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by colinplamondon 5y ago
Why are we holding this new startup to a standard we don't hold anyone else? 6 months from now when they have their economics figured out, cool, they can run that test. Generally, giving users a toggle to get reminded when a trial is a
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
This is totally wrong. The economics of monthly billing are awful, and completely unworkable for a new startup. You have to do annual. Cost of Install: $7.00, for something this specific Trial Start Rate: 20%, if paywalled like this app is
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
Holy crap you guys are awesome. I've brought this idea up with all my entrepreneur friends, everyone's surprised it hasn't been built. Super slick, flexible implementation. The onboarding was smooth, and made it clear how fea
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
This is so awesome - thank you for building this! Just subscribed.
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
Seeing Laconia with serious CGI budget is going to be amazing.
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
Cosign on the AirPods Max. I'll easily use them daily for 4 years, and then someone else will enjoy the hell out of them. It makes music even more beautiful. The noise cancelling is absurdly good. Mic quality is great. They're inc
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
If you want to set the line, I’ll take the over on “Notion succeeds”
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
This! The design decision to feel "default-text" is awesome - text is a great foundation for a "custom workspace" product. But, it's only when the bulk of content is in Tables that things get extremely powerful. Onc
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
I think it really is that unique - Notion blending read/write is pretty revolutionary for an app like this. Wiki's are obsessed with toggles between read/write mode. Those apps you mention - Drupal, Wordpress, etc - have writ
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
If a founder as successful Zsu came in extremely drunk one time , yeah, I think extend him some grace. He fucked up - once. That's ok! Did he kill someone? No. Did he lose a major customer account? No. Did he fire a top employee in a
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
He founded a company worth billions - if he was constantly showing up high, sure. Getting dosing wrong, once? As long as he learned from the experience, who cares? This is the kind of incident that plays well in the press, because it genera
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by colinplamondon 5y ago
iOS customers are far higher income and spend more money - they're way more valuable. You get more revenue per user with way lower support costs. From a demographic standpoint it's a no-brainer.
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
I couldn't disagree more. I absolutely LOVE VimCal, and one of the reasons for that is the menubar functionality. Showing a countdown to my next meeting in my menubar, with one click video join, is super useful. The app itself shows ho
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
That points to the problem of open source: a hostility towards growth and product as critical team roles. It makes sense - OSS is an opportunity to do great engineering without constraints of a workplace. But without prioritizing product, g
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
Engineer pushback on this was MASSIVE in 2010-2012. There was still a Wild West ethos, so it cost a lot of goodwill to ship the feature. We did it anyways - it was the obvious right thing for the business. Getting there was one of the most
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
At this point in the App Store cycle, most app developers I know would aggressively "review flush". It sounds like the OP wasn't familiar with the growth strategies common at the time. If your star average goes below 4.5, put
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
Moon is a Harsh Mistress is definitely what I look to too, also. Even if the US is becoming more authoritarian over time, it's far from the worst Great Power. We do deeply, deeply shitty, immoral things constantly. Compared to the Sovi
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
Whoever controls the gravity well controls the world - I'd sure as hell rather that be my team, and not the other team. There are no effective international institutions. The human race hasn't figured out any way to unify on a glo
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
I don't mean to take anything at all away from Obama pushing COGS, as opposed to the old Constellation strategy. That was an incredible, bold move. Besides SLS, though, it didn't move meaningful industry outside of LEO. It was an
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
Space Force has far more visibility, and an institutional need to collect more budget, spend more on personnel, and build their fiefdom. As they do that, they'll consume more and more private services, and help spur more and more indus
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
I'm blown away by this administration on spaceflight, in the best way possible. Space Force is a huge step forward for building capabilities in space, on the military side. On the civilian side, Bridenstine is shaping up to be the grea
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
Especially right now, communication is moving more and more online. Online communication is increasingly mediated by corporations. If our speech is mediated by corporations, and those corporations tell us what we can and cannot say, what go
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
This might be me missing some awesome projects, but I haven't heard of many other projects with Urbit's scale of ambition and scope. WWW is so powerful, everything exists within it. There's not much competition at the OS laye
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
This is so intensely cool. Urbit was on its own island until recently - the only project challenging the domination of WWW. This + Tildeverse feels like the very, very, very early days of hackers starting to play with alternate protocols, a
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
This also implies New Glenn won't be ready in time, or human rated in time, for 2024. New Glenn is supposed to be even more powerful than the Falcon Heavy. That said, even if they could have New Glenn ready , it's probably super s
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
15m of Googling after seeing the press on this announce - definitely not pretending to be an expert. But - let's assume that cursory look at primary clients is correct. It appears they're all government agencies. They don't s
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by colinplamondon 6y ago
First, Blue Moon is doing some really interesting things with regularizing access to the Moon. Clear adapters, clear pricing, it's as much a leap forward as what SpaceX has done with regularizing access to orbit. From a scale standpoin
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by colinplamondon 10y ago
That or $0.02 on the dollar in bankruptcy court.
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by colinplamondon 10y ago
Man, that's the entire reason I read /r/worldnews. A ton of people compete to have the best recap on why something is relevant, and the best rises to the top. Like, the point of comments is people putting out their opinions.
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by colinplamondon 10y ago
- Focus and elevate video content. Entire TV episodes are sometimes made public on Twitter - there's no way to surface this. When The Expanse has a new episode, it should go into a tab that's YouTube on Twitter. - Pay video creato

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