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Dave McClure's answer on what is 500 Startups' business model (quora.com)
3 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
Realistically, that's not how the featuring system works. Sure, if your app is truly amazing and is taking off Apple might feature it. There are only so many apps that Apple can feature, or even notice. And then there are all the estab
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by diziet 13y ago
Looking at the older posts by the author, he is an iOS developer with fairly some technical / tinker apps: Bitcoin data app: https://sensortower.com/ios/us/zeroblock-llc/app/zeroblock-r... Bluetooth
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by diziet 13y ago
My co-founder and I probably did on the order of 10,000 pushups each in the first half year of our startup over bets like that.
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by diziet 13y ago
I was going to comment on the same thing -- I'd tried the same positions holding a 17 & 15 inch MBPs to get an idea of how heavy that would be. It was tolerable for a minute or so, and I'm a rock climber blessed with gigantic
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by diziet 13y ago
I am not an expert on 2d art or dynamic lightning, but I recognize that this technology is potentially really awesome. So I would upvote this story as something I find really interesting, but I would withhold on commenting as I have nothing
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by diziet 13y ago
You can also use services that provide lawyering a-la-carte : https://www.upcounsel.com/ or things like https://www.clerky.com .
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by diziet 13y ago
Realize to have $3,000 in monthly revenue, that’s anywhere from 100 to 600 paying customers If you're charging $5-30 / month, you're not going to grow well unless you are truly a fully self serve company. Charge 10x more an
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by diziet 13y ago
The legislative fixes need to create an environment where the technical capabilities and safeguards put in place are considered normal, and companies are not forced to do harm to users. That's the most important part, creating an envir
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by diziet 13y ago
That's a great point. The tools are more oriented towards people who make apps or market them (or need to have stats/data about the apps). We do power via API access consumer sites that surface this data for users, but we leave it
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by diziet 13y ago
One reliable way to get users on the app store is to pay for advertising based installs, which for free apps end up costing $1-2 per user. At 35/month, if the app store visibility optimization tools and analysis helps you get more down
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by diziet 13y ago
The idea is to help developers optimize their app's presence in the app store and get more downloads (hence get more reviews). We've had many indie developers use our product (even the free version) and increase downloads dramatic
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Show HN: App Reviews Analysis and Summarization(sensortower.com)
47 points by diziet 13y ago|13 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
Soft Layer seems to be as expensive as EC2, if not more expensive, especially when compared to reserved instances. The 244gb cr1.8xlarge (16 cpus, 240gb ssd) amortized over 3 years costs $659 / month. Softlayer would charge quite a bit
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by diziet 13y ago
App in question: https://sensortower.com/ios/us/hightalk-software-corp/app/mo... What's interesting is that it is not localized for the US, but people are still downloading it and it's getting
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by diziet 13y ago
One important thing to know is that in islamic banking, interest or anything that exploits time value of money is considered usury, and is haraam (sinful). There exists a whole institution of islamic banking compliant with shariah law. From
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by diziet 13y ago
The Google Play Store should add an API. iOS is far ahead in API access to the data about apps compared to Android.
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by diziet 13y ago
Someone is working on a lot of that: http://humanapi.co/
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Mind uploading(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
Because of iAP purchase ( https://sensortower.com/ios/us/the-pokemon-company/app/poked... ) the pokemon app is $26 There are a couple of alternative ones: https://sensortower.com/ios/u
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Battle of Jutland(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
I hope priceonomics is doing well and do not get acquired like Decide.com did by ebay: https://medium.com/on-startups/d74efec8b1a8 Unfortunately I know them mostly from their blog and not their product.
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by diziet 13y ago
Is ice really readily available?
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by diziet 13y ago
Employees work forty hours a week. Come on. You probably don't; why would you expect everyone else to? Here's a realistic breakdown of the average programmer's workday: Well, startups & early employees typically work mu
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by diziet 13y ago
One thing that might hurt Soylent long term is that it doesn't taste very good when it is not chilled. It might work well for stay at home/office startup people with a fridge, but when you are traveling the taste suffers greatly.
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by diziet 13y ago
The option to enter a starting color seems to be hard to get to -- controlling it with a mouse is quite unwieldy. Click on the up arrow to access controls.
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by diziet 13y ago
You forget to take into account the tax bracket!
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How would we tell antimatter galaxies apart?(physics.stackexchange.com)
1 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments
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by diziet 13y ago
I would imagine they a/b tested this quite extensively and have data that smiling people's faces cause whatever metric they are measuring to be at a better point than a plain login page. It'd be interesting to see how much.
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Zipf's law(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by diziet 13y ago|0 comments

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