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by tchock23 13y ago
I thought the same thing. WP plugins do exist already - here is one example of many: http://ignitiondeck.com/id/ I think I would trust the Crowdtilt version more for some reason. A lot of these crowdfunding plugin prov
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by tchock23 13y ago
100% agree. Above all, understand who your customer is, what they need and how they value that need before you begin to think of your solution... By all means, start with a hypothesis and "big idea," but conduct thorough qualitati
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by tchock23 13y ago
I wonder if there is a performance component to this, or if it's based solely on him sticking around for the long haul. I just finished up an earn out with performance goals on both revenue and margin, and found it to be very challengi
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by tchock23 13y ago
This is awesome news. I received my Oculus in the first batch and have had a ton of fun playing around with it (save the occasional nausea, but that's really game-specific). Agree with some comments here that the Rift needs more VR-spe
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by tchock23 13y ago
On your point about lack of pricing transparency and inability to forecast costs with AWS, check out CloudCheckr. It helped us get much better visibility into our AWS costs. I still feel like I'm overpaying with AWS, but at least I hav
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Optimizing AWS economics(cloudcheckr.com)
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by tchock23 14y ago
I completely agree... I'm hoping the Oculus opens up a new style of gaming that isn't focused on shooting and competitive gaming and instead centers instead around immersion and cooperative gaming. While I'm known to play the occasional FPS
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by tchock23 14y ago
Similar experience here... Despite repeated pleas to IT, they closed all of our network ports to be able to access our app's database or git repositories, so if we want to do anything (legitimately) we have to work from home. Brilliant!
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by tchock23 14y ago
I wish I had read this advice a year ago. Keeping your spirits up is really hard, particularly if you want to get going on the next business, but it's critical if you care about your team and their well being when you are gone.
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Ask HN: Are startups a good market?
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by tchock23 14y ago
I think it's the former. This feels to me like a marketing strategy and loss leader to grab a new set of customers and eventually migrate them into the full Basecamp product. I could see people saying to themselves, "I love this email list
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by tchock23 14y ago
Some of these examples have less to do with the fact that a goal was set, and more to do with the fact that there was a financial incentive tied to it. Financial incentives can have the side effect of reducing intrinsic motivation (see Dani
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by tchock23 14y ago
As someone who learned to code recently (last 3 years), this advice is good but dangerous in the long-term. I started by typing out other people's code from various books or tutorials, but found that it produced a feeling of "success" that
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by tchock23 14y ago
This post hit close to home for me. I have had very similar work experiences as the OP (having done both a startup with two co-founders and management consulting), and found that the biggest factor is whether you are introverted or extrover
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Choosing your startup name first before your idea(fastcompany.com)
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by tchock23 14y ago
The homepage is so clean and compelling that I scrolled down to learn more, causing me to miss the "About" link in the primary nav and use the learn more links on the bottom of each page. That might not be typical of most people browsing th
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by tchock23 14y ago
I like the concept. There is a lot of redundancy whenever you go to start a new social app. Quick recommendation - I clicked through three pages before I got to the "About" page, and it wasn't until I got to that page that I fully understoo
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by tchock23 14y ago
Once users realized that the owner of the idea was the one assigning points, they may just offer up feedback that panders to the owner in order to receive rewards.
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by tchock23 14y ago
I also went through the single founder interview experience and blew it, but for different reasons. I had the domain knowledge and experience, but PG said my demo was too simple (which it admittedly was - it was a MVP to test some assumptio
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by tchock23 14y ago
If anyone is curious as to the research on this topic, check out Carol Dweck's book "Mindset." It has a ton of examples from academia, sports and business on fixed vs. growth mentalities and how that plays into a person's success in life.
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by tchock23 14y ago
I completely agree with you and have come across the same finding, but from an entirely different perspective... Short of scratching your own itch, a great way to come up with startup ideas is through careful observation of others, and part
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by tchock23 14y ago
Yeah - I couldn't find the "Add track" button. I guess I didn't initially get the concept that you had to search for a video before you could annotate it, but now it makes perfect sense...
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by tchock23 14y ago
Wow - this is awesome. Well done! Any plans to add lyrics to the annotations? It would be cool to be able to follow other contributors as well because some people are great at tabbing things out and others are terrible. Some sort of star ra
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by tchock23 14y ago
I've built a number of private online communities over the years and have experimented with language around exclusivity and scarcity enough to know that it works well to draw interest where it was previously difficult to get people to pay a
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by tchock23 14y ago
Glad to know I wasn't the only one who was completely confused by what this service actually does... I tried clicking around to a few random pages and still couldn't gather exactly what it was trying to offer, although I kept clicking becau
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by tchock23 14y ago
I'm approaching this project with the same mindset... For $300, even if it just turns into a toy to develop with I will still be happy about funding it (assuming, of course, it reaches its funding goal and is delivered - still big "ifs" wit
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by tchock23 14y ago
As someone who sold his company last year and is now experiencing life as a salaried employee again, amen to this... Freedom > money in the vast majority of cases.
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by tchock23 14y ago
I wonder how much of the challenge of making friends as an adult varies by the city you live in... I moved to NYC last year from Rochester, NY and have found that people in NYC are so "busy" all the time that it's much more difficult to mak
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by tchock23 14y ago
I agree with most of the ideas in this article with the small exception of the example he gives for services and hiring "the best firm in the country." I think you're mostly paying for overhead and bloat in those cases, and I would prefer t
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by tchock23 14y ago
Here's to hoping someone with a name in the industry can finally push through decent consumer VR, and that this will get some attention at E3... I bought the Sony HMZ-T1 earlier this month hoping that it would be what I was always looking f

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