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by dirtae 12y ago
Delaware corporations that do not conduct business in Delaware do not pay any corporate income tax. So the franchise tax is a way for Delaware to generate revenue from all of the Delaware corporations that do not conduct business in Delawar
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by dirtae 12y ago
Has anyone ever actually paid $1 / year for WhatsApp? I know in several places they claim that is their business model, but I've never come across anyone that has paid for WhatsApp. Part of that may be due to the fact that WhatsAp
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by dirtae 12y ago
Yik Yak is a consumer Internet startup that just raised $61 million, and is based in Atlanta, GA: http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/02/yik-yaks-new-funding-round-...
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by dirtae 12y ago
You seem to be implying that if you make a mistake while booking a flight, and as a result the airline refunds all of your money, then if you have to pay more for the flight you actually wanted than you would have paid when booking the orig
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by dirtae 12y ago
In the U.S. all airlines allow you to cancel your reservation at no charge within 24 hours of booking, so if you make a mistake, then you can cancel your reservation and make a new one.
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by dirtae 12y ago
True. But keep in mind that we're talking about net revenue here, not net profit. That $70K is after Apple's cut, then you need to deduct all of your expenses, like marketing and hosting, on top of that.
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by dirtae 12y ago
Is it possible to take advantage of the affiliate program for sales on in-app purchases? Our app (like many) is free with in-app purchases, so I don't think we can generate affiliate revenue from our sales, but I'd love it if I we
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An Open Letter to Tim Cook Regarding the App Store 70/30 Revenue Split(blog.anylistapp.com)
389 points by dirtae 12y ago|216 comments
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by dirtae 12y ago
Ah, you're right. I saw that the enclosure was the same (or at least nearly the same) as the old Mac mini and assumed you could replace the RAM yourself, but I was wrong. That's a shame.
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by dirtae 12y ago
You don't tax the CPU, but you want to pay an extra $200 for a build-to-order option to bump the CPU by 0.2 GHz? How about getting the mid-tier 2.6 GHz Mac mini, with 16 GB RAM, 1 TB Fusion Drive, keyboard, and trackpad for $1,237? The
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by dirtae 12y ago
The original post and your comment both make it sounds like the various premailer libraries all share a common core, but I don't think that is true. Does the python premailer have anything to do with premailer.dialect.ca? I don't
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Porting AnyList from iOS to the Web(blog.anylistapp.com)
13 points by dirtae 12y ago|0 comments
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by dirtae 13y ago
Maybe, but I'm not sure that a test could change my mind, unless it resulted in a massive boost in revenue. Let's say that the vast majority of my customers do not want to use "Remember me", and that most of them examine
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by dirtae 13y ago
We do not have many returning customers, and our customers are not as tech savvy as Humble Bundle customers, by a long shot. We are using Stripe.js with our own form instead. It's not as nice as Checkout, and I really wish I could use
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by dirtae 13y ago
Stripe Checkout is nice, but unfortunately it's not suitable for us, since the "Remember me" checkbox cannot be hidden. "Remember me" is confusing for users. What is being remembered? By whom? When you're deali
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by dirtae 13y ago
For a basic todo list, you might like our app, AnyList (available for iOS): http://www.anylistapp.com We are primarily focused on grocery shopping lists, but it'll work fine for other simple lists, and makes it really easy to share lists
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Rampant Abuse of Push Notifications Is Ruining Them For All Developers(blog.anylistapp.com)
316 points by dirtae 14y ago|142 comments
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Angel Investing Mistakes(talkfast.org)
7 points by dirtae 14y ago|0 comments
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by dirtae 14y ago
I was seeing that too, but it looks like Amazon has now updated the availability zone status. When I run ec2-describe-availability-zones from the command line, it's telling me that us-east-1b is impaired. (Availability zone mapping is diffe
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by dirtae 14y ago
I was a big fan of The Original Mattress Factory when I lived in Pennsylvania. They manufacture their own mattresses and sell them direct to consumers. http://www.originalmattress.com/eliminating-the-middle-man Unfortunately they don't ha
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AnyList (YC S10) Makes Shared Grocery Lists Simple and Intuitive(lifehacker.com)
4 points by dirtae 14y ago|0 comments
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by dirtae 14y ago
The path to creating AnyList was long and winding, so it's hard to say exactly. It wasn't always going to be a standalone app, and we built some stuff that we ended up not using as a result. We've been working on the app since last fall, bu
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by dirtae 14y ago
I was referring to some decisions we made in our server implementation. A big part of our app is the ability to share your lists with other people and see changes in real-time, which is mediated by our servers.
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Being Featured on the App Store(blog.anylistapp.com)
91 points by dirtae 14y ago|25 comments
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by dirtae 14y ago
AnyList co-founder here. We find that the ability to share a list is very popular with spouses, families, significant others, and roommates. When we thought about creating a great grocery shopping list, we took inspiration from the classic
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AnyLeaf (YC S10) Relaunches As AnyList To Build A Better Grocery List App(techcrunch.com)
34 points by dirtae 14y ago|21 comments
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by dirtae 14y ago
Please do not encourage developers to send push notifications that contain marketing messages, like a notification about a new version of the app. Rampant abuse of push notifications in this way is ruining the push notification mechanism fo
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by dirtae 14y ago
This is cool, but when I get a link for a folder, I don't see any way for the person that receives the link to easily download all of the files in the folder. The Dropbox page about this feature says "no more zip files"[1], but without the
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FutureAdvisor (YC S10) Raises Funding To Bring Investment Advice To The Masses(techcrunch.com)
7 points by dirtae 15y ago|0 comments
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by dirtae 15y ago
We are currently using UnittWebSocketClient in our iOS app to communicate with a Tornado server: http://code.google.com/p/unitt/wiki/UnittWebSocketClient It has worked well so far, but I'm glad to see more activity in this area.

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