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by betterlabs 14y ago
Awesome - glad to see PicBackMan on the list. We are excited about our mission to end photo backup anxiety for everyone around the world!
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by betterlabs 14y ago
I believe investors and startups that are / were looking for Facebook as an easy exit were not building a company / business anyway. Such a situation is better overall for everyone - only the teams that are focused on building a real busine
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Here is a blog post that describes the inspiration behind PicBackMan and how it works: http://www.picbackman.com/general/backup-photos-into-multipl... . Would love to hear your comments and feedback.
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Show HN: I built this to automatically backup photos on multiple online accounts(picbackman.com)
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Just downloaded and tried it and it looks really good. It has the simplicity of Notepad which I keep going back to after trying a new app and I have tried "many". I only wish they were cloud based and had a web version to it so my lists are
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by betterlabs 15y ago
The right thing to do. However, their 2nd paragraph should have been the one starting with "We believe you should have control when it comes to sharing your personal information..." The rest of it is a repeat of yesterday and is really not
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by betterlabs 15y ago
This is insightful especially since we have thought about this problem and had not come up with a solution. I am assuming all the icons will be unique though, else it may lead to a lot of confusion. Also, I believe people choose icons that
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Rapportive is best amongst the products that add social profiles so this is an awesome outcome. Congratulations to the team! I always wondered how they could turn it into a business, though. Its useful but tough to say you'd pay for it and
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Great post and I couldn't agree more on how important retention is for web businesses. Our product, Nurture ( http://www.nurturehq.com ), addresses this need in a flexible fashion and is being used for exactly this requirement (User Lifecyc
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by betterlabs 15y ago
If Google+ is aimed to be a utility then yes, I agree with your point of view. But if they are looking to create a competing product to Facebook then, I am not sure that creating a free multi-way video conferencing solution is the going to
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by betterlabs 15y ago
I don't get it. It just feels like they are trying to do too much too soon. I don't know any other than marketers who are building content on Google+ and I wonder what their engagement metrics look like. Another thing is for conference call
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Nice work. I love the way the new Path app looks / works but not a big fan of the fly out menu. It adds an additional click versus having a simple bar of the actions appear at the bottom of the screen. Does anyone else feel the same? Just c
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by betterlabs 15y ago
They were my own :-)
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Yep, I remember that line. But I believe it doesn't speak about "giving up your life" to do the startup. There is a big difference, I feel, between "low intensity work" and "working hard and smart" and "working hard and smart and giving up
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by betterlabs 15y ago
I was actually referring to PG's views on that issue that Arrington wrote about. And the whole discussion definitely applies to founder and their startups too, imo. The issues are the same and so are the trade-offs. Would you give you your
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by betterlabs 15y ago
I would love to hear PG's comment / viewpoint on this whole issue. I have done 3 startups so far (1 VC funded, 2 bootstrapped) and I work very hard because I love it BUT I never ever work at the expense of the time with my kids and anyone s
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by betterlabs 15y ago
I ended up jumping straight to the 3 points and loved them. Having said that, I think negotiation is a skill that is cultivated over a long period of time through experiences (and making tons of mistakes) and just knowing the tactics doesn'
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Its unbelievable how business (school) buzzwords and tactics tend to overlook the most important aspects of a particular industry / problem / scenario that are non-financial in nature. There is an important strategic perspective(s) which ca
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Sorry but IMHO, this is the classic "product looking for a problem" example. There are several things I believe make products like this tough to succeed, most important of which is this: for a transaction-based model to work there needs to
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Yelp is an awesome service, but I am surprised to see that they are still not profitable. Considering an annual revenue run rate of approx. $70m, I am wondering what costs them $70m a year to run the site - with most online businesses salar
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by betterlabs 15y ago
The hardest thing is to take this learning (and the concept of deliberate practice) and hack it to your startup founder role and your chaotic day. Its easy to say that this concept it not applicable there but I believe it is. I have tried t
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by betterlabs 15y ago
You articulated my point better than I could have. I too guessed and have always believed vertical listings are "more natural" way of consuming information than the grid listings. Grids are too overwhelming to digest any of the information
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by betterlabs 15y ago
I already discover most new content via Facebook and the only missing piece is search. If Facebook builds a search engine and integrates within its core experience sooner than Google takes to get G+ to work and scale, it would be a good ind
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by betterlabs 15y ago
I couldn't agree more. Even if we assume there is a justifiable reason or perhaps its happening only to employees who have not performed (which I doubt can be the case considering those employees could not have lasted this long any way), th
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by betterlabs 15y ago
I am not sure what is new about this. There are multiple alternatives (similar) and ways of using other services like Dropbox to do this. Its a "marketing" and "user experience" game and will need a lot of luck too, in order to make it big.
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Great idea and I am looking forward to the eBook. I have always used and created designs based on what I have liked / what has inspired me and it would be awesome to have a high level structure to go by, that comes from a professional desig
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by betterlabs 15y ago
Couldn't agree more. Having said that I feel these are taken way too seriously/emotionally and it is important to understand that you can build your own startup to product/market fit, revenue and profitability whether or not you get into YC
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by betterlabs 15y ago
You are right on the numbers and logic for a specific scenario but you are overlooking the fact that there are hundreds of development teams who primarily work on non-Mac platforms and are getting on to iOS and most of these teams have one
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by betterlabs 15y ago
I am not sure if VC firms doing seed investing have done it in such large numbers and if not (which I think is the case), are they setup to manage 100 startups a year versus 15. Also I am wondering if this approach will have to be the new a
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by betterlabs 15y ago
This is awesome for YC / YC startups as well as AH as they get to be in the YC companies at the very early stage. However, I am not able to understand why VC firms would go so broad and fund such a large number of startups with amounts that

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