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Ask HN: Should I Charge for the First Meeting to Ensure Skin in the Game?
2 points by r2sk5t 2y ago|2 comments
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by r2sk5t 2y ago
Not necessarily relevant for you, but expect legislation for algorithmic price collusion: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/ai-price-a... https://www.propublica.org/articl
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
In many cases TM pays venues to be their exclusive ticketing company. Before TM, venues purchased hardware and software. One of the most genius business moves of all time was this business model innovation. TM does not keep all the fees the
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Because we were using this: https://github.com/EddyVerbruggen/SocialSharing-PhoneGap-Plu... ...and didn't want to invest in this feature.
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
We had this issue and went back and forth with Google for weeks with no progress. It was infuriating, since the peeps on the other end just cut and pasted responses. Then, we hashed the Contacts before uploading them and our app was immedia
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Dear Apple, Does the new iPad case have a place to store the pencil when traveling?
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Any thoughts on Windy? https://www.windy.com (UI is a bit intimidating)
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Ask HN: Dark Sky EOL, Which weather app do you like?
9 points by r2sk5t 4y ago|5 comments
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Why would anyone spend a minute looking at software without having some idea of the cost? There is no pricing to be found: https://www.walnut.io https://www.demostack.com https://www.reprise.com (Dear Wal
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Ask HN: Heroku to Beanstalk?
11 points by r2sk5t 4y ago|7 comments
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Good point. We would have no interest in paying for or managing SSO. Sorry for not being articulate. My point is that since Decipad is not a client app that creates documents on the file system, my recommendation would be to integrate with
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Congrats! Whether it's Notion, Google Docs/Sheet/Slides, Coda, Figma, Adobe Cloud, iCloud, Slack, Google Drive, One Drive, etc. the issue for me is content management and SSO. There is a high bar to get anointed to manage con
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
The administration's war against Elon continues: "FCC decides against giving Starlink $1b in rural broadband subsidies"
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
I glossed over the claims and it seems to me that the patent holder could claim that just about every developer violates one of their patents.
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
case details: https://casetext.com/case/shopify-inc-v-express-mobile-inc-3
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Shopify owes $40 million in web-technology patent case, jury says(reuters.com)
4 points by r2sk5t 4y ago|2 comments
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Should Apple make billions with Apple Pay?(bloomberg.com)
4 points by r2sk5t 4y ago|2 comments
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
We switched to Ramp earlier this year because Brex couldn't get their banking integration to work, which impacted our credit limit. Fortunately, we moved everything to Ramp long before the recent email from Brex firing us as a customer
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Tangentially, I'm also guessing you can learn a lot by asking if they have an API for partners/customers, and if their application developers use the API internally, and then by looking at the API to see how well it is architected
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Thanks for writing this down @Ken. You're another example that learning the failure modes is the main benefit of being a consultant for many clients. Since I'm sure you began each audit meeting with the CTO/VPE and possibly
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Apple has been highly supportive of what we're doing. I mentioned Apple because it's difficult in different ways and there are many edge cases; especially with BT & wired headsets.
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
I can affirm that beating devices into submission is possible :-) We support iOS too with PTT headsets, Airpods, and other BT headsets and that gets interesting in different ways. Based on my experience, it seems hardware vendors are not tr
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Appreciate the explanation, and I never intended to reveal my identity. I obviously have way too much scar tissue from dealing with insufficient or non-existent soft-key support, and as a result way overzealous on this issue. Cheers.
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Sincere apologies. I did not reply to this thread for business development purposes, since our customers run stadiums, arenas, campuses, facilities, etc. Would it have been more proper for me to not answer the question?
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
Our important requirements: * Android > 10 * fast enough processor * strong soft-key API/SDK support * loud speaker * all day replaceable battery * retail cost < $250 * mobile device management software (MDM) * PTT headset suppor
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
We are a software company called ALO https://alo.ai
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by r2sk5t 4y ago
We have push-to-talk, group chat, and live video software for similar devices: Kyocera DuraXV https://kyoceramobile.com/duraxv-extreme/ Sonim XP3 Plus https://www.sonimtech.com/products/devices&#x2
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Ask HN: Rollbar for Swift not thread safe, need alternative
1 points by r2sk5t 4y ago|1 comments
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by r2sk5t 5y ago
BTW, I still have PTSD from EBCDIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC and big and little Endian https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endianness
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by r2sk5t 5y ago
Mainframes are expensive and busy running production workloads. Offloading development and test to franken-PC's running 370 emulation had large cost saving potential. Plus, back in those days the IBM sales organization had a ton of pow

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