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by ian0 6y ago
Joined 6 years ago, lurking perhaps a year or two before that. Lots of introductions to topics that I may not have come across otherwise, many of which shaped my career. As others have noted, the signal to noise ratio is very high in compar
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I would advise to hire for your weaknesses in everywhere but sales (you should be leading that even if your an engineer). Look for people who are excited about what you are doing, will commit, are comfortable learning new things. It's
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The story of the selbees, a couple who made ~8m for themselves and their community from gaming a lottery, is a great read [0] Jon Wertheim: You saved all the losing tickets? Marge Selbee: Saved them in big totes. Jerry Selbee: Big plastic t
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by ian0 6y ago
Third party app stores are common here in Indonesia, while working on a previous app we found ~20-30% of users installed APKs via them. They were the lowest converting segment, this was related to the demographic (rural & lower income).
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Perhaps the best I have come across is y-combinators own "How to start a startup" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxIJaCMEptJjxmmQgGFsnCg/vid...
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You have covered most of it, perhaps just expand the scope of the 3rd party tracking to make sure your users aren't being tracked by CDNs, cloud hosting etc owned by the ad networks. You mention dark patterns, I think its good (and hon
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by ian0 6y ago
This is a great question. So just because your good at gaming the system yourself doesn't preclude understanding its unfair, having empathy towards those less fortunate and being keen to see it changed. I think most people in the fit i
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Went out and talked to a bunch of customers, told them what we were developing, that its not ready yet, asked them if they wanted to sign up (signed paper contracts) to be the first and get a discount on some fees. PS to proove demand it ne
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by ian0 6y ago
The banking system in Indonesia is predominantly conventional, not syariah. Credit card penetration is low but its more to do with credit risk than religious reasons. They operate as they do elsewhere. The digital wallets are stored value.
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You bet me to it. Suzuki Esceudo Pikes peak edition tuned to >1000bhp. Point it into the wall on the speedway and selotape the controller in place. You had a one in n chance of winning a formula one car. I think this is "lazy work&q
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Apparently called an index or manicule with examples spotted from the 12th century.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index_(typography)
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This is really good, extremely simple.
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Ask HN: Example of a chatbot in a business use case that doesn't suck?
3 points by ian0 6y ago|4 comments
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Yeah your right no need to highlight deforestation anymore as some countries are planting trees now.
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I never found any decent resources, just lots of click-bait. These were my key takaways though: - You will freak out about everything as a new parent (feeding, prams, weight, learning). By your second you will take everything in your stride
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by ian0 6y ago
Not true there are lots of regulatory-light fintech applications you can try like building applications on top of banking APIs. Very few people ever really use bank APIs you may find the bank will be glad to talk to you. You likely (but not
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by ian0 6y ago
Quite different. Old homepages were more "building" less "sharing". Beyond the coding, there was planning and categorising. You put thought into the interface and structure. Seems like a small thing but its the differenc
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>> It's absolutely an ancient cabal banking network, that would be disrupted in any normal, competitive system. The fact that banking wasn't a cabal led to the creation of Visa & MC, they provide the function of operatin
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I think they designed it using regular sized screens, works fine on my 13'' laptop. Honestly - pretty refreshing, designers typically forget to test on low end monitors - not high end ones!
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Hey - just to report I received a server error on the callback when trying to login via a google account, then when trying to register via email & pwd it stalled on a white screen & console reported a 500 error. Chrome / using
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Ask HN: An Alternative to Google News Alerts?
1 points by ian0 6y ago|2 comments
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https://music-grid.surge.sh/#224-0-1793-3088-1796-3136-1800-...
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I worked in telco in Indonesia where this type of thing is taken to the next level. Back in the day you would walk into a rooms filled with racks full of phones for SMS / Airtime sales "optimisation". I tried to google some p
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I don't think its possible to write a guide on how to succeed at life as peoples definitions of success change throughout their life! Some pointers for you based on what you have said: 1. Its nice to be financially well off & savin
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>> There are more gun-carrying agents employed across the federal government by inspectors general .. than there are ATF agents nationwide; the roughly 4,000 inspector general agents nationwide, in fact, is roughly equivalent to the e
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I agree that your demands are unreasonable for a small company. It's like a person getting kitted out in full tour de france gear to ride their bicycle to the local shops. However there is a time and a place. Smaller companies typicall
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by ian0 6y ago
InfraDigital | Multiple Roles | Indonesia VISA or REMOTE | Full-time & Part-Time | https://infradigital.io We are rolling out financial and data services to middle-low income schools accross Indonesia to assist them to bette
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Cheers - will check them out
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Ask HN: Laptop Recommendation?
6 points by ian0 6y ago|2 comments
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I think your gut was absolutely right. Look for interesting problems. I would then check the founders out during your interviews (they should be there if its early stage) and check especially if they are down to earth, pragmatic and make su

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