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AMA with Samuel Hulick (Founder of UserOnboard.com)(ama.betalist.com)
6 points by keesj 12y ago|0 comments
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by keesj 12y ago
I've only just started learning iOS development (Swift, not Objective-C) and although initially the code looks quite complicated, Xcode more than makes up for it. Its auto-complete functionality makes it very fast to write these rather
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by keesj 12y ago
iDoneThis is for teams as well.
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Awareness: The Killer Feature of the Apple Watch?(medium.com)
2 points by keesj 12y ago|0 comments
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by keesj 12y ago
Love these types of 'behind the scenes' articles showing the whole story including decision making process, data, graphs, etc. Great job on both the article and NomadList! :)
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by keesj 12y ago
Amazon runs a program called 'AWS Activate' which gives you access to a lot of startup resources including promotional AWS credit. The program is generally only available to startups affiliated with certain accelerators, incubator
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by keesj 12y ago
Sorry about that. I sent you an updated invoice with all the information you should need. We'll make sure to add that info by default for other people.
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by keesj 12y ago
Yep. Everything included, including the AWS deal, were manually negotiated with those companies for them to be included.
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How I Discovered Yo’s Upcoming Revenue Model(medium.com)
2 points by keesj 12y ago|0 comments
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by keesj 12y ago
Founder here! What may seem like a simple product (just get a bunch of services together, right?) might have been one of the most difficult products I've launched. I'm not a salesman, nor a particular fan of sending emails 24&#x2F
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Show HN: BetaList Bundle – Get Access to the Best Startup Tools(bundle.betalist.com)
14 points by keesj 12y ago|8 comments
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by keesj 12y ago
Please don't copy our design[1] and content[2]. Thanks! [1] http://betalist.com [2] http://betalist.com/markets/saas
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How to access anyone’s Telegram message history without unlocking their phone(levels.io)
3 points by keesj 12y ago|0 comments
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by keesj 12y ago
Oh wow, thanks for sharing. That's great feedback. I didn't consider that approach. Would it be helpful if we provided a daily or weekly email that showed the startups like that? Name + pitch.
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by keesj 12y ago
Fair point. I don't think the initial website was necessarily uninteresting (it was later featured by Fast Company, The Next Web, Wired, and many more), but it was likely at a too early-stage for TechCrunch to feature. My way around th
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by keesj 12y ago
100% agree. Thanks for clarifying. (In this case there was not much to vet for TechCrunch of course as they could see what I described exist)
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by keesj 12y ago
Cool! Thanks for sharing. Keep in mind we publish about 4-5 startups a day, so if it's too much we also offer an 'official' newsletter which you'll receive either daily or weekly depending on your preferences. http:&#x2
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by keesj 12y ago
My goal was to get publicity for Openmargin. I created a quick site called BetaList, emailed them about it, and as an end result got publicity for Openmargin. That was the trick.
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by keesj 12y ago
Not sure if you're saying this was unethical, but what I emailed them was 100% true. It's just that I disclosed only one reason for starting BetaList (wanting a platform like that) and not the other one (wanting to leverage TechCr
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by keesj 12y ago
The 'trick' wasn't so much in emailing TechCrunch, as it was creating a separate website altogether (BetaList) and emailing them about that instead. And then leveraging the publicity that platform is getting through TechCrunc
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by keesj 12y ago
You don't have to tell the whole story in the first email. In fact, it's often better to only tell half the story so they get curious to hear the rest. The title of my article is a decent example: "How I tricked TechCrunch in
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by keesj 12y ago
Nice! That will be my next article: How I tricked Hacker News into reading about my writing about how I tricked TechCrunch into writing about my startup.
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by keesj 12y ago
Fair point. Please note that I'm not a native speaker however. You write a Dutch email and we'll compare, okay? ;) Just kidding. Nowadays I have important texts spell checked before sending it out, but I wanted to include the orig
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by keesj 12y ago
You're welcome! Of course part of why I wrote it was to create additional publicity for BetaList and myself, but IMO one of the best marketing strategies is to inspire others with your own stories.
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by keesj 12y ago
Haha. Glad you found the article interesting in the end. I made sure to explicitly thank TechCrunch at the end of the article as BetaList wouldn't be there if it weren't for them.
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by keesj 12y ago
Great advice here. So many founders pitch their startups by describing the features of their product instead of telling a story. Whenever you're selling something you want to make it as easy as possible for the other person to say yes.
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How I started BetaList(medium.com)
92 points by keesj 12y ago|38 comments
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SimpleSend – Send emails without the distraction of seeing your inbox(simplesend.co)
1 points by keesj 12y ago|0 comments
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by keesj 12y ago
Awesome. Got someone else interested as well. I'll wait and see if other people jump in and we'll go from there. See if we can set up a team or something.
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An Email App Don Draper Would Use(medium.com)
12 points by keesj 12y ago|2 comments

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