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by brandnewlow 7y ago
I don't think anything is preventing you or anyone else from plunking down $100 and testing Got-Its out for consumer use. I just wouldn't expect it to be greatly supported in the near term.
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
Just ordered a set. I've been hearing about this from Brian for years now and am so excited it's finally live and available for purchase. About to tell all my midwest manufacturing friends...
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
I can relate! I'm 13 months in with my first and while I love him to pieces and am very happy to be a father, ensuring he's cared for and gets what he needs at all times while also being there for my wife eats up a great deal of
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
Have used George Grellas (longtime HN poster) for things like this in the past and been very happy: http://grellas.com/
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
In this case yes, Brave's POV is that ads that are hosted and powered by the publisher you chose to read are in fact OK. Brave isn't anti-ads so much as it's anti-cross site tracking and ad serving.
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
Brave blocks 3rd party ads, i.e. ads served off-site. Reddit is one of the few sites to make the effort to host all their ad tech themselves.
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
They only published the investigations they did to win prestige and standing that would distract regulators from interfering with their monopolies over local advertising. Hardcore journalism has never been a moneymaker.
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
PagerDuty (YC S10) is also a public company: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/pagerduty-stock-skyrockets...
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
It's a tremendous piece of writing I've enjoyed many times over over the years but a troubling one. As best I can tell, this is the actual shot described in the excerpt you quoted. It's great but perhaps DFW embellished a bit
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
My dad was the first person in my family to start using it, loved it, told all the rest of us to use it and I liked it so much I spent the last year working there.
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by brandnewlow 7y ago
Citation please.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
You should read the interview. It's candid and interesting and addresses your comment: http://fortune.com/2019/01/17/mitchell-green-lead-edge-capit...
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Thanks for sharing this, Peter! S11 represent. I think this sort of thing is tremendously encouraging to hear as everyone that's started a company has gone through phases like this. I know a few having that experience now!
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I think it’s a huge market and it just wasn’t known how crappy and dev-unfriendly the existing players were. I wonder if the Segment guys had even heard of them when they launched or if they had and then cleverly categorized their product
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
The thing that jumped out to me was how well the team managed their psychology. They state that after several pivots they were in the dumps and running out of money...yet their launch copy for Segment was peppy, optimistic and ambitious.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
“Mobile” was the same until it was just everywhere.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
This line of thinking implies that the actual raw product for the “new” SV consumer web sites, their silicon, is “young people sweat equity.”
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I run one of these funds. Happy to chat with anyone who has questions about them! Email is in my profile.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I run one of the YC Demo Day funds on Angel List (not sure if it's an SEC violation to link to it) and therefore spend weeks assessing founders and startups in each batch to make about 15 investments. It'd be very very interestin
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
And minus the stuff that talks to Google.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
I work at Brave. Thank you for using our product. Any ad products we ship will be opt-in only. If you don’t opt-in you’ll never see them.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
1 basis point of $10b is $1m. It's pretty easy to see someone paying him well over that to buy GumRoad at some point.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Can someone else explain the story with "Ben"? Did he offend someone and thus get kicked off the rescue squad? I couldn't follow the reason why he was stuck sitting in a chair outside the cave.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Amen. I dropped from 235 to 182 a few years ago doing keto and it definitely was like a fog being lifted. Unfortunately I’m back up to 225 but my life’s in a different place with new demands and stresses to figure out how to work healthy e
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
Assuming that's true its unsurprising. Their advertisers don't care about reaching people in India.
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Sneaking into a Forgotten Disney World Ride (Epcot – Horizons)(youtube.com)
2 points by brandnewlow 8y ago|0 comments
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
That's not true. We spent a lot of time designing the UI for verified creators and did not spend adequate time thinking through the UI for unverified creators. The changes being rolled out tomorrow will address the concerns that have b
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
No it is a baseless claim. Brave's never replaced ads and has no plans to do so. And yes, this was a UI mistake that's being fixed as quickly as we can to address valid concerns from users.
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
We're building a way for users to opt into getting a few ads a day in the form of device push notifications (alerts in the top right of your monitor etc). We're not injecting ads into the HTML of sites visitors view. So yes, we&
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by brandnewlow 8y ago
"in place of" is not correct. We're not replacing any ads in the browser. We are building a completely separate ad platform into Brave that will go live in 2019 but calling it a replacement for blocked ads is an inaccurate, w

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