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by fookyong 12y ago
Hi all, it's been a year since I launched Beatrix 1.0 and we just pushed a major new update! Full details here: https://beatrixapp.com/blog/say-hello-to-beatrix-2.html It's been a long slog, competing against
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Show HN: Beatrix 2.0, social media for business made friendly(beatrixapp.com)
2 points by fookyong 12y ago|2 comments
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Why I'm Killing My New Startup Before Even Launching It(yongfook.com)
2 points by fookyong 12y ago|0 comments
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by fookyong 12y ago
Having a per-user pricing model also helps :) Sorry not trying to detract from the stat, but it's worth adding that bit of context. Per-user priced startups who create an awesome product are in a sweet spot when it comes to ramping up
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by fookyong 12y ago
didn't want to seem too self-promotional but since you asked! http://growthhackinghandbook.com/
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by fookyong 12y ago
This needs to be better understood/accepted by startups, but it's a bitter pill to swallow for many entrepreneurs. I wrote a book on growth hacking and now often get requests (sometimes casual, sometimes formal) on how a startup c
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by fookyong 12y ago
Restaurants are "high margin"? I don't think restaurants pervasively discount because they can afford to - I think it's more to do with it being a brutally competitive industry. That said you may be right in that the typ
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by fookyong 12y ago
The scary part of this isn't that they were denied access. It's that they were denied with no opportunity for appeal. As an entrepreneur this is probably one of the number 1 nightmare scenarios: one day you're in business, th
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by fookyong 12y ago
Gonna throw http://beatrixapp.com into the ring :) * better UI than Hootsuite and it helps suggest more types of content such as images, texts etc. But if you don't think Hootsuite is worth $10 a month, then you probably wo
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by fookyong 12y ago
Not sure why but for me (Mac/Chrome) the page keeps jumping to the top every 5 seconds when I'm viewing a comment thread on Bootstrappers.io
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by fookyong 12y ago
Yikes. It's statements like these that make me happy / proud to be a bootstrapped and (moderately) profitable "lifestyle" business.
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by fookyong 12y ago
For a long time I went back and forth on whether I should do a freemium plan for my SaaS startup[1]. It was a difficult decision considering many of my competitors are freemium and I see they enjoy certain benefits from that e.g. a large us
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6 Months of Dogfooding our SaaS Product(beatrixapp.com)
1 points by fookyong 12y ago|0 comments
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by fookyong 12y ago
Oh I'm absolutely sure it attracted attention, that was never under dispute. My post is simply saying that I find it distasteful. Its efficacy as a means to get clicks is quite obvious. There is an ethical line however, otherwise we&#x
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by fookyong 12y ago
I'd be very curious to know who actually is the end-user of patio11's software. Is it really the business owner? Or is it the salon/dentist receptionist. Because if it's the latter, then nobody lost their job - he just e
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by fookyong 12y ago
You're certainly free to interpret it as such. What we find distasteful is inherently subjective after all. Designing ads is a tricky one (and really, I have never had much of a result from this type of paid advertising so I don't
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by fookyong 12y ago
There is truth to it, but that was not the argument put forward in the post. My post is about using that as a marketing angle for your startup - which I find distasteful. There's so many other, more positive things, you can use as your
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by fookyong 12y ago
Hi everyone I'm the author of this post. The point I'm trying to make is that there is a difference between your mission and the mission's unintended outcome. As an engineer, I don't believe my mission is to put people o
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I Find This Type of Startup Advertising Very Distasteful(yongfook.com)
21 points by fookyong 12y ago|20 comments
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by fookyong 12y ago
use case is real but there's no business model behind it.
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by fookyong 12y ago
Couldn't agree more. It's not necessarily apps like Yo that are at fault, but the ensuing media circus around these apps (OP case in point) that contribute to people thinking this is a viable "startup idea" or startup st
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by fookyong 12y ago
> You aren’t a lawyer, and clearly don’t have (much) practical experience as a foreign worker, and yet you still give out legal advice. Ah hate to pull this card, but I've been an expat now for almost 14 years :) worked in Japan and
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by fookyong 12y ago
$1000 a month on book sales. I was surprised since I'm a software guy I didn't write the book to make money, I just did it for something to do. Although my software business makes much more money, I was surprised at how truly &quo
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by fookyong 12y ago
To those in this thread saying you need an appropriate working visa to work in these countries: Have you ever worked for a company in Country A and been sent on a business trip to Country B? Most likely your company didn't need a Count
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by fookyong 12y ago
Fascinating - thanks for the explanation on this. I'm often surprised at how slow accounting practices are to catch up on business models that we see as commonplace in the tech world.
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by fookyong 12y ago
Disclaimer: I started pitchpigeon.com which was recently acquired. Press release platforms for startups. A few folks in this thread are saying that what they want is tagging and curation so that they can write "targeted emails" to
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by fookyong 12y ago
that's awesome! I remember seeing this get started on HN a couple of years ago. As an ex-resident of Japan I may sign up one of these days when I miss the candy :) although I must say I was more into the Japanese potato chips, all thos
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by fookyong 12y ago
The blog post won't load for me (dodgy airport wifi!), but I just want to say that Filepicker is one of the few SaaS services that I got instant value from and when they went from freemium to paid recently, I paid up right away. I re
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by fookyong 12y ago
ah good analogy, but arguably I could say the same thing about Mayer and her slew of recent acquisitions :) 37 acquisitions in 20 months (!!) http://ibnlive.in.com/photogallery/15418.html
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by fookyong 12y ago
man, I really wanted to say that in the text but it just felt a little bit too cruel :D Hodor, hodor, hodor = Developers, developers, developers

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