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by wellboy 12y ago
Also have a look at http://www.localmind.com/ (acquired by AirBnb) and Circle ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.discoverci... )
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by wellboy 12y ago
I've searched for it, but can't find the links anymore unfortunately. However, every couple of months a new show hn makes it to the front page with finding like-minded people, making new friends etc. If you search on Angel list fo
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by wellboy 12y ago
As always, this is the greatest idea ever, spontaneously meeting like-minded people/social discovery. Hundreds of startups have tried it and this idea pops up on the HN front page every couple of months. However, it has never worked ou
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by wellboy 12y ago
It's because Uber is the fastest growing tech-startup on earth right now.
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by wellboy 12y ago
This is a really dumb strategy though, breaking the rules means not being constrained by the social norms and trying something new, however, it doesn't mean being an a-hole and doing purely malicious stuff at all. That's very unen
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by wellboy 12y ago
If Uber is already this evil now, what things can we expect once they go into ground transport in general with self-driving cars? I don't want to trust a nefarious company to drive me and my kids around! How can their investors, of whi
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by wellboy 12y ago
There should be an app for that --> Yo. Seriously, it should be a functionality of Yo. As of now you can subscribe to channels already, I think there should also be default channels that all users are subscribed to, for events that happe
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by wellboy 12y ago
The article states that only 12% of success is determined by practice, thus the hypothesis of it taking 10,000 hours of practice to master a skill is false. Somehow that doesn't make any sense. >D The author should maybe have read u
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by wellboy 12y ago
Breadth of knowledge increases your mental sharpness just as depth of knowledge though, they both do. If you only go for depth, you can do a PhD in a super narrow field and it will increase your mental sharpness significantly. However, it w
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by wellboy 12y ago
It's the same post as yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177259 . Developers that probably have close to half a million on the bank account complaining that they don't know what to do. It sounds a bit
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by wellboy 12y ago
True, you're right. Except for the college thing though. :)
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by wellboy 12y ago
Yes, they are financially independant to remain where they are, but they are not financially independent to do do great things, e.g. they couldn't start a company, buy a new house, send their kids to college. (except your friend became
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by wellboy 12y ago
I really don't get this. Why do people strive to get richer?? I've chose startup grind instead of super rich Facebook jobs 3 years ago and am still living like a student and see no need to own a lot of things. Am I that "spec
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Don’t Waste Your 20s at Google or McKinsey(linkedin.com)
2 points by wellboy 12y ago|1 comments
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by wellboy 12y ago
Why do people not see that every single time, what is so hard to understand about that? Twitter & Facebook didn't make no money at all either for the first 3 years even, now look at them. If you have millions and millions of user
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by wellboy 12y ago
Why all the hate? Create a product that shares more images than any other technology in the whole world and you can have a $10B app, too.
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by wellboy 12y ago
I had this Android app https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hour.chat on the front page last week. It got 45 upvotes and also around 450, pretty good. So for an app you could probably say 10 downloads
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by wellboy 12y ago
In fact, there was Popcorn Messaging, which is anonymous chat within 1 mi radius. I loved the idea and checked the app quite often. However, the chats on there were almost never relevant to me, because there was no curation at all and this
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by wellboy 12y ago
Thanks, working on it! Didn't expect that to directly take to be honest.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Sure, iOS and possibly also Android developer would be helpful! Shoot me an email, it's in my bio.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Some stats two hours after submission if someone is interested: - 92 new users - 88 chatrooms were opened - 14 users from London, 10 Amsterdam, 8 Berlin, 8 New York, 8 Chicago, 6 Toronto. It seems like because it's so early, mostly Eur
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by wellboy 12y ago
Ah no, it's just from an indie-dev :) But I was inspired by how Yo took communication to a whole nother level and thought about ways of how to push further what they started.
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by wellboy 12y ago
Hmm, I see your point, but isn't it better to have content on the app with people a bit farther away instead of "no content of people close-by."
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by wellboy 12y ago
Ok, it seems that the update hasn't gone through yet, where it only asks for location now. Should be through soon.
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by wellboy 12y ago
That's an excellent idea, I was thinking about how to fix this problem. I think starting with a radius of 5 miles and increasing it until users can see the chatrooms from the closest 100 people would solve all that.
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Show HN: 60 Minutes Chat – Anonymously chat in self-destructing chatrooms nearby(play.google.com)
47 points by wellboy 12y ago|35 comments
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Treehouse claims to turn waitresses into $80K/year coders in just two years(venturebeat.com)
2 points by wellboy 12y ago|0 comments
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by wellboy 12y ago
This is an awesome lifestyle, however, it's not a lifestyle where you would "never have to work again" as it "only" allows you to travel. However, if at any point in time you want to do something outside of travel,
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by wellboy 12y ago
Great story, I've heard from a couple of people who have worked really, really hard that at some point they just lose all interest and do the exact opposite. On another one, what about family if I may ask. Do you not have plans about t
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by wellboy 12y ago
One bad breakup between two C-types and "ALL" of the efforts to bring MORE women into tech is trampled? Well, yeah. Only half of the efforts trampeled?

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