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Review of “Grinding it Out” by Ray Kroc, co-founder of McDonald’s(richardprice.io)
11 points by ed 13y ago|2 comments
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by ed 13y ago
Is there a native mobile equivalent for this? Identifying our FB ad cohort is a major problem when trying to calculate the effectiveness of our ad spend on FB.
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by ed 13y ago
Note we're in the ballpark of eBay fees. FOBO charges 15%, a 2% premium over eBay's total fees, which they aren't very upfront about (10% for eBay, 3% for PayPal).
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by ed 13y ago
One of the ideas behind FOBO is that the market for popular consumer electronics is surprisingly liquid, even with a small number of users (>=1K). By guaranteeing a selling price near what you get on eBay, we try to completely remove mar
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FOBO, An App for Auctioning Used Electronics in 97 Minutes(laughingsquid.com)
27 points by ed 13y ago|14 comments
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by ed 13y ago
For your last question Joseph Walla wrote a great story on our development process: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7038287 As for electronics, the simple answer is most consumer devices have a well-established price o
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by ed 13y ago
It's not. Parse just replaces your backend, you'll still need to write dedicated clients for Android, iOS, etc.
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by ed 13y ago
The features you build should be perfect. The trick is to build fewer features, not ship low-quality stuff :)
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by ed 13y ago
Oh, so much. We've completely rebuilt how we do starting prices, we've tried flash sales (everything would queue up until a certain time of day), we didn't think we needed Paypal support, we didn't have granular notifica
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by ed 13y ago
Yeah!
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FOBO (YC S11) - Building a more efficient market for local used goods
1 points by ed 13y ago
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by ed 13y ago
Incidentally this happens to be built on Parse and Stripe; two amazing companies which cut out a HUGE chunk of work for us. Happy to talk about either, in particular we've done a lot of work on Parse and have built a bunch of neat exte
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FOBO (YC S11) Launches in SF to Become The Fastest Way to Sell Your Electronics(techcrunch.com)
84 points by ed 13y ago|60 comments
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by ed 13y ago
Neat! 20 items/wk is impressive. Would love to hear more. (link? :) Are they explicitly running a store? (Rather than posting items from their personal account.)
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by ed 13y ago
That's more interesting. How much faster is hhvm overall?
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by ed 13y ago
Safe is probably favored to become the standard vehicle for seed rounds, a benefit of being sponsored by YC. Investors will require less convincing and at first glance Safe seems to be at least as good as convertible debt (as fast and cheap
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by ed 13y ago
Doesn't seem like a stretch to imagine Dropbox has very attractive margins.
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by ed 13y ago
Where does the article say anything about Kevin Rose?
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How to Teach a Child to Argue(inpraiseofargument.squarespace.com)
1 points by ed 13y ago|1 comments
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The Payphone Project(github.com)
102 points by ed 14y ago|13 comments
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by ed 14y ago
And of course nickb!
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by ed 14y ago
San Francisco, Mission district Yardsale (YC), Mobile Marketplace, seeking early iOS/Rails engineers Contact jobs@getyardsale.com We’re a small team of developers rethinking the way people buy and sell things locally. We're building a produ
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Yardsale (YC S11) - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking iOS/Rails Engineers
1 points by ed 14y ago
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by ed 14y ago
Whoa! Congrats to the Erics, awesome news, guys!
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by ed 14y ago
You could also replace each of the dotfiles with a script to source the dispatcher. No redundant logic, and you don't mess with system files in a way that might screw up install scripts, etc. (But unless I'm missing something it doesn't see
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Craigslist’s Challenger Could Be an App, or Several(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
44 points by ed 14y ago|17 comments
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Yardsale - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking iOS/Rails Engineers (YC S11)
1 points by ed 14y ago
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Yardsale - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking iOS/Rails Engineers (YC S11)
1 points by ed 14y ago
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Yardsale - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking iOS/Rails Engineers (YC S11)
1 points by ed 14y ago
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Yardsale - Mobile Marketplace, Seeking 1st iOS/Rails Engineer (YC S11)
1 points by ed 14y ago

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