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by jasontraff 14y ago
Awesome job guys, it looks great!
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Re: 5 Valid Reasons for Being an Entrepreneur(jasontraff.com)
2 points by jasontraff 14y ago|0 comments
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by jasontraff 14y ago
either the link is broken or the post got removed
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Thanks! We do a lot of internal testing, but I'm always really excited when I hear that we were close for an actual person! Thanks for the feedback too, it sounds like something that we're working on to allow users to fold their information
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by jasontraff 15y ago
sakai -- We take our accuracy very seriously; email us at sayhi@leaky.com and we'll look into it. If you're in California (the only state that we officially support), we're within 1% in about 50% of cases and within 3% in about 80% of cases
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Thanks, we really appreciate the support!
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by jasontraff 15y ago
I'd respond, but you look like a competitor! :)
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Thanks, that's really helpful feedback
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Some companies draw distinctions that sometimes seem arbitrary, which is another reason that we think Leaky is helpful. However, there's almost always a statistical analysis for the decisions that they make and it may have nothing to do wit
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Great! We do a lot of testing, but it's always nice to hear that the prices we gave were accurate! (Insurers shouldn't care if you had an accident and weren't at fault - their models say that should not affect your price, which is why we on
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Thanks, that's a really nice thing to say
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by jasontraff 15y ago
This
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Thanks Adam - we really appreciate the support!
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by jasontraff 15y ago
It seemed like a moot point. Either way, it was unsustainable in the long-run and we didn't have the bankroll to battle it out in court.
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Yeah some companies do _really_ big discounts for profession -- engineer being one of the better ones.
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Thanks Kurt, we're just really glad that we'll get to see it through this time!
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by jasontraff 15y ago
The short answer is yes. Because insurance is regulated on a state-by-state level, each insurer will submit different models to different states. For example, in California doesn't include credit score and New York does - this alone could c
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Thanks again for all of the support
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How we came back after being shut down in four days(blog.leaky.com)
203 points by jasontraff 15y ago|86 comments
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Hey Dan, sounds like you're getting a good deal! As for Leaky, the prices we show are based on switching/new customers - so there are longevity discounts and multi-line discounts (such as insuring your home) that aren't included in our curr
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Leaky (YC S11) Relaunches with Real-Time Price Updates(techcrunch.com)
143 points by jasontraff 15y ago|37 comments
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The Pirate Bay Dancing for Firefox Bypasses National IP & DNS Blocks(lifehacker.com)
94 points by jasontraff 15y ago|15 comments
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Yeah -- we'd certainly love to, but we didn't think that we'd be able to securely store the data at the moment -- so we didn't want to risk it. That's absolutely a feature that we'd like to implement though!
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Sorry about that -- something seems to have slipped through and we're working to replicate the errors and fix them.
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Hi Craig, yes -- we too someday we hope to have a mascot as cute as Aleksandr
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Leaky (YC S11) is Hipmunk for Car Insurance(techcrunch.com)
162 points by jasontraff 15y ago|123 comments
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Wow - I completely read this as 'sexiest creeps' and it gave it a whole other connotation.
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by jasontraff 15y ago
Interesting article; so unfortunate that it looks so bad in my browser history
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Steve Blank on what hackers are teaching us right now(pehub.com)
12 points by jasontraff 15y ago|0 comments
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If you use Facebook Connect, don't do this(blog.leaky.com)
14 points by jasontraff 15y ago|0 comments

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