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by hw 9y ago
What this article doesn't mention is that while in some cities like SF, where rents are astronomically high, there's a huge influx of tech workers whose compensations are also relatively high. That coupled with not wanting to deal
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by hw 9y ago
The number of chatbot services popping up promising to solve customer support for businesses is concerning. I've personally had bad experiences with chat bots when trying to get a refund and all it did was point me to some help article
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Why most people's next car will be a Tesla(betterthansure.com)
5 points by hw 9y ago|3 comments
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by hw 9y ago
it's as toxic of a response as the original manifesto, imo
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by hw 9y ago
Even if the travelers inspect the shipments, are they supposed to open every single container/bag inside to ensure that everything's legal? How would common folk know how to tell between heroin and baby powder? What about hidden c
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by hw 9y ago
Let's take gender, race, food preference out of the equation. Say a person with qualities A and another person with qualities B both interview at a company. Turns out that at the company (and in the industry in general, type Bs are a m
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by hw 9y ago
I second Calendly. We at Reamaze use Calendly to schedule our demos to customers, and I strongly recommend you do the same too for demos / phone calls. All of codegeek's points make sense, especially automation, getting a good hel
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Shopify signs up more big brands, shares rise to record(reuters.com)
1 points by hw 9y ago|0 comments
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by hw 9y ago
As many have pointed out, the main issue here is the Bay Area's cost of living - especially housing. What they're earning is higher than a lot of people in the food service industry, but still isn't enough to afford a decent
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by hw 9y ago
Even with the additional steps and even with explicit whitelisting of directories (from screenshots it looks like it defaults to the user directory, which is just bad) before code's uploaded, the point is that Kite took over a useful,
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LaVar Ball and the $1000 shoes – How telling a good story sells products(betterthansure.com)
1 points by hw 9y ago|0 comments
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by hw 9y ago
I do think it's a fad. We have a few here we use at Reamaze just to destress and an occasional distraction and it works.
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by hw 9y ago
There's lots of effort in building AI for chatbots, but why aren't there more efforts in building AI for better spam classification? As much as I would like email to die a horrible death just like snail mail died and have everyone
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by hw 10y ago
Do K-pop artists also get 'equity', much like startups? I'm curious as to how they are compensated, if it's at all different from the music industry in general.
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by hw 10y ago
> E.g. add a bot that will instantly reply to frequently asked questions to decrease the load of your customer support team. And when the bot doesn't understand requests, don't make it say "sorry I don't understand&qu
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by hw 10y ago
> companies can benefit by using bots to enhance human-to-human conversations, not trying to replace them altogether. I think you hit the nail on the head here. Bots should be a complement to human conversations, not a replacement. Havin
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by hw 10y ago
Chatbots are great if they assist me with quick actions, like viewing my order/shipping status, and when it's obvious that I'm "talking" to a bot. What gets annoying are chatbots that start with "how can I help
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How we built a customer support dream team for our startup(betterthansure.com)
1 points by hw 10y ago|1 comments
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Linode Dallas is down
1 points by hw 10y ago|0 comments
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by hw 10y ago
In the end a startup is still a business, and if you don't make more money, you answer to investors, or you start losing money and then shut down, which makes things worse. Having said that, I do think that trying to min-max pricing is
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by hw 10y ago
Just need these servers in the US with the same pricing, and I'd jump all over it.
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by hw 10y ago
Even on the older rMBP (mine is 2012) my system just goes on suspend mode at 15-20% battery, even when I'm not doing much so the estimates shouldnt have been that far off. Did all the SMC reset steps and same issue.
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by hw 10y ago
If you can get someone who is, why not? :D But more than likely you'd have to fork out a bit more. All about sacrifices. Rather give up a slightly bigger chunk of equity and grow 10x, than not hire and end up in the deadpool after a wh
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by hw 10y ago
I think as a founder you would want to hire someone who is a clone of you - someone who, like you, are able to tackle most if not all areas of running a business, willing to work as hard and as long as you to get your first X users. Someone
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Ask HN: Is fear still a good sales strategy?
2 points by hw 10y ago|0 comments
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by hw 10y ago
It's also much easier to do freelancing work now than it was 5 years ago. With the rise in SaaS like Roninapp, Elance, Reamaze, Upwork, Basecamp etc that enable freelancers to be more productive, seek and get paid, plus the freelancer
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Avoiding the pitfalls of constant iteration(betterthansure.com)
2 points by hw 10y ago|0 comments
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by hw 10y ago
I loathe algorithm questions, and I almost always never ask them when I'm interviewing a candidate. Too often have I seen candidates who ace 6 rounds of algorithm interviews, only to struggle when it comes to building actual products a
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by hw 10y ago
It is unfortunate, and it remains to be seen if they will remain profitable, or just go on an endless run of losses and increasing debt. Some say 'making it' is IPOing, even if not profitable and laden with a mountain of debt. As
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by hw 10y ago
I agree. Am looking for a help desk, will check out Reamaze. Trello as a help desk seems quite limited for now, but maybe it'll get better.

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