coryl

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by coryl 16y ago
Ermm, you can still easily target college students because they add their colleges to their Facebook network. Users tag their interests, music they listen to, books they read. From a business stand point, I really can't see how you could sa
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by coryl 16y ago
But won't everyone say yes to something free?
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by coryl 16y ago
Wait, so how do I redeem this free manpack? I really could use socks lol
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by coryl 16y ago
You're right about the copycats, I tend to sway back and forth between objectivity and fearfulness, but your mentioning of copycats was right. I don't really know if theres a such thing as a first mover in this space, after all, I'm just ta
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Ask HN: How much interest needed before idea is valid?
14 points by coryl 16y ago|20 comments
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by coryl 16y ago
The red pulls my eye towards the time as well.
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by coryl 16y ago
Have you looked into the countless other "job/project" outsourcing sites? What do you do differently or better than them?
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Tell HN: Cool documentaries about the Internet by Discovery
1 points by coryl 16y ago|0 comments
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by coryl 16y ago
I just use google docs to record thoughts and ideas.
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by coryl 16y ago
What were you paying before, and what are you paying now?
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by coryl 16y ago
Can you be a bit clearer? What are your before and after measurement metrics?
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by coryl 16y ago
Sounds like a regular old business to me. Pay based on profit / performance = stock options and commissions Contributors = employees At some point the existing employees will say, "Dude why do we need more open source contributors, we're ma
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by coryl 16y ago
Probably the more significant factor is the bottom line. Reddit doesn't make much money from advertising. They have 4 salaried (I assumed) full time employees, a bunch of servers, and other miscellaneous expenses. It's not like they're a st
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by coryl 16y ago
So you think they could just describe what they need, and their awesome AI computers could just whip up something just like that? If so, even the AI bots would express alien logic birthed unto them (unless we're talking about a species of A
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Ask HN: What would alien code look like?
31 points by coryl 16y ago|33 comments
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by coryl 16y ago
I read and commented on the launch post when it happened. I thought it was actually a real service! (I didn't sign up, but suggested he show more demos and screenshots of how it works. Now I know why it didn't have any). On one hand, I thin
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by coryl 16y ago
Haha, I'm sure you're actually very paranoid. Ignore the news stories. Don't forget there are millions, probably billions of people who would KILL to be in your position, to have the opportunity that you have. Don't forget that once you lea
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by coryl 16y ago
This models works: Fark has had premium users for a while now.
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by coryl 16y ago
Thanks for the suggestions, they are spot on. Keep them coming! However, a lot of them are UX/design related. Does anyone have suggestions on how to generate more exposure / traffic with regards to what we do? Thanks
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by coryl 16y ago
Good points. You are right about being able to consume before registering. We added some popular users on the homepage to help out with that, we'll add a feed for popular/latest posts as well. I have an account on Howl, its http://www.howl
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by coryl 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.howl.com Examples of real users and how they use it: http://www.howl.com/EduNut http://www.howl.com/phil-schaillee
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Ask HN: Need advice on growing my 2 month startup
9 points by coryl 16y ago|11 comments
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by coryl 16y ago
As an exercise or function in doing something with data, sure, do as you please. But if this were to have practical application, and the potential to solve problems via the crowd, why not improve it and give it better data?
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by coryl 16y ago
Even the North Koreans leave to play in international tournaments though. Some play overseas in other leagues.
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by coryl 16y ago
Seems like a pretty obvious way to express frustration, although likely that it was also a learned cultural behaviour, popularized through television/media.
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by coryl 16y ago
I know
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by coryl 16y ago
I think you may be in for a hard reality check one of these days. Everyone has ideas, million dollar ideas, and excuses as to why they can't implement them. But only after you've tried to execute them (and failed) will you discover that its
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by coryl 16y ago
Partially true information can be just as misleading as completely false information. For example, I looked up "Cannabis"; only 1 entry saying it causes cancer. But I know from other articles on other sites that there are properties that fi
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by coryl 16y ago
I don't see how you could be hurt by trying the service. I think some of your fears are paranoia, for example the fear that customers will "figure out" your margin. Try it out, move some volume at a discount.
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by coryl 16y ago
It wasn't just blind conviction though, he was a professional soldier. It was war time, and his commanding officer sent him in to conduct guerrilla warfare in the jungles. He was expected to be there for a long time and operationally indepe

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