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by ssebro 15y ago
That's not exactly true- they are innovating, but they're also a patent troll. There's no reason why they can't be both.
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by ssebro 15y ago
I had a similar terminal groupon experience: I had meal of really, really bad indian food, at a restaurant I would never have tried otherwise and when I mentioned I was going to use a groupon I was told that my bill now included a 15% non-n
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by ssebro 15y ago
Wait a second- is it seriously that hard to get a meeting with a great VC? Maybe I'm disconnected from reality... but VCs chase deals, and are always interested in meeting ppl. I've never found it difficult to get meeting - is that just me?
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by ssebro 15y ago
Google Cached copy: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by ssebro 15y ago
1. There are obviously more that those three types of Entrepreneurs. Hopefully you weren't making that assertion. 2. I'm a bulldozer, but not because I'm forceful or a bad person. I just see that reality has different levels of rules, and I
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by ssebro 15y ago
It seems to me that you'd be better served by talking to your actual customers than chasing investors, particularly for $4000. Investors will come to you when they see the money/users.
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by ssebro 15y ago
Why is this free? B/c you're not charging for your product, I'm skeptical that you'll be around long enough for it to make sense to learn how to use your product. Remember you're target is businesses, who are much less price sensitive, and
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by ssebro 15y ago
Sounds good- thanks.
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by ssebro 15y ago
Sounds like indinero. You need to figure out how you define "success" - is it by number of users/money made etc. Then you'll have a clearer idea of what you'd like to target. Throw up a launchrock and see if ppl are interested - I know that
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by ssebro 15y ago
TBH, my real problem was that IOS development (with new sdks) basically requires you to keep upgrading your macos to the latest version, which was irritating since you needed to do it often and since for someone with a hackintosh, its not t
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Ask HN: Should my MVP have unit tests?
7 points by ssebro 15y ago|5 comments
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by ssebro 15y ago
South Park Episode: http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humance...
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Free Idea: Consumer Reports for EULAs
3 points by ssebro 15y ago|1 comments
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by ssebro 15y ago
You'd need to get Slow Leopard, since a lot of ios stuff requires you to update your system to make use of new functionality. If you're doing this as a business, do not go the hackintosh route- you won't get any level of stability and it wi
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by ssebro 15y ago
"And in a world of machines, engineers reign." -> Until the machines take over and start sucking the engineers' bodily fluids.
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by ssebro 15y ago
I have a problem with this: I'm extremely curious and I wind up going down long paths to find the ultimate solution to problems, when I could have just asked someone about it. I do it because I learn + remember better, and because the "How"
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by ssebro 15y ago
Just saw this + thought it was more awesome than Avatar (the one with the blue people). It felt like a virtual vacation.... Or maybe I've been working too hard...
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by ssebro 15y ago
This is just common sense- most customers wouldn't buy an iBrick (iphone w/o killer apps), and even apple knows it- that's why they focus on killer apps in their ads. Google is smart enough to know that you shouldn't tax your business partn
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by ssebro 15y ago
Apple needs to realize that their greed may kill their platform. Nobody would buy an iOS device with no killer apps - especially when android is getting better every day. As an iOS developer, I fully expect the platform to go the way of the
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by ssebro 15y ago
This is exactly the reason that I haven't bought an iPad 2- I intend to use it for the netflix and kindle apps, and I'm not sure if they're still going to be there in 6 months. For a $500 device, the risk was just too high. I got a kindle i
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by ssebro 15y ago
Does this mean that there's a business here - kind of like a reverse groupon? A group of people want X (digital content), and each will pay whatever they want to for it. Fulfillment is more likely the larger the "pot" becomes, and it's an a
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by ssebro 15y ago
The best way to find a problem is not to ask for it, but to observe users and see their frustrations yourself. To be specific, look for weird behavior - things that a kid wouldn't understand (software so badly designed, you need to train pe
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by ssebro 15y ago
I feel the same way, and I'm doing the exact same thing right now. I formed a support group with one of my buddies from college, and we check in on each other and demo our product to one another as we develop. We also challenge each other t
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by ssebro 15y ago
I think they're selling because they're not trying to do everything that makes money, but to concentrate on the things that are the most profitable. For example, you could make money washing dishes, but for most people, there's more profita
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by ssebro 15y ago
I like this. I think he will too.
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by ssebro 15y ago
Thanks for the advice.. I'll be sure to be clear on expectations, but I'm not sure how I can compensate him- I'm bootstrapping, and don't intend to raise funding.
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Ask HN: When should you look for a mentor?
2 points by ssebro 15y ago|5 comments
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by ssebro 15y ago
I think it's more like "minimum visible"
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by ssebro 15y ago
Looks like the directions are here: http://www.dropbox.com/help/11 It does seem like it only keeps 30 days worth of versioning though...
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by ssebro 15y ago
I'm pretty sure dropbox does file versioning, so you should be able to revert to an earlier (uncorrupted) version of your file. Tell me if that works for you, b/c I use dropbox+truecrypt for hosting my super important docs...

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