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Zuckerberg's Indian Mousetrap(bloomberg.com)
3 points by supersan 11y ago|0 comments
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by supersan 11y ago
Do you mean affiliate marketing? Yes, that is true gem, I totally forgot about. My first site made all the money through affiliates promoting it for 50% commission. That is a true gem indeed.
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by supersan 11y ago
Ok, fair enough. Let's suppose I did that and I already have a hundred+ signups (which I do) but I want to accelerate the growth.. how do I go about that? Also for the benefit of others, where do you find the people to get feedback (i
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Ask HN: What happens after your site is ready for launch? How to get traffic?
4 points by supersan 11y ago|6 comments
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by supersan 11y ago
> Victorian beauty ideals were unsurprisingly obsessed with pallor: upper class white women chased even whiter skin, a symbol that their privilege never left them working in the sun. You won't believe how true this still holds in In
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by supersan 11y ago
Whom should I contact then? Their customer support just replies with a canned reply :(
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by supersan 11y ago
I'm not sure. See, the screenshot above. The confusion about this is the most difficult part of it and Amazon support just replies with a canned reply. That is why I was hoping someone like jeffbarr could shed some light on this.. Look
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by supersan 11y ago
I've tweeted to you twice and asked your customer support about this too but I have never gotten a reply to it. So I'm asking you here.. When are you gonna allow reserved instances for Indian customers? Right now I cannot purchase
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Visualizing Carbon Consumption Between US, Europe, China and India(youtube.com)
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by supersan 11y ago
> We hire developers as support reps. Wonder why I never thought of it. Hiring a programmer to do customer support is a really good idea since for the sites we have a dedicated customer support guy (outsourced) they often come back to us
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by supersan 11y ago
That's really useful advice. Thanks. > People generally contact support as a last resort, and will usually read all documentation in advance. If your docs explain it, they won't need to contact you. I think this somewhat depen
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Ask HN: How do you handle customer support on your site?
77 points by supersan 11y ago|56 comments
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by supersan 11y ago
Yes, Facebook has had an amazing growth in India in the last year (more than any other country). Facebook connects people and there are a billion people in India so it only makes sense to get them online or better yet get them online while
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by supersan 11y ago
I think this is the best advice you could get. Add to this Sam carpenter's book "Work the system" and making $100/k a year is pretty easy. We're a two person team and we've been doing it for the past 5 years li
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XPath is actually pretty useful once it stops being confusing(genius.com)
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by supersan 11y ago
I'm often amazed how Google still gives it staff this unique hacker-like approach to their million dollar projects. For example, the stuff in Google labs (gmail) has had some silly things like don't hit send when you're drunk
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by supersan 11y ago
> I'd argue they want to be pitched, and doing it at scale is just a way to save you a lot of time. There are sites like www.helpareporter.com which do the exact same thing but the difference here is that the reporters opt-in to ge
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by supersan 11y ago
It's funny how many growth hacks finally boil down to "Collect 500 emails and then email them about your startup". Is it okay to find users from Craigslist to tell them about your startup too? Another thing that I never under
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by supersan 11y ago
This is also one of the reasons why it's not a good idea to give 10 different pricing options for your startup. Too much choice and the user gets paralyzed and doesn't buy anything.
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by supersan 11y ago
Yes, maybe it applies to China but definitely not to India. We put a very high price on family and relatives. Nepotism is rampant here, and people can go to any extent to help/protect their family. I think people in West put the same h
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by supersan 11y ago
thanks so much. your reply really helped me to go in the right direction (looks for music sites with CC license)
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by supersan 11y ago
This is an amazing find! I'm wondering if anybody knows of a site for stock music tracks. I'm writing a mobile app (free) in which I want to include some stock music for my app's users to create their mixes but I can't f
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Amazon EC2 is currently made up of 454,400 servers [2012](zdnet.com)
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by supersan 11y ago
Oh so that's what it is. I think Namecheap must be using it too because I see this darn message every time I load their site "We're testing if you're human or robot" and it wastes like 10 seconds of my time. People
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by supersan 14y ago
This may sound like a cliche but the it's what you do for your country that matters more. I too was faced the same dilemma a few years back and on a whim I joined a small volunteer organization that teaches street children. Being a one tric
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by supersan 14y ago
I don't know how much truth there is in this from the foreigner's point of view, but a lot of us believe (me and a lot of my friends included) that a vast majority of tourists who come to India want to witness this very same upon coming her