benjaminlotan

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by benjaminlotan 12y ago
We just launched this as a Kickstarter. It's a simple silicone keyboard cover plus Apple keyboard layout installer. Thanks for any feedback or help getting the word out there. It's a wacky video, but we have been using the prototy
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The Emoji Keyboard – Hardware+software Solution Brings Emoji to the Mac(kickstarter.com)
2 points by benjaminlotan 12y ago|1 comments
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1M Installs – What's my app worth?(sideprojectors.com)
9 points by benjaminlotan 12y ago|0 comments
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
I have used FOBO as a customer and a seller, pretty amazing on both ends. I really think that adding in payment support as an option in Yardsale would have helped boost that platform a ton. Perhaps if FOBO succeeds the team will circle back
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
thanks so much! appreciate the comment :-) come say hello if you are in SF.
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
yo steve! good to hear from you. drop by our new space!
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
thanks, hah, already got a call from a shark! ;-)
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
just really hard to turn down opportunities which don't even seem that difficult to achieve, and customers asking so much for so many things i want to give them to make THEM happy :-) plus the goal of wanting to actually have some more
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
wow, you totally called it! already got on the phone with someone wanting to take things over and do crazy things. shady people ;-) Thanks, i'll be careful. appreciate the advice. I've kept close control thus far and have not want
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
sound advice, thanks a bunch. i just threw the executive titles out there since i think that's where they would ideally lead to, and i don't exactly know how to speak to the people we are looking for to help us. I will read the me
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
yeah, i mean, i know what i;m doing by following instinct... but really at this scale... all decisions seem wrong. we truly have no one in the company who has been here before, and that is a problem.
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
it's all over the place since we have been building and rebuilding things, but currently it's mostly rails and node.js. Hosted on Heroku.
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I bootstrapped a $10 million company and need serious help
189 points by benjaminlotan 13y ago|84 comments
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by benjaminlotan 13y ago
My company, SocialPrintStudio.com is looking for a lead designer. we are a small bootstrapped (profitable!) startup in the heart of SF, looking for someone who can work directly with me (the founder) to guide all design efforts across many
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by benjaminlotan 14y ago
Hi. i am interested in speaking with you. My company has been looking for interesting projects in the physical space to take on... and we are currently amassing books for a library... Can you give me your email address or email me at Ben @
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by benjaminlotan 14y ago
Berkeley, CA. Social Print Studio seeks full time web and mobile engineers. We are bootstrapped and profitable working on a range of projects. Hit us on twitter if u can get down with us. @socialPS
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by benjaminlotan 14y ago
after reading a nice post. i want some nice simple way to tell you i enjoyed reading and appreciate it... i'm down with kudos.
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by benjaminlotan 15y ago
"We hate ads, and our last goal is to spam Instagram and destroy the fun and authenticity of the network for everyone. We want to push bold new ideas and develop inspiring and tasteful ways for companies to interact with their audience. "
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The First Ad Network For Instagram(instagridnetwork.com)
9 points by benjaminlotan 15y ago|3 comments
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by benjaminlotan 15y ago
I would certainly hope to find the "right" co-founder, and ideally i wanted to test the waters with this post and see who i might make connections with -- whether or not we decide to apply together. But really I do want a co-founder on this
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Apply with Me for YC winter '12
10 points by benjaminlotan 15y ago|3 comments
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Show HN: Follow Users On Instagram Without an iPhone
2 points by benjaminlotan 15y ago|0 comments
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by benjaminlotan 15y ago
i like it by the way. thanks for sharing it here. i can kind of see what you are thinking.
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by benjaminlotan 15y ago
I think it should be evaluated in terms of where it could be 10 or 20 years from now. Somehow when i think of it that way, and then i compare that to thoughts of facebook in 10 or 20 years... i have faith in google.
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by benjaminlotan 15y ago
Thanks for posting, as a newer HN user (8 months), i now have a deeper respect for the system and will try harder to keep quality here and only submit quality content. generally, i follow HN on twitter, that provides me a nice flow of the g
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Ask HN: Any Start-up Lawyers who actually Enjoy their Job?
2 points by benjaminlotan 15y ago|0 comments
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People Don't Use "The Internet"(socialprint.tumblr.com)
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by benjaminlotan 16y ago
php, mysql, jquery. the good guys.
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Show HN: I Built 3 Web Apps in 5 days.
2 points by benjaminlotan 16y ago|2 comments
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by benjaminlotan 16y ago
bad call.

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