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by donmatito 9y ago
What I find interesting with Indie Hackers is that it covers a wide range a personal/business situations. It goes from real lifestyle business, to beer-money-making side-projects. I feel that there is a world of difference between a si
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by donmatito 9y ago
The incentives for "as long as you're happy with our services, you'll keep paying us" may not be 100% aligned with user interest (see: services difficult to unsubscribe and so on) but they seem much better than the alter
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by donmatito 9y ago
If by "truly free market" you mean that healthy people can opt out of being insured, no, that would drive the costs up. Risk selection is a very driver of prices in health insurance. If you can spread the risk between healthy and
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by donmatito 9y ago
I would like to understand better what is meant by "single payer". I think I know what it should mean, but then I see France as an example of single-payer system. France has a complex system of insurance bodies (public entities, p
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by donmatito 9y ago
And THAT is my main objection to GMO / seed standardization
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by donmatito 9y ago
That totally scales if the new user long term value is sufficient to recoup these 5 months. These 5 months free are an investment, that may or may not pay off, but if it reliably pays off, then yes, it is a very healthy customer acquisition
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by donmatito 9y ago
To me that's very significant. Apps for chat groups are much more useful, because they can provide very differentiated services 1-1 bots are too close to regular apps, with some advantages and some drawbacks. 1-n bots are in a new, sig
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by donmatito 10y ago
This looks like a hugely significant move. Bot makers like myself have struggled with use cases for single-user bots, as obviously a large % of these use cases were competing with apps/website. Group bots will be immensely more relevan
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by donmatito 10y ago
Self-plug alert. At Smooz we use... Smooz ( https://www.smooz.io ) to open 800+ shared Slack channels with each team who install the app in their Slack team. Obviously, not everyone answers, but these conversation provide 1) incre
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Thanks for breaking our connected homes, Amazon(medium.com)
11 points by donmatito 10y ago|4 comments
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by donmatito 10y ago
I would add : Design-Ship-SELL-Support cycle :-) Nothing as enlightening for a developer to get confronted to user frustration in the Support phase AND prospect's indifference in the Sell phase
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by donmatito 10y ago
"We never had a problem with this clause before, why would you want to change it?" Oh do I hate this line. But it's a two-way street. I'm very fortunate that for one of my first freelance gigs, I read the contract and sp
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by donmatito 10y ago
It looks promising, but it still requires a lot of manual data sorting, isn't it? Could you automate it further, as in output "you have worked 5 hours on project X and 19 hours on project Y this week" ?
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by donmatito 10y ago
I like how everybody here would of course, no problem, don't-even-ask give their seat to pregnant women. And then when pregnant women ask for seats out of exhaustion and embarassment, they hear "no, that's my seat", and
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by donmatito 10y ago
That looks awesome!
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by donmatito 10y ago
In general, people interested in bots should not put too much emphasis on the chat part of chatbots. Most of the value will come from the frictionless, social experience. Nothing to download, no app switching, and your friend are already th
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by donmatito 10y ago
You'd be surprised. Telegram and Kik are pioneers in the Bot API ecosystem, and some of their features are quite advanced. True, the Messenger features set is catching up, and it seems that they go deliberately slow to see what works a
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by donmatito 10y ago
These anecdotes are gold
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by donmatito 10y ago
>Imagine combining Canada and the USA into a single country. this is not very hard to imagine
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by donmatito 10y ago
>We just allowed for easy border access Do you realize you used 'just', talking about countries that were at war with each other for their entire history? When I said "we don't realize", I was talking about you
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by donmatito 10y ago
I don't understand why you would compare "having a shared set of values" and "bitching about contribution and payback". Yes, the feeling of "being a European" has gotten weaker every year, especially since
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by donmatito 10y ago
Unrelated to the topic, I like how BBC splits clearly reporting of facts and analysis/opinion section.
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by donmatito 10y ago
This is such a pity. European Union is (was ?) an incredible achievement. I don't think we realize exactly how improbable uniting Europe around a common destiny and a shared set of values is. I hope the best for Europe and UK on their
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by donmatito 10y ago
I think in this case most of the value is provided by humans tutors. AI is here only as a fallback / to tell jokes / to triage spammers I always feel like messaging platforms bots and AI get presented as one and the same, but I th
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by donmatito 10y ago
I feel this might be one of the first "bot success stories". If these guys confirm their trajectory, it would prove that the sharing feature recently added by the Messenger team was a key element. I would have thought that this so
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A Messenger bot acquires 100k users in 2 days(medium.com)
3 points by donmatito 10y ago|3 comments
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by donmatito 10y ago
My 2 cents. Coding a side project is "fun hard", for a developer, while marketing and selling it is "hard hard". You could consider for your side project, an app using the API of a platform such as Heroku, EventBrite, Sl
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by donmatito 10y ago
That's why I'm developing Team-to-team and Team-to-Slack chat :-)
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Well done. You could add a favicon, it looks strangely unfinished without
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by donmatito 10y ago
Good enough product vs crappy status quo + massive Office userbase = will probably end well for them :-)

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