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by geoffc 15y ago
Hi Stan, We did a group chat product at groupflier.com and got great traction on the free version but the SMS costs killed us and we had to switch to a paid model. Happy to trade PM on our experiences if you are interested and have a blog a
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by geoffc 15y ago
Twilio has now achieved Kleenex status in the tech community, nicely done!
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by geoffc 15y ago
Nicely done! We have just launched a similar concept for Windows desktops at leostreamdesktops.com. I think the growth of tablets is really going to drive the cloud desktop market as people switch to tablets as their primary access device.
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by geoffc 15y ago
I was going to post this next week but after seeing the Rent-a-Mac post I figured let make this a cloud day and announce our new Rent-a-PC service :-)
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Rent a PC Desktop in the Cloud(leostreamdesktops.com)
3 points by geoffc 15y ago|1 comments
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by geoffc 15y ago
Nice focused implementation of group broadcast texting. You might want to tweak the Perfectly free message on the home page to sync up with the freemium model described in the FAQ. It will probably help with your target market to explain yo
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by geoffc 15y ago
Nice idea. Good luck!
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by geoffc 15y ago
Nicely done you sucked me in for a few drawings :-)
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by geoffc 15y ago
Alternative virtualization platforms are proliferating and get better all the time. Vmware has an early lead like Palm did and is correctly optimizing revenue from that lead but down the road ... where is palm today?
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by geoffc 15y ago
Pretentious. The points that particularly irk me are: #1 - Duh, everyone does. #3 - Why do you assume I need pen and paper to keep track of what is going on. #5 - Why am I responsible for your lack of time management skills. #8 - The async
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by geoffc 15y ago
https://gist.github.com/1071698
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by geoffc 15y ago
Thanks. I updated the blog with a pointer to the module.
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by geoffc 15y ago
How is the latest iteration on the blog?
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by geoffc 15y ago
I have updated the code to use the standard storage format and switched to a better salt generator.
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by geoffc 15y ago
Yes but the second comment on the blog was great, truly an education in encryption for me.
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by geoffc 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I will make some changes.
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Using bcrypt to secure passwords in Perl(gcrawshaw.posterous.com)
29 points by geoffc 15y ago|19 comments
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Google Plus loves Group Texting(gcrawshaw.posterous.com)
1 points by geoffc 15y ago|0 comments
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Group texting is a Telco game(gcrawshaw.posterous.com)
3 points by geoffc 15y ago|0 comments
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by geoffc 15y ago
$3K claim letter to 23K defendants is $69M in potential revenue. The defendant has potential liability of $150K and probably has to pay more than $3K in legal fees to defend themselves. My SWAG is 10-20% pay for a $7M - $14M payday for the
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by geoffc 15y ago
Meh, live hard, have fun and then die so the next generation has their turn.
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by geoffc 16y ago
Same here
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The hype and economics of group texting at SXSW(gcrawshaw.posterous.com)
1 points by geoffc 16y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Stormcloud bare metal experience?
2 points by geoffc 16y ago|1 comments
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by geoffc 16y ago
Yes I saw that announcement. Our iPhone app also uses TCP, the goal is to to switch SMS traffic to TCP traffic over time.
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by geoffc 16y ago
Beluga doesn't use SMS for the transport layer they use TCP. Groupflier (me) and Groupme use SMS and Twilio. Congrat's to the Beluga team!
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by geoffc 16y ago
Yikes, sorry to hear this. In retrospect probably your best play was to work with the acquirer to negotiate a low figure 100% cash deal with good going forward comp and equity options for you and your operating team. With that in hand you t
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by geoffc 16y ago
The most interesting thing about Redis is that it removes the impedance mismatch between in code data structures and the data store. It is doing for data stores what server side javascript does for AJAX applications. OO persistence was the
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by geoffc 16y ago
No they won't pay but if you shift enough of the traffic onto smart phone clients and show mobile ads you have a killer business.
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by geoffc 16y ago
America wants to group text. At GroupFlier.com we just reached 1M cumulative texts in 12 weeks. The demand as very broad as we see traffic from just about every age and activity group.

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