borisvvz

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by borisvvz 6y ago
Save it only for the worst scammers then
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Funny way to annoy scammers/spammers
7 points by borisvvz 6y ago|3 comments
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by borisvvz 10y ago
I created a bot that sorts my inbox contacts to MailChimp and Pipedrive. Saves me hours of copy-pasting...
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Show HN: How I organize my contacts(milahq.com)
16 points by borisvvz 10y ago|1 comments
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by borisvvz 11y ago
The Next Web experimented with a pro account that removed ads. That has been discontinued but the site is still very much alive.
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by borisvvz 11y ago
I don't think advertising is a antiquated but banners are. We are trying something new and this is it. It's new and needs to be fine-tuned but we hope it will be less annoying than seeing banners all over a page. Give us another c
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by borisvvz 11y ago
I think adblockers will catch up soon enouygh, and that's fine.
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by borisvvz 11y ago
Got it. We will try to fix that by providingg clearer instructions and maybe speeding up the animation.
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by borisvvz 11y ago
Point taken. We will try to improve/fix both issues.
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by borisvvz 11y ago
We don't mention the 'c' key anywhere yet and have only implemented it a few days ago after a reader suggested it. We are testing it now and really like it so will make it more clear asap.
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by borisvvz 11y ago
I'll focus on proving more clear instructions for now based on your feedback.
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by borisvvz 11y ago
All great feedback. Will how much we can implement and how fast.
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by borisvvz 11y ago
As I said in other comments: that's fine. And we will improve our ads even more over time.
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by borisvvz 11y ago
Hmm no, thats now how that works. If you browse aroudn the site we don't show the ad. If you visit new from twitter or google or facebook we show yyou the ad once. When you go to a second page we don't show it anymore. So when you
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by borisvvz 11y ago
As far as I know adblockers aren't blocking our Canvas ads yet. I don't mind if they do though. I think it is better to give up trying to make money on people who really hate ads and instead focus on people who don't mind the
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by borisvvz 11y ago
I thought about that a lot of course! I'm the founder and CEO of TNW and worked on the canvas ad with the design & dev team for months. We do know some people absolutely hate ads. No matter how small. And this one is huge! But we f
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by borisvvz 11y ago
That's too bad. We did test it extensively and although some people were distracted by the ads, they do understand theres a post hovering on the right that wants to move back into the page. But we are working on ways to make this more
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by borisvvz 11y ago
I agree that's ironic and something we (I'm TNW's CEO and worked closely with the dev them on this) should work on. I also believe we built this for the future and computers will catch up with some of the more innovative stuf
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by borisvvz 11y ago
That looks awful and somethign we should fix. Passed it on to #dev. Boris (CEO TNW)
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by borisvvz 11y ago
That would be a shame because we can produce some awesome content because we have an advertising model that works. Also, if you visit TNW through the front page you won't see an ad. ANd if you go to a story directly you only see an ad
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by borisvvz 11y ago
A screenshot doesn't do it much justice. What other people don't see is that the article is moving in a bit and a hover or 'c' key moves it in completely. If you think the ad looks too big, pick up any paper magazine and
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by borisvvz 11y ago
I wrote that. I'm the founder and CEO of TNW and came up with part of the Canvas ad. After I pitched the idea of developing a sexy interstitial that would work intuitively and easy to use our designer and dev team came up with this, an
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Walking up a mountain, one step at a time(thenextweb.com)
1 points by borisvvz 12y ago|0 comments
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It’s the year 2023 and a day-old startup just sold for 1 billion dollars(thenextweb.com)
1 points by borisvvz 13y ago|0 comments
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by borisvvz 14y ago
We do a similar thing when (annoying) sales people call. You can try to get rid of them as soon as possible. But it is more annoying to them to keep them occupied as long as possible. When I'm disturbed during dinner by ANOTHER newspaper sa
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My crazy idea to piss off spammers(indiegogo.com)
42 points by borisvvz 14y ago|55 comments
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by borisvvz 14y ago
I think even Bill Gates would appreciate the extra info and know he can expect an email from me within 3 days. Then imagine his surprise when I reply within an hour. In fact, that is what I did with every investor and journalist that emaile
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by borisvvz 14y ago
I'll make a note of that. Sounds very cool and useable…
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by borisvvz 14y ago
Spot on! I 'invented' it… :-)
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by borisvvz 14y ago
The 'Yes/no' reply button has an option to add one tweet length of text. So my answer might be "No - but ask me again next week as I have time then". It also has a "This is not a yes/no question" button which allows me to invite the sender

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