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by fookyong 16y ago
beautiful app. bought, admired, and getting all nostalgic (I used to be a concert violinist but I stopped playing about 8 years ago)
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'm in but will be there later if like last time, it starts early. ETA 8pm.
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by fookyong 16y ago
yep! I am a retard. hence comment deleted.
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by fookyong 16y ago
I think that cities are vastly biased towards the iPhone. There's just lots of pro-iPhone people in the cities; mac users (note there are only a few mac stores in Japan and they are all in big cities), Japanese people who are more "worldly
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by fookyong 16y ago
I wish it were that straightforward :) Selling it and migrating it to the buyer would be a pretty draining experience. I'd rather spend time on my other project :) That and, none of the customer subscriptions are transferrable. The new bu
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by fookyong 16y ago
Indeed. I actually run a (quite profitable) social media app that works with Twitter. But based on the last 6 months of API changes, I'm going to shut it down. I'd rather direct my energy towards something that I have 100% control of, rath
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by fookyong 16y ago
I have tried advertising on FusionAds. Here is my limited assessment. First of all, this is what the campaign traffic looked like for the duration of the campaign. I did a one week "burst" campaign and did not run any other (significant)
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by fookyong 16y ago
it's not really "investing" though, is it. it's giving people money. there is no exchange of equity involved in the kickstarter transaction (nor is it allowed, according to their TOS, I think).
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by fookyong 17y ago
Personally I'm a scp/ssh command-line user. The last time I used FTP as part of my regular workflow was many years ago. However, that is one beautiful-looking app and one beautiful website.
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by fookyong 17y ago
indeed. good to see great work coming out of Tokyo - it's a surprisingly small community here...
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by fookyong 17y ago
what was the day job and why did you give it up? I think it would be good to clarify.
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by fookyong 17y ago
It's certainly a tumultuous time if you've based your business on a "feature" of Twitter that it could feasibly replicate itself. http://tweetup.com launched just yesterday proclaiming their advertising value-add to the Twitter ecosyste
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by fookyong 17y ago
there are two possibilities: 1) it's possible to self-sponsor as long as you can show a certain amount of income from part time work or, in Patrick's case, internet earnings. 2) your visa is not tied to your employer. you can get a 3 year
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by fookyong 17y ago
congrats Patrick! - will hopefully meet you at the Tokyo HN meetup next week.
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by fookyong 17y ago
1) one year or so 2) no, never applied 3) no 4) http://seashellapp.com and http://peashootapp.com - I run these two SaaS apps and thoroughly enjoy it. Would like to add a third at some point, then just spend time iterating and growing
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by fookyong 17y ago
maybe I've misunderstood, but this seems to advocate mixing inline HTML and php logic - isn't that a huge step backwards in terms of web software architecture? I thought we were all using the MVC model by now... My head just hurts thinking
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by fookyong 17y ago
I fail to see how this has anything to do with Rackspace. They are there to provide infrastructure, not to support you on an application level. Rackspace's responsibility is to keep the infrastructure running and help with backups if you ar
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by fookyong 17y ago
Honestly speaking, I think you might have a bit of a chicken and egg problem with getting started. I like the idea of your app and it's something I could use, but since you're asking your customers to hard code stuff into their application
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by fookyong 17y ago
I stopped doing consulting and lived off my savings whilst building my first SaaS app. It took a few months to get ramen profitable and I had zero income the whole time during development. Looking back, that was actually kinda stupid of m
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by fookyong 17y ago
this is pretty much exactly what you're looking for: http://mygengo.com/
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by fookyong 17y ago
javascript badassery.
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by fookyong 17y ago
ah right. that said, it does remove one layer of complexity for the people who just want cloud-based DBs. before now we would have to either sign up with a 3rd party who would pipe data to Amazon, or manually configure EC2 instances - neit
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by fookyong 17y ago
this is kind of a big deal.
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by fookyong 17y ago
this has rather large implications for any app developer thinking of entering (or already operating...) in this space. the one area that I thought a standalone app provider could trump Google's A/B testing tools is to build an API so we don
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by fookyong 17y ago
There is an ocean of difference between 14% of visitors committing their email address to something, and that same figure actually pulling out their credit card. A more prudent assumption would be 10% of that 14% will actually pay for you
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by fookyong 17y ago
is it because he's browsing on a mac? microsoft don't show download links for software that won't work on your system. I bet if you look at that page in IE6 there's a big ol' download button.
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by fookyong 17y ago
true, and as as an accounting major I should know better (sadly I spent all my time playing Counterstrike instead of studying). your example is sound, but using it as a model I guess my question is how do you weigh up what is more important
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Ask HN: Do you have a yearly plan for your SaaS app?
5 points by fookyong 17y ago|3 comments
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by fookyong 17y ago
is this something you own or something you built for a client? I'm just wondering why you can't upload a secret "bio" page on the app somewhere that only you know the url to...
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by fookyong 17y ago
this soap opera has run its course, I think.

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