mattmiller

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by mattmiller 15y ago
Very cool. Lets see if it works.
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by mattmiller 15y ago
This should be compared with median home price delta over the years and median cost of food. I bet the median home price has gone up drastically making the overall cost of living much higher now than then. Median cost of food and other nece
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by mattmiller 15y ago
They got me. The touchpad is pretty cool.
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by mattmiller 15y ago
A part of me thinks that this is whole thing is a marketing gimmick to create a bunch of touchpad fans.
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by mattmiller 15y ago
This is because of the BAR and the AMA. If there was an equivalent group for programmers that could get equivalent regulation this would not be the case. I think a group like that would solve a lot of the issues OP brings up.
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by mattmiller 15y ago
>Maunder minimum does somehow manage to give us a couple extra decades to get our house in order Have you considered that this may change the scientific community's opinion on global warming? If CO2 levels drop faster than expected it m
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by mattmiller 15y ago
They are what got me thinking about this. You could never sell Yammer to a CTO before anyone has used it. The product is very different than anything enterprise is used to paying for.
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by mattmiller 15y ago
The biggest benefit I think is the lower barrier to entry for these clients. That creates more competition and better products. How do I communicate that to enterprise clients? I suspect that they think a higher barrier to entry is a good t
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by mattmiller 15y ago
You are right and it would have to be more than a business model. This would have to be more like a marketplace like Salesforce w/o the limitations Saleforce puts on developers. The marketplace would offer enterprise clients brand recogniti
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by mattmiller 15y ago
I have been trying to figure out how to simplify selling to enterprise. The problem is sales decisions are made by managers who don't use the software. Getting the attention of these managers is expensive and the sale takes months. I think
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by mattmiller 15y ago
I transferred to an under funded state school from a well funded community college. The CC has computer labs that CS classes were taught in. The state school taught CS with chalk boards. I learned much more with chalk boards.
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by mattmiller 15y ago
He has a full time job at Microsoft. You would be lucky to get 4 hours a day out of him.
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by mattmiller 15y ago
Is there a 'bubble' bubble?
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by mattmiller 16y ago
It is a hurtle when shopping in stores too. It would be nice if there was a fit feedback for each piece of clothing bought. Then the service would only show clothes that fit like earlier clothes that I have bought and rated high.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I think this was one of the reasons MySpace originally took off. It was Geocities++. Once the current concept of social networking was adopted they should have started restricting user creativity...
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Does it work for bill paying? Cable, water, gas and electric, mortgage companies? I think it would be awesome for have a way to pay all my bills from one interface.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I think a lot of students coast through a CS program and expect to be good at programming when they are done. A student should always have a personal project that he is working on outside of school (even if it is really small). Something th
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by mattmiller 16y ago
If you tell me something I don't know and want to know I am happy for it to be 'self-serving'. Some things I would like to know (disclose what you are comfortable with): how to you monetize? How do you acquire users? How much (assuming you
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Facebook's real potential is getting their ad platform on other peoples websites. It's advantage is how easy it is to target specific demographics. They have already started getting their code onto other people sites with the Like button an
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by mattmiller 16y ago
It cripples upward mobility for the rest of society. You could make an argument that upward mobility is one of Americas greatest strengths. It keeps people motivated and it allows the entire population the chance to contribute to advancemen
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I ask b/c I want to know about his willingness to sell. If you contacted him out of the blue he may have gave you a high number b/c he does not really want to sell. If it is on a marketplace, you know he wants to sell; you have more negotia
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by mattmiller 16y ago
How did you find the site? Did he come to you to solicited the sale? Was it in a market place like flippa?
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I launched http://www.agentshowroom.com/ with some help from phoenix24 I found on OfferHN who parsed a PSD to html/css for me.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
MLS data has a lot of red tape attached to it that I learned the hard way. Send me an email and I may be able to catch you up on how that all works. It took me a while to figure out a legal way to get that data.
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by mattmiller 16y ago
I have a real estate themed project as well: http://www.agentshowroom.com
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Is there anyone who has tried? There are tons of 'find a co-founder' websites, but I have not heard of a single 'show off your demo and speak with investors' website. I know that investors want to invest in people not a product, but a good
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by mattmiller 16y ago
http://www.agentshowroom.com It is a Facebook app that lets Realtors shows their listings. I have tried to make it presentable, but I usually end up doing tasks that are more fun and let the design suffer. Thanks!
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Do you feel like you truly tested any of these ideas? If so how? I have built something that I think is good, but has not taken off. I don't think it is a bad idea, I think it is an untested idea. I would hate to drop it without anyone ever
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by mattmiller 16y ago
Since most phones are CDMA now I think the dangers of interference are much much lower. I have always suspected that carriers help promote this myth to reduce network overhead from point 2 above.
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Ask HN: How do I begin the acquisition conversation?
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