codycowan

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by codycowan 11y ago
Atri contacts you the same way it identifies you - via twitter. When possible, we'll email or reach out directly, but we use twitter to verify identities and know who to send the money to, so we use it to communicate as well. Once we g
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by codycowan 11y ago
You're absolutely right that consumers as a whole don't care about this problem. The Atri experiment isn't intended for all consumers - we're looking for people who really care about the problem. It won't be long be
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by codycowan 11y ago
In a way, yes. But what we found when building adieu.io was that people who were willing to support content creators want to have it done automatically, and Flattr required a considerable amount of work on the part of the donor. Atri does a
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by codycowan 11y ago
We've starting talking to content producers, and its an avenue we want to pursue further, but as you pointed out the hard data we're gathering here is going to be key to our negotiations. As to your idea of bundling an Ad Blocker,
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by codycowan 11y ago
You've definitely got a solid plan there, and its basically what Patreon is doing. But our belief is that if you're a content creator, you shouldn't have to do work on top of your creating to earn a living, hence the direct t
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by codycowan 11y ago
You're absolutely right that there is a chicken and egg problem. As it stands right now, publishers are desperately holding on to every last advertising and subscription dollar they can find, and aren't looking for new things. We&
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Show HN: Turning @ into $(medium.com)
2 points by codycowan 11y ago|0 comments
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by codycowan 11y ago
I don't think security is as much the barrier here as access - localized servers provide 24/7 access by local employees, and until every part of the stream (employees, clients, HQ, mobile, and cloud) have near 100% internet uptime
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Contradictions at the Heart of Product Hunt(medium.com)
1 points by codycowan 11y ago|0 comments
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by codycowan 11y ago
With the sale of Lastpass to LogMeIn, more excited than ever for 1Password to add team features
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DDOS on City AM
1 points by codycowan 11y ago|1 comments
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by codycowan 11y ago
Yes, agile is basically waterfall when the people "practicing" it are using it in name only. No one promised Agile would be Engineer Driven Development - it should be team driven development. Anyone (business, product, marketing,
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by codycowan 11y ago
Are there any other modern companies with a fanbase that is so important to its image/marketing that an article like this would be written? Can't imagine one for Microsoft, Facebook, google, etc...
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Herpes virus can stay hidden for years(projects.nyujournalism.org)
1 points by codycowan 11y ago|0 comments
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by codycowan 11y ago
By breaking it down to pay per article vs. flat rate, you're missing the multiple alternative payment schemes possible with micropayments and massive scale. Just for starters think of the spotify model, where users are charged a flat r
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by codycowan 11y ago
Its not that we don't want to pay - its that we're only willing to pay when asked to do so - nobody is going to stand up and say I'll pay. And publishers aren't trying to make things readers want; advertisers have become
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Problems with Process(medium.com)
1 points by codycowan 12y ago|0 comments
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by codycowan 12y ago
users, plus relationships with the various services they had integrated into the app (eventbrite, foursquare, evernote, song kick, asana, todoist.....). 100 million is a lot, but sunrise was a well thought out, well executed product
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by codycowan 12y ago
Given what they did with Accompli, not at all