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by fookyong 15y ago
I just moved to Singapore too! (been here one month exactly now). It's ace. I'm loving it.
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Google Shutting Down Translate API - Alternatives(mygengo.com)
7 points by fookyong 15y ago|3 comments
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by fookyong 16y ago
The accounting term for this is "breakage". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakage Any business that runs a coupon campaign will usually account for breakage. It's factored into the numbers of whether a campaign is executable or not. The
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by fookyong 16y ago
email it to them? call me oldschool, I know...
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by fookyong 16y ago
good implementation but if it took 48 hours to launch, the barrier to entry isn't particularly high. how would Gumroad differentiate if a competitor (or paypal) started providing the exact same service?
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by fookyong 16y ago
dcurtis > yeah I figured the ajax post operation would be over HTTPS, but still - a user would want to see the little padlock sign on the browser regardless :) the illusion of security is just as important as actual security!
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by fookyong 16y ago
I don't think, I know :) Worked in ecommerce, handled millions of credit card transactions, tested extensively.
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by fookyong 16y ago
if you want to test willingness to pay you should try to recreate real conditions as much as possible to get usable test results. You would probably get a much better response if: 1) the page had SSL 2) you show what cards you accept (i.e.
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by fookyong 16y ago
"No matter how much "time, effort, and little patience" wasn't going to change the world overnight to use smart TV's!" I think my point was that not everything needs to happen "overnight".
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by fookyong 16y ago
Sounds like the OP is just chasing after a lottery-ticket style product that is an instant success AND cheap to maintain AND manages to hold his interest for longer than a week. Starting lots of different projects is just one tactic for pos
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by fookyong 16y ago
"All it needed to do was..." I stopped reading right there. Hindsight is 20/20 and this kind of talk really trivializes how difficult it is to successfully execute - especially over an evolving landscape of 6 years.
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by fookyong 16y ago
that really is excellent feedback - thank you very much :) pacing is super important and you're right, I need to make sure I reward those first few steps quite quickly.
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by fookyong 16y ago
Littlecosm FAQ http://yongfook.com/littlecosm-faq
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by fookyong 16y ago
where on earth does it say that? that is 100% incorrect. quests are simply solved by waiting and coming back to collect your prize. that's it. it is perhaps the most casual form of item awarding there is. if you wanted to, you could coll
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by fookyong 16y ago
it's not meant to be a direct replacement of your existing client. more like something supplementary, or when you want to take a break from Tweetie for an hour :)
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by fookyong 16y ago
wow. I am quite blown away by unwarranted cynicism like this :/ Littlecosm is a twitter client in that, if you want to, you can tweet from it. Users only tweet from Littlecosm if they type in text and hit a "tweet" button, in exactly the s
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by fookyong 16y ago
added more spaces now!
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by fookyong 16y ago
just added a few more spaces for you :)
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by fookyong 16y ago
So does this mean that if I just start spamming like crazy my stats will go up like crazy? Well sure, but that's up to you. It's only spam if you make it spam. FYI the game does not append any hashtags or anything like that. Your tweet
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by fookyong 16y ago
farming mechanism for your stats? please explain. I'm just a dude who made a game - there's no evil corporation behind this...
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by fookyong 16y ago
I'll be writing a FAQ on my blog tonight. (I'm the creator)
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by fookyong 16y ago
that is kind of the idea right now. alpha release. there will be early adopters who "get it". others won't. that sucks, but instructions / FAQs and whatnot will come later. releasing is a feature :)
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by fookyong 16y ago
It would be great to hear a post-mortem on why the founders think they failed to get traction. I remember the Techcrunch launch post being very positive (not that these things are determining factors, but still). I wonder if we will be hear
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by fookyong 16y ago
Released my first one last week. 1. Littlecosm: Fallen: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/littlecosm-fallen/id420245009... Made with Corona SDK!
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by fookyong 16y ago
Free Version Notification Email: X is now single. Paid Version Notification Email (with semantic analysis!): X is now single. She broke up with her boyfriend because he didn't pay enough attention to her. Lately she has been listening to
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by fookyong 16y ago
well, I do have something of an insider perspective - my startup is in this business :) most flash sales sites will do a mix of warehousing and dropshipping depending on brand. it's faster to ship with warehousing so obviously for popular
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by fookyong 16y ago
There is one key difference. Physical goods. The logistical challenges of warehousing and shipping physical goods reliably, quickly and with the added complexity of the fact that every day you are dealing with around 100 brand new SKUs tha
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by fookyong 16y ago
this is great! mine is my new facebook profile photo :) I smell a viral hit... updated: also, definitely make an iphone app for this!
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by fookyong 16y ago
wow. I want to upvote this 100 times - you basically describe my exact situation. I'm leaving a startup next month. I'm in a senior position so it was a very difficult decision to make in addition to what you said about the time invested
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by fookyong 16y ago
Depends on what kind of app I suppose, but if it is anything to do with 2D gaming, I'm totally loving Corona so far. I come from a web background (php/javascript) and I'm lost on Objective-C. But I picked up the basics of Lua in about a

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