waleedka

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by waleedka 17y ago
Thanks, I'll check that app. I have FAQ and help pages. And, when I see patterns in the questions I update the user interface to make it clearer and those emails stop. I've optimized it to a point where most of the questions are unique or a
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by waleedka 17y ago
That's all nice, but what do you do when you get so many custemer emails that you don't have time for coding anymore? I used to answer support emails within the hour and our users loved it. But as we grew it started to take it's toll and sl
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Founder Institute On Track To Graduate 300 Startups Per Year(techcrunch.com)
3 points by waleedka 17y ago|0 comments
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Gambit Co-Founder Reveals His Biggest Startp Mistakes(mixergy.com)
33 points by waleedka 17y ago|5 comments
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by waleedka 17y ago
I use PivotalTracker. I didn't like it at first, but then it grew on me.
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by waleedka 17y ago
You might be missing the point. Had FriendFeed worked on improving Twisted and it's documentation to make it easier to use, they would have achieved what they needed in less time and would have avoided fragmenting the resources of the open
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by waleedka 17y ago
What I found encouraging and enlightening was knowing that most startups go through the "Trough of Sorrow" (the time after launch when you don't get any users and things look really bad). Just knowing that you're not alone makes it so much
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by waleedka 17y ago
Thanks :) I tried to fix it, but I guess it's too late.
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This is how a great auto-response message looks like
26 points by waleedka 17y ago|6 comments
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Raising Capital: Closing The Deal(slideshare.net)
23 points by waleedka 17y ago|12 comments
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Scott Rafer: Couldery Shouldery - Lookery Postmortem (rafer.tumblr.com)
11 points by waleedka 17y ago|2 comments
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by waleedka 17y ago
what library are you using to parse feeds?
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by waleedka 17y ago
Awesome. I started using it with the Facebook developer forums feed, which has only the titles of each post, and it's a great improvement. The one thing it can't do well, though, is following the thread messages. Basically, a thread shows u
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by waleedka 17y ago
I hope it takes off, but I really doubt it will. It's too complex, and the benefits are not so clear. I understand the long term benefits/goal, but it's hard to motivate content producers to adapt something new if they can't see quick retur
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by waleedka 17y ago
I incorporated as an S-Corp when I started. Two weeks ago I got into the fbFund incubator program, and the first thing they asked me to do is to convert to a C-Corp. I'm glad I started with an S-Corp because converting to C is a simple form
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by waleedka 17y ago
Very nice service. I would've used it for my project had it been available when I started, but I had to build most of the features you listed in house (we pull about 80K feeds). One feature that might be interesting to add is returning the
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by waleedka 18y ago
Are you, maybe, stretching the definition of entrepreneur too much? If you're building something innovative, but not a business, then you might be a pioneer, a visionary, or a leader. It's not about the money. You can get rich in any one of
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by waleedka 18y ago
The implementation that Ashwin from Buxfer built for the iPhone was great. Simple, fast, and already tested. Maybe you can use it, or borrow parts of it.
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Whistlecars and Robocars: Brad Templeton on really automatic transmissions [video](gadgets.boingboing.net)
1 points by waleedka 18y ago|0 comments
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Unnatural selection: Robots start to evolve(newscientist.com)
4 points by waleedka 18y ago|1 comments
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by waleedka 18y ago
Yes, it looks like it. Only, re-launched with a few more bells and whistles and with a good marketing spin. Funny how the name of the product and how it's presented makes such a big difference in how valuable it becomes.
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by waleedka 18y ago
In addition to that, some (many?) entrepreneurs build something users want and see their apps grow. But, then, they see their friends doing something else that's growing even faster. And, being optimists, decide that they can run two projec
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by waleedka 18y ago
- Chrome surpasses Firefox in market share - Amazon Kindle 2 will be a huge hit and trigger a frenzy of copycats - Facebook continues it's fast growth and a few other social networks stop growing and go on the decline. Facebook Connect gain
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by waleedka 18y ago
Although an old article, it's still probably the best reference for Google's Feed APIs out there. I considered using the APIs some time ago for a project in which I need to pull tens of thousands of feeds, but Google's TOS limit it's use to
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by waleedka 18y ago
Great work. Did you build the it from scratch or did you use an open source code like Pligg?
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by waleedka 18y ago
> There are now 52,000 apps on Facebook, created by 660,000 developers. That doesn't add up!! If that's true, then it's about 11 developers per app. My experience, at least in SV, is that it's more like 11 apps per developer.
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Facebook Is Gaining Ground On Google In Time Spent On The Internet(techcrunch.com)
2 points by waleedka 18y ago|7 comments
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by waleedka 18y ago
A friend and I work on our own separate startups and we searched for ways to increase our productivity. We started a weekly challenge. Every week we meet in a coffee shop and set goals that we must achieve by the next meeting. If goals are
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by waleedka 18y ago
And Google's recent introduction of voting on search results tells me that they might've reached a similar conclusion.
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by waleedka 18y ago
Same experience here. I launched OnSingularity.com a while back, and I ended up spending more time on marketing than development. What I learned from the experience was that there is still potential for niche social news sites, but it takes

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