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by hop 15y ago
Hi HN, Casey from the Elevation Dock project. People use the term disruption pretty loosely, I think crowd-funding is really doing it. Goodbye middlemen, sayonara to the massive traditional barriers to entry. Hello bootstrapped projects lik
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by hop 15y ago
Payment processing has been ripe for disruption for a long time - so glad they are getting around the barriers to entry. Interesting Marc Echo is an investor - http://blog.dwolla.com/ I first met Marc at Big Omaha during his amazing talk
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by hop 15y ago
I think you guys could benefit from removing the first 30 seconds of your video, and just get into what you are making. Good luck! Have you reached out to Paul Buchheit?
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by hop 15y ago
The upgrades have marginal cost to Tesla and a lot of value to the customer. The Model S Performance adds a bigger battery, better inverter, leather, and active suspension - imagine this costs Tesla about $5k and they can double the price o
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by hop 15y ago
The general point I'm making is their personality should be embraced rather than drugged. I had an Adderal prescription for a month in college, its stronger than any other stimulant I've tried and it horrors me they give it to children. The
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by hop 15y ago
I have a real problem labeling 10 year olds that get bored and fidgety in boring situations with having a brain disorder and giving them speed. Find me 10 successful entreprenuers and I bet I can show you 10 people who had a tough time sitt
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by hop 15y ago
I bought an aluminum Element Vapor Pro and it has no problems. I actually got it to see how it fits in my current Kickstarter project, the Elevation Dock, b/c a lot of people asked and they love them. It has plastic around the top left corn
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by hop 15y ago
Thanks for backing. Working 24/7 now to get you your Elevation Dock ahead of our planned ship date. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/hop/elevation-dock-the-b...
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by hop 15y ago
That's a good point. My thinking was chip prices are pretty well known and commotitized while Apple's manufacture of the case is a big unknown to iSupply and everyone else because it's completely custom and no one makes anything similar.
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by hop 15y ago
Does mechanical & electro-mechanicals cover the machined steel band/antenna/frame? Because that's not cheap and it's a difficult material to work with. In one of the iPhone4 original videos, they had a multi-axis CNC going around outsid
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by hop 15y ago
I would pay $100 to anyone that made a one-click (or close) auto transfer of domains from GoDaddy.
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by hop 15y ago
Thanks for posting this, support has been overwhelming.
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by hop 15y ago
Gorgeous. Music was like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Muted and played Tchaikovsky - Serenade for Strings in the bg for better experience. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsGRglp6tvs
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by hop 15y ago
If it catches on in retail - like coffee shops, restaurants, etc..., I bet that average will go far down. Sounds like the average is weighted towards with the renters/landlords they have.
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by hop 15y ago
Visited a dozen bioplastic and stainleed steel fabricating factories in northern and southern china six monthes ago. The labor rates they pay the thousands of workers they house and employ had doubled or tripled in the last 1.5 years as com
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by hop 15y ago
Saw a leaf for the fist time up close yesterday. Damn it's ugly. They could really murder sales with a Deiter Rams/Johnny Ive aesthetic design instead of this fake space age plastic crap they cover the car with.
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by hop 15y ago
Thanks. I just googled for the font and came up with Clarendon, but it doesn't look exact. Anything you want to do I'll post. Really not interested in the domain anymore, so if anyone wants it...
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by hop 15y ago
Made 2hrs after of walking out of a Wells Fargo. http://fuckwellsfargo.com
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by hop 15y ago
My first reaction to seeing the Samsung tablet was that they flagrantly copied Apple. The connecting cable is nearly identical (what's the probability of that) and the single button in the glass looks stolen from the id of the iPhone/IPad.
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by hop 15y ago
Just wait for Retina display iPads and MacBooks, bet Apple is working full steam ahead on the technology and buying up the supply chain.
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by hop 15y ago
When all the components and manufacturing costs are roughly estimated, it would be better to say they cost "about the same" instead of $0.49 (a 0.25% difference) because they really have no idea what Apple has negotiated. Their estimate is
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by hop 15y ago
Apple must have one of the biggest fleets of cnc machines in the world to mill all their aluminum MacBooks, iMacs, remotes, keyboards... And the steel bands on the IPhone. I remember reading they bought 1000 Fanuk CNC's when they came first
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by hop 15y ago
Works with Shopify?
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by hop 15y ago
Well they just refunded my 4 helicopter ride Groupons for a total of $596 that would have expired next week. If I let a Groupon expire though, I wouldn't bitch about not getting a refund, no matter the state law.
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by hop 15y ago
A side note - I have been supremely impressed with Groupon's customer service. Emails personally returned within minutes and no problem refunding groupons I no longer wanted.
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by hop 15y ago
He forgot to mention Groupon brought in $878 million in the second quarter of 2011, 10x more than they did a year ago at $87.3 million. And $334M of the $1 billion of venture capital money went to buying stock from early investors, not pour
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by hop 15y ago
Ultra high res displays are extremely expensive - 4K monitors are over $10k. Apple will democratize them by having a better manufacturing process to make them a few hundred or less. Plus, i would bet Apple can bake in resolution independenc
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by hop 15y ago
They will have retina display iPads and computer monitors 2-3 years before any competitors can do it at similar scale or cost by paying the upfront capital for an ODM to build the factory. And it's basically a proxy for having their own fac
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by hop 15y ago
Buffett's father was a 4 term congressman and an almost Ron Paul-like libertarian, btw. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Buffett
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by hop 15y ago
I would pay a lot of money for an app that could easily export all my domains and their setting out of godaddy to another registrar/host.

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