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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Is there a link for this? Would love to read about it.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
> It often hinges on what you count as success. Agreed. However, even in a lifestyle business, I have a hard time imagining not working like crazy to get it off the ground. I've tried starting a couple (obviously doing something wr
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Having seen people close to me experience this, I feel for you. However, I haven't heard any success stories that have made it any OTHER way. It's usually in looking back, that people say burn out was wrong and I probably shouldn
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
This. I don't have muh to add besides what you've already written. The 'norms' of life are so fiercely protected, as to alienate all other views of it.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
That's what I see happening in the industry, and that's the way we're going as well. It seems contrived though - change for change's sake rather than offering new value. Perhaps I've yet to fully buy into our value
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I should have mentioned I'm a material supplier, rather than working as a subcontractor. We supply stone products to the sub, and work with them to do the install. >>let me query the status of my project with an SMS Do you mean y
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Ask HN: How do I differentiate myself in the construction industry?
3 points by dhruvkar 10y ago|6 comments
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
>>we found that the typical successful founder was 40 years old, with at least 6-10 years of industry experience being a successful gounder requires many good years to get there. I recall seeing a number as large as 7-10 years. Combin
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
True, perhaps starting off with a free offering, and then see how and IF it's being used.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I got the idea from all the other APIs I use (e.g. AWS, Clearbit, etc.) which are not anywhere near this industry. We have our own, constantly-updating stone database, so the line of thinking was that we'd just externalize that.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
So far, just us, internally. Going through the comments, I realize there's more talking-to-customers that needs to be done.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I have not, and I probably should. The intent is to externalize something we use internally, so there is a market for at least 1.
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I agree. >> In general, money in construction changes hands when construction happens or materials are sold. Monetizing information about stone is perhaps more likely the more it is directly tied to such transactions. This is useful,
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Ask HN: I'm in Construction industry, building an API. How should I price This?
8 points by dhruvkar 10y ago|12 comments
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
Not the biggest risk (as I didn't have much to lose), but right after my undergrad I took a job in China with a young, 3rd party Quality Control service company, getting paid about $1200/month + food/housing. I learned the in
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by dhruvkar 10y ago
I lived/worked in Shenzhen 2011-2012, and even then, young companies, founded by westerners and locals alike, had started targeting the domestic market. Companies in the hardware/manufacturing space had realized there was no need
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Ask HN: Know any existing frameworks specifically for review sites?
1 points by dhruvkar 11y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvkar 11y ago
Exactly, this. I loved Asana when it first came out. Advocated for it successfully at two organization I was employed at. Couple years down the line, it's gotten needlessly bloated and complex.
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The Reductive Seduction of Other People’s Problems(medium.com)
3 points by dhruvkar 11y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvkar 11y ago
Nice. So how do you handle scaling this up? Working a full-time job, how would you expect to give this the man hours it needs, in order to determine if this is a viable business model? This is the main issue facing my side projects.
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by dhruvkar 11y ago
Kimonolabs.com Allows you to scrape then import that data into a google spreadsheet. But its not the only way to consume the data.
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by dhruvkar 11y ago
Its like an airplane wheelie!
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by dhruvkar 11y ago
Ah. I used thema lot when I was day-trading a couple years ago. Guess they've really gone downhill since. Only use them to place long term trades now.
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by dhruvkar 11y ago
Non-algorithmic trading Optionshouse.com is great, for both stocks and options, commissions-wise. Not as good for lightweight, realtime charts. I use OptionsXpress for that purpose. Optionsxpress has high commissions, so I only use the ch
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Set up a virtual machine for Python dev with Vagrant and Ansible(dhruvkar.com)
2 points by dhruvkar 11y ago|0 comments
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Movie studio takeover(cobaltix.com)
59 points by dhruvkar 11y ago|28 comments
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by dhruvkar 11y ago
Currently using the very useful telescope app. Any feedback on design and user experience would be very helpful.
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Show HN: HackerNews for Social Entrepreneurs(news.socent.io)
1 points by dhruvkar 11y ago|1 comments
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Ghost(blog.dhruvkar.com)
1 points by dhruvkar 13y ago|0 comments
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by dhruvkar 13y ago
Thanks. What's your startup?

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