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by rgbrgb 10y ago
Working on it :)
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
> drivers feel like their services are worth a lot, and passengers simply don't believe it That's an interesting issue. We see the same thing in real estate -- seller's think their homes are worth way more than anyone will
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
The app in the article looks like vaporware (hope to be proven wrong). Anyone else trying to build P2P apps where the worker sees the full value of their work? I get the theory, it seems possible, but it been a few years since we started ta
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
I agree he maybe didn't connect them crisply, but I think the general idea is that even though staying in the EU has a higher net value for the British economy, that value is not being distributed to the working class who voted to leav
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
Here's an official explanation of conversion tracking with FB: https://www.facebook.com/business/a/online-sales/conversion-...
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
We fire a conversion event back to them when someone becomes a client.
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
The point is that you're not looking at CTRs because FB surfaces conversion costs, which is a much more revenue-aligned metric. You can of course still look at CTRs to do micro-optimizations and copy tests with ads if you want, but the
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
Sorry to pile on, but I wanted to throw out the fact that there's currently a huge transaction cost to exchanging real estate in the US too -- the largest factor of which is real estate agent commission (typically 5% in California, 6%
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
Looks great. What DBs are supported? Can't find that anywhere in the docs.
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
I used Relay Rides in SF a few times for super low budget rentals ($20-35/day). It worked really well there and pickup was probably less of a hassle than it would have been to go to the airport. Looks like there's been a rebrand:
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
Cool, they maybe just added that. I command-f'ed for "free" and "pricing" (maybe I typod?).
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
How much does this cost?
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
I see how this could work in the future, but in the current market how do you attract buyers without a commission?
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
We are... you just have to be careful how you do it so that you're still able to operate in the same marketplace with the current incentives (we cut our own fee without cutting anyone else's).
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
We thought that would be the case, but in practice we've found that listing agents usually refuse to double-end deals. Instead they tend to refer clients that approach them to a friend (often another agent working under the same broker
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
You shouldn't need an agent but in the US when the listing is put on market (on the MLS) the seller allocates 5-6 percent for the buyer's and seller's agent to split. If you make an offer without an agent, the seller's a
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
Your grandparent is talking about buy-side agents though -- as a buyer-only brokerage, our experience is that high priced transactions are usually easier to deal with because finances are more buttoned up and the deal is less emotional. The
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
Wow, what's your secret to such fast builds? We're at ~35 minutes to build and test our rails monolith on Wercker. I'm guessing you're not hitting a db too much or loading phantomjs for end-to-end tests of a web ui?
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
Shitty Listings helped us find a lot of great repeat investor buyers. We actually (probably because of the gimmicky name) got more traffic from Shitty Listings than the launch of Open Listings proper and ended up tying it into our main prod
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Move Loot Shut Down(moveloot.com)
1 points by rgbrgb 10y ago|0 comments
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ABBA: A/B Test (Split Test) Calculator(thumbtack.com)
33 points by rgbrgb 10y ago|6 comments
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
So cool. This is the first time I've heard of homomorphic encryption. In my case, Open Listings has a lot of real estate data that we're not allowed to vend programmatically (sale prices, list prices, property characteristics). It
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SF home prices declined in two of the last three months(openlistings.com)
4 points by rgbrgb 10y ago|0 comments
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Fat Fingers: ruby regex for fixing email typoes(github.com)
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
They just released a really clean new homepage too. Big stuff! https://www.urbit.org/
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What Urbit is(urbit.org)
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
The web's hard problem is dealing with that complexity at a speed and scale that is a few orders of magnitude bigger than any other programming environment I can think of. > At best you can avoid shooting yourself in the foot At bes
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
> Web development doesn't have many hard problems. It has one serious though. Kind of a strange way to put it but I think I agree with the gist. Scaling is the web's hard problem. Building an ever expanding list of features whi
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
Yes, it's a very specific power tool. If you don't want to pull production data or clone it to your staging environment then this is not useful. I used to work at Amazon where this was a huge deal to us because of credit card numb
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by rgbrgb 10y ago
I use this everyday, totally recommend it if you're using mongo + capistrano! Many thanks to pharkle for making it.

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