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by immad 13y ago
This is useful but it doesn't cover reserved or any IOPs which is unfortunately. AWS in general makes pricing opaque and hard to reason about, more simple tools like this would be useful.
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by immad 13y ago
what do you mean by donate?
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by immad 13y ago
Back down to $195.
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by immad 13y ago
Github seems like a good candidate. Maybe Tumblr too. Seems like in HN/Twitter/Facebook users don't give that much value to each other that they would want to tip.
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by immad 13y ago
Citation Needed.
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My Top Picks from YC Demo Day(immad.me)
37 points by immad 13y ago|3 comments
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by immad 13y ago
Very few SV startups have founders that are from SV in my experience.
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YC Partners Taggar, Tan And Ohanian Raise $39M For Initialized Capital(techcrunch.com)
147 points by immad 13y ago|35 comments
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by immad 13y ago
Maybe you should consider open sourcing your backend, then people could help.
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by immad 13y ago
I agree, its the first post on my new blog. I have changed the contrast and its much better now. Let me know if you have any other feedback.
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The Unfortunate Rise of Patents in the Startup World(immad.me)
57 points by immad 13y ago|47 comments
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by immad 13y ago
Presumably the users.
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by immad 13y ago
I wander if they are paying the $25k from management fees or from the fund. The justification for why VCs don't pay their lawyer bill has always been that they don't want to take the money from their management fees, if Spark has figured ou
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by immad 14y ago
Cool. Which game do you make?
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by immad 14y ago
The data is sampled from the Heyzap app. So English focused social games will tend to be overestimated. We did calibrate on quite a few data points. I will think about normalizing for the above bias too
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A New Way to see Android Mobile Gaming Trends(devblog.heyzap.com)
31 points by immad 14y ago|6 comments
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by immad 14y ago
It's a charity donation
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Catching up with Watsi: Y Combinator’s first non-profit graduate(thenextweb.com)
86 points by immad 14y ago|20 comments
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Heyzap (YC W09) releases Ads SDK allowing its 4,200 developers to monetize(thenextweb.com)
50 points by immad 14y ago|2 comments
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by immad 14y ago
The fraud issues at least would require a good engineering team.
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Want a summer internship where you ship code to millions in the first week?(heyzap.com)
1 points by immad 14y ago
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Intern at Heyzap (YC W09) and ship mobile code to millions(heyzap.com)
1 points by immad 14y ago
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Should Facebook have a Chinese Wall between Product and Platform Data(immadsnewworld.com)
15 points by immad 14y ago|6 comments
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Betting on Black Swans(immadsnewworld.com)
21 points by immad 14y ago|13 comments
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Heyzap [YC09] adds achievements to its mobile gaming platform(venturebeat.com)
34 points by immad 14y ago|4 comments
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The Hidden Values of Advertising(immadsnewworld.com)
37 points by immad 14y ago|22 comments
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Heyzap Expands Its Mobile Gaming Platform With Leaderboards (YC W09)(techcrunch.com)
16 points by immad 14y ago|1 comments
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by immad 14y ago
Mike has a public profile and his activity is public. Its like being able to read peoples public Tweets. Edit: Location is optional (based on user) and we only give city level with a truncated Lat/Long. Again this is the same as twitter/ins
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by immad 14y ago
People use Heyzap to install games, so its a pretty good opportunity to promote games to them. We have a sustainable business model and are not too far from profitable with 16 employees. We also have an API and will make it very easy for de
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by immad 14y ago
Heyzap (YC'09) is launching leader-boards on Android and iPhone. Still in alpha but we have some good results, you can check them out here: http://developers.heyzap.com/ Unlike most other leader-board services everyone has a name and most

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