bmle

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by bmle 11y ago
Great feedback. Thanks!
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by bmle 11y ago
Hey everyone, we launched Thrive for iOS at the end of July after several months of hard work. I'd love feedback from all business owners and especially if you own a brick and mortar small business.
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Show HN: Thrive Small Business App(thriveapp.com)
9 points by bmle 11y ago|4 comments
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by bmle 13y ago
Awesome job guys. Using Kato in our company and we love it.
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by bmle 14y ago
Unread indicator is always wrong, especially when you use multiple devices. Seems very I characteristic of google. It's been that way since they released the app.
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by bmle 14y ago
We actually talked to a few insurance people and the consensus was that insurance company didn't want something like it. It's not in their interest for you to make claims. Our response from users was basically that it was valuable whenever
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by bmle 14y ago
We consulted a few small companies. I'm not sure I'd categorize the companies as startups hoping to be acquired. They had been around for a while and made money. I think many companies lease machines so the need to track those assets didn't
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by bmle 14y ago
Not sure if we're gonna release the code but was written using django/mysql. I don't remember how much code we wrote. I'm guessing something in the area of 10k lines.
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by bmle 14y ago
And to be completely honest, as my post mentioned, our day jobs were more important at the time so we tried to find the target audience but not hard enough.
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by bmle 14y ago
Thanks. We're putting some effort into creating an inventory management system for Square users. https://shopventory.com if you're interested in just checking it out.
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by bmle 14y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out!
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by bmle 14y ago
As with any consumer type app, monetization is key and unfortunately it's something I feel businesses should have a clear path to but many do not. This is part of the reason why we wanted to pivot toward a B2B type service.
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by bmle 14y ago
We actually never modified the codebase to handle business assets. We were in the discovery phase to find out if we can repurpose the code. When we shut it down, it was still a product for managing personal assets.
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by bmle 14y ago
I think there should be more of these stories. Many people starting companies learn much from success stories through books and blogs but I think there may be more lessons to learn about how not to fail from people that have.
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Shutting down a side project, my experience(bachle.me)
26 points by bmle 14y ago|23 comments
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by bmle 14y ago
I should emphasize that the connection was already secure, but creating a user session on the server side took a long time so this graphic was displayed to users. So don't worry!
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by bmle 14y ago
I used to work for a major online tax software provider. I won't name them but I'm sure you can guess. Not sure if it's still there but right after you log in, there are some redirects that take you to the app servers hosting the product an