rwhitman

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by rwhitman 16y ago
I wish there was more awareness in the general business community about how much effort goes into developing mobile apps. So few potential clients I encounter fully realize how much work goes into it, and when you give them an estimate the
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I completely agree, the way I've always perceived mark zuckerberg is as someone just pretty obsessed with building & tinkering. Sure maybe the initial spark that seeded the first build of facebook could have had something to do with emo
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by rwhitman 16y ago
A chargify clone for django would be a huge win
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Even $39/mo is still prohibitive. Considering the cost of modern cloud hosts, your bottom plan is still more expensive than a web server in some cases... As someone building a bootstrapped side project with absolutely zero customers, I woul
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Your post did a good job of pitching chargify, I was passing it around the other day for justification to go with them. Such a bummer that they pulled this
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Wow thats a real bummer, I was about to integrate it into an app, but I certainly don't want to blow $99/mo on something that may or may not earn me a small fraction of that Has anyone used Spreedly or CheddarGetter etc? Thoughts? Are there
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Considering that San Francisco has arguably the most difficult city streets to drive in the country, I'd say this is no small feat
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I don't think sending your users emails should be considered spam. Mailing lists and email upsells can be very lucrative, even if you're not emailing users immediately, an email address is a valuable thing to be leaving on the table.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Ok, but from an economic perspective - if Topix is not collecting email addresses, how can they monetize all these people in the long run? From a marketing & user retention standpoint isn't that throwing away a pretty valuable channel?
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by rwhitman 16y ago
So because the british committed atrocities through policy decisions over the course of several centuries, I shouldn't be offended by cuddly representations of hitler - a man that presided over the slaughter of several generations of both m
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Well he was a major player in european politics for over 10 years. I know my history - the point is that hitler had an overwhelming influence on the 30's and 40's in europe and touched a disproportionate number of topics from 1933-1945
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by rwhitman 16y ago
You didn't overreact. Apparently there are a lot more people on this board who are insensitive to what Hitler represents than I would have given it credit for. Very disappointing
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I'm sure people would be equally offended as I am if the app had cutesy pictures of Pol Pot, or Stalin or any other brutal dictator known for mass genocide
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Ok, I get it. But I'm not amped by it. 2 reasons: 1) Hitler is associated with way too many entries, I mean for 10 years he controlled most of europe, there isn't a topic in 20th century history he doesn't touch at some point. Its too easy
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Has this ever worked for you in the longer term? I mean from experience have you ever been paid out for taking an equity trade as a consultant? I'd really like to hear from someone who's made this work to their benefit
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I'm really into Postmark as an SMTP replacement for transactional emails - http://www.postmarkapp.com And MailChimp for mailing lists.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Also, don't discount your work for equity. Very not worth it. Learned this lesson twice now. Biggest reason - if a company is coming to you to build their whole product under a contract, they're making a major blunder out the gate. Any seas
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I'm really scared of a future where microsoft forces itself into my life by acquiring everything I use on a regular basis.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
A friend the other day called it "The Godfather of our generation". I don't really get how they got that out of it. I came out of the theater kind of depressed. And worrying a lot about lawyers. I've always wondered what it feels like to be
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by rwhitman 16y ago
One thing I really liked was that the purchase price for the domain on Network Solutions was historically accurate - back then they were still charging $34 for a .com domain..
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by rwhitman 16y ago
So its all just affiliate revenue from the hotel bookings?
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by rwhitman 16y ago
The question is, what is better - having the patent owned by Facebook or owned by patent trolls?
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by rwhitman 16y ago
The gigs board on craigslist is generally a huge waste of time. Maybe a little better in the bay area than any other city, but even if you do spot a decent project chances are if they are posting in the gigs board, the client isn't that com
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Here's an idea - you could do consulting work and focus on startups. Metrics are becoming increasingly notable as an important part of running a startup. I imagine that your skills are useful to some folks who are on the fence or don't have
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Very true, and you'd really need a team with a serious track record in banking. I imagine half of selling the product would be based on the perception of trust and experience.
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I love how out of one submission of an NPR article to HN there came about 4 different apps that all do an amazing job of making the 'tax receipt' concept a reality
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I thought BankSimple was its own online bank. Yea, I imagine you could get away with a very hefty license fee. I know of one company that charges affiliate TV stations $5m a year license for essentially a glorified hosted CMS. If they can g
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Oh, shoot I just made a comment about this. I was suggesting if they had focused squarely on enterprise earlier, they might have been fine. Do you think a future finance aggregation tool, that was focused entirely on enterprise (with subseq
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by rwhitman 16y ago
I thought that wesabe's integrating at the bank level might have been a smarter approach. For instance Bank of America has a mint-like finance aggregation tool built into their online banking. I already entrust them with my finances why not
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by rwhitman 16y ago
Isn't the attitude of "If Company A Wins, Company B Loses" kind of a dangerous mindset to have when you're running a startup?

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