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by jiganti 16y ago
>* If it's NOT anonymous, is the value to be able to send someone an email with you identified as the sender but with ambiguity about whether the email was delivered? - so that changes in behavior aren't assumed to be linked to the mess
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by jiganti 16y ago
I played high stakes poker for years and so understanding higher levels of "metagame" (I think that he thinks that I think, etc) comes easy to me. Naturally this is a problem when it's largely what my idea hinges upon and the target market
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by jiganti 16y ago
Thanks for the advice. :)
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by jiganti 16y ago
> Then your monetization model is to pay money to reduce that uncertainty. Said uncertainty is the only reason you used this site to begin. So you're looking for people who want uncertainty, but want to be able to reduce uncertainty wit
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by jiganti 16y ago
I haven't heard of anything like this; there likely is no competition. Of course this is not necessary to qualify an idea, but I recognize the benefits of having a valid market when developing a product/service. In this case I'm questioning
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by jiganti 16y ago
Thanks for the advice. One of the great things about entrepreneurship is that even failed projects have numerous benefits. It's good to be reminded of this from time to time.
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by jiganti 16y ago
I started http://crushtease.com about a month ago, but the programmer I partnered with got sidetracked with a different idea, so it hasn't gotten traction yet. (Likely because the way we explain the idea on the homepage isn't easy enough
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by jiganti 16y ago
> I disagree with the business model being powerful. Think about it in terms of lifetime customer value. How many occasions is a person really going to have to use this service? Maybe once? Twice? Even if it's $50 per message, the lifet
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by jiganti 16y ago
I'd assert that people who would want to use it tend to associate with like-minded thinkers, and thus are more likely to use the app effectively within their network. So it might be fine that there's not a very wide appeal.
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Ask HN: I have a great idea, but nobody likes it. So here it is.
16 points by jiganti 16y ago|50 comments
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by jiganti 16y ago
Nice! I'm launching http://wikizu.com hopefully within the next week or two.
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by jiganti 16y ago
But if everyone - or even most everyone - is criticizing something different, you can safely disregard what all of them say. Reminds me of the mentality of some tech companies who choose to not listen to their customers in order to realiz
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by jiganti 16y ago
What does this mean?
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by jiganti 16y ago
Your mentality is self-fulfilling. If you think you have a problem and can't get better without professional help, you probably won't get better. Introversion isn't so deeply ingrained in your genetics that it can't be conditioned out of, a
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by jiganti 16y ago
This reminds me of the online poker scandal on UltimateBet: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/19/high-stakes-pl-nl/ultim...
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by jiganti 16y ago
My dad told me a simple hack last year when dealing with calling cell phone companies. When you're first told by voice recognition to vocally describe what you need, say 'cancel service'. You'll be helped much faster than you would if you d
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by jiganti 16y ago
We were thinking about omitting the actual percentages and just telling them that any four of those possibilities will happen. So far we haven't gotten any traction, but we haven't spent much time marketing it because we have been working o
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by jiganti 16y ago
http://www.crushtease.com Anonymous matching site with a twist.
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by jiganti 16y ago
The fact that they don't realize that the perception of someone who does this is "less than credible" is enough in itself to conclude that they aren't near as qualified as they claim.
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by jiganti 16y ago
Based on its target market, I'd say this certainly shouldn't be a problem.
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by jiganti 16y ago
This totally depends on the person's situation. If you have an idea and can help the project financially, you are likely better off getting a technical cofounder. But if you just have a supposedly great idea and nothing else to bring to the
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by jiganti 16y ago
Somewhat. We've been working on it for about a month, should have something to show by next week if all goes well.
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by jiganti 16y ago
Hi exhaustedhacker. Please shoot me an email, I'd like to talk to you.
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by jiganti 16y ago
Wikipedia for ordinary people.
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by jiganti 16y ago
Why doesn't he just implement ideas? Man, what I would've done to have the technical expertise just a few years ago that I now have to outsource.
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by jiganti 16y ago
I remember hearing a quote from a professional football coach after one of his players died during practice in part because of the extreme heat and intense regiment that day: "You have to know the difference between pain and injury". Someti
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by jiganti 16y ago
The way the poker economy works among the high stakes regulars is generally such that if you go 'busto', you'll inevitably be able to get staked from buddies if you are legitimately good. This results in players playing with extremely aggre
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by jiganti 16y ago
A lot of times I get ideas from considering these types of experiences with how people operate. If it's a magazine, a social situation or a TV commercial, they might collide with the abstract thoughts floating around in your head at just th
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'The Social Network' Hits Theaters(latimesblogs.latimes.com)
1 points by jiganti 16y ago|0 comments
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by jiganti 16y ago
Interesting follow-up to the talk of companies being acquired yesterday at disrupt. Arrington was surprised that Conway et al seemed to not have a problem with companies who were content with being acquired at less than billion dollar valua

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