herval

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1. 1411.▲
   by herval 15y ago

   Wonder how many of those 14m brazilians are actually users. Almost everyone I know has received, at least once, an email from badoo saying everyone else is there (e.g saying I am, which is not the case). Fishy, very fishy...
2. 1412.▲
   by herval 15y ago

   Out of curiosity, how does g+ collect any more useful personal data than, say, google reader's follow lists or google buzz interactions? Is it about the circles and people who you "add"?
3. 1413.▲
   by herval 15y ago

   "I hate my smartphine because I can't code on it or move what I'm doing from the computer immediately into it"? Really? You should probably hate books (even the kindle) because they're worthless - you can't even play a video or worse, do ss
4. 1414.▲
   by herval 15y ago

   Granted, you sounded somewhat depressed on the aforementioned post... You should probably look for some professional help on that matter.
5. 1415.▲
   by herval 15y ago

   The fact that every single feature is completely unusable DOES make a huge difference though...
6. 1416.▲
   by herval 15y ago

   Same experience here - bought a DX then stumbled upon a regular kindle a few months later. DX sitting on the shelf these days, untouched (couldn't find a buyer)...
7. 1417.▲
   by herval 15y ago

   Not true - it worked in our case (a facebook app) from day one. Click-through is low (around 0.05%) but convertion tend to be a lot higher than adwords...
8. 1418.▲
   by herval 15y ago

   or a lot of people using other social networks. Or a lot of people that don't know they "need" social networks. Or a lot of people that can't use social networks (eg grammas and grandpas, 12-year-olds, people in countries where FB is blocke
9. 1419.▲
   by herval 15y ago

   Plus we go to universities, mentor locals, hire people with above-local salary, organize events... It definitely helps the local scene in many different ways!
10. 1420.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    They actually have one success already: Junar, from beta round, raised 1.5m and is keeping the office in Santiago! Jobs + taxes == win
11. 1421.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    With all the good-paying ruby jobs out there, all over the world, why would you REALLY prefer to work for free? Why NOT applying for a proper position (or better yet, a telecommute one that would allow u to travel and work from anywhere)? J
12. 1422.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    I work all the time. In fact, I'm not sure I know the difference between work and leasure. Am I sick? :p
13. 1423.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    We launched Novelo's site and spanish version of the app (getnovelo.com)!
14. 1424.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    it's also the first group (there was a beta last year), so it's not exactly a "long planned, flawless program". They call it an EXPERIMENT for a reason: come with an open mind and you'll definitely grow. Come full of "it doesn't work like t
15. 1425.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    rent is not on that 350k limit (u can spend up to 600k a month in rent, which is enough for a pretty nice place - I currently pay 300k and live in the trendiest city in town) if you're bringing family here, don't expect to be able to feed e
16. 1426.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    the contract. You can only take 350k pesos as a salary... and when u contract services, they ask you for some sort of proof if the value is suspiciously large. So you can TRY subcontracting a friend in US and paying him 40k USD, no problem.
17. 1427.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    although everyone is initially coming to santiago, Valparaiso and Vina del Mar are doing all they can to grab a piece of the action (including offering free office space for SUP alumni) :)
18. 1428.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    you can only spend 350k pesos per founder, from those 40k. The rest should be used for other expenses, such as hiring, software (housing/rent is also refundable outside the 350k cap), etc. 350k pesos = 760 usd/month, which allows for some p
19. 1429.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    they get you 40k and u have to put in 4k from your own pocket (the 40k are in the form of reimbursements - u spend something, they give u back in the following month). U have to spend the 40k during the 6 months (can't spend it all in one m
20. 1430.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    It does make a difference for people: http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook/movabletype/archives/2007... My hunch is that it also makes a difference for products, but I don't have any data on that...
21. 1431.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    Does anyone really believe Nokia's actual product will look like that demo? I kinda recall this not happening quite a few times in the past.. (n97 anyone?)
22. 1432.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    None of these reasons you mentioned is a reason to quit/stop/lose. It doesn't seem you failed for any of those reasons - you failed because you simply gave up!
23. 1433.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    I might just have skipped something o heroku's docs, but is there any similsr service/app to allow spinning dynos automagically as needed (in traffic peaks)?
24. 1434.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    Github, appsumo, dropbox, lasfm (not a "stsrtup" anymore, I guess), hipchat, rovio, zynga and a few ios devs (goodreader, instapaper, quickoffice, mypad)... I'm pretty sure there are others, but these are the ones I can remember from the to
25. 1435.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    So this makes them the zuckerbergs of ipad cat games?
26. 1436.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    Myguestmap.org generates around 300usd in ads and 10-100usd in donations a month since 2005. Last touched it in 2006. Donations tend to get higher on christmas :-)
27. 1437.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    cobbled together a quick "what's this" page and added there as a tab - that, by the way, proved itself an incredibly difficult task, as there don't seem to be any facebook app to do just that. Wow!
28. 1438.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    thanks for the feedback :-) Is pricetack yours? Interesting concept indeed...
29. 1439.▲
    Show HN: Social Shopping

    5 points by herval 15y ago|3 comments
30. 1440.▲
    by herval 15y ago

    Ruby on Rails on top of Heroku on top of Facebook. So it's basically an app framework inside a social framework hosted on a hosting "framework" :-)