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by vgurgov 15y ago
I am wondering if this water circulates within their datacenter going through some cooling system or they have constant stream connected to community water pipe? Can someone explain? e.g. how big might be daily consumption of this facility?
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by vgurgov 15y ago
I believe its common for great thinkers/writers. If someone is able to speak something valuable faster without the need to feel pauses it means that he either super-fast thinker or he memorized/polished his speech, which is something, i gue
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by vgurgov 15y ago
i am so happy someone finally said this about Hipmunk! i can sign for every word in this. about me: i travel across the globe 1-4 times a month. see absolutely no reason to prefer it to kayak i found that some YC-hardcore fans of hipmunk th
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by vgurgov 15y ago
+1 i'd be interested to know more about your sales plan
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by vgurgov 15y ago
My service relies on Zencoder. before we ended up with them we tested most of these services and build own stuff. result? we are very happy with zencoder as we found similar results. its really fast(you will notice difference once you switc
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by vgurgov 15y ago
Thanks for all the feedback. I guess i posted op in a hurry and my points were not clear. 1) Know for sure that they are misleading their clients. We know how this industry works very well and we collected all evidence. 2) Scam is like th
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Ask HN: Our competitor scams their clients - what should we do?
9 points by vgurgov 15y ago|7 comments
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by vgurgov 15y ago
Yes. I do run business that significantly depends on ads. The reasons are 1) because many ppl use it and - i need to test their experience with our products. 2) I just dont like ads, and dont care about "is it ethical?" stuff that has no si
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by vgurgov 15y ago
This is awesome tip for smart web entrepreneurs looking for new startup ideas.
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by vgurgov 15y ago
Of course no. After being founder and owner of few companies for the last ±5 yrs, i cant imagine myself working for ANY COMPANY i dont own(significant part of at least)
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by vgurgov 15y ago
i agree. but this problem especially matters when you start offering complex things such as sw development as a simple package that anyone with plain idea can get. i seriously wish you good luck with this project though. let us know what wa
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by vgurgov 15y ago
also good luck getting your second 50% and convincing someone who has no clue about sw development that it contains all features you agreed on, and no you cant change this font color very last time.
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by vgurgov 15y ago
we tried this some time ago for RoR prototypes(also price was lower about 5k as far as i remember). it didnt end up well. we had to make few refunds as clients had to much expectations and no clue about software development. we tried to man
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by vgurgov 15y ago
Please send 0.001 BTC to 1Gauo5b1X42wGjmpjt4QBDjiaURUPJGaGM. Please remove . (dot)
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by vgurgov 15y ago
Although I am pleasured to know many of these guys, i am surprised to see so many IT companies in the list. I'd love to see more stories similar to nom nom truck...
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by vgurgov 15y ago
cash savings in CHF enough for ±1 yr runway + no debt + diversified investments portfolio (fast food franchises in eastern europe) = i am feeling ready for some serious web2.0 ventures ))
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by vgurgov 15y ago
I havent had "real" vacation for years and feel perfectly fine without it. My recipe is to get "real" weekend almost always (if no urgency) and extended weekends for 3-4 days from time to time. I travel and enjoy simple life in these days (
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by vgurgov 15y ago
great job with fundrasing, congrats jason! good luck with your product i will be keeping eye on it!
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by vgurgov 15y ago
Does anyone know if/when it will be open sourced? I'd love to contribute/test it in my product
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by vgurgov 15y ago
clickable: http://videolla.com
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Offer HN: Get free $5 credit for your startup video ad
3 points by vgurgov 15y ago|1 comments
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by vgurgov 15y ago
So one of my businesses is a remote Rails shop. We helped to couple dozen statups to develop prototypes fast, get new version of product, support, consulting etc. Many of them got funded after, some became profitable businesses. Am I doing
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by vgurgov 15y ago
videolla currently generates between $1-2k/month. we spend more on development (its still in active dev) so not reached breakeven, but growing..
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by vgurgov 15y ago
this is brilliant point that many founders underestimate. fairness and motivation. it happens left and right when inexperienced tech founders just "calculate" equity. it might be calulated 100% corectly and co-founder might agree with it, b
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by vgurgov 15y ago
i am not saying its easy. in fact i think its actually very-very hard thing to do. but if someone can do this - this is something i am willing to pay for. and i am sure its doable in some way, but not sure if new startup can do this or it w
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by vgurgov 15y ago
good points. i know this is going to be very tough sale to airlines but still believe that if someone will be able to offer some win-win deal and partner with some (or maybe just one) airlines it might be huge. airlines want to make more mo
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Ask HN: Can someone please start groupon for airlines?
19 points by vgurgov 15y ago|15 comments
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by vgurgov 15y ago
so what if my company uses paypal to process payments and send payouts to users? do i have to care about this stuff or its just paypal's headache now?
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by vgurgov 15y ago
so for 1 cent you can get few clicks from Egypt and Pakistan. nice. you are just 2 steps away from becoming next internet {b/m}illioner. if only you can: 1) attract millions them @ 1 cent price. screenshots shows just few clicks at that pri
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by vgurgov 15y ago
I am wondering if too much obsession with minimalism and claiming that "google docs features distracts me" are minor symptoms of some mental disorder (like form of autism or something)?

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