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by c1sc0 16y ago
I've been looking at gamification for my startup & I feel ambiguous about it at best. Especially when applied to healthcare issues. There are plenty of simpler things you can do that will have a better impact long-term. One thing gamifi
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Make that 6 figures. You do know that 'Plop' is an insanely popular children's show in Dutch-speaking countries, right? Maybe you should talk to the producers? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabouter_Plop http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stu
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by c1sc0 16y ago
The Phono guys were great in helping me integrate this on http://pitchpower.appspot.com . There was a small bug on their side & they fixed it in a few hours. I don't really have time to continue develop pitchpower right now, but I coul
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Another reason to downvote tl;dr comments is that such a comment is simply not up to the quality level expected at HN. If you can't be bothered to read the original article & post a thoughtful comment, simply don't comment.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Thanks, this was an amazing event to follow, even only the stream. The chatbox action was also interesting at times, except for the inevitable trolls. Good job Justin.tv
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by c1sc0 16y ago
So what's the going rate for Plop.com?
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I figured as much but wanted to ask anyway. btw. I looked at some old logs and GoogleBot indeed does 'the right thing': no funny characters in there.
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Ask HN: How does GoogleBot treat url encoding?
2 points by c1sc0 16y ago|2 comments
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Thanks for the data point, I'm pondering which direction to go with this: community (pitch & receive some free traffic) or service (pitch until you're pitch-perfect ... ha)
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I just saw your pitch generated about 100 pageviews, do you see any traffic on your side?
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I'm not really looking forward to that. With each upgrade comes that little bit of agony about the unix underpinnings: what are they going to do to the default python install? Ruby? ...
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by c1sc0 16y ago
thanks for the nice words danielle, mail sent ;-)
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by c1sc0 16y ago
you're talking about up/down votes, right? I'm a bit torn on that: implement it on PitchPower or allow the conversations to take place on existing sites like HN / Reddit?
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I actually tried out the twilio audio transcription and it was really crappy so I removed it again. When even only 10% is transcribed wrong on a 20 seconds pitch it gets really painful quickly.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I've been using Macs as my development machines since before Darwin became OSX and that's the only thing that frustrates me sometimes: decent package/library management like on Linux. I've resorted to isolating these issues in VMs running L
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Yeah, you were the first one to do a real pitch & I was thinking the same. Be a little more positive & articulate clearly. Feel free to try again! ;-)
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Felideon, I stand corrected: Gmail does NOT do free international calls, but for all practical purposes Gmail + PitchPower is still free.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
To anyone else who's trying: you can use Google Voice to make free international calls. Something I sadly only found out after spending some $$$ while building this thing.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
ok I get that, good point. It'd be an opt-in service of course. FYI: while Twilio returns the caller ID, I'm not actually storing that right now, so no worries.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I chose phone because ultimately I want the service to call you at random times & force you to pitch.
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Ask HN: I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for HN users, what now?
51 points by c1sc0 16y ago|29 comments
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by c1sc0 16y ago
From the article: "if your criteria are productivity, efficiency and consumer satisfaction, it makes perfect sense to withdraw funds and material support from the humanities". I think I've said it before: if we'd let engineers design our ho
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I've actually started using a VA to 'google' for me, although the tasks I give him are more 'research' than a dumb 'google'. One of the interesting side-effects is that I get results I don't expect because he doesn't have the early adopter
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I agree that traffic in Beijing is a mess. My impression was that Shanghai has slightly better transportation infrastructure, both road & rail.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Meditate until my minds stops wandering around. And smile, this may sound ridiculous, but whenever I feel stressed out, scared or when I can't sleep I try to put on my biggest forced grin for a few seconds. Bonus points if you do it in fron
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Funny how times have changed ... 10 years ago we'd have a 'no-release on friday' policy to allow everyone to have a nice weekend. Now that lots of weekend projects grow into 'startups' the opposite makes sense. Most calendar software has an
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Nice job! I like how un-PC it is. You could probably even get it banned in Germany if you added a swastika.
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Is it Pablo or Paulo Coelho? Or does Pablo == Paulo assert True in Portuguese? Amazing writer, I was blown away by The Alchemist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alchemist_(novel)
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by c1sc0 16y ago
Maybe not now but it certainly will be in a few years for the simple reason that they rebuild everything from scratch and can leapfrog technologies. China doesn't care about being backwards-compatible: they'll just tear down & rebuild
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by c1sc0 16y ago
I've been using them for almost two months now & strongly recommend them. It is worth asking for someone with a technical background and then giving him/her some breathing space to get to know you.

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