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by zbruhnke 8y ago
haha boy is it a long story ... but yes both banking software and buying part of an actual bank so we can build a full-stack bank for the next 100 years
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by zbruhnke 8y ago
It's worth noting here (though many people have in different ways already) that the reason you should not put credentials in any git repo (private or public) is that inevitably when you share repos with third party services (A CI for i
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Show HN: I got tired of seeing ugly pitch decks so I decided to act on it(yourdeckisugly.com)
1 points by zbruhnke 8y ago|0 comments
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by zbruhnke 8y ago
1. Save lots of money, more than you think you will need. This will take longer than you think. 2. If you truly want something, you can probably accomplish it. The human will is stronger than almost anything else 3. It will be harder than i
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by zbruhnke 8y ago
For users asking questions about how this will tell you a lot. Users of Robinhood Checking and Savings earn 3% interest annually on each of their Checking and Savings balances. Robinhood does not charge account maintenance, account minimum,
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by zbruhnke 8y ago
Here, I’ll be the first to provide a perspective from the other “other” side of this argument. I am a founder who once had a vesting schedule with a cliff (one year). I built the first version of a venture backed company as the CTO, we had
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by zbruhnke 8y ago
SendGrid did IPO, its traded under SEND on the NASDAQ
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by zbruhnke 8y ago
This ... so many things about configuration decisions that make sense at a point in time but can change with versions of a library, OS, server etc. In past lives I have had to hack around so many different things to make something work they
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by zbruhnke 8y ago
Hey Zach, if you want to open bank accounts with an API and be able to provide real time balances to your users ping me ... I can help make that a reality
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Ask HN: Why do you hate (or love?) your bank?
3 points by zbruhnke 8y ago|0 comments
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Secure external subdomains at Affirm(tech.affirm.com)
2 points by zbruhnke 8y ago|0 comments
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
As I read through this all it feels sort of weird even typing it but I kind of hope Amazon or Microsoft buys Docker rather than Oracle, Google or IBM. I think Microsoft still employs thousands of great engineers and have been early embracer
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
HVF Labs | Company Builders, Designers and Developers | San Francisco | Salary $75-$120k HVF is Max Levchin's startup studio - the team here works on all kinds of things that we think we can turn into meaningful and lasting companies.
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
I'm not the original poster of this but its both possible and (probably) unlikely - Article says they have 2500 customers - so if their average price per user was $25 and their average customer had 10 users that would be ~7.5MM ARR - t
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
Happy to help if you want to shoot me an email (mine is in my profile)
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
I did indeed - I used a few tools like Junglescout to get estimated sales of competitors and scope out availability as well but I also optimized for buying a small enough amount so that if I lost all of the money I would still be OK with ha
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
I did indeed pay someone on upwork to help with packaging design etc. and yes that was all included in the 11k - however my contact at the factory was able to facilitate having all of it made (albeit with lots of photos and emails back and
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
haha no worries at all! I started where most people would I think! Alibaba! I sorted and filtered for suppliers that said they could do OEM and I originally contacted about 10 of them - eventually ordered samples from 6 and then when they c
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
Ad strategy was all Amazon based and pretty simple - target keywords like iphone x wireless charger, qi wireless charer, iphone wireless charger etc. The main reason I think they worked is that most other chargers did not take the time to b
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
Totally fair question - Most of it started as word of mouth - as sales happen your rank rises in the Amazon search category - there are also some simple things you can do on amazon pretty cheaply (run ads on keywords, make sure your listing
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
Haha fair point but they actually have another 900 or so moving to different FC's right now - I suspect they'll be live soon - but even if not this is more of a fun experiment for me and the Show HN was I just thought something fu
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
Yep these are some obvious numbers I might even should have just shared off the bat! After Amazon fees, Shipping, etc I will Net about $37k in profit Revenue will for the first run be just about $60k and Cost was ~$11k out of pocket + Amaz
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Show HN: I spent a few weeks building a private label brand for Amazon – AMA
27 points by zbruhnke 9y ago|25 comments
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
I thought about this in great depth with a company I was working on a few years ago. I built it as a Financial data API and "Oauth for finance" but the ultimate idea was always - "Can I make it so that users can glean real va
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
The thing you missed is that internet providers started to realize they may be able to squeeze more money out of both consumers and large corporates a few years back and that began to change their thoughts about how to make more money with
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
This person misses the entire point of the argument for Net Neutrality - Yes it can be convenient if you know ALL of the apps and or services you'd like to use, however the entire internet being visible means putting small companies yo
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Capital One Go – Browser extension for generating new CC numbers per vendor(capitalone.com)
2 points by zbruhnke 9y ago|1 comments
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
you should check out capital one go - down to the browser extension its the exact same thing - https://www.capitalone.com/go/
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
I actually know some of the family members of one of the guys here - they are good people and he's got a brother that is also a known entity in the tech world - here's to hoping they can understand why this was a poor approach and
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by zbruhnke 9y ago
The biggest joke of this is we've all (their loyal users) been clamoring for months and months on end for Group level issue boards and now we get a slap in the face because they released it for EEP only meaning thousands of paying cust

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