wellboy

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by wellboy 13y ago
You can gain more "experience" before you try to do your own thing, however the more experience you gain, the worse you become at creating the next billion dollar startup. For every year that you don´t start your own business, you
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by wellboy 13y ago
They should get some software engineers from the NSA maybe and put them on the obama care website...
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by wellboy 13y ago
Well they have improved their model, they make quite a lot of money now through the app store, Android, soon self-driving cars etc.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Awesome dude, very innovative, could become something, maybe an own app, I dont know.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Advertising is always the most desperate business model when you don´t have any other ways to monetize. However, that's the problem if you are a generic startup for everybody and don't have a niche.
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by wellboy 13y ago
But you can simply scan 11 pages in and run a software over it that reads all characters. There´s lots of software like that. This would have taken the FBI 20 mins...
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by wellboy 13y ago
Awesome, someone needs to make 180 Android apps within 180 days now. :)
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by wellboy 13y ago
Is there a bug in HN right now? Why is this story which was posted 4h ago ranked #7 with 436 upvotes, when U.S. Opposes Tech Companies... is ranked #6 with 169 upvotes while it was posted 8h ago and the Google acquisition of Flutter ranked
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by wellboy 13y ago
I don't think it matters since the mass data surveillance thing was started by the Bush Administration...
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by wellboy 13y ago
This is pure evil.
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by wellboy 13y ago
So how do I make $100k in Open Source now?
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by wellboy 13y ago
Hmm I just thinking of some examples, always good to have some data. When did a non-founder make a failing company successful again. I can think of Porsche with Wiedeking, however it´s a bit different there, since the founders are already d
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by wellboy 13y ago
It's not about how much absolute time this brush saves, it's how much it saves relatively in comparison to the status quo and in that way it is just 30 times better. If you deduct the higher costs and whatever you might lose some
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by wellboy 13y ago
Ousting the founder-founder from the company and leaving it to non-founders, that's the worst decision any investor, co-founder, board member can make for a company. Good luck.
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by wellboy 13y ago
But I value my work at $50,000/h, so I need to focus on my startup 100%, that's why I didn't want to spend more than 10 days in sustaining myself (10 apps a 24h).
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by wellboy 13y ago
I think it's a bubble in terms of the people, many big egos. In these times you should how to not have an no ego at all, if you don't have an ego, no one can leverage that to make you do things. The actual founder-founders, the in
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by wellboy 13y ago
You totally got it man. As tluyben said, there is no support, no follow up work. But I wanted to spend the least amount possible on "making-money" so that I can be fully on my startup for 80h/week. I've been just by myse
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by wellboy 13y ago
$2000/month from free Android apps. I just copied existing apps on android like Logo Quiz, 4 pics 1 word etc. that were number 1 in the play store. Just took 24h to rebuild this apps, since they're quite simple. Did that around 10
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by wellboy 13y ago
Ah ok, got it :)
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by wellboy 13y ago
Not trying to be a downer, but how are you an interesting company to invest in when your entire opportunity, if you take 100% of the market, is $5M/year?
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by wellboy 13y ago
This is why social discovery doesn't work the way it is right now. How to make it work? 1. Solve a problem to be a pain killer 2. Leverage an existing community to reduce critical mass and make your users fall in love with your app 3.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Every human interaction is just analogous to dating, because human interactions are based on interest and the whole thing is called social dynamics. Be high value and wanted and everybody wants you, be desperate and low value and nobody wan
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by wellboy 13y ago
Get 1,000 users in a month and you don't need any introductions. You can cold email them and they will jump you. Maybe not jump you, but that should give you an idea. Don't waste any idea on fundraising until you have product fit,
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by wellboy 13y ago
An interesting point here is arrogance towards investors. The art of "arrogance" is to be arrogant in what you are saying while being very kind and nice in the way you say it. It's very hard as a first time founder to mimic t
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by wellboy 13y ago
Great read, you feel the love in your post :)
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by wellboy 13y ago
Watsi, I think they are the only not-for-profit startup, are they?
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by wellboy 13y ago
Awesome move! But from a data-gathering point of view, why not leave all the questions in. More questions more data! Also, I find the "how do you make money" question still the most important. Sure a non-profit shouldn't focu
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by wellboy 13y ago
This seems to be really well intended, but this is the outcome when you put a data-geek into charge of design instead of a true artist. If they had just launched a design contest on a freelancer, they would have had a multiple times better
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by wellboy 13y ago
Prove it, build a startup.
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by wellboy 13y ago
Ok my friend has done this and it is definitely interesting. However, if you do polyphasic sleep, you age several times faster during that time, approximately around 5 times faster. So if you do Polyphasic Sleep for a month, you'll act

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