brico

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by brico 14y ago
why should it be worthwhile and why should it add value to society? if registering were free i'd see your point or if not everybody were allowed to register how would you play football? for every goal a team scores you have to score an own-
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by brico 14y ago
some say that the future will be app-based and that domain-names and tlds will be a thing of the past, we'll see. I know a lot of people who say they hate squatters, then they have an "awesome idea" for a project, they'll register 10 domain
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by brico 14y ago
Yes it's mind-boggling, e.g.: Bayern Munich is valued at $1.2 billion http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17769654 What I don't get: couldn't you build something like Evernote for let's say $500mm from scratch? It's not a company, it's
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by brico 14y ago
Maybe you can register a domain or add a directory to an existing domain of yours where you create a project page. You can blog about your progress, you can offer adspace on your page which might sell better than a name/company in the readm
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by brico 14y ago
Kickstarter let's you basically preorder a product that lacks investors. Being a startup investor has become the game rich people love to play. There are people who'll fund anything in return for a small percentage of the company in the hop
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by brico 14y ago
How is the service able to verify the key? In the screenshots it says "Could not decrypt data (Wrong key ?)" Shouldn't a wrong key decrypt the text to just unreadable garbage?
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by brico 14y ago
This has nothing to do with their politics, it is simply the fact that they offer an alternative, people will vote for them because they don't feel represented by the other parties. They are new, they are cool, they have an "anti-authoritar
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by brico 14y ago
I've got the feeling that because of the Google/Apple/Microsoft-rivalry a lot a companies are bought just so that the others don't get them. Company X wants to buy this popular startup? Ok, we don't need it but if they want it, they need it
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by brico 14y ago
I can't stand the "good enough" crowd, I hate it when people aim for mediocrity. It takes the same amount of time and energy to go from zero to "OK" as from "OK" to "good". From "good" to "very good" is even harder. So a lot of people (I se
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by brico 14y ago
Exactly! Good record labels book venues, organize travel, handle the legal stuff like insurance etc, they are well connected and know people at the radio stations and know the bloggers, they can introduce them to other bands/producers/video
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by brico 14y ago
The technology is awesome but the commercial I saw yesterday doesn't do it justice. Show someone repairing a car and the glasses display vital information while both hands are somewhere on the engine or show someone cooking a meal while a c
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by brico 14y ago
I honestly don't see a market for every day use like they show it in this video. If I saw this on the streets right now I'd get a "bluetooth-headset-douchebag"-vibe
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by brico 14y ago
They ask it because they have a cool product but don't know how to use it. I doubt it will be used the way they promote it, this is cool stuff you come up with when you are brainstorming with some friends + beer but when you think about it,
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by brico 14y ago
No, it's not over. Not yet. I think only a small percentage of developers make $50k / year per game/app. And Stage3 is way ahead of what one day hopefully WebGL will offer. There's no way (at the moment) of producing the same quality applic
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by brico 14y ago
It's still a long way to compete with Flash in the area of games but it's nice to see this effort. When I talked to Flash developers, their main concerns were having to worry about different browsers and their belief that everything became
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by brico 14y ago
I first saw pictures made by Timur Civan with a similar technique and an even older lens: http://colt-rane.com/timur-civan-1908-wollensak-35mm-f50-cin...
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by brico 14y ago
I stopped using it because I just hate that I'm logged in to googlesearch and YouTube automatically. While some interesting people post on g+ it's more a blogplatform, the contentarea when logged in is too narrow and I noticed that I am ver
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by brico 14y ago
i had a similar problem: I worked on several projects parallel, had sheet after sheet with notes of "awesome" ideas, was interested in everything, read photography-blogs to recipe-sites, listened to podcasts and so on. I lacked focus and on
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by brico 15y ago
if you are an investor and you don't have a look at the team behind an ambitious and promising idea you will soon run out of money, this is nothing Yc-specific. edit: ok, another try, people don't like the word "luck" so let's call it a hai
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by brico 15y ago
the core surely is anti-commercial but the main subreddits like r/funny or r/pics and the like are so huge that the majority consists of "normal" internet-consumers that visit other sites as well and are used to commercials, the reddit-fron
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by brico 15y ago
sorry for not being clear: not the people running OMGPOP were lucky, the investors were, they just couldn't have known how things turned out to be. When they invested in the initial round my guess is that the idea behind the startup and the
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by brico 15y ago
because they are very concerned about annoying/destroying the community. in the hands of a purely profit-oriented company they would make enormous amounts of money and milk the site until its demise a couple of years in
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by brico 15y ago
Yes, but this one was pure luck. They didn't plan on building games for android and iOS. I remember them for being a 100% flash-site that offered a mediocre tetris-clone until they were sued by the tetris-copyright-holders. "Draw Something"
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by brico 15y ago
I always wondered what apple's plans were for the next 10 years. The iPad is close to perfection, the next iterations surely will improve but only slightly and in maybe 3 or 4 years most people won't need the newest device anymore. The same
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by brico 15y ago
how many percent of customers would the other carriers lose if apple made the iphones/ipads apple-carrier-only?
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by brico 15y ago
have a look at http://www.webfaction.com/ or for an overview: http://www.lowendbox.com/
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by brico 15y ago
I always assumed the 12-24 month-rule only applied to "content"-sites like a blog or a forum, but Dan built a unique service that cannot be copied with the same effort as a techblog or a bulletin board
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by brico 15y ago
congratulations on your experience! It really is difficult to name a price, I would have ignored any offers below 10-15k but on the other hand you can now concentrate on a new project and for 6 months from 0 to sale is remarkable.
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by brico 15y ago
I wonder if this technology will be used to add "watermarks" to objects, to guarantee authenticity, like print a logo on a clockface of your rolex