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by redguava 14y ago
The comment you are replying to stated they find this unethical. That is unrelated to whether or not its a viable or successful technique.
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by redguava 14y ago
I am in Australia and I often find this frustrating, I do completely understand why though. The United States has a population of 311 Million. In Australia we have a population of 22 Million. When you consider the complications in making
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by redguava 14y ago
I like the design of the website aesthetically and at first it's what kept my attention. After reading through the site though, I am not sure the tone/feeling of your site suits your purpose. Looking for a job is a very serious thing, I wo
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How to Build a Responsive WordPress Theme with Bootstrap(blog.teamtreehouse.com)
45 points by redguava 14y ago|4 comments
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by redguava 14y ago
Heroku has already simplified deployment and hosting. I am not sure I see the need to put a further wrapper around it.
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by redguava 14y ago
One size fits all seems nice for it's simplicity, but you end up leaving too much money on the table. Some users will pay less, some will pay more, you want a pricing scheme that allows them to do that.
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by redguava 14y ago
I don't understand why they are dropping the price. They wanted 10,000 users, they got over 20,000. Surely that tells them the price wasn't a problem. Why give up so much revenue when it seems like price isn't holding them back?
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by redguava 14y ago
I believe a much bigger indicator for success is the person rather than the idea. I don't know what this person is like, but I wouldn't get hung up on the idea part of things. He already got to the front page of Hacker News and garnered so
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by redguava 14y ago
I question the idea of having a meeting every day whether you need it or not. I have used stand-ups in the past, but found there was a lot of information being shared that not everyone cared about or benefited from knowing. I like the idea
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by redguava 14y ago
The subject matter of your software doesn't really matter. Building software is what is fun, using the latest tech is fun. Who the end user is, won't affect your day-to-day very much.
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by redguava 14y ago
I always find this to be terrible advice. Most programmers have similar itches, if you scratch your own itch, you are going into a lot of competition with many other developers. Why not solve a problem for an industry that gets much less
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by redguava 14y ago
Exactly. If you value yourself at $65 p/hour or more, that's a few hundred months of paying Chargify to break even. I am as optimistic about my software product as anyone, but I need the break even point to be sooner than that if I am goin
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by redguava 14y ago
I like those type of answers. If you are encountering an issue doing something, and there is a better way of doing it (as opposed to just solving the problem in your current method), I think it adds a lot of value to offer those suggestion
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by redguava 14y ago
I would like to see people be a bit more supportive when someone announces their first app and asks for feedback. I understand you have provided feedback, but perhaps put yourself in the shoes of the developer and consider the way you put t
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by redguava 14y ago
I didn't know you could fit so much "passiveness" into one sentence.
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by redguava 14y ago
I think it's really important not to forget that this is for getting funding, not necessarily for having a successful startup/business. There is a really big difference there and often this type of advice ends up getting repeated but witho
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by redguava 14y ago
"Growth hacker" aside, would you put up a recruitment post like this?
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YC, please mentor your companies on recruitment
1 points by redguava 14y ago|3 comments
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Twilio - Two Factor Authentication Solution(twilio.com)
1 points by redguava 14y ago|0 comments
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by redguava 14y ago
I don't think it's so much about bootstrapping vs. funded as just being frugal. Not all bootstrapped companies are low on money, some had plenty of their own to put in, or others have achieved profitability. This is a way of running a compa
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by redguava 14y ago
The "Visits vs Uniques" graph is one of the worst I have seen. When your Y-Axis has such variable jumps it just makes the graph completely irrelevant. I would say it was intentionally skewed to mislead, but sometimes the jumps work in you
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TalkDesk puts your company call centre in the cloud(techcrunch.com)
1 points by redguava 14y ago|0 comments
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by redguava 14y ago
I would guess that if anyone can find cheap flights it would be them.
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Sprintlys continuous integration setup(blog.sprint.ly)
1 points by redguava 14y ago|0 comments
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by redguava 14y ago
I think the leaderboard should be based on your win/loss record. Leave snacks as a way to get bigger and give you a better chance to win the game... they don't need points as well. The game is a classic, no need to change much, adding mult
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How to hire your first customer service representative(uservoice.com)
2 points by redguava 14y ago|0 comments
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by redguava 14y ago
Raising more money means giving away more equity. If you think your company is going to get a higher valuation later, it makes sense to raise a smaller amount now and then raise again later when you get more $$$ per % of equity.
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by redguava 14y ago
I hate reading things like "more than half of startups will fail in the first 5 years, so get ready to fail and change your plans". It's not random... you don't have 50% chance of success. The half that failed did something wrong, there is
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by redguava 14y ago
I agree this won't show what your customers prefer, because you aren't giving your customers a choice. This might show you which of these your customers will buy from if they have no choice though. If you want to see which they prefer, why
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by redguava 14y ago
"If the same person sits down and starts creating his own software, he will probably earn much more one year later by himself already." I think people really underestimate what a small portion of a successful business the ability to code we

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