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by mtgentry 15y ago
This. I'm hard pressed to think of online content that is as transcendent as a great film.
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SOPA isn't on the radar of the general public. So it makes sense when Stewart says he "needs to catch up on the issue". I really think it's a simple as that.
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by mtgentry 15y ago
I'm probably in the minority on this, but Buzzfeed has always rubbed me the wrong way with their very liberal dependance on DMCA. They frequently post content created elsewhere, and then call it fair use. For example I recall a few weeks ag
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Here we go: http://youtu.be/Z4jH-hvxFUs?t=1h8m26s My figures were off and he says "executive talent" not product managers, but my point about benchmarking stands. Sry, it had been a while since I watched it : )
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by mtgentry 15y ago
When Jeff Bezos creates a new division at Amazon he'll hire a product manager for the first 0-1 million in sales. When the division grows to 1 million, he fires them and brings on another person for the next 1-5 million stage of the company
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Altuchur was just using Uri to make a larger point.."An abililty to see the future makes Uri Geller famous but does not make a successful entrepreneur..." James is a good writer. He has more nuggets of wisdom on his blog: http://jamesaltuc
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Startups have started to see the value in branding, design, and storytelling. Those are things you learn in the agency world. The thing about ad agencies that startups don't like is their lack of accountability. If an ad campaign doesn't in
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by mtgentry 15y ago
I read HN and listen to podcasts like TWIST to expose myself to good ideas. My theory is the more you expose yourself to talented thought leaders, the more likely you are to think like them. Then when you come across a problem while buildin
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by mtgentry 15y ago
zing!
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by mtgentry 15y ago
I've had great success finding talented programmers here: http://builditwith.me (not an ad, I just really like the service)
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Craigslist won because it was first to market. If anything, their particular case might prove that having deep network effects are more important than good design. It drives me crazy that Craig won't allow image previews for apartment listi
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by mtgentry 15y ago
"There is, however, a shortage of good startup designers, at least when it comes to people who have both interaction and product design experience and skill sets." As a design/product guy I'd love to work at your startup IF the problem you'
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by mtgentry 15y ago
I'd like to see an analysis between these two sets of data: A) Dudes that have an opinion about the OKC algorithm vs. B) The amount of times they get laid each week Jokes aside, I'm fascinated with this topic. For most of history, the likel
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by mtgentry 15y ago
this is dope, nice work :)
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by mtgentry 15y ago
probably because the form factor hadn't changed.
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Well, the product assumes Jill is really hot. And she gets lots of email from not only Jack, but Tom, Dick & Harry as well. We think Jill would want to use it to decrease the number of cock pics in her inbox.
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by mtgentry 15y ago
We're counting hands now on HN. It's very much a MVP.
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by mtgentry 15y ago
I actually reached out to Eric about the idea originally but didn't hear back, so we just went ahead and built it on our own : ) The only thing I'm not crazy about w/ coutreous.ly is the stats live outside email ecosystem. Buster Benson is
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Great point. That's why theres a line underneath "unbearable" that says "please only send if it's urgent." Also to your point, I'm not sure if this is a good product for workplace email exchanges. In that setting you're sort of forced to se
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As mentioned in another thread, maybe there could be an algorithm that uses multiple data points to determine availability? So it would take into account that you haven't opened that 5,345th email from a year ago, and you're unlikely to any
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Haha. The problem with this is people would get used to it always being unbearable. And they they would't trust it.
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Overflowing inboxes are the problem. Perhaps we should have provided more context about what we're trying to fix : ) These guys do a good job: http://emailcharter.org We're trying to provide a framework around that first rule of respectin
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by mtgentry 15y ago
2) I can understand why you would want to see each and every email. Although I think some people get so much email that they would happily place some of the burden on the sender in exchange for the time savings.
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Maybe the solution to this is an algorithm that pings multiple data points to determine your availability.
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Yep, MVP indeed! Our core idea is that email interactions should be based on one's availability. More thoughts on that here: http://blog.getsmokesignal.com/post/10660730744
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Great point. In future versions we may only ping your Priority Inbox, instead of everything. Would that be a more accurate reflection of your "busyness"?
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by mtgentry 15y ago
Ha, I'm sure there are other typos as well! If someone gets a full inbox while on vacation, I'm guessing they would still want others to know their inbox is full, no?
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Ask HN: Please review my site "Smoke Signal"(getsmokesignal.com)
143 points by mtgentry 15y ago|80 comments
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Under no circumstances? I think an online entrepreneurship class taught by Paul Graham would certainly be as good if not better than any real life offering the University of California has to offer.
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Wow.(masongentry.com)
4 points by mtgentry 15y ago|2 comments

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