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by midas 14y ago
Thanks Forrest! We'll now be upgrading to pasta and red sauce.
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by midas 14y ago
Haha, thanks! What are you typing in? If you enter "priceonomics" (no quotes) it should redirect to /priceless.
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by midas 14y ago
@nknight and @olalonde thanks for the feedback guys, genuinely helpful. It's nice to see that on HN. Feel free to email me directly anytime: michael [at] priceonomics [dot] com.
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by midas 14y ago
Thanks! I had an intentional 100ms delay between keystrokes, but I just lowered it to 25ms on my local and it's looking much better.
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by midas 14y ago
Ha! How did you get that result? The javascript should autocomplete to our cars guide if you type in "car": http://cl.ly/0x0z2F393U20383s3b2G You can manually override if you want to, but if it's not doing it by default that's a bug.
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by midas 14y ago
Priceonomics (YC W12) - San Francisco Front-End Engineer - Full Time Priceonomics is the price guide for everything. We're a team of three who are passionate about reinventing how people search, discover, and purchase products. We're based
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Deepworld: A Cloud-Based Multiplayer Crafting Adventure(kickstarter.com)
5 points by midas 14y ago|0 comments
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by midas 14y ago
I wonder if the reason that there are so few e-readers for sale is because their use-case doesn't really change. In other words, they remain useful for much longer. This might make people hold onto them instead of constantly upgrading to t
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A primer on Python decorators(thumbtack.com)
187 points by midas 14y ago|41 comments
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by midas 15y ago
It's a bit surprising that rank on HN and general traffic/mentions aren't very well correlated.
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Gambling with the devil: A/B tests done right(thumbtack.com)
45 points by midas 15y ago|1 comments
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by midas 15y ago
I wonder what iPhone ownership is like in Microsoft's turf (Redmond WA)?
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How We Got People to Earn Our Schwag(thumbtack.com)
36 points by midas 15y ago|4 comments
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by midas 15y ago
I don't normally give to charity, but this is totally awesome.
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by midas 15y ago
I'm not sure, but I love that the ratio of the price to fix a cracked screen vs the value created by doing that is roughly the same across all model of iPhones. Put differently, it makes sense that you can always make a little money by fix
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Food Rules for Startups: Eight Delicious Ways to Build a Better Company(thumbtack.com)
94 points by midas 15y ago|30 comments
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by midas 15y ago
Priceonomics has great data on that as well (median price = $150): http://priceonomics.com/phones/htc/droid-incredible/
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by midas 15y ago
The post looks at the no-contract prices, so it assumes you paid ~$600 for the phone and then sold it for ~$300 18 months later.
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by midas 15y ago
It's pretty amazing that we pay ~$90 a month to Verizon but only ~$13 a month to Apple. Intuitively it feels that Apple is the one creating most of the value.
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by midas 15y ago
It makes sense intuitively that heavy appliances would be the most profitable. People don't say, "sure you can have my iPod for $20" but I could see them being willing to part with a washing machine for that price if someone would carry it
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by midas 15y ago
Sorry if that's not clear, it's all indexed to 100. Those are all relative values and not absolute values.
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by midas 15y ago
It's practically impossible to reverse engineer the SERP, but if you look at the Domain Authority for both codecademy.com and codecademy.org, you'll find that the former is orders of magnitude higher (65 vs 35). This might explain a lot.
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by midas 15y ago
It really depends on how many pages you have. If you just have 10 pages off the domain (/signup, /login, /about, /jobs, /how-it-works, etc) then there's really no benefit of having a hierarchy. If you have > 1k pages, then a flat stru
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by midas 15y ago
We use all kinds of cool tools (maybe we should put them all on the site somewhere?), but we use python mostly. We love python!
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by midas 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback and sorry about that. We made some tweaks to our search this morning to speed it up for launch and some searches like yours suffered as a result. This (unintuitive) search should get you what you're looking for: h
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by midas 16y ago
Aren't there other ways to do database replication?
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by midas 16y ago
My company was in a similar boat with a decade plus old domain (though I don't think it ever had anything scummy associated with it before we bought it). When we first started testing our site in January '09, our "click here to verify your