phacops

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by phacops 10y ago
5 years of bootstrapping a nutrition & fitness tracking web/mobile app for me. After the first few months it was only making enough income to cover basic hosting costs and not much else, so I ended up getting a job (well, co-found
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by phacops 11y ago
An Apple TV app for this would be great
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by phacops 12y ago
It’s a little more complicated than that. I could temporarily take a chunk, compute the hash, then throw it away and report back that I am happily storing the data, even though I’m not. Anyhow, read the permacoin paper. It’s pretty cool, an
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by phacops 12y ago
Because it provides incentive for people to help store the archive, and it solves the problem in their article about defending against bad actors.
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by phacops 12y ago
They should really look at using permacoin to store the archive. Permacoin is a cryptocurrency that uses proof of storage instead of bitocoin’s proof of work: https://www.cs.umd.edu/~elaine/docs/permacoin.pdf
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by phacops 12y ago
Yep, same experience -- google’s been completely mute about it too, which is all the more frustrating
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by phacops 12y ago
True, it started as a hobby, so it’s been fully bootstrapped and I’ve spent less than $2500 on actual marketing to date. Advertising in the Health / Diet space is super pricy, the ROI still doesn’t make sense. CPA >>>>>&
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by phacops 12y ago
I have a little over 10k DAU for http://cronometer.com/ and it runs on 2 fairly small cloud instances + a cloud database. A single host can handle the load fine, but I keep 2 running to survive failures. And it took me near
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by phacops 12y ago
Seems like this would be more cost effective as a component of sky-scrapers. Generator on top, series of weights on rails down the sides.
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by phacops 12y ago
you’d think HN would understand ‘going viral'
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Show HN: A multi group chat alternative to Hipchat and Slack (chatbox.com)
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by phacops 12y ago
Is the 10c/GB/month a hosted-mode fee, or the commercial license when running the open source package yourself?
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by phacops 13y ago
I had been waiting 4 months for my withdraw -- just email their support and ask them to cancel the transaction. They were able to do so for me today, and I can now trade them again (and transfer them out as BTC anywhere).
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by phacops 13y ago
Yep same for me