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Ask HN: What is the purpose of social media?
6 points by diolpah 15y ago|4 comments
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by diolpah 15y ago
http://www.sec.gov/answers/accred.htm
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by diolpah 15y ago
My guess is because you offer less product than GitHub, and charge more for it. Unless you make your value proposition clear, I don't see any reason for anybody to use your service.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Did you ever consider the possibility that "Beau" is not actually a recruiter, but rather a mid-level troll with a creative cover story?
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by diolpah 15y ago
This is the correct answer. Sure you can work smarter; sure, you can come up with superior ideas; but time is almost always the limiting factor in execution. It's unpopular to rally against the cheerleading "you can do it!" crowd here, but
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by diolpah 15y ago
Yeah, you're missing something. It's 2011, and we're in the middle of a huge bubble. The only thing that matters to most new startups is "getting funded". Making money is merely a sideshow to the main event, which is growing traffic and
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by diolpah 15y ago
I am a bit confused by this post. You have a multi-million dollar project that runs on a port of Quake 2?
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by diolpah 15y ago
My company falls into the category you describe. We're doing well, but not large, sexy, or hipster-approved enough to be covered by the tech/startup press.
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by diolpah 15y ago
If you believe the premise and results of the '10000 hours to expert' research cited by Gladwell's "Outliers", then the obvious conclusion is that time invested is highly correlated with learning.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Online store owner here. We do collect and pay sales tax for California residents, but not residents of other states. The reason we don't collect sales tax for other states is: 1. We aren't required to. 2. Doing so would be a disincentive
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by diolpah 15y ago
"We don't have deadlines" What? How is this even possible? Even if one doesn't set internal deadlines, I can't imagine avoiding integration commitments with any number of third parties, whether they be strategic partners, clients/customer
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by diolpah 15y ago
Being the cofounder of a reasonably successful bootstrapped company, I mostly agree with you, and I believe that in bubble environments such as the current one, funding has become an end unto itself. However, sometimes there are circumstanc
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by diolpah 15y ago
Ah, I was hoping for my request to be fulfilled. Such is life on Offer HN. Do you have an ETA for availability of the service and a preview of what the pricing will be?
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by diolpah 15y ago
Option C worked well for us. There is no harm in trying.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Thank you for offering to do this. Two of the sites we operate that we'd love some external feedback on are http://www.ties.com/ and http://www.scarves.com/ - I can be contacted via the email address in my profile.
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by diolpah 15y ago
We chose to enter a business that has been saturated since 1999. Why? Because it was quite clear that most of the companies in the space were doing it wrong and inefficiently. We identified plenty of things that we could do better, and
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by diolpah 15y ago
I have some personal experience in this matter. My prior account(haploid) was silent-banned for, presumably, daring to question the orthodoxy that parenting is the best accomplishment one can achieve in life. I don't know if this meets you
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by diolpah 15y ago
Because Java shops/developers were their initial target customer, and Java is decidedly uncool among the current crop of startup kiddos. Additionally, there's not a significant social or mobile aspect to what they do.
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by diolpah 15y ago
"If you run a profitable bootstrapped company and you are reaching your customers, why speak to the tech press and discuss your financials? It would attract competition and I can't think of any upside." I don't know about disclosing financi
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by diolpah 15y ago
Those of us who are running profitable bootstrapped companies tend to put less effort into getting our name in the tech or business press. It is more important that we get our name into the minds of our customers, as our cash flow does not
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by diolpah 15y ago
I believe the selling point here is that N in-house testers won't expose nearly as many bugs as M actual users will, where N << M.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Yes, but on the bright side it's not yet another photo sharing app. YC targets the really-really-low-hanging fruit. Nobody is going to be producing cheap fusion energy, solving world hunger, or kicking off the singularity on $16k.
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by diolpah 15y ago
You may want to reconsider your target audience, because I'd be willing to bet it is roughly equivalent to the null set. The kind of people who care about the lives of celebrities are quite likely not the kind of people looking for book r
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by diolpah 15y ago
SEO issues aside, what we have found is that generic domain names are far easier for the average person to remember. Quantifying the value of that, however, is another thing entirely.
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by diolpah 15y ago
I will make an attempt at enlightening you. There are a great number of greying or almost-greying engineers and other tech types who are part of a generation preceding the current "cool" generation. This older generation of hackers and engi
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by diolpah 15y ago
A few points: 1. There is no guild. Just a cultural and perhaps even a generational gap. 2. This "guild" is not isolated to Silicon Valley. I would venture to guess that the neckbeard-to-hipster ratio is far higher everywhere outside
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by diolpah 15y ago
No blog, but if you have specific questions, you're welcome to email me - I just added my email address to my profile. I understand the sentiment of retail being a turnoff because of the atoms vs bits issue. But something you may not real
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by diolpah 15y ago
Absolutely. There are many mom and pop retailers who are doing many things wrong or inefficiently in this space, who are still surviving, even thriving. It is a target rich environment.
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by diolpah 15y ago
Yup. But it's not nearly as cool with the hipster kiddos, or the venture capitalists who cater to them, as social/mobile/photo/videos are. Meanwhile, we are in the distant background, building solid businesses. I am actually surprised to
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by diolpah 15y ago
This. It should be pointed out that we already have 'wrist support' built in. It's called tendons and ligaments. Center a workout around heavy deadlifts twice per week, and these support structures are guaranteed to strengthen, along wit

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