matdehaast

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by matdehaast 8y ago
I am naive in this space, could some explain what is keeping the duopoly of Visa/MasterCard going?
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by matdehaast 8y ago
We are a team (of athletes) aiming to create a better connection between athletes and their friends, family and fans. Why? We are frustrated that it's difficult to follow an athletes journey through current social media because it does
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Show HN: Athsee – Share your sporting journey(athsee.com)
5 points by matdehaast 8y ago|2 comments
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by matdehaast 8y ago
Our company uses various GPS trackers on a daily basis, the only thing that I can imagine pushes the cost that high is size. Smaller = Higher Cost. As the birds probably can only take so much extra weight
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Startups that launched at Y Combinator’s S18 Demo Day 2(techcrunch.com)
135 points by matdehaast 8y ago|91 comments
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by matdehaast 8y ago
Haha yeah I was also a bit perplexed on this choice. But hey the team must be strong as getting past the YC partners is no easy task. My first thought when seeing this was Peter Thiels lecture where he discussed restaurants and why they mak
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by matdehaast 8y ago
Haha there are some things that are just so much better in Afrikaans!
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by matdehaast 8y ago
Can anyone explain to me why having a predetermined higher price would be a trigger to make the company private? Surely the lower the better as you are essentially getting the same asset, “Tesla”, for the capital used to make it private.
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by matdehaast 8y ago
Exactly!
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by matdehaast 8y ago
Thats great start but is more of a data api than an interaction api. I am thinking more along the lines of being able to programmatically interact with my government
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by matdehaast 8y ago
An API to government institutions, Home Affairs, Tax Services, Motor Vehicle department etc.
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by matdehaast 8y ago
Whilst I understand Taylor has to make a living (I do pay for forge to support him), I am sad that something like this isn't opened to the community as apart of the framework.
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by matdehaast 8y ago
@Nsomaru are you living in Cape Town/South Africa?
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by matdehaast 9y ago
iEchoic congrats on the new design! Very slick and smooth. Just a quick question. Are you using CRA with SSR (ie with nextjs or other solution?) for the new site? Or is it just a large SPA served from static html,js,css bundled? Thanks Matt
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Cape Town, South Africa
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Better branding? I mean Slack wasn't exactly novel when it shipped...
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by matdehaast 9y ago
We use Zoom weekly for our meetings across the world and it has never failed us! Occasionally I deal with clients who insist on Skype and it will consistently give me headaches... I can't wait till it dies!
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by matdehaast 9y ago
I would hazard a guess it is only the ones you hear of. The #MeToo campaign showed that sexual harassment, assault and misconduct affects all demographics.
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Unsexy yes, but stable and works a charm for most of the scale people here will deal with. What alternative would you suggest for newer projects?
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Let the hater hate. I really like the concept of the site and think there is room for this type of system in other areas. We are exploring a similar concept to this to integrate within our live tracking/timing for Sports. It is a nice
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Nope haven't got anything yet, also patiently waiting! Last batch the emails went out pretty late on the day. However, the one before that came out a day earlier if I recall correctly.
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Also really curious, as I feel we are quite a small startup community and would have heard something.
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by matdehaast 9y ago
haha yeah :)
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Cool little project , very similar to wttr.io
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Backend: laravel Frontend: vuejs or react with ssr on both
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Yeah OfferZen is the localised version of Hired in South Africa
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by matdehaast 9y ago
Hey, @louwhopley. So cool to see this project on HN! Signed up for your early access a few weeks ago and hope to get access soon. I think there is a lot of opportunities still within Africa for the informal sector with technology. However,
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by matdehaast 10y ago
I should probably add, we did not make it past this round.
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by matdehaast 10y ago
For the last session of YC, we had a video call with Paul Buchheit. How was it? INTENSE! He was very direct and to the point, think rapid fire. Questions centred around our business model and product. How many users we had and revenue. One