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by kovacs 10y ago
You have some dupe text on your about page.... "When starting a new group with a diverse membership you don’t ask for everyones Twitter handle or Snapchat name, you ask for their email addresses. Done.. When starting a new group with a
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by kovacs 10y ago
I was in my very first performing arts role, a musical parody of bay area tech, and lauched a webapp during the show ( http://birthdaymob.com/ ) and integrated audience participation to introduce people to it. It's the v
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by kovacs 10y ago
Will there be stickers? An SDK for apps to run inside your chat? Social graph widgets to invite my friends to chat? A pair of glasses that I can use for hands free HN chat? An Alexa skill for chat? :-P All kidding aside congrats on your la
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by kovacs 10y ago
Yup. I've lived in SF since 2000 and every time I go to NYC it's way easier to connect with people. It's either I'm different when I'm in NYC or it's SF. Or maybe a bit of both but your comment resonates very s
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by kovacs 10y ago
Ahh but what if it's unsolicited but sent on behalf of friends and family in the form of anonymous birthday SMS messages? e.g. http://birthdaymob.com You don't really want to opt out of birthday spam do you? :-P
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by kovacs 10y ago
yup, same
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by kovacs 10y ago
I strongly felt the world needed a way for close friends, family, and coworkers to band together in order to anonymously spam someone's phone with giphys on their birthday :-) http://birthdaymob.com It's without a doub
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by kovacs 11y ago
This is awesome. I had the same desire and even told folks at GitHub that improving this report is low hanging fruit. It's been on my list of ideas to hack on for awhile :-) Ideally you (well, really I :-P) also want star/follow a
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by kovacs 11y ago
^^ this. The commands are great but why not bring up a dialog of the commands represented by an icon that you tap to use the given command? Much better discoverability than having to type "help" and get popped out to a web page wi
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by kovacs 11y ago
From your lips to Amazon's ears, they sure hope so :)
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by kovacs 11y ago
Yes sir
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by kovacs 11y ago
Everyone that has a car thinks they're a great race car driver. But if you actually want to be a great race car driver the first step is to become an expert in building the car. So stop day dreaming that you're the new Mario Andre
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by kovacs 11y ago
This is a pretty cool experiment. As someone that recently worked on an app that was doing speech to text in near and far field, calling this a $10 echo is like calling a Honda Civic a $15K Ferrari. I'd love to see the video of the aut
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by kovacs 11y ago
I think the best and most relevant example of this for the HN crowd might be Donkey Kong :-) Ever since the documentary "King of Kong" came out, and that douche Billy Mitchell's record was broken, there's been a stream o
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by kovacs 11y ago
When I first read "conceptual debt" I thought it would mean poor architectural decisions as it relates to building software. Of course that's not what he meant. What he really means is what I would call "UX debt" if
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by kovacs 12y ago
This app is amazing! What a great way to learn guitar or a specific song on guitar!
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by kovacs 12y ago
I am free. Email me at kovacs@gmail.com I did get things working and am working on a ruby gem that I'm hoping to be able to release for general consumption but in the mean time for folks using ruby here's a snippet that will get t
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by kovacs 12y ago
I'm in SF and spent a few hours today trying to get the speech to text API working with very little success. I'm happy to meet with you and go through this in person so you can get helpful feedback. Short of that the feedback woul
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by kovacs 12y ago
Welcome to the 2015 version of "first" on HN :-)
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by kovacs 12y ago
A few months ago I built something for myself that started from the same idea of simple journaling/reminders but I chose SMS instead of email. http://carmela.io It's basically a 2 way SMS reminder system that allows fo
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by kovacs 12y ago
This is amazing work
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by kovacs 12y ago
I tried this, like a week or so ago actually. I paid $46 for a terms doc and it wasn't good. Like the idea, and it's very similar in principal to one of my products (generate a document based on your needs), but it's simply n
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by kovacs 12y ago
Haha yeah I had the same exact reaction but if he/she can people to pay then good for them. They've found a pain point someone's willing to pay for :-)
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by kovacs 12y ago
+1 I never worked with Jim but almost did and networked a number of times. Your description matches my read exactly.
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by kovacs 12y ago
Wow... you've done a hell of a lot of work on this app and it shows! Great job! Your video is well done too. I'm working on something right now that does a portion of what you've got here and it was the same thing... I had an
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by kovacs 13y ago
Aaron you come across so angry and prickly that even people that may agree with you do so begrudgingly. In this case you're simply wrong to not even agree and cannot expound beyond a simple "No", like a 2 year old that doesn&
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by kovacs 13y ago
You know I'm not sure I completely agree on this point. As someone that's lived in both the Java and Ruby worlds for a long time I'd say that in a many number of cases you're right. The "shiny object" syndrome
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Jiffysoft hires Atlassian's`entire marketing department(jiffysoftware.com)
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by kovacs 15y ago
Seems like combined with this news from a couple weeks ago we might be able to wipe malaria out completely in the next decade or so? http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44947187/ns/health-infectious_di...
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by kovacs 15y ago
Nice unbounce page ;-) (The star icons give it away) Honestly right now it's not worth anything to anyone and I'm sure you're losing potential signups. I was going to sign up until I saw that you were going to charge for it. It's way too ea

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