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by heliodor 15y ago
The best way to tackle the big competitor that I've heard of is to let them do the marketing and provide the base product, while you just provide the premium product.
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by heliodor 15y ago
When you combine #3 with the free hotspot feature that allows you to not pay for that exorbitant home broadband connection, T-Mobile's a real winner!
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by heliodor 15y ago
Can people list their choice for python hosting and the main benefits? What are some good services layered on top of EC2 to provide more management and automation? Does anyone have any experience with whether DotCloud is priced reasonably?
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by heliodor 15y ago
Another thing that comes to mind is that some computers have accelerometers in them that stop the harddisks if the machine experiences sudden acceleration. If AWS has the same system in place, that might affect their servers' responsiveness
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by heliodor 15y ago
I tried them and they produced poor quality. They couldn't even get the white background correct! I suppose their #1 ranking on Google is making them complacent. http://www.loadinfo.net/ is much better presented and actually respects the
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by heliodor 15y ago
I suppose they are not, but we expect more of YC because it is supposed to be funding the best of the best, and people are noticing a decrease in quality over the years. But maybe they are not sharing their big visions with us as much, so w
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by heliodor 15y ago
In that case, I highly recommend you take hours and hours and hours and read and learn everything you can find about startup options, payouts, and historical stories of how people got screwed! Don't walk in there unprepared.
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by heliodor 15y ago
People introductions is a nascent field. Nobody has owned it yet as all the companies in the field are just getting started. So far we've seen the trust model: http://sonar.me lets you know when your FB or Twitter friends of friends are i
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by heliodor 15y ago
Create a database of every product in every store and make it searchable. Make a search engine that tells you where nearby the product is available for purchasing. Some of the bigger retailers provide this already on their own websites.
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by heliodor 15y ago
Dating guidebook/flowchart app. Tap the situation you're in and it gives you some tips.
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by heliodor 15y ago
Make a better calendar. There are plenty of ideas posted online on what makes for a better calendar.
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by heliodor 15y ago
Put tourists in touch with locals. Couchsurfing.com without the couch, and marketed much better.
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by heliodor 16y ago
I was thinking a few weeks ago about how new advertising models on mobile would look like. The first thing that came to mind was exactly this: ads in the notification bar for Android. Plenty of business models require that the user trade a
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by heliodor 16y ago
It would be great if each book came with a hierarchy of summaries. A 1000-page book would have a 100 page summary, a 10 page summary, a 1 page summary, and a single paragraph summary. Whatever the right factor is: 3, 5, 8, or 10. If you lik
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by heliodor 16y ago
Absolutely! I completely overlooked it: more diagrams, please! more bulleted lists! more pictures!
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by heliodor 16y ago
Good points in the link. The only thing I'd like to point out is that the author starts with the assumption that BOOKS are what we WANT to read. Just because they've been the norm, does not make them the best method of knowledge transfer. I
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by heliodor 16y ago
Making significant money off mobile apps is a little more complicated than just releasing a clean app. Here's what comes to mind to be able to produce a decent advertising revenue: - the app needs to be useful on a daily (or so) basis - the
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by heliodor 16y ago
Hmm. There are plenty of iPhone devs glad to ding on Android, but really, the buildings blocks and concepts are practically identical. Parcelable is intended for storing your app state when it gets pushed to the background, just like on iPh
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by heliodor 16y ago
Nicely done. It captivates you for a while, just to see what comes next. Does it cut off after a few minutes so you won't waste the api rate quota? Clickable link: http://www.mapstagram.com
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by heliodor 16y ago
Cool find, but it's for a different audience. I'm aiming for people who want a quick data entry form to generate the barcode image. Your link is for a software library. Apples and oranges...
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Show HN: QR codes - my mini project
4 points by heliodor 16y ago|7 comments
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by heliodor 16y ago
Wow, are they misusing that money! They say they need money for their amazing data mining infrastructure, yet the Android app is in shambles. I press the BACK button and the app can't even bother to exit! Never mind, the deeper bugs. Makes
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by heliodor 16y ago
Different people like different things. Some people like to study computer science for its own sake, do research, develop algorithms, AI, machine learning, natural language processing, graphics, etc. A lot more people just want to apply the
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by heliodor 16y ago
I participated yesterday. It's my second hackathon. I get your frustration with the typical hackathon. My approach is to focus on finding the right people and the right concept at the beginning of the event and to get to know them better wh
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by heliodor 16y ago
When you have something to show, submit it to http://alphalist.co . No, I have no relationship with them. I just signed up as a user.
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Ask HN: Recommend a Gantt chart web app
5 points by heliodor 16y ago|3 comments
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by heliodor 16y ago
in my mind, success is not primarily measured in money. happiness is much more important. it's a broader representation of life's needs, including money. also, success is not a zero-sum game. on the contrary, a lot of the more successful st
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by heliodor 16y ago
Adafruit Industries should start a fundraising campaign on kickstarter.com or a similar site and aim for the kind of run-away success that Diaspora had in their fundraising efforts. More publicity, more money, more developers ... angrier Mi
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by heliodor 16y ago
Don't ask your friends and family. most of them, I assume, don't understand the field. Ask people who understand. Go to an entrepreneurship meetup, such as the HN meetups in various cities, and talk to those people. They'll understand what
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by heliodor 16y ago
you ideally take investments if you'll be better off afterward than before. relating to percent share, that means that while you get diluted in percentage terms, in dollar terms your cut goes up in value, so the percentage doesn't matter. o

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