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by zmitri 13y ago
I understand why they are banned -- a lot of their stories are sourced from hear say and aren't written with professional courtesy -- that being said, they actually do publish a lot of interesting articles that others just aren't
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And even that is absolutely fleeting. You're probably better off writing it on your own and submitting to Hacker News as the potential reach is much greater.
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by zmitri 13y ago
That Rap Genius domain name has so much SEO power. I think it's actually extremely smart on their part to leave it like that for now because any content on their site is going to pop up in search rankings.
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by zmitri 13y ago
For what it's worth, I read this recommendation a year or so a go and it helped a lot despite my initial skepticism. It's mostly a mindful awareness thing.
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by zmitri 13y ago
Not a fan of Che(e)ney are we?
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by zmitri 13y ago
I think it depends on the person and the industry. Some ideas require a lot of insight, research and connections to execute well, and some don't. I started my own company two years after graduating (paid off all my student loans first)
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by zmitri 13y ago
Would using Google Analytics work? I know it's not as easy as Mixpanel but they have a lot of tools. They also have an Objective C SDK. There's a YC company called Heap Analytics that offers pricing based on monthly unique users.
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by zmitri 13y ago
I think poshmark is something similar that works well for clothing http://poshmark.com
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by zmitri 13y ago
I also found it especially interesting how much interaction the religious leaders have on Instagram for the size of Kuwait. For example, http://instagram.com/mishari_alafasy is the grand Imam of Kuwait. 15K likes for his fo
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by zmitri 13y ago
I believe twitter didn't start seeing crazy growth until 2009 once they focus on activating their users and moving away from the idea that everyone needs to tweet to use twitter. Google trends seems to confirm 2009 was when it started
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by zmitri 13y ago
If you have any cool stories about those places to go along with the pictures, post them to backspaces and I'll make sure they get seen. I build the app with a friend.
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Abandoned island in the middle of NYC(backspac.es)
675 points by zmitri 13y ago|108 comments
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by zmitri 13y ago
It's also unknown whether or not he survived the jump -- and I think the "falling introduction" ties in well with this idea.
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Where Don Draper ends, D.B. Cooper begins(medium.com)
10 points by zmitri 13y ago|4 comments
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by zmitri 13y ago
Do you think that exposure makes the marketplace more attractive or actually has a role in helping make hits? Even though app search services do exist -- like Quixey https://www.quixey.com I'm not sure if they make sense fo
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by zmitri 13y ago
The reality is, people are taking millions of dollars to build an app, and it takes them many months to push it out. With only one dev, me, my cofounder and I lived off of < 25K for a year, and built up an app with +70K users. That'
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by zmitri 13y ago
I feel like what you are saying here agrees with the article. I've had a banner feature on the photo and video section of the app store. It only drives a couple hundred downloads a day. The reality is, the front page in the US is the o
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by zmitri 13y ago
Pretty impressive answer, and I agree for the most part. I do believe there are a lot of apps that do get Apple's approval and get showcased, but never really make it -- which you do address. A great example in the video space is Vyclo
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by zmitri 13y ago
Depends what you mean by real. It's very real for a two man team to build something into an app that brings in a few hundred thousand a year (and there are examples of those for sure), but building a huge company is an entirely differe
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by zmitri 13y ago
As someone who builds an app, he was essentially noting that: Lots of investors made pre-traction mobile-consumer bets in early 2011. Some even built up teams of 5 or 6 people before having launched a product. In late 2011 and early 2012, s
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by zmitri 13y ago
Here's my take on the situation as someone who bootstrapped a mobile app, got some traction, and did not end up raising a seed round (We even had a YC interview). I tried to use some real numbers/examples: http://blog.z
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by zmitri 13y ago
What's become a little more clear from this article to me, is that many big US schools are actively pursuing expansion because of all the students from China willing to pay full tuition and still value having a degree. Who knows what k
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You need a million users to raise a (consumer) seed round(blog.zmitri.com)
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by zmitri 13y ago
Random sampling is such a simple, but nice touch. I've built up large tables/collections and only after realized I needed random samples I had to go through and generate random seeds for entries.
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by zmitri 13y ago
Once I was looking for the number of the person I was going to stay with in the USA and they asked to have my phone. I said it's okay, I'll find it for you.
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by zmitri 13y ago
They do sometimes ask to see your phone.
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You're right, it is very unclear. My concern (and what seems to be Snowden's concern as well) is that business is going to keep going on as usual and everyone will let this slide. I don't think its your duty to do something m
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by zmitri 13y ago
This touches on a lot of the no-nonsense reasons why a VC would say no if you have some traction, but not explosive traction. As someone who has gone through the process of bootstrapping, getting traction, and trying to raise money for the
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by zmitri 13y ago
It's nice seeing people like Fred stand up for privacy/human rights, but at the same time, it's little a bittersweet because speaking out directly against PRISM companies could affect business -- as companies he invests in ar
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by zmitri 13y ago
I've spoken with younger engineers who work on internal systems at Google in NYC and they mentioned working on systems that help the legal department find problems, etc. I wouldn't be surprised if it was under such a guise that these things

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