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by volaski 11y ago
"Avoiding problem areas" is the last thing you should do if you're working on a startup. It's a good thing that people make stupid mistakes because sometimes something extraordinary comes out of them. If everyone acted i
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by volaski 11y ago
In my experience, people give direct feedback in terms of how they should execute (in constructive manner), but rarely criticizes and discourages the idea itself as being crazy. Over time people learn to cope with the fact that they really
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by volaski 11y ago
No investor says "Well, whoever wrote this script obviously put a lot of effort into it, so here $50 million". But I'm sure hollywood community also encourages each other for their creativity no matter how crazy something sou
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by volaski 11y ago
It's not cool to criticize startups in silicon valley because that's what the place stands for. There's already enough people in the world who will say it's a stupid app (probably 99.9%), I don't see anything wrong
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by volaski 11y ago
This is awesome. Good work. I just hope there's some sort of "autotune for beats" feature where I can effortlessly add 4/4 beats of kicks for example.
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by volaski 11y ago
woah what's up with you people downvoting? I just pointed out what is true and wasn't even trolling. I'm offended, HN. Uber is a marketplace. Facebook is a social network. Craigslist is a marketplace. Uber's network effe
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by volaski 11y ago
Video is popular nowadays not because that's what users want but because that's what generates more ad revenue for media. There are certain cases where video storytelling is better than textual/visual storytelling but very ra
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by volaski 11y ago
You are correct... for now. But the way I see it all going down is only the top marketplace will survive and the rest will shut down. Sure, they may even generate revenue, but I think those that don't manage to become the top will fade
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by volaski 11y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges when you compare Uber with Facebook. A better comparison would be with Craigslist.
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by volaski 11y ago
OK I think I'll go download that framabag.org thing instead, that sounds cool
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by volaski 11y ago
Just because something is in vogue doesn't mean it is the right answer in the long term. Their mission is NOT about generating more pageviews in the short term to rack up ad revenue but stick to being a reliable source of information.
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by volaski 11y ago
This guy not only tells people not to YC after he applied and got rejected, but also publicly bashes someone (the LA accelerator) who did their best to help him (Doesn't matter if it didn't work out. They did their best to help
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by volaski 11y ago
You'd be lying if you say it took you less than 10 minutes the very first time you attempted it.
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by volaski 11y ago
Medium started out with Twitter sign in, which means their early users were all Twitter "influencers". The way I look at it, it's a blogging wrapper layer built around Twitter social graph. When you sign in with your Twitter
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by volaski 11y ago
Now it's not so convincing piece of advice when you say "Never do an accelerator", when you just applied for one and got rejected, is it?
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by volaski 11y ago
"Track record" is just a byproduct of motivated/smart people trying hard at life. Also there's no such thing as "increasing track record of successful events". You probably perceive it as such because you only
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by volaski 11y ago
haha this is awesome!
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by volaski 11y ago
All we need now is a beatmaker chrome extension to feed this into and create a tune.
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by volaski 11y ago
Yes it is a public service, and that's why they need to generate more revenue if they want to provide higher quality service with their fixed budget. Money doesn't fall from the sky.
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by volaski 11y ago
While more tunnels and trails will be convenient for a lot of people, it won't necessarily generate significantly more revenue for MTA. On the other hand if MTA invests in wifi, they will make tons more money through all the new busine
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by volaski 11y ago
Forbes comes in first place bar none if you compute (shadiness/brand visibility). They do all kinds of shady stuff like clickbait titles, shadiest of the shadiest ad formats, that meaningless interstitial ad, and probably whole lot mor
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by volaski 11y ago
I can understand your reasoning, but once you learn it you'll realize how this is exactly what you've been looking for. For starters, the main concept of Vim is its "Command mode", which is used exactly for the scripting
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by volaski 11y ago
vim?
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by volaski 11y ago
How many meaningful competing products does Xbox have? You can count with one hand. Same goes for Azure. Now think about how much competition Evernote has. There are tons in each category. Heck I can even build my own note app in an hour us
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by volaski 11y ago
Microsoft provided Windows.
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by volaski 11y ago
Microsoft provided something that didn't exist at its time (the most user friendly productivity software on the largest OS platform). If you provide something that's immediately useful and there's not really much of an altern
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by volaski 11y ago
What you mention indeed is a problem for its core users who already use Evernote. However "too many features"--each of which is mediocre--is a much larger problem. I remember trying to use and like Evernote multiple times through
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by volaski 11y ago
I don't get it. What do you mean
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by volaski 11y ago
You're not alone. I think this is a serious problem for Dropbox. When people reach their quota they have the following options: 1. Pay up and upgrade; 2. Spam friends to get more credits; 3. Sign up for another service, FOR FREE. We al
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by volaski 11y ago
Nah best way to avoid downvotes is (1) be civil, and (2) be rational

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