ahoyhere

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by ahoyhere 5y ago
especially considering I’ve been running a SaaS for 12 years
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by ahoyhere 5y ago
You must be blocked… either for a reason, or part of a block list or I blocked you accidentally when blocking ads which has happened a few times. What’s your username?
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by ahoyhere 8y ago
Not yet, we're still very new! Being able to interact easily wherever you are is a high priority for us, however, so it's high on the list. We do have a Slackbot already.
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by ahoyhere 10y ago
Not even tall poppy syndrome, because if you dare to talk about how something went horribly wrong (aka you're a short poppy), people react in the way you describe above. It's the crab bucket: https://news.ycombinator.co
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by ahoyhere 10y ago
Freckle is Amy Hoy's biggest product (cite: my finances).
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by ahoyhere 10y ago
We used to do $240k a year in technical workshops, sold nearly $300k of ebooks, and have a million-dollar-a-year business… 3/4 of which is SaaS, not 30x500. And no, we don't have "multiple staff members." Freckle is run
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
That's why I said "new… for a vast majority of people."
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Yes, lots of us are. The trick is, we've mostly given up on HN. First of all because we got tired of the "lifestyle business" sneer/smear. Second there is almost no content here for us any more. In May, I organized a 100
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Surely I'm not the only one who read the screenshotted exchanges and thought: He just told the OP he's waiting for "answers" from the doctor. He can't make travel plans. He says it's long, gruesome, UGH. Guys.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
I'm sorry you went through that. Of course a memorial page wouldn't help comfort you, when you know your friend was murdered, you know who the killer was, and there would never be justice, just the thought of how you failed, and h
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
work ethic, n: A word used by those trying to guilt others into doing what the selfish person wants.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
The notion of a job/employment is a new one for the vast majority of the world's population, Americans included. Most people were peasants/subsistence farmers, or small time commercial farmers, or tradespeople (carpenter, bla
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
That's not relevant to the fact that actual wages have gone down.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
If you read the essay, it's clear he's not anti-startup, much less specifically anti-Y Combinator. He is pro- other things instead, and saying the "traditional" (lol) startup culture is overshadowing all other choices. T
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
"Om nom noooo!"
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Is simply pointing out a mistake "making a big thing out of nothing"? I don't understand why you claim I'm "making a big thing" and write a paragraph explaining yourself instead of just saying "Oops! So it
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Relevant to business? No. Common courtesy requires not mis-gendering people though.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Compass is not a course. It's not a strategy product, it's a mathematical modeling tool for inputting statistics and forecasting different scenarios. (Fact: It's a spreadsheet.) You, the user of the tool, make the judgments a
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
And I did a huge amount of little mistakes! I consider myself lucky in that I eventually reached the launch goal at all. It's not luck, it's because you got the core thing right: You are killing a real pain people with money hav
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Hi, I'm the teacher of 30x500, the course in question. You're right -- by far, the product failures I see are caused by people who are self-focused (what do I want to make? what's fun?) vs service-focused (how can I serve peo
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
The name: Jaana. The photo: A woman. "He"?
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
The most important thing to realize is: This isn't happening to you. You are doing it to yourself.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
One guy doing a split-test on one client -- the second one you cite -- is not what I would call "a study": http://www.conversiondoctor.com/conversion-blog/coupon-codes... Look at other reasons people abandone
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
If you first discover that coupons exist at the cashier, you must be an alien going to a store for the first time. You hit the nail on the head with the first part of your comment -- you decided they weren't worth the time, and therefo
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
But he SOUNDS so sure of himself! See also http://www.overcomingbias.com/2009/03/deceptive-writing-styl...
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Why is it absurd? Do you think it's absurdly long? Their agreement in general is much shorter than any single one of the several I had to go through to get a merchant account and CC processing service before. Is it absurd because you t
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Who wouldn't prefer to live in the forest than in the hospital pictured. My god. Poor man.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Don't let somebody off the hook for "naïvete" if they enter into a business with somebody who got their assets through theft, and his job is to disguise the theft. That's collusion.
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Everybody always thinks they're a special case. "Oh sure, he lied to THEM, but he'd NEVER lie to ME!" That's why one of my lessons is "Expect the best of everyone, but always believe the evidence." http:&
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by ahoyhere 13y ago
Some of us value permanence. I own my house, and I have zero intention of ever selling it. It's mine, mine, mine, mine. There is an incredible feeling in owning a home that you love and plan to spend your life in. We get to plan the ch

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