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by josh2600 13y ago
To add a bit of info on this, we had over 6000 signups in our beta (month 1) using LaunchRock as the landing site with a 28% conversion rate. I would say that we could've driven more traffic to the site and increased the absolute conve
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by josh2600 13y ago
I work in telecom, in a slightly different vein from Twilio's and I deeply empathize with the pain of billing. Even if Twilio's somehow able to ignore the pain of telco engine rating and least-cost-routing, there are still so many
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Bezos' Law(blog.2600hz.com)
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In profile if I'm not too late :).
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PayPal's model was "signup get $10 oh and for everyone you refer we'll give them $10 and you $10". Which is all well and good when you've got venture financing and a land grab market, but we aren't in that mark
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by josh2600 13y ago
HN is a great channel. You don't have to submit links onto the home page to have an impact. Answering a question with a helpful link to a blog post can be almost as impactful. Journalists are hungry for content, and so are your fellow
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by josh2600 13y ago
I work at 2600hz and I'm the head of marketing so I feel pretty comfortable chiming in here :). >When did people start paying for your SaaS? I think the earliest indicator I had that people would pay for our product was when someone
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by josh2600 13y ago
I enjoyed reading it to, I was just lamenting the fact that it seems like we hear this advice day in and day out. I'm right in the beginnings of the growth phase at my startup and I can tell you, we've made every mistake you can p
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by josh2600 13y ago
I feel like I read things like this on HackerNews about once a month. All of these posts can be summed up like this: 1) I built stuff without talking to people 2) I built custom work for a client and it wrecked me 3) I didn't listen to
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by josh2600 13y ago
And yet you can't buy HN karma with money, so the inverse is also true. What motivates one person over another might be imaginary points or real dollars.
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Out of curiosity, how big is the pipe at the office? The one holding the local NAS?
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Sidenote: Have you ever tried to hit a home run off of a tee? That's not an easy feat at all; the kinetic energy provided by the pitcher helps quite a bit.
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This is your argument in a nutshell: Product>Employee. Your argument is fundamentally inhuman. The ultimate point of a product is not the product, it is the benefit to mankind. If you sacrifice people for the product, you are imbuing a p
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by josh2600 13y ago
Has anyone else noticed LinkedIn becoming increasingly hostile towards small consumers of its API? I feel like the first straw was the non-active positions being pulled from developers followed by secondary and tertiary connections. I don&#
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by josh2600 13y ago
You're not calloused, you're just wrong, IMHO. Having to work a dangerous job is almost always a result of cutting corners in ways that are ultimately negatively impacting on the aggregate economy. What you're doing when you
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by josh2600 13y ago
That's a really interesting comment. I think there are battery limitations, but maybe you could design Google Glass with an App that triggers on abrupt physical displacement (IE a collision). I wonder if that would help. You definitely
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by josh2600 13y ago
This is terrible, but I wonder if there's a technical way we can provide a black box for bicyclists so that these sorts of injustices don't go unpunished. RIP :(.
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by josh2600 13y ago
This is a good blog post with lots of helpful information and some good numbers to start making some educated guesses. That being said: Please take your super slow loading popup of doom off of your blog. I don't want to have you spam m
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by josh2600 13y ago
It isn't a very good exit. Boxee always painted themselves into a corner. They're the streaming device that could never achieve enough scale to gather content relationships. It was a great device, but plagued by the anathema that
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by josh2600 13y ago
That's naive. You don't think the Russians and the Chinese have operatives in Washington trying to spy on Americans? Spying is illegal, but everyone does it. What we're talking about is an international game of brinksmanship.
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Why is this surprising? You don't think the NSA has APTs running in internet exchanges around the globe? I would say that thinking the NSA doesn't have assets somewhere, given their propensity to hoover every piece of data within
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by josh2600 13y ago
You have the choice to vote. The union voted to strike. Not everyone voted for it, but enough did to initiate the strike. It's usually a fairly unanimous thing. Source: once upon a time, long, long ago, I was on the executive board of
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by josh2600 13y ago
Yahoo is building a content engine. In a play on the 'chicken returning to the egg' strategy, Yahoo recognizes the negative regression of the Internet towards portal sites driven by Facebook. This is the original trend that got Ya
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by josh2600 13y ago
We use Erlang at 2600hz and I feel like this is an Echo Chamber of the kinds of conversations we have around the table. Erlang is a beast, but if you're doing hard work it's more about the idea than the tools. Lots of wisdom on th
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by josh2600 13y ago
Skype has two things WebRTC lacks: A directory And Signaling Without those things it's hard to compete with Skype or the PSTN.
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Personally, it's the guy's laughing that does it for me. What does this bug cause?
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I very much disagree with your assertion that you care more about the /content/ than the setup. Your content encryption is completely useless if your signaling protocol is exploited. I don't know why you say you'd hear M
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A formula for disrupting Construction in the United States: * Pre-fabricate everything * Assemble onsite using non-union labor * Move away from "Cost-Plus" pricing structures Construction has Razor Thin Margins for a number of rea
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by josh2600 13y ago
You have to own the towers to have real encryption over the cell channel. If you can encrypt the audio, and play that through the phone, that would be your best chance. Without the telco implementing encryption it's nigh impossible.
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by josh2600 13y ago
OK, I'm a phone geek, but I'm hoping Moxie will jump in here to set the story straight. I see ZRTP[1], but I didn't see anything on the site about signaling encryption. As you may or may not know, the content is only one comp

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