kareemm

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by kareemm 4y ago
100% agreed with this. It's not clear to me why you need my contacts. My mental model of the software is "put my todos onto a calendar". Maybe that's wrong? But if not you need read access to my todos, and read access
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by kareemm 4y ago
Depends on what you're optimizing for. This post is about being at the beginning of your freelancing career when you're trying to figure out what's going to keep you going. I found that after 13 years of consulting I finally
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Facebook’s monopoly is imploding(vice.com)
51 points by kareemm 4y ago|11 comments
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by kareemm 4y ago
I dunno. If you taste olive oil from a trusted source (like at the grove where the olives are grown and perhaps pressed), and compare it with $random_storebought_brand, there's a major difference in taste. The difference doesn't
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by kareemm 4y ago
Stripe used to help you migrate away. Not sure if they still do.
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by kareemm 4y ago
I get around this by cashing out the original currency to Wise and then doing the conversion at much friendlier rates using them.
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by kareemm 4y ago
2020 M1 Air 16BG/1TB. Still running OS X 11.3 - looks like I should upgrade... === START OF SMART DATA SECTION === SMART overall-health self-assessment test result: PASSED SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02)
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by kareemm 4y ago
Cool idea. Looks like there’s a problem with the data though. The last cat 2 hurricane was Fiona, which has just petered out in the North Atlantic after ripping through my city five days ago.
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by kareemm 4y ago
> Showcase tiered features in your trial Story time. When I worked on ESPN.com's Fantasy Football rebuild in 2003, showcasing an upgrade was by far the largest converter of free users to paid. You could play with your N buddies w
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by kareemm 4y ago
I had a decent network when I niched down so emails to friends + family generated some jobs which resulted in word of mouth referrals. But email everybody who you think might be helpful - a lawyer friend of mine referred his friend that ma
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by kareemm 4y ago
I niche down and understand what my customers want. I set reasonable prices for the size of customer I want ($1-$10M ARR B2B SaaS) and the kind of results I can deliver and post them on my site[1]. When I get an inbound request we're n
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by kareemm 4y ago
https://www.trialtopaid.com (https) doesn't work right now but http://www.trialtopaid.com (http) redirects to my consulting site https://www.reemer.com . If you're using an extension that only do
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by kareemm 4y ago
I've moved my effective hourly rate from $250/h to up to $1k/h by billing on a project basis. I did this after I ran across Jonathan Stark's book Hourly Billing is Nuts[1] and implemented a lot of his advice. The two b
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by kareemm 4y ago
Some light theory and heavy practice is the best way to improve. Credentials: been doing UX work for 25 years and I run https://www.TrialToPaid.com where I'm well paid to improve UX to grow trial conversion revenue. Here a
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Ask HN: How do you store photos and videos?
29 points by kareemm 4y ago|17 comments
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by kareemm 4y ago
Don't worry about the haters. The throwaway's response is verging on trolling and isn't worthy of your concern. I was impressed by your project and will consider paying down the road. I think an app like yours plus human fe
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by kareemm 4y ago
Agreed, the one exception to my take on purpose-built tools is if you're the only dev and working with non-technical folks. Having workflow enforced in the dev tool is important when it comes to a team of devs imho... especially if you
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by kareemm 4y ago
Awesome, nice to see a former customer here! =)
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by kareemm 4y ago
The tools I've used since 2001: - Fogbugz - Unfuddle - Pivotal Tracker - Bugzilla - Redmine - JIRA - Linear - Basecamp - Spreadsheet - GitHub Issues - Codetree (I ran this) - Zenhub - Shortcut Probably missing a few. I've settled
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by kareemm 4y ago
We’re talking about addiction. Last I checked addiction doesn’t discriminate based on socioeconomic status.
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by kareemm 4y ago
> Being at now-puplic start-up that needs somewhere north of, IMHO, 500 million to become somewhat profitable Maybe it’s just me. But I don’t consider publicly traded companies to be anywhere near a startup.
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by kareemm 4y ago
Have to echo this. Just deployed a new app to Render this week. Was dreading it but the experience was really smooth. Was a fan of Heroku but it seems neglected and is overpriced. With AWS I want to gouge my eyes out. It’s early days but Re
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by kareemm 4y ago
They already did that with Canada post shipping. If you buy directly from CP you pay $x. If you buy a CP label from Shopify it costs less than $x because they’re a massive CP customer.
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by kareemm 4y ago
I buy lots of stuff from Shopify merchants who make / source unique products: clothing, bike gear, skincare, electronics. I'm sure there are a lot of crappy drop shippers too but I'd hope to not see them in a search experien
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by kareemm 4y ago
Awesome. How do you source your merchants? I ran two searches for specific merchants I buy from and didn't find them.
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by kareemm 4y ago
Super sweet. I love Shop app. Tracking shipments is a nice way to get app installs... and you can backdoor a shopping experience as you roll out new versions. Well played!
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by kareemm 4y ago
I love this move by Shopify. As a merchant (in Canada, where typical shipping prices are extortionate) I'd love to give Shopify more money (but presumably less than we pay 3rd party shippers) for better overall delivery service for my
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by kareemm 4y ago
Maybe I’m just a grump but this class of article is painful: you’ve got hand-wavy unsubstantiated claims and nothing tactical a reader can take away to make their life better. You can simplify it to a short tweet: “prioritization is really
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by kareemm 4y ago
Used YNAB4 + 5 for several years and it never really took. I use Tiller.com now - puts all your data into a Google Sheet or Cloud Excel sheet. It has a bunch of extensions that you can use for budgeting, emailing daily transactions, report
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by kareemm 4y ago
Back in 2015 I noticed SaaS companies asking for in-app feedback and started compiling screenshots. Here are 51 examples from companies like Shopify, YNAB, Customer.io, Stackshare, Mailgun, and more compiled over the past 7 years: https:&

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