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by robfitz 17y ago
I agree. Either run ads or reserve the space for ad-like self promotion. It's better to set realistic expectations than to to end up with users who would no longer use your site once it's reached its "real" form.
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by robfitz 17y ago
I found the book worth the time. His business morals aren't quite what I would strive to emulate, but it's a quick read and there's some interesting stuff in terms of time & money management.
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by robfitz 17y ago
productivity!
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by robfitz 17y ago
I have a pretty good sense about how I feel about pretending to be someone's friend for 6 months so I can gain access to their house and subsequently steal everything they own. Playing out that scenario was useful to me. But I wouldn't want
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by robfitz 17y ago
(edited for totally misreading your question. i still go off on a bit of a tangent. apologies) The game doesn't stop you from committing crimes, but it does mark you as a criminal and keep a rough record of your deeds, so other players [can
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by robfitz 17y ago
Sims Online had a big cybersex brothel problem* for... well, always. Since you can convert virtual currencies into "real" currencies, they had a situation where presumably underage players were literally being paid for their services, throu
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by robfitz 17y ago
I've long thought of Ultima Online (early MMO with a great deal of flexibility for "antisocial" play) as an absolutely crucial component of my moral and social education. Kids can safely experiment with "right" and "wrong" (stealing, murder
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by robfitz 17y ago
The perks of the Yike (I feel funny just saying that) are the weight (20lb vs 45lb) and size. I see lots of business people here (London) on those little fold up city bikes. The Yike seems more targetted at those customers than the traditio
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by robfitz 17y ago
I think the true purpose of an advisory board is client contacts. You can build a top notch virtual salesperson with the right board with no financial cost and only a small equity cost.
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by robfitz 17y ago
They come from that list in the same way food comes from a grocery store.
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by robfitz 17y ago
From what I understand, you can retroactively file an [American] patent application from within a year of your first public/open demo. Then you have another year to file a real claim.
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by robfitz 17y ago
Users & customers validate #2 better than investor opinions. Whether or not it's viable to experimentally build depends on the domain, but if this is holding you back, you can choose an idea with a low startup cost. Finding a team also
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by robfitz 17y ago
Slightly more pageviews for slightly increased ad revenue?
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by robfitz 17y ago
Credentials don't so much matter if you're doing startups -- you need to know some co-founders and you need to all trust each other to be able to make things. But college helps a lot of other things. So: If you end up at GT, I'd recommend l
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by robfitz 17y ago
Scalable/easy moderation is one of the [several] major problems preventing UGC from growing into a serious advertising medium. Moderation is a big part of the value we add over other technology providers. So I would say the market is defini
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by robfitz 18y ago
you can't access uploaded images in flash. you have to send the full image to a server, then re-download it, do your manipulation, and then upload the final version. particularly annoying when uploading to S3, since you have to go client-&#
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by robfitz 18y ago
great article, although i don't think it quite counters the original. multitasking is working on several things simultaneously. like watching TV while you program, or having a phone conversation while you play video games. swartz switches r
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by robfitz 18y ago
you may want to read 'founders at work' by jessica livingston (of yc fame). it's interviews regarding the rise of many successful web services (yahoo, hot or not, hotmail, etc). a lot of those companies started as hobbies or side projects,
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by robfitz 18y ago
visas / immigration. you're looking at $400-900 an hour for lawyers to point you to the right webpage and tell you whether or not your particular situation fits through a loophole. corporate setup & startup paperwork of all sorts. also
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by robfitz 18y ago
i haven't played all of them, but there are some sharp designs in there. i particularly like terraqua, despite the somewhat strange choice of silverlight over flash: http://globalgamejam.org/games/terraqua
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by robfitz 18y ago
you work on it nights & weekends to find out if it has traction. most things don't, but if yours might, then it's probably worth testing the waters. from what i understand, http://carbonmade.com is a good example. three guys working p
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by robfitz 18y ago
in brief, he says making games isn't easy just because it's fun. even if you have the best tools, it takes years to bootstrap up. he expresses a lot of the startup sentiments w/ 2 differences of perspective. first, raising money is not an o
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by robfitz 18y ago
casual games mostly.. peggle, world of goo, etc. if hacker news is content, then basecamp & fixx probably also count (team & product news, respectively). apart from that, i would pay for some TED talks, for high quality game reviews
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by robfitz 18y ago
one of the meridian 59 devs picked the property off panasonic and revived it years after it closed (M59 a 3d MMO launched before both UO and EQ). it's now been 15 years since launch and it's still going [sort of] strong. i'm comforted that
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by robfitz 18y ago
i heard mr. woz was recently working on [significantly] cheaper & more efficient housing. does anyone know to what extent that was pursued and how it turned out?
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Ten underexposed games w/ something to say/teach (pdf slides)(omicronpie.com)
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by robfitz 18y ago
hullo - i more or less agree. i'm advocating spreadsheets as more of a sanity check on your business assumptions than as a real predictive model.
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by robfitz 18y ago
a lot of this advice should read as "don't _pay_ for grad school in a recession" and feels more directed toward arts & sciences than technical pursuits. anyway, lots of free rides are available in interesting programs. go to grad school
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by robfitz 18y ago
if you haven't already, i'd first make a budget (of time, money, or whatever other resource you're consuming) and see what it might take to reach a win scenario you'd be happy with (ie $3k/mo passive income). laying it out in rows and colum
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by robfitz 18y ago
it's a good, authoritative source for #s and data to back up a pitch. i wish i'd gotten my hands on them ages ago.

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