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by frankdenbow 3y ago
Love this. I recently started working on two apps with this same mindset: I just want to create an app for myself (todo with limits, group chats with content limits). It feels great and is enjoyable even if it doesnt get a million users.
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by frankdenbow 3y ago
Awesome! Appreciate that. The Teespring story is a good episode of the new podcast coming out in February: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTPTBDQGPSQ
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by frankdenbow 3y ago
I've been putting out videos from (mostly) bootstrapped entrepreneurs who are outside of the normal tech news cycle in a youtube channel called INFLECTION Community: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsO80DSMypJSSDc
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by frankdenbow 3y ago
Same with Planet Fitness, they got me for a year with this strategy
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by frankdenbow 3y ago
There are a ton of these.
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
He spoke at my CS commencement right before he passed, was inspiring then and continues to inspire to this day. Coincidentally this is the book of the week in my book club so I've been re-reading it. The Last Lecture book can be read a
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
Already a customer, this is a lovely company, wish you more success. Had some of my first interviews done this past week, solidifying information our family hasn't fully shared with each other. Its invaluable.
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
Been ideating on this for a long time, it's great to see you put together a platform that captures this deep inefficiency in the market. I would say to go after youtubers as brands like Gymshark did, the music space will always make it
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
OnlyFans isnt a porn site in the same way that Twitter isnt a porn site. Many of the high profile users are in the adult industry but people use onlyfans for other types of content as well.
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
Clean and works well, nicely done! Are you able to pull in embeds from the various platforms as well? You may also want to consider adding analytics to this and charging for it, something along the lines of smarturl.it that many artists see
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
Exactly, you cant even read past the title to pull out the most important part (hint: the definition of the word "new" isnt the most critical thing to talk about)
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
It doesn't have to be a new concept to be necessary. Why do people on hacker news constantly have to miss the point? Most ideas are revised versions of things that have been done for centuries. The cult of "new" is ridiculous
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
I believe this as well, thats why we created: https://inflectioncommunity.com/nation
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
Agree with you that we should be gentler on people when they are just introducing ideas to the world. I disagree that this is not HN's culture. Example, read the dropbox launch thread, among many others. Usually when I come to HN I exp
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
Similar to you, a lot of what I have learned in CS/programming has been through experimenting (personally I like the Jennifer Dewalt method of just doing a lot of small projects: http://jenniferdewalt.com ). You are not bad
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
This makes it pretty clear, point #2 is a tough one that I hadn't considered!
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
Using this type of method to check form makes a lot of sense. There were manny Kinect apps that did this.
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by frankdenbow 6y ago
This is awesome and has a lot of potential to be a platform for fitness instructors to use to deploy their classes and do online training. I have had online coaches for a while and there isn't a great solution that is formatted for
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
Maybe >5 years ago, culture has changed under Satya :)
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
Makes sense if you think of them as separate companies (which is how they are run)
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
Microsoft lets Github run independently https://www.businessinsider.com/github-coo-microsoft-azure-e...
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
Seeing a lot of companies doing these for b2b applications. Are you fully focused on b2c?
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
1) YC may not be, but fundraising is a competition ( https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/09/sequoia-is-giving-away-21-... ) 2) Herd Mentality: There is subtle signaling if a company being presented right beside you
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The SwagUp Guide to Bootstrapping to 8 Figures in Under 3 Years(medium.com)
12 points by frankdenbow 7y ago|0 comments
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
This is the part that baffles me. Surely someone at Sequoia would have asked Stripe what they felt about the deal before it closed?
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
We support bootstrapped/self-funded founders!!! I even created a community for these types of companies http://inflectioncommunity.com Maybe that wasn't clear from the language, but the thought is that we can only real
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
Frank here, I work at Microsoft for Startups. Validated equivalent means that you don't necessarily need to be a company on the fundraising path in order to make it into the program. So if a self-funded company comes to us and shows th
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
Definitely because of the core DNA of the company, and structurally how the business model of Microsoft works.
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by frankdenbow 7y ago
I work at Microsoft for Startups. We are focused on B2B companies (for now) because those are the companies we can best support. Microsoft has a vast partner network, enterprise field sales team, and marketplace, where mostly B2B custom
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Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund(greenbiz.com)
223 points by frankdenbow 7y ago|121 comments

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