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by chdaniel 5y ago
You're clearly having some experience, if not lot Is there any chance I can get your mentorship over a vid call? No commitment for more The 32-core, 32 GB of memory made sense to me EDIT: Just to not risk losing this in a not-seen-HN
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by chdaniel 5y ago
OP here. A pretty fair model if you ask me! I think generally we move more towards that model as the internet progresses To me, before starting this, it looked like all the ones who made a noticable bump did it this way. It's why we ha
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Honestly I just 'hamstered' all the material I could on the most popular items. In the beginning, in those first 10 guides I mention in the article, I just curated all the splintered bits of info* from the internet into one mega-g
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by chdaniel 5y ago
/u/not-math put it perfectly in the reply
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by chdaniel 5y ago
It's exactly what we aim for! That's why we never considered charging for our guides, even something as little as $1 → The point was to allow people to inform themselves about fakes, with as little friction as possible That way, i
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by chdaniel 5y ago
You're defo smart with what you're saying But the challenge would then be to explain something like this to the average non-techie who's just buying some expensive sneakers because they're cool
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Lots of fakes on eBay They started efforts to curate that, but it's far from cleaning eBay 100% What you're saying happens, more often than we wish it'd be the case. That's why we never considered charging for our guides
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by chdaniel 5y ago
It's still possible! It'd help us to open the watch, naturally, but we can still rely on pics. Make no mistake though — the watches can be 99.5% perfect, but (at least for the watches we're handling, which have high values) t
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Hey thanks! I was curious to see if handling the topic of luck did vibe with people. Thanks for taking the time to mention this, as it's very valuable to me
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by chdaniel 5y ago
It's true that the title was sensationalistic, and I'm the OP. I probably hang too much in the 'build in public' sphere where it's all about the numbers I mean it'd obviously benefit me more if we kept the old
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by chdaniel 5y ago
> Do you keep a few clues secret just to be sure? Not really. We give away everything we have. As others've mentioned, fake manufcaturers get diminishing results by spending the extra $$$ to go from 95% to 99% Whe anyway, as part of
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message Think: "your order has been shipped" But we write it
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message Think: "your order has been shipped" But we write it
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Hmm, okay. Too much in my own bubble with that notion then The 'order notes' is a field in any e-commerce store, where you (the store) can send the customer a message Think: "your order has been shipped" But we write it
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Thanks a bunch ACME Corps! I see you everywhere lol Nope, we don't check for that. Others might do but that's outside our area of expertise. We pretty much authenticate what we ourselves have 'earned' the right to authen
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by chdaniel 5y ago
No offense taken! Especially since you're right We are a scrappy company and we're looking to mature, given the figures we've done the last year. I'd love to know if you'd still have the same opinion after going thr
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by chdaniel 5y ago
We do as well, but it's not only us. So the answer is a team. We get help from others as well on authentications!
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by chdaniel 5y ago
> It may be easy to differentiate with counterfeit shoes, but what happens with art pieces, books, collectors' items in general? We don't do art or books, but we do some collectors' items > What happens when a buyer dis
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by chdaniel 5y ago
@"I imagine most people buying Yeazys don’t have an authentic pair to compare with." — that's right! It's the position I was in, which is what I come close to mentioning in the article: it's why I made the app in th
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Then it's my mistake — probably I spent too much time in the 'build in public' bubble which is all about the numbers, and I forgot to get myself out of that bubble I'd change the title to "I authenticate items for s
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Hmm, defo didn't meant to come across that way In all honesty, the post got inspired by this HackerNews hall-of-famer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132 It sounded like an interesting story As we leave our
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by chdaniel 5y ago
We do. B2B Partnerships, some big companies trust us, and ultimately, I thought of the academic world so as to prove the expertise (I'm the complete opposite of an academic) * We write public guides (see: https://legitcheck.
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Yep, correct! We do more than writing order notes in the sense that we now have: * A Price Comparison tool * A SaaS for resellers (that sucks. we need to fix it) * A lot of words written on public guides * We just started a video library Bu
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Because I don't think the business model is something worth guarding. Or that if somebody else replicates it (they have), we have a lot to lose. I do believe in moats, and I'm trying my best to see what moats I can build on top of
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by chdaniel 5y ago
"that’s what we do — we tell people whether their item is fake or authentic. Not authentication as in login authentication" Should've made it clearer - a mistake on my part. So you know how there are fakes of Rolex, Nike, Lou
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My service to check whether an item is counterfeit or not(bychgroup.com)
169 points by chdaniel 5y ago|153 comments
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Things founders do on their websites(twitter.com)
1 points by chdaniel 5y ago|0 comments
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by chdaniel 5y ago
I didn't really understand that part. Mind re-wording it in an easier manner for me?
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by chdaniel 5y ago
Hey folks, Ch Daniel here Launching today: the v1.0 of a Cheatsheet, that might one day become a Handbook The problem - why It's very simple: I'm running my main business, which has got tens of thousands of paying customers and
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by chdaniel 5y ago
hmm, that’s weird. swear it was in there. I’ve just edited my comment to add the url ( https://www.reddit.com/r/SaaS/comments/n1vzrl/after_being_re... )

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