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by robfitz 14y ago
For example, I do a little video blog where I film a 1 minute video about my startup progress most days[1] I make the video on socialcam, which sends it to youtube. ifttt then picks up the youtube video once it's uploaded and turns it into
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by robfitz 14y ago
It's just twilio for texts plus django and a cronjob. Text messages are the use case I wanted most for myself, so I just did that first. I'll add email/twitter/etc if the simple version gets a good enough response to warrant it
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by robfitz 14y ago
ifttt is pretty much my favourite service at the moment. It saves me hours a day and everyone should use it! edit: Well, let's say it saves me hour per day. Hours plural is probably stretching it
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by robfitz 14y ago
If you reply to the text message, it will cancel all alerts going to that number. So if you are signed up to get alerts on 3 domains and only want to cancel one, you'll have to send one unsubscribe (which will cancel all 3) and then re-add
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by robfitz 14y ago
Right you are. Glad I had the thing hooked up to notify me about this potential trainwreck! Big thanks for the heads up. It's fixed & off debug mode now. It will fail silently, which still isn't exactly ideal, but at least it doesn't re
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by robfitz 14y ago
And guess how I found out this had been posted here? ;) Thanks!
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by robfitz 14y ago
Compliments on the internet are not validation! Fishing for them is an easy route to false positives and big heartbreak. Don't quit your day job before launching -- that's the only way to get real data about whether it may work or not.
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by robfitz 14y ago
Ideas like this can't be judged good or bad in a vacuum. If user acquisition works, then it was genius. If not, then a flop. But I don't think it can be predicted in advance. Can you scope down and get v1 out the door in days instead of wee
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by robfitz 14y ago
Index is one of the very top firms globally & it's super exciting that more founders here (in Europe) will have access to Index-level support at the earliest stages. Congrats to all involved!
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by robfitz 14y ago
Ya, exactly. 'Always Be Closing' helps performance for small-value sales where there's only ever a single interaction with the customer and the purchase price is low enough that they can't be bothered to come back and harass you. For anythi
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by robfitz 14y ago
The whole project is super awesome and I love it. Really nice work and am excited to see what you do in the future with this ethos!
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How to do (and what to expect from) early stage customer development(blog.thestartuptoolkit.com)
32 points by robfitz 14y ago|4 comments
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by robfitz 14y ago
Folks are apparently down on this. Why in the world? It's awesome! How cool to spend 50 days digging into people's problems, travelling, and putting it all out there. I'd bet anything that his 50 days of travel have led to more advancement,
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How to do (and what to expect from) early customer development and sales(hackfwd.tumblr.com)
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by robfitz 14y ago
If only I hadn't made the idiotic decision to compete with twitter for the term "bootstrap" :)
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by robfitz 14y ago
I get lazy when I have that much time. Have tried it! :)
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by robfitz 14y ago
I spent 5 years living like that at my first couple companies. These days, however, my life is no longer organised in a way where that's viable. So 2-2.5k it is. If I was in a real pinch, I could temporarily get to 1.5k, but I feel like 4 m
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by robfitz 14y ago
Nice -- my email is in my profile if you're up for some sort of occasional peer support
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by robfitz 14y ago
Let me know when you guys get started. If I'm in a position to help, I will!
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by robfitz 14y ago
Django/jquery/sendgrid, I have no idea (yet!), and yes. On the first idea the main stuff I'm pulling from lean is analytics, but if this one doesn't work out I'll do more custdev and in-person stuff as appropriate.
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by robfitz 14y ago
Hey guys! Thanks for the support. You caught me pretty early in the process, so not terribly much to show just yet, but I hope you'll stick around for the ride. If you're curious, the first product I'm trying to make profitable (and the one
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by robfitz 14y ago
I try to avoid self-referencing, but since it does answer your question, here's my idea creation/testing thought process[1] and a walkthrough of an example I'm currently working on[2]. Joel (of Buffer) also did an awesome write-up of how
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Succeeding at the default metrics will kill you(thestartuptoolkit.com)
4 points by robfitz 15y ago|0 comments
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$100bn is Right if Facebook is the New TV(simplyseven.net)
4 points by robfitz 15y ago|0 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
Assuming the other terms of the deal are fine, you should accept both offers. More money will always help. Revenue will appear and grow more slowly than you hope. There's no reasonable way to calculate expenses because to do so, you need to
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"When I see a business model with 5 revenue streams, I know they really have 0."(galondon.com)
68 points by robfitz 15y ago|15 comments
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Rarest language? Objective-C has highest job posting to developer activity ratio(generalassemb.ly)
49 points by robfitz 15y ago|72 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
New year's resolution: supermodel cofounder.
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How to date a supermodel (or get dealflow or find cofounders)(thestartuptoolkit.com)
176 points by robfitz 15y ago|34 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
I will also admit that I was/am surprised to see this one submitted, for basically the same reasons. Not that I mind, exactly :) I originally had a bunch of extra analysis/commentary with the links, but it made the post insanely long and wa

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