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by fookyong 16y ago
I shouldn't feed the troll, but: 1) Scoble hasn't started a company. As far as I can tell he jumps from one major corporate sponsor to another. Based on his background I don't think he's qualified to talk about this. Correct me if I'm mi
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by fookyong 16y ago
Am I the only person who doesn't think this is expensive at all ? If you're creating a banking application and cannot extract enough revenue from a user to mitigate a $3 cost per user for a business-critical vendor, you're probably barking
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by fookyong 16y ago
company is in Singapore, but I live in Tokyo :)
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by fookyong 16y ago
Both myself and my other technical partner switched to mornings and would never go back, this after having been a night person for 15 years I hear that. I used to be a night person too, beavering away until the wee hours. Then I'd sleep
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by fookyong 16y ago
no. also, my daily commute is only about 20 mins each way, so I guess I have some fortunate circumstances.
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by fookyong 16y ago
it's different for me since I am also a partner at my "dayjob", so my motivation is very high for both of these projects :) that said, I think it's normal to feel a little drag now and again - whether it's on a side project or your day job.
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by fookyong 16y ago
Don't build in the evening. In the evening, wind down the day, have a beer and plan out how you're going to use two hours in the morning tomorrow most effectively. Set one clear goal. Then... 1) Go to sleep 2) Wake up early (I recommend
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by fookyong 16y ago
I think your reaction is reasonable. In exchange for loyalty to a venue, customers expect and deserve a little "extra", be that in the form of benefits over-and-above, or simply taking extra care to not be rude! If it's a new employee it's
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Ask HN: Product Naming
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by fookyong 16y ago
I think a lot of the people saying that customers have no expectations of pro-rating have got the usual $20 per month SaaS pricing stuck in their head. Not all apps cost that. If the app is $299 a month, and a customer cancels one day afte
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'm guessing this is caused by their API rather than this app... but it's actually faster to search Amazon the regular way than it is to use this "instant" version.
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by fookyong 16y ago
"Steve, I'd like to complain about the piss-poor reception I get on my iP-" there is a flash of movement, a pause, and my torso slides gracefully off my waist, splatting to the floor
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by fookyong 16y ago
re: (4) - an anecdotal example does not imply intent. Wufoo is a good PR case for YC in that it has contributed to the startup ecosystem a sustainable, profitable company that creates value. It's good to see. However, YC cannot survive on
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by fookyong 16y ago
oh wow, flattered to see opensourcefood.com get name-dropped on HN! (disclosure: I was the founder, but sold it in 2009 - it is basically unchanged though) Setting the standard from the start is something any founder of a UGC site needs to
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by fookyong 16y ago
it's an attempt to control the PR message. by doing this, they are laying the blame on one person so the media can stop hating Digg and start hating the ex-VP of Engineering who "killed Digg". of course, whether he was actually responsible
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by fookyong 16y ago
don't fall foul to the "SaaS is pure profit!" syndrome. I wrote a little bit about this here: http://yongfook.com/saas-is-not-pure-profit In a nutshell, to get to 200 members you are not going to be operating on 100% profit margins unless
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by fookyong 16y ago
any way to direct-link to it? I think it might not show up for non-US locations. certainly nothing to see on google.co.jp
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by fookyong 16y ago
"They're not sure how the built in feature will impact sales of TrueHDR, but they believe that there is no single 'best' way to achieve HDR and there is room for other apps in the market." uh, until Apple removes your app for duplicating OS
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by fookyong 16y ago
it looks like it got taken down. what was it?
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by fookyong 16y ago
How was this construed as "phishing"? Did the customer simply set up a form that asks for a user's email address? because if so that describes tons of other services out there... e.g. Wufoo, Google Documents (but I guess they are not hoste
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by fookyong 16y ago
lets call it "stakeholder" faith then, and include members of the userbase who have invested their time in the site. I would count them as a group who is not prepared to sit around to wait and see what happens - they want things fixed yeste
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'm sure the option was on the table to "hold off" but in disaster-mode (which is what this is) one of the board's functions is to restore shareholder faith. They aren't going to do that by sitting around, so decisive action was taken. As
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by fookyong 16y ago
I wouldn't worry about any of that pricing psychology stuff until you've nailed down explaining the value of the app. Making the value clear and selling the benefits will net you more than tinkering with the pricing page, regardless of tidb
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by fookyong 16y ago
That promotional video is exceptionally well-executed.
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by fookyong 16y ago
My parents followed my selfish wishes, and came the next day from Sapporo to my house. I can never forget the first words out of my mother's mouth when she saw me lying there. "I'm so sorry, for not bringing you into this world with a stro
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by fookyong 16y ago
"keyboard! how quaint" one of my favourite scenes from the movie series :)
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by fookyong 16y ago
Why does this seemingly come up so often on entrepreneur blogs? People care about perception from strangers way too much. There's no silver bullet for this. There's no magical phrase that's going to get people unfamiliar with startups t
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by fookyong 16y ago
"And today, it happened again. This time on reocities.com, my rescue attempt for geocities where it helped to pay for the hosting. After serving up the ads for a while suddenly I'm shown a nice blank rectangle where the ads were before. No
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by fookyong 16y ago
So what does this mean for Backtype and Tweetmeme? I gather that Tweetmeme has some kind of partner deal... but what are the particulars? Is it short term or long term?
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by fookyong 16y ago
The fact that it requires learning a new API makes it a non-trivial feature, engineering-wise IMO.

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