tyohn

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by tyohn 16y ago
Maybe you should create a website that other people can use to track their applications?
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IPhone Armed With Facial Recognition(popsci.com)
2 points by tyohn 16y ago|0 comments
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by tyohn 16y ago
I agree with you - I didn't add much to the quality of discourse. I just feel like I need to walk on pins and needles here (YC) when I want to voice my opinion about Steve Jobs and Apple. It's almost like I'm drawing a picture of Muhammad.
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by tyohn 16y ago
Feeling a little touchy? :)
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by tyohn 16y ago
You know what I kind of like about this post? - before such a post on YC would have been bashed by Apple fan boys... but now after Apple's policy pigeon holed and alienated developers - I'm starting to see a real conversation about some of
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by tyohn 16y ago
I'm sure this will be sort of frowned upon but what about selling stuff on eBay? I know people who buy stuff at yard sales or suchlike and resell it on eBay...
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by tyohn 17y ago
I have to wonder what people would have thought about this during biblical times.
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by tyohn 17y ago
The site also lets you connect/link your own ads to display with the short links you create. For instance say I ran a retail business... I could "target' my own links to display my own ads. So when a user clicks on an one of my unbig.me l
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by tyohn 17y ago
That is a very good point. I've been thinking about that issue for awhile now. Thanks for the input.
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by tyohn 17y ago
Thanks!
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by tyohn 17y ago
If anyone is at all interested: Almost all the traffic from HN skips the ads via the "Click to close and continue" link at the top right - while the majority of Twitter users let the ad run for a full 12 seconds.
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by tyohn 17y ago
You're not the first person to tell me that. If the concept isn't successful I'll change direction to a weight-loss app :)
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by tyohn 17y ago
Yeah it's by no means perfect but I am working on it. And I need more advertisers to match more effectively :)
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by tyohn 17y ago
I think your vision is a little short sighted. I think business could use this on their own social media sites and alike.
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by tyohn 17y ago
I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the input. edit: added Here's the link to our privacy statement http://unbig.me/privacy.php
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by tyohn 17y ago
I’d appreciate any thoughts about the giveaway and or the concept. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50(unbig.me)
13 points by tyohn 17y ago|25 comments
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by tyohn 17y ago
I might tweet that I left the house - but my rather large dog stays home :)
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by tyohn 17y ago
I honestly haven't considered sites banning unbig.me. I'll have to think about possible solutions. Maybe working with the sites - i.e. providing a share of the revenue or suchlike?
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by tyohn 17y ago
Thanks for the input. I've thought of both of them. #1 is would be problem. #2 each link made by our registered users is unique and assigned to the user that made it - even if its the same link someone already used... and I think retweeti
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by tyohn 17y ago
Good point. I'll have to make the distinction clearer or rethink model. Thanks!
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Ask HN: Review our startup: Unbig.me
9 points by tyohn 17y ago|12 comments
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by tyohn 17y ago
I recommend: "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices" by Peter Drucker, "Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind", by Al Ries, Jack Trout and "Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age" by Tom Peters. They aren't all strictl
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by tyohn 17y ago
I love this idea. I'll try it out on my next trip. I love the videos they're awesome - although since your site looks AJAX-ie you might want to consider opening the videos in a "lightbox" popup - I tried several times to find the close but
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by tyohn 17y ago
I've often thought of trying Adwords for TV. Several years ago I used to make animated commercials for cable TV and one of the major hassles was getting airtime on cable stations. Has anyone tried it?
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by tyohn 17y ago
Has anyone tested this? If it works it seems like a very interesting security hole.
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by tyohn 17y ago
Sounds interesting. I guess the more users you get the better search results your search will return.
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by tyohn 17y ago
Simply Amazing! Not that I don't like the iPhone but wouldn't it be cool to have a controllers that can do this for all kinds of vehicles and suchlike? I guess AR might be a boon to the remote control industry.
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by tyohn 17y ago
The question I pose to you isn't - is the Xbox hardware profitable? It's - is the Xbox software profitable enough to make Microsoft a profit taken the hardware into consideration. If so doesn't that make the Xbox profitable? HP and other
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by tyohn 17y ago
You hit the nail on the head > first established brand... An "established brand" did get into the mind first... - you might possibly gain ground on them (eBay) by focusing on a unique segment (Esty) or a host of other ways. Getting est

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