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by binarysolo 8mo ago
My fees are high but my COGS are low -- they're typically <30%, but our typical unit pricing is <$30 so the FBA fees and base fees/unit sold hit hard. We make ~30% before labor and net 10-20% after everything so it works OK.
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by binarysolo 8mo ago
I feel this is def solvable these days -- but the 7 years thing is gonna be tough to overcome at this point. What I've done on some of these "need to escalate to a human" issues is to buy a ticket to Amazon Accelerate (in Sea
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by binarysolo 8mo ago
FWIW they got a lot better on this past few years, clearly someone high up finally got the memo. We had a similar issue in 2018 or so, 1 writer wrote a problematic listing copy on a set of SKUs -> one of the Amazon bots auto-banned the e
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by binarysolo 8mo ago
Yeah, low 8s on Amazon. They already take ~50% of our revenue for all expenses, the SASCore person is a drop in the bucket for them. We also do B&M and website sales which have way less hassle or much lower expenses, but get nowhere ne
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by binarysolo 8mo ago
My personal email is rot13’ed when you click on my username :) This is my company (not selling anything, just wanna help out the creator of a product that brought my family some joy and showing I'm not some rando :) ): http:/&#x2
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by binarysolo 8mo ago
Most executive seller (8+ fig) have a kindasorta dedicated account manager... I think they're part of SASCore (Seller Account Support) that is kinda okay for internal escalations, but it is highly variable in quality based on whether y
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by binarysolo 8mo ago
> The sad part is that I sell a book, Computer Engineering for Babies Oh no way, I bought your book (I think via kickstarter?). :) First off -- Amazon's super bureaucratic so all of their processes require a certain language and esc
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by binarysolo 3y ago
I remember a time when I'd pick up every single call received... now it's the opposite, I only have it ring on recognized phone numbers + I skim voicemails, filter out the ones that leave the 3-4s of silence or autoplay text, and
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by binarysolo 3y ago
It's his online (HN/X) handle
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Ask HN: Employer obligations hiring an international (in the STEM OPT program?)
1 points by binarysolo 3y ago|1 comments
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by binarysolo 3y ago
I would treat it analogous to asking ChatGPT to code for you (but for food) - some times it works great, other times you gotta nudge it a bit. The tool is currently best used by people who already know how to code/cook and don't w
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by binarysolo 3y ago
Can't comment on the macroeconomic trends, but personally as a consumer, hotels are more attractive than AirBNBs for <1-week stays due to cleaning fee and chore lists ($250 cleaning fee per stay, still have to clean up the house and
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by binarysolo 3y ago
Are you a social dancer? :D Salsa dancer for over a decade and event (Congress/social) organizer for a few... I know exactly what you're talking about! PS - the issue is that many social dancers want to dance over being social, a
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by binarysolo 3y ago
Just... don't. Enjoy the profits when you get 'em. :) This forum is filled with people who sold all sorts of tech stocks way too early (or too late), and people nerding out over things and tossing them and them magically gaining
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by binarysolo 4y ago
This "meltdown" is a highly known outcome of the practice (and kinda why people historically do it with guidance in a safe space with a lot of time-honed set of best practices from thousands of years of history). It's kinda l
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by binarysolo 4y ago
Kinda click-baity and not a lot of substance, prob not worth the 5 min reading it. Article TLDR - work is part of life (duh) and you're just trying to integrate everything.
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by binarysolo 4y ago
People need to have their expectations set on ChatGPT, just like how they have to set their expectations on Dall-E/MJ/etc. My experiences so far with both as an ML person with interests in both domains is that they get things 80-
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by binarysolo 4y ago
Me, then my children, then my company (small 8-digit rev company), then my communities (community leader in a few niches with 100-10000 ppl). I know this is vagueposting a bit. I've been heavily influenced by my hobbies and upbringing
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by binarysolo 4y ago
Maybe I'm an atypical user compared to the privacy-centric HN user, but I use Alexa a bunch, have them liberally scattered throughout my house, and bought into the ecosystem of Alexa-compatible devices (Neato, Hue, Frame TV, etc.) and
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by binarysolo 4y ago
Doesn't Hue do this already with a more elegant solution? I have a Hue setup at home and I do something like this, but hackier through an iPhone app I set up 4-5 years ago (it hasn't broken yet and I haven't touched it); I be
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by binarysolo 4y ago
Was in a similar situation re: biological age, just some anec-data for you: 1) You and your spouse most likely can still have children assuming you two are in reasonable health with no serious fertility issues; age is less of an issue with
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by binarysolo 4y ago
Absolutely love the aesthetic/experience, the map w/ the music and the little crowdsourced flavor from Craigslist et al really add to this. Thank you for this.
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by binarysolo 4y ago
This post is (intentional?) rage bait for nerds - as everyone else says this is the wrong comparison.
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by binarysolo 4y ago
Short answer: depending on your definition of rural, yes, there are def pockets of tech folks in rural areas. These rural areas with tech folks tend to be outer suburbs of cities and/or niche touristy/outdoor places -- basically w
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by binarysolo 5y ago
This thread would be way more useful if one of the HN mods were willing to share (a maybe obfuscated) traffic snapshot of the site. As it stands we're gonna get: who on HN bothers to comment on a poll. :)
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by binarysolo 5y ago
"American incompetence" can be pursued via court of law, so that puts a certain floor to how bad things can get... Source: me, a US brand owner who has worry about product liability...
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by binarysolo 5y ago
I want to upvote this just to keep it out of gray (since I do think it adds to the conversation), but this being grayed out is just hilarious on a meta level.
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by binarysolo 5y ago
Assuming it's not outright foul play, it's prob more likely that the matching services intentionally boost your profile gets better reach/impressions as that's a +EV play, and reduce your profile reach when you're s
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by binarysolo 5y ago
Spoiler alert: as a small business owner, you're EVERYONE'S b_tch. Your customers, your employees, your critics... Being mindful of what everyone cares and distilling the actual value delivered is both skill and constant practic
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by binarysolo 5y ago
I'm trying to be constructive with my thoughts, so my initial thoughts are: I've had a pretty different experience than you, and don't think your recommendations are good for a lot of people. IMHO you're taking too much

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