johnmax

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Ask HN: Why not just quarantine old people and risk groups?
1 points by johnmax 7y ago|1 comments
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by johnmax 7y ago
Hey, we are a startup in Germany. When are you going to come to Germany/Europe?
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Ask HN: How do banking fintechs like Revolut justify their bn-$$$ valuations?
1 points by johnmax 7y ago|0 comments
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by johnmax 8y ago
Great, thanks for the numbers and the advice.
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by johnmax 8y ago
Will definitely need to check this out. I come from the mobile world, and my experience is, from myself and others, that cross-platform solutions always brought more pain than joy. The latter solutions were great in theory, but created huge
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by johnmax 8y ago
Wow, AutoHotkey looks cool - maybe it is nice for doing a first prototype. Yes, I would check the focused windows, but also would take screenshots to evaluate (with OCR/NLP) whether the email you are writing really relates to your todo
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by johnmax 8y ago
Yes, it's a good point to do such market research. Will need to carefully structure the ads, to not skew the results (e.g. because users from one platform are cheaper per click, and thus will be preferred by Facebook)
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by johnmax 8y ago
Thanks a lot for the numbers. Do you have any view on whether those percentages still hold, if you only look at (e.g.) startup employees or freelancers or other customer groups, which may probably like such productivity apps?
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by johnmax 8y ago
Interesting - I didn't know about that possibility. Thank you!
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by johnmax 8y ago
Yes, I totally agree, I would first build it for me and work with it. Right now I use a Mac, but I have used also Windows in the past, and - if I decided to code in Windows - then would switch all my work to a Windows machine, too. Everythi
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by johnmax 8y ago
Thanks a lot for your feedback - eventually, if it is successful, I would launch it for all possible platforms. So, getting to paying users is not a priority for me at the beginning. Getting to heavy users definitely is, and discoverability
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Ask HN: Develop productivity app first for Mac or Windows 10?
31 points by johnmax 8y ago|49 comments
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by johnmax 9y ago
very true, need a study which shows which activities/rules are really effective, including people-were-able-to-stick-to-them
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Rules for happiness (from a hacker who sold his company)(medium.com)
2 points by johnmax 9y ago|2 comments
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by johnmax 9y ago
If there was a method to fight such abusive patent trolls, I would immediately donate! It is the exploitation of a bug in the government source code, and it should be fixed..
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by johnmax 9y ago
I would add that the founder stories we read about are, even if true, only the 5% which turned interesting. 95% may have been boring failures
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by johnmax 9y ago
when i hired product managers, the most critical point I looked at was “building something that users love”. If you can prove this, you are ahead of average (of course you also need some standard stuff, including communication skills, but t
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by johnmax 9y ago
if we followed your reasoning, you are able to provide anything illegal at a website, simply by hosting it in a country which you dont really target (eg isle of man). thus, courts must be able to ask for what they did in the case of gutenbe
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by johnmax 9y ago
hn
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by johnmax 9y ago
personal taste: i am missing reading about the root cause of the problem in the first paragraph. have spent 5 minutes reading and nothing yet.. stopped altogether
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by johnmax 9y ago
I was in a similar situation: (1) I did one thing at a time, based by a tutorial which involves exercises (eg coursera princeton blockchain or coursera andrew ng machine learning). you must do complete exercises, otherwise you forget so qui
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by johnmax 9y ago
couldnt agree more. i have had several big deals in the pipeline, one of which i closed. in retrospect the effort wasnt worth it. the deal consumed many months of our focus and work (plus as a bonus a neverending worry on our minds, because