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by kappaknight 15y ago
Also, imagine how many more non-developers would download the iOS betas only to bitch about how things don't work - meanwhile not reporting the bugs to Apple through the proper channels.
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Ask HN: What's the best way to get users for a PAID web service?
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Have you seen http://www.hnsearch.com/ ?
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by kappaknight 15y ago
If you aren't interested in marketing or sales, find a person you trust as your co-founder who would be good at it, and get them to do it. Sales will eat you alive unless you have a passion for it. This may be a generalization, but most dev
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by kappaknight 15y ago
I usually start a project with a hard launch date. We decide what we want to build, and then decide which 80% we can strip out to meet this launch date. You may not have to start with a hard date, but if your runway is limited, it may hel
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by kappaknight 15y ago
I used to follow a lot of blogs, but it's been ages since I checked my RSS feeds. Here's how interesting articles find me: iGoogle - On my custom home page, I have Fark, Digg, Fast Company, Engadget, and some others setup showing me their
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by kappaknight 15y ago
What is taking up most of their time? What can you do to help reduce that, if anything?
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Agreed. You will have many more opportunities come your way if you keep pushing out good stuff. If they're unwilling to work with you over this simple thing, you probably don't want to be there anyway.
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Do you guys pay rent out of the business? (As in, an expense like leasing office space, etc.) One thing I do try to do is expense everything that is reasonable.
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Nice try, pre Skynet bot. We're not falling for your suggestion of building an AI for search. Besides, if one really good one does exist, many/most SEO people would be out of a job; white or black hats.
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by kappaknight 15y ago
While it's true larger companies can get press on their products easier, if they're not building something people will pay for, it will flop. Take Apple's Ping for instance. Even Steve Job's magic couldn't make that cool. To get your produ
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Are you sure? I know there are lots of sites and apps but I find 99% of them completely useless. Being a biz dev person instead of a hacker, I don't always solve my problems with code. This means while you CAN build an app, unless that app
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by kappaknight 15y ago
I agree. I was trying to pick out the wisdom in this post; I mean, the comic was entertaining I guess. All I gathered was: 1. I had an okay idea and did absolutely nothing about it for 18 months... until I saw other people built what I was
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Companies have been doing that for years. You think factory workers or fast food employees all love their jobs (without being a little brainwashed)? This is the trend I've seen from my friends (even before Gen Y) Parents came from middle cl
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Doing what you like is a luxury. Most people need to just do what pays.
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Interesting post indeed. However, I was expecting you to quit your day job once this was able to pay for itself and the salary of three people. I did not expect to see you quit it to launch this. Am I missing something? What's your moneti
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Don't think, just do. The measure of you being good enough isn't whether you get into YC. The measure of you being good enough is creating a successful business that is profitable and will hopefully run itself when you leave it. You're not
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Since there are fees involved, wouldn't it make sense to collect the money, sit it on it for a month (or some period of time) to earn interest, and just send the other party a check?
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by kappaknight 15y ago
I know coders gotta code, but I would seriously evaluate the need for such a service before diving head first into it. You may be better off creating a service that allows artists to embed music on the new Facebook Timeline and charging ar
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Honestly, none of these questions should scare you if you are building something people want. 1. If you are building a product for someone, you should know where those people hang out. You only run into problems if you are building a produc
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Honestly, the default LaunchRock page would appeal more to me than what you guys currently have. http://launchrock.com/ Music is about passion, and this design doesn't convey any emotions at all. Also, why are you building yet another soc
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Since you guys are in the same space. What are you seeing that the rest of us are missing? Is there an actual business around the idea? Oink was maybe useful when items were attached to locations. As soon as people started like Macbook Pro
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by kappaknight 15y ago
I wonder if the Milk team will tackle actual problems the next time around?
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Is it a little ironic that the blog is posted on Posterous? I only say that cause the complaint may disappear before its intended effect ring through the rest of the startup community.
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Oops! I mean can, not should.
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Why are there so many of these debates? This is really starting to be like php vs. ruby vs. dot net discussions. The end result is it doesn't matter as long as you're comfortable starting and finishing a project with it. The value Bootstra
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but from reading the blog post it seems like you did not start off with the actual Bootstrap site. Here's the link if you haven't seen it: http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/index.html The site itself is a
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by kappaknight 15y ago
The most important thing you can do for your children is to prepare them to leave.
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by kappaknight 15y ago
Good tips but the article was WAY too long. What a distraction...
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by kappaknight 15y ago
We're the minority, not the majority. Most people online can't even spell or use grammar correctly. I hardly think any of those people would have the creativity or the gumption to start a business.

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