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Invite HN: New York City HN Meetup next Wednesday, May 6th
22 points by shafqat 17y ago|17 comments
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by shafqat 17y ago
Thanks for the in-depth response. I always wonder how close the actual ad deals are to the prices mentioned on the FM rate card. If the Mommy Blog is really selling out $18 CPMs, that's fantastic.
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by shafqat 17y ago
We have some experimental Google Adsense running on our consumer site (www.newscred.com), and we get around 1.80 CPM. Which is better than I expected, but still pretty shitty. We've tried making the ads look less gross so they are more invi
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by shafqat 17y ago
Damn, I thought I recognized you and your company name while walking around GeeknRolla. Will definately have to catch up next time I'm in London. But definately agree that this was the best talk of the day by far. He's also very accessible
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Ask HN: What kind of CPMs are you getting for your ad-supported site?
15 points by shafqat 17y ago|11 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
These guys had it all wrong from the beginning. I sound like a broken record, but newspaper organizations that want to reinvent themselves online have to run their businesses like startups: lean, agile, bootstrapped. Trying to guarantee $
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Ask HN: Good resources/tools for entity extraction?
2 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Thanks for the reponse. I don't need professional news images. Just images that are 'newsy', and it could be crowdsourced content. Also, thumbnails are OK but slightly higher resolution is obviously better.
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by shafqat 18y ago
I believe they require you to have licenses in place with Getty or Reuters etc. And that is expensive.
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Ask HN: Are there any good Image APIs out there?
6 points by shafqat 18y ago|6 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Brad Flora has done some really great work here. He always has interesting things to say. I'm really curious to see how his efforts to find a commission-only ad-sales guy for the WindyCitizen on Craigslist panned out. Has anyone else tried
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by shafqat 18y ago
What do you guys use for your payment processing? Very slick. I love dropbox, and will definately be upgrading our account for NewsCred.
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Newspapers can reduce traffic by 32% by simply asking Google to stop sending them traffic(blog.newscred.com)
1 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
What's your site? A link or name would help us understand your product better. It's always easier to give advice when we see the product rather than blind.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Where do you get freelancers from? Have you tried Mechanical Turk?
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by shafqat 18y ago
There is no way Twitter is going to sell itself for under 1B. They already raised at a 250M valuation, and with the team of investors they have behind them, there will be a lot of pressure to hold out until 1B or somewhere close to that.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Great story - are you able to share details or contact info about your telemarketing star? Would love to hear more (shafqat at newscred dot com).
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Ask HN: Anyone have success using cold e-mails for B2B sales?
9 points by shafqat 18y ago|9 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
I loved this article. We're doing exactly that with our B2B product for NewsCred. Just getting it out to and seeing who's willing to pay for it, what people think of current features, but also to prioritize the medium term feature roadmap.
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by shafqat 18y ago
Adam - congrats on the funding and getting out of the Beta stage. Awesome product, but since you asked for features, how about adding some more 3rd party integration options? You already do Hoovers for company information, but it could be a
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Ask HN: Reseller agreements. What percentage does a reseller take?
4 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
Sounds awesome - great niche! Also, love the landing page. You have a fairly appropriate target market here at HN. Drop me a line (shafqat at newscred dot com) when you get a chance. Would love to stay in touch and maybe we could even find
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by shafqat 18y ago
If the web newspaper focuses relentlessly on providing the best local news, high value editorial news, and news of a regional interest (sports etc), they are also only competing with one or two big competitors. The same thing can be said fo
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by shafqat 18y ago
That's the way to do it! Good luck - whats the magazine? What genre?
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The New Online-Only Newspapers Should Try and Emulate Startups(blog.newscred.com)
10 points by shafqat 18y ago|6 comments
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Ask HN: Has anyone used Mashery to manage their API?
3 points by shafqat 18y ago|0 comments
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by shafqat 18y ago
How does this compare to Rightscale? Is there an overlap in services? Either way, great idea... We'll consider moving to it for my startup (NewsCred). EDIT: Also, very interesting that you don't provide much information or details about you
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by shafqat 18y ago
What kind of software allows you to sell via the newsletter format? I though the reason that format works was because the buyer were non-techies (i.e. grandmothers who have parrots etc). Does it work on techies as well? If so, pretty amazin
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by shafqat 18y ago
What kind of software allows you to sell via the newsletter format? I though the reason that format works was because the buyer were non-techies (i.e. grandmothers who have parrots etc). Does it work on techies as well? If so, pretty amazin
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by shafqat 18y ago
It's interesting that there is no BUY IT NOW type link at the top of the page. Nothing. No call to action to buy the book at all, apart from the small link at the bottom. I cant believe this actually works. Will old women who have parrots r

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