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by nicgrev103 3y ago
I met my wife on eHarmony after a few unsuccessful years on the apps. We have been happily married for 3 years. eHarmony was far better than any app but I can only attribute that to the fact that it is a paid for service with no free option
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Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
412 points by nicgrev103 3y ago|316 comments
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by nicgrev103 3y ago
But you aren't actually taking peoples money, if you were, I agree you burn bridges and get a bad reputation, however it's very easy to rebrand and I'm not suggesting to do that for thousands of customers just enough to decid
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by nicgrev103 3y ago
Cool idea, but ultimately it doesn't matter what I or anyone else thinks of your idea, it's about your customer. I'd say don't build a product but instead build a landing page with the 'product' for sale (get s
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Ask HN: Examples of 'Manual' Start Ups?
2 points by nicgrev103 3y ago|2 comments
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by nicgrev103 3y ago
Just because people have a different opinion does'nt mean they 'don't understand'.
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by nicgrev103 3y ago
Can two rights make a wrong?
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Blackmail as a Victimless Crime: Reply to Altman (1998)(papers.ssrn.com)
17 points by nicgrev103 3y ago|93 comments
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by nicgrev103 3y ago
If we are talking just general business movies, some more are: 'The Big Short', 'Wolf of Wall Street'.
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by nicgrev103 3y ago
'Billion dollar code' is another good one, not so much about a fall though.
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by nicgrev103 3y ago
I guess I meant all the other suggestions documented failures or at least 'falls'. Spotify may not make money but it is still running and hasn't suffered a fall to the same extent as the other real life examples.
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by nicgrev103 3y ago
'Halt and Catch Fire' (Fictional but good) 'Sillicon Valley' (Fictional and comedy but also good) 'The Playlist' (About Spotify, which isn't failure)
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
Yeah, I think there would be a thin line to tread between being helpful and informative and being scammy. I would not want to actually go through with the scam and soliciting donations as an unknown orginisation seems spammy/scammy. I
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
Yeah 100%, the family members could give contact info for those they think are vulnerable and you can as you say 'pen test' them.
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
I thought about setting up a foundation that mock scams people as a form of scam education after my wife was scammed in a classic tax text scam. Thoughts?
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
Tried it with a basic placeit mockup and it was awful.
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
I think if the background was removed it would be harder.
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
Really cool. I wanted to make an 3-4 inch NFC eink screen for my phone so I can read books on the go without an e reader. Anyone got expreince that could help out?
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
Haters gonna hate. I feel like this has got better over the past few years but there was certainly a culture where being nasty online was acceptable. When I was a teenager I was playing around with web design and posted the finished design
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
Love it. Great for there to be something for people who want to pitch but aren't looking for investment.
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
People pay for a lottery ticket to dream about what their life could be like if they won (similar to people who never launch that buiness idea). Many people derive a lot of happiness from this, moreover (in the uk) a large proportion of the
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
Was going to say this. People pay for a lottery ticket to dream about what their life could be like if they won (similar to people who never launch that buiness idea). Many people derive a lot of happiness from this, moreover (in the uk) a
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
True, however, even then the initail focus was very spesific: Make a reuasable rocket. An everything app does a range of very different things like ride hailing, food delivery, cash transfer, chat, etc etc.
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
I really don't get the value proposition. Isn't it startup 101 that you should not try to boil the ocean and be the everything of everything for everyone.
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
I mainly use stripe because they have significantly lower transaction fees. 1.4% +20p vs 2.9% +30p UK
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
Negative, as with all legal action it took months and by then the graduations were long past.
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
Similar experience I used to run a graduation photography company, we did professional graduation photos half the price of the 'officail' providers (who pay a huge commission to the university, but don't get me started on tha
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
I hope you two never break up. Put this level of ability, rescources, time and effort into revenge and the results will not be pretty.
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
I've had a few. The most similar was uber eats, they constantly have a promotion on. One such was get £15 off your next order via email. I clicked through and ordered only to find no discount was applied. When I qestioned it they said
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by nicgrev103 4y ago
"Perhaps the most important factor, though, is that because WIGs are not classed as aircraft the regulations that govern them are far less onerous. That means that they don’t need to carry the kind of backup power that an aircraft woul

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