mailarchis

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   by mailarchis 6y ago

   Thanks MJ
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   by mailarchis 6y ago

   I will check out Acorn. By any chance do you remember mailboxapp Mac app? It was great
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   by mailarchis 6y ago

   Thanks cpach. I'm still holding on to some hope on more answers pouring in.I realized that the focus has shifted massively to mobile or web apps. But I still feel there are a lot of cool stuff you can and should build as desktop apps.
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   by mailarchis 6y ago

   Thanks cpach, nikivi for your pointers
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   Ask HN: What are the best resources to learn app development for Macs?

   9 points by mailarchis 6y ago|10 comments
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   HOTorNOT shaped the social web as we know it(mashable.com)

   2 points by mailarchis 6y ago|0 comments
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   by mailarchis 6y ago

   Take control of the 60%. Block time on calendar for yourself in minimum quantum of time that you need to be productive, say 2 hours or 4 hours. Also, maybe frontload your time for deep work towards the beginning of the week and increase the
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   Ask HN: Where do you draw the line between a co-founder and early employee?

   55 points by mailarchis 6y ago|87 comments
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   by mailarchis 6y ago

   Hello Everyone, I’m a Product Manager at a Tech Co. A few weeks back I was having a conversation with my Manager on priorities and how and where I spend my time (in a positive context). I realised that since I use calendar judiciously, I ca
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    Show HN: Mornin.am – A Calendar that helps you make time for what matters(mornin.am)

    4 points by mailarchis 6y ago|1 comments
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    by mailarchis 7y ago

    Thanks for your reply. What has been the impact on small businesses and the service sector? Are there some changes that you see that will remain for a while
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    Ask HN: Have things returned to normalcy in China?

    7 points by mailarchis 7y ago|3 comments
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    by mailarchis 7y ago

    No. It's early testing and quarantine at scale
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    by mailarchis 8y ago

    34. Learning Economics. Reading Principles of Economics by N. Gregory Mankiw . I didn't take a course in Economics while in college and am trying to make up for it and build a better understanding of how the world operates. I finished
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    by mailarchis 8y ago

    Steve Blank has an interesting definition for a Startup "a startup is a temporary organization used to search for a repeatable and scalable business model." These organizations, while revenue generating, may still have some way to
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    Gala2017: Jeff Bezos Fireside Chat(youtube.com)

    1 points by mailarchis 9y ago|0 comments
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    7 Ways to Be Insufferable on Facebook (2013)(waitbutwhy.com)

    4 points by mailarchis 9y ago|0 comments
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    Uber Is Going to 0, and Benchmark Knows It(thinkgrowth.org)

    32 points by mailarchis 9y ago|7 comments
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    by mailarchis 9y ago

    This is interesting. And about a 4 years back Google Ventures https://www.gv.com had invested in Uber Ref : https://techcrunch.com/2013/08/22/google-ventures-puts-258m-...
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    by mailarchis 10y ago

    Elon Musk's first successful exit was Zip2 that provided online city guide software to newspapers. Bill Gates sold Basic Interpreter to MITS. How successful would they have been if the first problems they had picked to solve was landin
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    by mailarchis 10y ago

    True. At the same time, I believe he can do more good for the world as a private individual than as the President of the USA
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    by mailarchis 11y ago

    This got me thinking about gravity's effect on antimatter.
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    by mailarchis 11y ago

    I had to look up Best Western on wiki. You are right. It is similar to Best Western Hotels.
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    by mailarchis 11y ago

    I don't think Oyo subleases the rooms, but instead has some kind of revenue share agreement with the Hotels. One thing you need to consider is that that they partner with Hotels that are small and independent players and do not have th
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    by mailarchis 11y ago

    I had a hard time understanding this analogy too from the title. The analogy is used in terms of the core/most important value proposition. For Uber, it is Predictabilty and for AirBnB Discovery. In hospitality industry, the problem is
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    by mailarchis 12y ago

    I did check out stripe. Maybe this is something I should have added in Q. I don't live in US though I am building the app for customers in US and Stripe is not supported from where I am.
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    by mailarchis 12y ago

    Just added.
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    by mailarchis 12y ago

    Thanks for the pointer. What I really wanted to understand was do you need to have an incorporated company to offer a simple subscription service or you can offer it as an individual
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    Ask HN: Can you offer a subscription service as an individual?

    4 points by mailarchis 12y ago|9 comments
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    by mailarchis 12y ago

    You should definitely check out crowdflower.com we had been using them for image tagging tasks with great results. Plus they gave advanced features that help with quality control.