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by fookyong 14y ago
haha puchi puchi... blast from the past. the way Peterpings works is you set a time that you want your notification to be delivered and it delivers in the publisher's local time. So if you say "I want publishers to see this at 9am on Monday
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by fookyong 14y ago
Thank you so much! From this HN post it's pretty clear that there's some demand for an "any app" approach. We will get to work :) Totally agree about the case studies and when there are some noteworthy ones you can bet we will show it off o
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by fookyong 14y ago
doh! what's the correct terminology?
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by fookyong 14y ago
what kind of app do you have? we're just getting started :)
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by fookyong 14y ago
Thanks for the support! I'd answer by saying that we are not a "make you rich" service. For that, we'd be charging a lot more! Distributing your information to various sites just increases the chances of you being discovered. The more you p
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by fookyong 14y ago
just launched like a few hours ago so it's a little early to disclose :) we've had a few early adopters who signed up for the beta last month open their wallets, but it looks like HN hasn't driven any sales yet! ;)
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by fookyong 14y ago
yes absolutely! I should make that clearer - it's suitable for any "newsworthy" event, like a launch or an update or if you previously have not liased with the tech blog community. That said, as I've elaborated in another post, it's quite c
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by fookyong 14y ago
Right now it's pretty specific to iPhone / iPad. Reason being, in order to pre-populate the templates for a customer, we search the iTunes API and grab data about their app (screenshots, name, price etc). I guess to support "any" app includ
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by fookyong 14y ago
Ah thanks! We should make that clearer. For each publisher it breaks down to one of these methods: 1) submission via their online form. we do this automatically via POST. 2) if their form has a captcha, we queue it for manual submission by
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by fookyong 14y ago
For us (a two-man shop) 2013 represents a move away from B2C stargazing and client work (iphone app development etc) - and a move towards scalable software services. This is the first step!
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My company's first SaaS app. Thoughts?(peterpings.com)
38 points by fookyong 14y ago|42 comments
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Auto-Notify Tech Blogs About Your New App(peterpings.com)
1 points by fookyong 14y ago|0 comments
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by fookyong 14y ago
silky smooth onboarding process - loved it!
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by fookyong 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback... never thought it would be taken as disrespectful! Might change it, not in love with that photo. But yes as another poster said, I have a history with internet+cooking.
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by fookyong 14y ago
To me, Kickstarter is just one example (or execution) of pre-commerce. I think there was a post on techcrunch recently about this too: Kickstarter is just scratching the surface. Vertical integration is the next step (think Quirky.com) that
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by fookyong 14y ago
Comparing social media gurus to doctors or surgeons is a bit of a stretch. People ask you for free advice because they don't understand the value of "social media advice"... most likely because that value is highly subjective and 9 times ou
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by fookyong 14y ago
The conspiracy theorist in me suspects this was completely intentional. As a marketer I could make the argument that it's more important that as many people as possible know the feature exists , rather than people seeing an accurate demo o
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by fookyong 14y ago
I had the opportunity to work with Yongfook once, at a client. He's a smart cookie. The feeling is 100% mutual, good sir!
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by fookyong 14y ago
This looks a lot different to the others out there. Most of the startups you mentioned are trying to retrofit the loyalty card paradigm to smartphones. I'm not sure that's the right approach - time will tell. It looks like FiveStar simply w
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by fookyong 14y ago
off-topic, but what's this font? https://github.com/myusuf3/octogit/raw/gh-pages/assets/img/r...
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by fookyong 14y ago
google searches for "migrating off heroku tutorial" just spiked.
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by fookyong 14y ago
I use Heroku and S3 too - Cloudfront took mere minutes to set up and I got an instant and very noticeable latency decrease. It's a CDN that "just works". I'm using it for all projects now.
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by fookyong 14y ago
After switching to Rails it's things like this I find quite amazing that people still have issues with. Rails does so much good stuff "for free", such as when deploying to production it combines all static files (css/js) into one file autom
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by fookyong 15y ago
In defense of the business model, see Rakuten (Japanese company). Multi-tenant e-commerce platform. 120,000 shops. 92,000,000 products. US$13 billion market cap.
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by fookyong 15y ago
Thought I'd get a discussion going - their pricing is surprisingly transparent. Eric Ries is also on board as General Partner. Is this the consultancy of the future? Is this and the incubator model further "commoditizing" startups?
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New Context (Pivotal Labs) business model: $50k for a two-week MVP(newcontext.com)
6 points by fookyong 15y ago|1 comments
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by fookyong 15y ago
Cool until I checked the source and realised that the developer has to hard-code a list of domains they want to check against (there are none included). Off-the-shelf usefulness would be improved a lot if the plugin contained a list of say
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by fookyong 15y ago
Love the healthy skepticism! I think I just got lucky with the first batch of users. The homepage is not curated. Everything is just in chronological order of upload. You raise a good point though, crappier pictures would definitely lower t
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by fookyong 15y ago
exactly. that's actually one of the reasons I don't use eBay to sell things, I have no reputation on eBay. but selling to my locality, I'm happy to give away my identity in exchange for an instant boost of reputation / buyer peace-of-mind
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by fookyong 15y ago
yup! it's an MVP (a few days of work?) and there's only like 50 products in the database right now :) If I get to over 100 products I'll put in filtering controls.

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