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by wmab 6y ago
Why would there be a buy in the Eats tracking but not in Rideshare? I'd imagine it's the same underlying GPS tracking/routing software used in both cases. Is it just that the rides are paid differently than Eats deliveries ar
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by wmab 6y ago
This is great to show the ability of aggregating videos from Reddit. I'd say a better use case would be to turn it into a news feed of subreddits you follow - Instagram stories, Tik Tok with autoplay right in the feed. It irritates me
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by wmab 6y ago
TLDR: Buy a copy of the Lean Startup, read it, action it.
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by wmab 6y ago
Yeah that's interesting. I think the friction "Go to the website to signup" is worth them spending the 30% to have it in-app for Spotify, catering for the lowest denominator of user.
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by wmab 6y ago
There are entire cohorts of interested companies and industries that will be looking to benefit from a reduction in Apple's standard pricing policies. Do we know how / if Apple charges SaaS companies who enable adding seats throug
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by wmab 6y ago
Agreed, that's correct for public market prices in general. I'm not commenting on the valuation of the business, merely the business model that "succeeded" (one definition is valuation). I would have said the same 2 year
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by wmab 6y ago
That's super interesting, thanks for the video! Perhaps they understood that there might be resistance to native ("small market" at the start) and so looked for something that could help the transition?
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by wmab 6y ago
Right, Google doesn't play in the "luxury" space, they decided that strategy early on, allowing any smartphone maker to ship the Android OS. This won them the market share for operating system - currently 75% to iOS's ~2
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by wmab 6y ago
Yes, the app store was genius. We'll see how the 30% shakes out in the long term, with the recent revolt from Epic etc, but creating a platform on top of your software/hardware vertical integration is a decent monopoly play that c
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by wmab 6y ago
Apple succeeded because they managed to do something that was previously unimaginable in business theory - create a mass-market luxury good. A well taught theory in business school is Porter's general theory, which was to create a sust
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by wmab 6y ago
This is a great resource, and some thoroughly well researched pieces included, thanks for bringing it all together! One category that seems notably missing is exits. I'm sure this is some of interest to 100% of the community, and doesn
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by wmab 6y ago
Yeah, Grubhub were touting themselves to restaurants as more of a marketing channel partner - find customers, advertise etc. Still, I'm not sure why that business service warranted a 20% commission fee in the first place to be profitab
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by wmab 6y ago
Grubhub for years were just a marketplace for customers to find food to order online / restaurants to find customers online. They'd charge a commission on order amount for fulfilling the match but the restaurant would have to deli
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by wmab 7y ago
Awesome, good luck with fielding questions and comments for the rest of today!
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by wmab 7y ago
Yeah, I love Ritual for ordering - the bonus points system is great as it's real cash back - similar to the star quests on Starbucks app which get a little addictive.
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by wmab 7y ago
>I see it as you're selling to a shrinking market. I'd respectfully disagree. Food delivery is a huge and growing market but it has also bred a whole new ecosystem of other ways of thinking about on-demand food consumption. The
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by wmab 7y ago
Congrats Tim & James on the Product Hunt launch today! This is a very powerful solution for independent coffee shops to access similar demand-side market effects to Starbucks - I could imagine you doing the same for the supply-side for
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by wmab 7y ago
I don't think Superhuman should have caved to this criticism as quickly as they did. Good that they kept the feature, albeit dumbed down. People pay for a power user email client because it's exactly that - a power user tool, whic
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by wmab 7y ago
Have you looked into Containers to see if this will work as you want profiles to? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
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by wmab 7y ago
We hire a number of folks both as traditional contractors as well as freelancers. Here's some thoughts based on my experience: 1) Are they an employee or a contractor? You mention "employees" but talk about them invoicing you
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by wmab 8y ago
Yeah I have seen the Owl before and haven't had the best experience when I'm dialing in to a group that is using one. Can you set it up to just work like a normal camera for when you need a 1 on 1?
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Ask HN: What's your conference room tech setup?
5 points by wmab 8y ago|6 comments
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by wmab 8y ago
It's a shame to say goodbye to something that is quite synonymous with San Francisco life. From the comments a lot of people don't "get it" and then think that this is the reason it failed. I'm sure it's a deci
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by wmab 8y ago
Thanks for this, yes I think these could be good ideas. Just quickly on d) I meant it would be visually useful to see a table showing the data for the top 5 or 10 countries too, or else you have to hover over each country to see, and then y
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by wmab 8y ago
It's great that you have lots of data to be able to analyze, but I think you've missed the point with that you're analyzing. I'm not sure what the visualizing is doing to offer any insight? Just graphs of months where it
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by wmab 8y ago
I'd NOT recommend Bridge Bank for checking or credit cards. They pitch it as a startup friendly bank - they are currently billboarding San Francisco with an "Entrepreneur not Wantrepreneur" campaign right now - and I've
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by wmab 8y ago
Read it outside the WSJ paywall (normally need to Incognito it): https://www.facebook.com/flx/warn/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wsj.c...
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by wmab 8y ago
Thanks for sharing, I had no idea these videos existed!
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by wmab 8y ago
Not sure what you're selling, but if it's B2B SaaS at all, then Entrepid Partners have a great 40 pager on the sales cycle. You have to sign up for their mailing list to get it, but here's the static file: https://
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by wmab 8y ago
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