geoffc

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   by geoffc 16y ago

   Neat use of an SMS anonymous relay, very cool! Ditto on Twilio, we use it at GroupFlier.com and love it, definitely an enabling platform.
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   by geoffc 16y ago

   Interesting metrics on the growth and engagement rate. FWIW, I am seeing similar metrics at my group texting site (groupflier.com), a 15% engagement rate and linear group growth. I wonder if that is the natural growth rate of closed groups?
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   by geoffc 16y ago

   Amen on that! Tarsnap is a key tool in my stack and I feel like I pay 1/10 of what it is worth relative to the other tools.
4. 64.▲
   by geoffc 16y ago

   Thanks, will fix.
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   by geoffc 16y ago

   Thanks for the feedback, I will pass this on to our graphics guru.
6. 66.▲
   by geoffc 16y ago

   I picked * as it is a primary key on a regular cellphone keypad. I might add the option for the user to customize the command prompt. Thanks for the feedback.
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   by geoffc 16y ago

   Ah, I think I know what is going on. Did you send a welcome message to the group from your cell phone? If you didn't then your group is staged and not yet created. I need to check for numbers in the staged groups as well. Thanks for the fee
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   by geoffc 16y ago

   Done and live. I went with "Add more".
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   by geoffc 16y ago

   Thanks! We are looking at ways to use your address book to make group creation easier. Our upcoming iphone app will allow you to do that but we would also like to enable it from the web as well.
10. 70.▲
    by geoffc 16y ago

    Rat's I will look at that version of FF. If you switch over I would appreciate the feedback on how it works for you.
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    Thanks, will do!
12. 72.▲
    by geoffc 16y ago

    Yes
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    The VC's are funding a few companies in this space on the hope that this is the future of social networking. If that happens the biggest network will be able to monetize the traffic with tag line ads, mobile ads, coupons or the like. Until
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    I just launched the API today so any feedback on it would be greatly appreciated. The direct link to the API is http://www.groupflier.com/api.html P.S. Click the phone image to watch the video easter egg
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    Ask HN: Rate my free group texting service with public API(groupflier.com)

    13 points by geoffc 16y ago|22 comments
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    I love Redis and the new features rock! I use Postgres and Redis in tandem and it is a great combo. Postgres for all the stuff SQL databases are good at and Redis for all the stuff they are not.
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    I wish it was mobile optimized web site but all the good stuff, camera control, address book, motion sensors etc. is not exposed to web apps and won't be any time soon. You will be writing an objective-c app for iphone, and java apps for an
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    RoR for dynamic HTML apps used to be the coolest thing but now the really new/cool stuff is written as a JSON server talking to AJAX and mobile clients. In this world node.js, clojure and erlang (maybe) are cooler than RoR.
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    In the early 80's at Rice University my academic advisor steered me from computer science which I enjoyed (APL rocked!) to chemical engineering because "computers will be programming themselves in 20 years and comp sci isn't real engineerin
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    The old saying "hungry dog hunts best" sums it up as was already pointed out in another comment. The hungrier I get the sharper my focus becomes, whether it is writing code or hunting, it works!
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    linode for dev, test and launch and then dedicated hardware at 100tb.com or the like when needed.
22. 82.▲
    by geoffc 16y ago

    I would like to see the stats from Linode et al. on deployments. My sense is that Ubuntu is growing faster than the other distros.
23. 83.▲
    by geoffc 16y ago

    Thanks we will add that. In answer to your questions. No we don't re-sell or do anything with the email addresses. As a group member you can see a list of the other members and remove yourself from the group.
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    Rate my startup: GroupFlier.com

    1 points by geoffc 16y ago|2 comments
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    coffee, vim and screen do it for me :-)
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    Interesting enough I find a hang over unleashes my creativity.
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    I finally made the switch from MySQL to Postgres for my current product. The impetuous was licensing as I got burned by MySQL's ambiguous licensing on a prior product. Now that I have gotten over the learning curve I like Postgres about the
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    Thanks, great pointer. I'm putting together a service and will try this.
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    This is why the Saas model works so well. Churn rate is everything in a subscription business so your motives are closely aligned with your customers. You continually improve the software to keep the customers happy and the churn rate low.
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    by geoffc 16y ago

    At some point I would like to blog about it but right now I am under the gun to deliver a product so I'm writing a lot more code than english for the next few months. In a nutshell I use Postgres for the relatively static data and Cassandra