative accelerators before waiting 9 months hoping for YC. There's also seed funding, YC is one if many paths, it may be the best accelerator. I think once you
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by brackin 14y ago
Totally agree, there's a difference between the 'idea' people that add no value and the experienced guys that do everything you're talking about. No businesses aren't as easy as release a product and profit, even if they do have early tract
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by brackin 14y ago
The people that should be scared by piracy are those that aren't making really high quality, possible cult films. If you're making the next Jennifer Aniston movie, which replicates tens of others then people won't be motivated to go to the
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by brackin 14y ago
The only scams like these which will work on Kickstarter is campaigns that aren't especially interesting or may not appeal to a huge audience. Once a campaign gets to 100k, there is press involved and people researching. If you get $5k in p
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by brackin 14y ago
Probably aren't for everyone but I don't think most of the value I get from a conference comes from the talks but the collection of like minded people.
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by brackin 14y ago
Shame I didn't get to experience any of this, my first computer ran Windows 95. My granddad does have an Amstrad in his back room.
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by brackin 15y ago
Thanks, sorry link I posted was broken.

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