caydenm

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by caydenm 2y ago
I was referring to generated or disposable card numbers rather than stolen. maybe that is the confusion? An concrete examples of converting a user using these types of cards for free trial abuse is a user who signed up 8 week in a row using
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by caydenm 2y ago
100%! This was easy and now it is frustrating to get to the thing they want, the service, and the easiest route is to pay.
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by caydenm 2y ago
There are obviously people who are doing free trial abuse for commercial gain eg. Signing up 1k accounts to get test credit cards or to resell accounts. They are not going to convert (although sometimes you can successfully convert them int
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by caydenm 2y ago
Free tier and free trial abuse is a huge problem, but also a huge opportunity. We have seen customers where free tier abusers created 80k+ accounts in a day and cost millions of dollars. We have also seen businesses, like Oddsjam add signif
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Revolut Customers Are Temporary(upollo.ai)
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Ask HN: Benchmarks for models other than LLMs
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B2B Businesses are copying Netflix's tactics and it's paying off(upollo.ai)
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by caydenm 3y ago
OP here, I was trying to say that these pages were behind an authwall and loading with userids from a specific user but without any of their cookies to support that auth. This led us to believe this page was MitM rather than crawled directl
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by caydenm 3y ago
This looks exactly like it!! Nice find!
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by caydenm 3y ago
Josh on our team is so happy people discovered and liked his easter egg!
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by caydenm 3y ago
Browser extension is what we originally thought for exactly the same reasons you did. We started to see some requests show up from iOS devices which didn't support extensions so that made us think MitM corporate proxies. The diversity
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by caydenm 3y ago
That was on my list of candidates as well! Those usually have a specific user agent making it clear what they are, they appear from a companies netblock (eg. Facebook, Microsoft) and cannot access authed pages (unless the key is in the url)
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by caydenm 3y ago
Exactly! Our library is embedding in these pages and similar to Segment or other analytics tools will get told information about user events from that state. Sometimes that state is stored in the page that is sent over the wire (eg. userid)
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by caydenm 3y ago
It appears this is to find threats that might have no otherwise triggered or work out is particular sites are dangerous without monitoring a users machine. It is scary that for people in a corporate environment this could be rendering banki
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by caydenm 3y ago
I thought I messed it up! I had no idea this was a thing.
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10 Second Teleportation(upollo.ai)
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by caydenm 3y ago
The strength of a referral, the proximity and seniority of the referrer and role fit all come into play. A strong referral by a knowledgeable person often skips that person to the front of interview queue. I have hired a number of people ba
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Basics of Measuring Churn In $ – Grr, NRR and NDR(upollo.ai)
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Experts Guide to Lead Scoring(upollo.ai)
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Making product friends and influencing the roadmap(upollo.ai)
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by caydenm 3y ago
I have spent most of my career as a product person before becoming a founder and one of the things I saw was a disconnect between sales and product. The right feedback wasn't getting to product, so the right problems weren't getti
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by caydenm 3y ago
We are excited to share some rare behind the scenes from some of the tooling we use to evaluate account sharing. Happy to answer any questions
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Visualizing Account Sharing(upollo.ai)
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by caydenm 3y ago
https://www.datocms-assets.com/65181/1662686325-iconiq-analy... Is the correct one. I will fix in the original, Thanks!
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by caydenm 3y ago
One thing this article doesn't mention is that if you start with a 'single-player' environment it can be hard to get people to change to 'multi-player'. Not only because of habits, but also because people have set i
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How companies like Linear and Miro design for team growth(upollo.ai)
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How we discovered and dealt with someone impersonating our company(upollo.ai)
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by caydenm 3y ago
Yesterday someone tried to impersonate my company, Upollo. They cloned our site, had an upollo.tld domain and had also signed up for services under our business name. I wanted to share how we dealt with it as apparently this is happening t
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by caydenm 3y ago
You can also see details on Segment here: https://segment.com/docs/connections/destinations/catalog/ac...
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Show HN: Free Segment company data enrichment(upollo.ai)
2 points by caydenm 3y ago|1 comments

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