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by callmeed 10y ago
Out of curiosity, how were you able to get on the front page of ProductHunt? Was it in the early days or were you able to get someone influential to push you to the front? I think its pretty well known/established (despite what PH has
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YC Hawaii? Now we're talking ...
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Sorry if I wasn't clear earlier but, as I mentioned in another reply, I included advertising as only one part of the equation. The other part, as you said, is the design/contents of the thing itself. I don't think technology
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I understand what you're saying and I do do those things with my children. My point was more that children provide a more pronounced example of how our decision to use something is influenced by both advertising and the design of t
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Apologies if I'm using the wrong terms, but this comes off as a kind of myopic, libertarian view. Do you have children? I have 4. A lot of this is easier to understand by watching them. Yes, I know it's my job to teach them how to
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Respectfully disagree with your view. Technology in and of itself is not bad. But when technology is run by technology companies whose motive is profit, it can be bad. I think what we're seeing is new externalities caused by technolo
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I think Hampton Creek has had enough scandals that I'd avoid mentioning them for testimonial/social proof reasons.
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This is cool. When do you plan to have paid plans available? I'm working on some Jekyll landing pages and I need form options for people.
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Since we're shameless pluggin', I have a Jekyll plugin that will display an image gallery from a folder (with a single liquid tag). https://github.com/callmeed/jekyll-image-set
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negative return is a thing
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Post a job listing on your local Craigslist for the closest category to what you want to work on. Something like: "Local educational startup looking for K-12 school teachers to survey" I've done it multiple times for startup
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There's a similar startup in our little accelerator here. Interesting space.
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Currently in California. I've been a remote employee since selling my own company 2 years ago. First job was $90K. Current is $125K.
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Buy a house/condo in a college town or near a military base and rent it out. If you want mostly passive, you can move the entire application, document, and payment flow online (no paper, no mail, no deposits at the bank). You just ne
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On Writing Well by Zinsser Traction by Weinberg & Mares Predictable Revenue by Ross Choose Yourself by Altucher Learn Python the Hard Way by Shaw Mere Christianity by Lewis
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This is cool–it should be a Jekyll plugin
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Probably some of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor-owned_utility
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Can a VCR record HD broadcasts? I've never really thought about this because my use of the 2 never overlapped.
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I think this is the 2nd such interview where an early employee was a founder of a different YC startup that fizzled out. I think it underscores one of the powerful aspects of YC as a network–the startups that fail become a solid pool of can
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Related, one of my favorite joke twitter accounts is Nihilist Arby's: https://twitter.com/nihilist_arbys
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So, how do you find such people?
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Really cool. I have some scraping projects I'd like to do in Go, so this is a great starting point.
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Same feeling but in the context of being a parent. On date nights, I usually leave my phone in the car but my wife keeps hers out in case the babysitter calls.
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Where I am in California only about 1/3 of merchants are accepting chip cards (even though I believe the deadline was October of last year).
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Not exactly. (In the US) It used to be that a store could offer a "discount" for using cash but not a "fee" for using credit/debit. The most common example is gas stations-many have been doing this forever. However
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If you want a startup/side-project idea, here it is. I can tell you from 10+ years in website hosting and maintenance that most laypeople, designers, marketers, and even some technical people will never understand DNS. (and they shou
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>> Unlike the USA which has worker classification problems, South Korea’s cleaning industry is primarily comprised of freelancers. That seems like the money statement there. Is this basically saying Miso can get away with paying cle
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Absolutely. I have a couple of sports apps [0] that use both scraped web data and a hidden API to get realtime baseball game information. One of them won a sports hackathon a couple years ago (sports radar was a sponsor). From what I recall
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Well, at least if there's a problem, you can always pick up the phone and give Stripe a cal–OH WAIT YOU CAN'T. I'm sorry–I love Stripe as a product–but it blows my mind that a company with a $5B+ valuation that touches your
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SEEKING FREELANCER – CA or Remote (Within 3 hours of US Pacific Time preferred) I have a couple old Ruby on Rails projects that need some updates ASAP. Primary task will be migrating from an old payment system to a new one. While I hope th

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