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by ccamrobertson 14y ago
Thank you for doing the leg work with this. I think that anyone who wants to use this needs to look at payments very carefully so as not to run the risk of rampant chargebacks or getting shut down by your processor.
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by ccamrobertson 14y ago
I agree - I believe that hardware products that are accepted to Kickstarter should still leverage its inherent momentum. Based on reports from project creators, I have heard anywhere from 30-50% of traffic comes sources internal to Kickstar
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by ccamrobertson 14y ago
Thank you! We are no PR experts, this took on a life of its own.
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by ccamrobertson 14y ago
I still believe there is room for a proper platform to manage crowdfunding for hardware - maybe with a distributed option as well.
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by ccamrobertson 14y ago
It's very lean at this point, but hopefully it's a good starting point. Kickstarter was amazing for doing the heavy lifting and open sourcing it with their amazon_flex_pay gem.
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Show HN: We open sourced Lockitron's crowdfunding app(selfstarter.us)
463 points by ccamrobertson 14y ago|74 comments
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by ccamrobertson 14y ago
Yes, we will have it on github in a few days!
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by ccamrobertson 14y ago
Thanks! There were a number of projects involving replacement power outlets and light switches that were accepted without question, so I believe that we were not only tangled in their new policies, but also that they started enforcing their
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A Phone-Controlled Lock That’s Good Enough, Instead Of Perfect(fastcodesign.com)
9 points by ccamrobertson 14y ago|0 comments
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by ccamrobertson 14y ago
Thank you Nico, it was great to host you. Airbnb'ing with Lockitron was incredibly straightforward.
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by ccamrobertson 14y ago
This would be an incredible feature. Unfortunately, even within NFC the range of standards and encryption types across card types means you can't consistently do this. Our NFC implementation is really the reverse of this - rather than beami
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by ccamrobertson 15y ago
I'm really concerned about the Varsity now that Borders is going for good. I don't know whether the building has any historical protection, however, I wouldn't be surprised if it disappears given the suddenness of the Cal Ave tree snafu a c
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by ccamrobertson 15y ago
I'd love to hear more about your NFC experience - feel free to drop me a line at cameron@lockitron.com.
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by ccamrobertson 15y ago
We don't have the perfect solution to this yet, but we've been mulling the idea of key code locks for a while. Current users who encounter this usually find some way to unlock their door for their guests after a phone call, leaving keys ins
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by ccamrobertson 15y ago
Thanks for the idea! I wouldn't be surprised if we move in this direction. People love their fobs, but provisioning for temporary access on the big access control systems is a pain with current panels. The big issue is, of course, hardware
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by ccamrobertson 15y ago
We currently use Twilio, but they removed their beta international SMS support a while ago. That said, Tropo has international numbers in some countries. I think that 4-5 customers using our text message feature would be sufficient for us t
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by ccamrobertson 15y ago
You hit it on the head with the latency - although it only adds second or two at max, we want to make sure that we can keep it as short as possible. That said, we have a couple of international beta testers who seem to have a good experienc
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by ccamrobertson 15y ago
We have logging, but alerts are a high priority! If you buy one I will build it for you :)
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by ccamrobertson 16y ago
I'm current knee-deep in building a Titanium app for iPhone, and my experience has roughly matched tannerburson's, however, I have had far less difficulty with some aspects. For instance, I am using one line JavaScript IFs with no warnings.
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by ccamrobertson 16y ago
A service similar to this was built and, sadly, already hit the deadpool: http://buzzer-o-matic.tumblr.com/ .
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by ccamrobertson 16y ago
This is possible, however, if it were the case the law would be formulated differently to ban all short term visitors who don't pay for a hotel. For the past three years I have stayed in the city for many visits for free with friend - no
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by ccamrobertson 16y ago
does NYC benefit from tourists on a budget Any tourists will bring tax revenues into the city by eating at restaurants, visiting museums and events and generally purchasing goods and services. "not on a budget" can have more space, visit
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by ccamrobertson 16y ago
Thank's for bringing this out - it really gets to the heart of who is getting paid off and the results of lobbying in creating artificial barriers through regulation. Ostensible justification is likely along the lines that the IRS can alrea
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by ccamrobertson 16y ago
A number of comments have hinted at it, however, I think that the key issue with the article is that it does little to break down Wall St. as a career as opposed to Wall St. as a mis-regulated industry . I would agree with Ben that many
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by ccamrobertson 16y ago
but I can tell you that connecting research to a meaningful expression is fundamental to the value of the research This is a really interesting point, notably with regards to NASA. From the outset, NASA was at its core a defense oriented
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by ccamrobertson 16y ago
Of course, if government had not intervened during the S&L crisis, the precedent of "too big to fail" may never have been set - ignoring for a moment the full ramifications of financial collapse. The financial sector no longer operates
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by ccamrobertson 17y ago
Government can stimulate all it wants, but the heart and soul of our success has always come from individual initiative. Agreed. It would seem then that it would make the most sense for government to focus on minimizing the overhead for f
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by ccamrobertson 17y ago
I think that you have taken the recent atmosphere of "failing fast" a little too far. A "launch" really can't be considered a good metric for failure or success. Pegging your product on one massive launch is a flawed idea - it seems to oper
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by ccamrobertson 18y ago
Why not create labs without workstations - that is to say, give students big monitors, keyboards and mice and let them hook their laptops & netbooks in. Would be a cheap experiment to run, not to mention the much longer upgrade cycle. I