robbiemitchell

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by robbiemitchell 6y ago
There's no money to be made in payments. The two-sided acquisition fees (merchants + users) plus per-transaction fees just burn cash.
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by robbiemitchell 6y ago
In my experience, semantic embedding is simply not very good at taking negation into account.
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
If you're looking for an alternative, try Weather Line. It has Dark Sky-like features and so so much more. I have no connection to the company, just love the product. http://weatherlineapp.com/
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
You know what costs way more than SaaS? Hiring, managing, and losing people. Leveraging high-quality people with tooling, both for individual functions and for company-wide process, is a no-brainer.
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
> If you're an indie producer, you don't necessarily have the money to keep paying for hosting indefinitely You don't have to pay for SoundCloud just "for storage". You can throw some MP3s up on S3 and call it a
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
Exposed key events happening in the product as an anonymized feed in a dedicated Slack channel, where each event links back to the CRM, a support profile, and a log of the session. (Only those with appropriate access can actually use the li
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
Seems like they nailed identity verification, then started tackling the things people tend to use trusted identities for: messaging, sharing files, transferring money — probably more to come. Not saying it’s good or bad, but if you look at
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
This is some random person's calculation of industry returns. A person who says he works for a pharma company and doesn't link to any actual data. https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvinstott/
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
If you sold this as an add-on to Asana -- elegantly handle the syncing between each task and Slack -- we'd subscribe. There's no way we'll switch task managers just for this feature, though.
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
Here's an example: https://dsh.re/5677b To the unfamiliar, it's not obvious which lines go where. Yes, technically there are tiny numbers next to each station, but they're not as prominent as the bigger, colo
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
It sounds like you're describing an _action_ queue where you can act on objects from any system in one place. Even just a bunch of smarter calendar automations (Google, Microsoft) would be a godsend. That said, a couple things you didn
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
The new map fixes the fatal flaw of the MTA's own: it separates each line even when they run together, typically through Manhattan. It's the #1 most confusing aspect of the existing map and I've watched countless tourists get
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
> Yahoo demanded a cut of the merchant's revenue. Doesn't every payment gateway do this?
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
This is a surprisingly limited study for HBR. - They sent direct mail and pamphlets, each of which has terrible conversion rates in general. Why not email or SMS? - What was the signup/enrollment like? Was it easy and something that co
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
> payments for loans Yeah... that smells bad. There must be more to this story.
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
I mean "wave away" in the context of "Yes, I already tried that."
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
Hmm, using "you/your" and asking them to explain their actions actually comes off as accusatory to me. Compare that to "Why doesn't sshd work here?" (mentioned elsewhere in the comments), which seems more focus
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
"My first instinct is to use sshd. Have you tried that already?” I use phrasing like that and "My knee jerk reaction is..." etc. intentionally because (a) it's accurate context and (b) it allows the person to wave it awa
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
This costs £2 per month, while ChessBase 15 costs anywhere from €119.90 to €469.90 and Chess Assistant costs €59.96.
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
Re: Zendesk It's not just that ticketing products won't build next-gen reporting with thematic monitoring and analysis, it's that big companies have more than one source of customer conversations. Actually answering the quest
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
I told my wife that if I ever mention <redacted> while on a phone call, she should know that I am in trouble an unable to speak freely. Sound like we'll all need more things like this eventually :(
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
Yes! VC is an asset class targeting high-growth, high-risk opportunities. As an LP (e.g., pension fund, college endowment, individual baller), you put some % of your money in VC funds as part of a broad portfolio of investment types. If you
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
Infra: Postgres -> S3 -> Looker Business: Segment -> customer.io/Zapier/Heap Analytics + Looker Support/Success: Intercom+Slack -> frame.ai
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
It takes work to keep up with changes to the tax laws in every state and at the federal level. I don’t know many open source accountants.
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
It doesn't work that way in practice. People use Meetup because it handles everything from reservations to ticketing to email announcements to messages boards and things in between. A mailing list is not a replacement.
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
If a meetup is not even worth $2 to attend, is it really worth an hour+ of your personal time?
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
Corporate governance problems aside, they have major cash flow problems relative to debt obligations and are also losing money. One could argue the demand is there because the price is artificially low.
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
I know that. Owning a home isn’t supposed to be a luxury. But in that part of the country, it is, and it doesn’t change the fact that rents are subject to change every time the term renews. Unfortunately, rent control fails consistently. It
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
It should be easier to (a) buy a home and (b) rent somewhere else but still commute to a job. We probably agree on that. But that doesn’t change the fact that renting is fundamentally unstable, and a short-term contract comes with risks. Yo
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by robbiemitchell 7y ago
If you want something long term, you must own. I'm not suggesting it's easy to own, but emphasizing that the rental market is a market, and rents change whenever a new contract comes due. If you want to smooth the rates over a lon

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