dmazin

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   by dmazin 16y ago

   I'd give my left arm to get to use Stripe. I'm in the situation of the OP and I'm neither ready nor capable of dealing with PayPal and merchant accounts.
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   by dmazin 16y ago

   Are you fucking serious? First of all, the guy is Swedish. Second of all, he made like two mistakes. If he made so many mistakes the meaning of the post was lost, maybe your pedantry would be relevant. However, in this case, all you've done
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   by dmazin 16y ago

   I've been waiting for this day (when 23andme costs about $100 again) for a year. Woohoo!
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   by dmazin 16y ago

   Yes, it's obscene. He has no plans of moving in there. This is novo-Russkism at its worst.
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   by dmazin 16y ago

   I'm not sure what's wrong with this really. Top Gear (pretends to be) is a car reviewer, and they made false claims in a car review. They are surely a comedy show but that segment was just astonishing.
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   by dmazin 16y ago

   The thing I'm scared of is being Zynga and asking people to share every little thing and to congratulate others when they get good grades. To help the app spread, I need to implement something social such as sharing grades, but I'm going to
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   by dmazin 16y ago

   I'm a little scared of being too social.
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   by dmazin 16y ago

   Right, that's what I figured. I think this dualism is absolutely necessary as you have a chance to have a very simple, one-field sign up for non-developer users whereas right now the friction is pretty high (five fields, separate page).
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   by dmazin 16y ago

   I'm curious, how come you went with a whole sign up page (asking for a name, and password) rather than simply putting an email box on the main page like the most deal sites do? Do you really need to call a person by name in emails? Is the s
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Let me illustrate how ridiculous your level of generalization is: Can you believe people pay $14 to see light projected onto a screen?
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Seems to me like there's a pretty big, unserved market of teachers who want good and intuitive course management tools. Maybe they're so ignored and frustrated that they'd be willing to pay for such a tool that doesn't completely suck.
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    1. Good point. 2. I get your point, but are you talking about choosing something like achievergradetracker.com for the primary URL? 3. You have another good point, however I think that personal preference is more important than people admit
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    I don't think anyone disagrees that brick-and-mortar businesses require investment. However, brick-and-mortar businesses earn their investments by having actual revenue plans. I have the impression that most VC-funded web startups find reve
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Here it is: http://www.sti-k12.com/publicsis1.asp Interestingly, I've had a family friend starting out as a teacher say that she can't find a good, intuitive gradebook. Maybe there's a market for that as well. I think it's fair to guess t
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Is it Moodle? There are already plenty of ways to check one's grades, actually. Colleges often use Blackboard - although I think students and professors alike would agree that using Blackboard is only a little bit better than having cancer.
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Thanks! I built it on Rails. After building out a good amount of functitonality in PHP I decided to take a chance with Rails. Amazing decision as it was a huge return for the time investment (45-ish hours to learn). I don't have a blog, as
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    I'm aware of my degree's utility. In fact, my next idea may require a lot more math (graph theory, particularly, which is the case for most social stuff today). However, I like learning being for the sake of learning and don't mind pursuing
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Thanks! I really meant more that it's not a sexy idea. I don't mind the internal design myself, although it could of course be better. To be honest, I'd been refusing to take this project seriously until it had some outside validation. Actu
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    When I was starting out, I was so excited to do A/B testing. I was going to A/B every word on every page. The truth of the matter is, A/B is worthless when starting out because you need a hundred conversions or so for both A and B to have s
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    That's a pretty good idea, but I need a good user base before I can experiment with that, I think. Traditional freemium may indeed not work for this. I've seen examples of freemium working for b2b services but charging customers, especially
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    That's interesting. Do you mean to allow tutors to track the success of their students? And thanks so much.
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    PS: clickable!: http://www.getachiever.com
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Thanks so much for the kind feedback. I do want to be able to show that students' GPAs improve after they sign up for Achiever (although it could turn out that there is no correlation). As for sharing that there is a possible improvement to
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    Ask HN: My site isn't sexy or social, but I'm very proud of it: what's next?

    18 points by dmazin 16y ago|29 comments
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Considering the fact that they recently settled on charging users for listening to their stations on the iPhone, and that Apple added the 30% subscription demand shortly after that, I'd say, well, prediction is bullshit.
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Has anyone else noticed that the California DMV actually has a service like this? If you call them and and the hold time is more than 30 minutes, they offer you the choice to hang up and be called when they are ready for you. Who'd think th
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    I love this argument (I saw it in Fooled by Randomness) as it also explains why we can have someone like Warren Buffet. If you have a million people playing Russian Roulette, you are almost guaranteed a number of seemingly invincible people
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    The content? Considering the HuffPo hires dangerous quacks left and right, the content is a massive failure.
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    Depends on how good you believe your high school school is. I went to a terrible school, so I dropped out. Am I feeling any consequences? Not yet, I guess. I got into a mediocre four-year anyway (that turned out to have an amazing math depa
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    by dmazin 16y ago

    College sophomore here working on a SaaS web app. I always wonder where the other people my age are.