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by jacamera 5y ago
There are several differences: - Readup is universal. As a content creator you don't have to opt in by creating an account or adding new metadata to your site. You can send me a link to a blog post you published 5 years ago and after I
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by jacamera 5y ago
Hey HN: Jeff here along with Bill (bill_rr) and Thor (th0rgall) from Readup. We're on a mission to create a viable alternative to the ad-based monetization strategy that plagues the web today. The Readup apps function like a browser wi
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Show HN: Readup is a reading browser that removes ads and pays writers per-read(readup.com)
6 points by jacamera 5y ago|7 comments
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by jacamera 5y ago
Yes. Though I think the real question is whether or not it was intentional.
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by jacamera 6y ago
The correct approach is clearly not to ask how 3rd party scripts are being injected into your web page but instead to just purchase Akamai's Page Integrity Manager.
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by jacamera 6y ago
My first blog post. Any feedback would be much appreciated!
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How Readup Knows Whether or Not You've Read an Article(blog.readup.com)
2 points by jacamera 6y ago|1 comments
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by jacamera 6y ago
1. Yes. This is the plan. 2. No. We are not serving content. The user's device makes a GET request to your server and you serve the content. Readup just displays the metadata and a link to the article just like reddit or Hacker News.
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by jacamera 6y ago
Yup! Essentially a premium "social reading" experience. Sounds kinda like marketing speak but it really is both a reading app and a social network that's powered by the reading activity of its members. The idea of having half
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by jacamera 6y ago
You weren't kidding about being dialed in on this space! > Are you not using React Native? Not even! Our iOS app just uses WKWebViews for the main UI so yes it would be pretty trivial to do the same thing on Android. Only excuse is
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by jacamera 6y ago
Possibly! I'm not sure if writers who write for a publisher like The Atlantic would be able to claim any sort of compensation for something that I imagine the publisher owns the rights to. But on the other hand, it's kind of like
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by jacamera 6y ago
> Why is there no tagging or other organization (besides per author)? The only reason is because I'm the only developer and simply haven't had time to build it yet! In fact right now I'm working on a new "Discover&quo
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by jacamera 6y ago
I'm not sure I understand. If we had paying subscribers that were reading your content and we reached out to you and you didn't want anything to do with us we would certainly respect that and not bother you again. The only way to
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by jacamera 6y ago
Re: "Read it on Readup" - Again, great point. It should be read with Readup. To clarify, you're always reading on the publisher's site. It would be a crazy violation of copyright if we copied the article text into ou
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by jacamera 6y ago
> That doesn't feel great. Telling creators that people are paying you for their work but they have to create an account to get paid feels shady. I get that, but isn't it better than paying for a utility like Pocket or Instapap
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by jacamera 6y ago
Glad to hear you're excited about the idea! 1. Yes, we are honoring that! It's a reward for being an early adopter and it's important to keep the community "starter culture" intact as we move to a paid membership mo
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by jacamera 6y ago
You should charge through another platform! There's nothing exclusive about the relationship that we want to have with writers. As long as you're producing any content that is a) freely available and b) worth reading we want it su
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by jacamera 6y ago
Not a great first couple of impressions! 1. Safari uses a completely non-standard extension model and right now I'm the only developer so we're Chrome and Firefox only for the time being. Definitely sucks. 2. That's great fee
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by jacamera 6y ago
No, writers do not opt in. The Readup extensions and mobile apps work on articles that are freely available on the internet. Writers do not have to share their premium subscription-only content with us or do anything differently. The Readup
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by jacamera 6y ago
The value-add for the supply-side is that you'd be getting paid when Readup users read your free articles on your own platform (like I just did with this article). We're sharing our revenue with you, not the other way around! Glad
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by jacamera 6y ago
The economics very well could work at a different split! We chose a 50/50 split because we estimated that we could grow and survive on $5/mo per user. We're 100% open to shifting that split and plan on making all the economic
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by jacamera 6y ago
Great read! The problems that you point out with social networks served as the motivation for my co-founder and I to create Readup [1]. We rank articles based on complete reads which slows down the overall pace considerably and cuts out a l
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by jacamera 6y ago
Have you tried again with Firefox recently? I'm the developer of an extension that makes extensive use of the Shadow DOM for UI components in content scripts. I recently ported our Chrome-only extension over to Firefox and had a few mi
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by jacamera 6y ago
It's incredibly frustrating that "21st-century capitalism" has become a shorthand for the anti-free market clusterfuck of a system that we've ended up with. The ignorance displayed by so many people blaming "capital
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by jacamera 6y ago
I don't have a Medium account and had no problem reading it without a paywall. Great post BTW! Is the goal for the daily updates just to have an easy place to post something that's too long for Twitter or is it important that ther
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by jacamera 7y ago
Readup co-founder and sole developer here. Happy to answer any and all questions (especially technical ones!). We recently completely overhauled the browser extension to use active tab instead of broad host permissions in order to be more p
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by jacamera 7y ago
If you're connecting over the internet without a VPN or SSH tunnel then you're requiring databases be open to the world, regardless of any firewalls that sit in front of it. Having worked on the infrastructure side of things I can
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by jacamera 7y ago
I'm unfamiliar with the Google Apps Add-On API and how Add-Ons are installed/hosted/executed. What machine is connecting to the database? The user's, your server or Google's server? I'm asking because if the da
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by jacamera 7y ago
Verboten. One year in prison per element.
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by jacamera 7y ago
You don't understand. We just need more data. Once we have enough data the AI will be able to model all possible scenarios and make a better decision than a human driver ever could! /s

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