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by sf4lifer 3y ago
I've done this twice. Here are lessons from my experience: * At a startup, I made decisions fast. At a large company I had to build consensus for everything. This meant a LOT of meetings to discuss the same thing over and over. * At a
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
The entire product interface needs to convince me that this is secure and to be trusted... In current form it strikes me as a phishing attempt
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Neat. It'd be interesting to include recipes ideas based on what you've purchased. If your list is lacking in some key nutrition, it'd be cool if it suggested what to buy the next time you go to the store
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
This is likely why no exec supported google reader and it shut down: people aren't willing to pay for it.
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
So your product is a beta sign up form with a countdown for when it launches? The best motivation to ship something is having people waiting for your firm commitment...
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Threads is Times Square (NYC). Twitter is Union Square (SF).
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
There is an amazing alternative with far more features and thoughtfully designed in https://feedly.com/
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
You know you have a rocket if you're leaving money/customers on the table because your cashflow doesn't support rate of fulfillment of potential growth.
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Only take rocket fuel (VC funding) if you've got a rocket (PMF in a massive TAM with net revenue retention) If you don't have a rocket, the rocket fuel will be wasted and disappointing in any other vehicle. Ideally you bootstrap u
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
There is no magic bullet. You're going to have to email 5-7 times and expect a dismal response rate. The cold email should have the reader feel a visceral pain point and feel relieved there is a solution.
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
If your PM doesn't use your product enough to know every single bug then they don't understand or feel your customer/user pain. Ideally when they experience a bug there is already a ticket created that they can simply priorit
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Surprised I'm the first to comment on this. Upgrade all the following to premium quality: * Sheets / mattress * Towels * Underwear / socks The quality is better as the price goes up (then at a certain point you're payin
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Youtube's revenue was $30B last year
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
What's the average tenure of a mod?
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
I think investors will welcome the model. Youtube/tiktok pay content creators. Paying mods doesn't seem that far fetched...
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Exactly. Seems like the Mods should form a union and demand a rev share. I have to imagine leadership would capitulate
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Well, the current situation seems like enough incentive to at least discuss this as a possible solution...
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Reddit's biggest risk is community revolt. Financially incentivizing moderators to keep the community aligned with the company's interest seems like something investors would reward (even if the profit margin goes down a little).
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Ask HN: Why doesn't Reddit give it's mod's a revenue cut
5 points by sf4lifer 3y ago|18 comments
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
"Nearly half of all unhoused adults in California are over the age of 50" This is a senior citizen health and housing crisis... When my dad got old and demented, it nearly broke us trying to take care of him physically, mentally a
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Nuclear Now(nytimes.com)
6 points by sf4lifer 3y ago|2 comments
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
I watched this last night. I thought the point about nuclear powering submarines for some 60 years without incident was a good point attesting to the real safety record. Maybe the boomer generation did get nuclear power totally wrong. Thoug
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
What it takes to be CTO is different at different stages: Pre-product market fit: - Hands on building of prototypes/product to test PMF (doer) - Manage a small team (probably all know each other) coordination (think scrum master) Prod
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Assume the people running the other service are geniuses that have tried everything feasible. Figure out why they haven't achieved crazy success. If there is something you can differentiate on with that as the starting point then pursu
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Another interesting thing I had to unlearn was to try to optimize everything. As an engineer I want to automate anything I have to do more than three times. But that doesn't work as an AE. You just have to do the same things over and o
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
I did a long time ago. I was a very mediocore software engineer but naturally good at story telling especially when it came to explaining complex things. I first became a systems engineer (SE). I worked at a large company accompanying sales
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Do MODs lose money during blackout. If no, what's the incentive to bring them back quickly?
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
do you think people will actually show up to a meeting run by an AI?
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Ok, so it's not just me. At least we have HN. My doom scroll is now artifact. Though I've never engaged in the comments. Tho identical IMHO, It replaced apple news for me which I got made fun of for sharing a link from...
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by sf4lifer 3y ago
Truly successful CEOs make decisions where there is no definitive data and end up being right. It's not clear to me AI's would be good at that. Most CEO's have a chief of staff, that's probably something AI could replace

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