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Why the Free Covid Test Website Wasn't a Dumpster Fire(wired.com)
2 points by chaz 5y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 5y ago
Apple is such a massive company, it's easy to forget that each of these variations sells millions of units to customers who want that one product. For example, many pilots have an iPad Mini for maps and charts. In a cramped cockpit, th
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by chaz 6y ago
I would encourage you to try it out. The expectation on the other side is extremely low -- no one expects a conversation or honestly more than a two-word pleasantry. And the camera defaults to the back camera, so no one sees anyone's f
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by chaz 6y ago
I toured the main FedEx hub in Memphis several years ago. They have many buildings that sort packages on high-speed machinery. In one building, there was a long line of parcel trays, each carrying a single item. The trays would move fast do
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by chaz 6y ago
Dozens of times per day. It's on my bookmark bar, and I click it routinely: https://www.amazon.com/afx/slotselection/
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by chaz 6y ago
Even worse, the US Surgeon General claimed that masks are "NOT effective" for the general public. https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/12337257852839321...
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by chaz 6y ago
> Give them money, while the company is apparently still going to worry about milking advertising dollars out of me? Does Zoom have ads? I haven't seen any. I believe all of the ad tracking is for the reverse: Zoom wants to see if t
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by chaz 6y ago
These are the same kinds of assumptions that lead engineers to think they can build a [any product] clone in a weekend. It's unlikely that the problem or constraints are nearly as simple as one may think. Consider: single auth across a
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by chaz 7y ago
> culture of litigation in the US "Sixteen countries have shut schools nationwide, impacting almost 363.1 million children and youth. A further sixteen countries have implemented localized school closures to prevent or contain the s
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by chaz 7y ago
People aren't searching for the service -- they're searching for the content. It's a very long tail of keywords that brands have used across millions of emails.
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by chaz 7y ago
There are hundreds of guides out there -- Google for the one that works for you. Though, I don't think you'll find anything that pays per click -- usually they pay on conversion (someone clicks and then buys). Google AdSense might
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by chaz 7y ago
It really depends on the brand and the type of email that you're sending (new product, content, abandoned cart, etc), and each email marketer needs to test for themselves. I've seen more textual emails work well when it's a w
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by chaz 7y ago
It's a bit all over the place. ELB -> EC2 -> RDS Postgres. S3 for the storage of the emails and images, CDN'd by BunnyCDN. Hetzner for background job servers. Digital Ocean to run headless Chrome (browserless.io) on Kubernet
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by chaz 7y ago
Drop me an email: [hn username]@milled.com
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by chaz 7y ago
Yup, good idea -- just a link + landing page to see what inbound queries come in. Will explore it! Thanks.
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by chaz 7y ago
Thanks for relaying that -- really appreciate it! Marketers, designers, and copywriters are definitely frequent users of Milled, so I'm building some new features for them in the coming months. If she has any ideas or requests, please
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by chaz 7y ago
Great ideas -- thanks! A couple of people have suggested similar, though selling to hedge funds. Right now, I think the greatest growth is still from adding more brands and making them more accessible (improving search and navigation), to y
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by chaz 7y ago
The site was built from day 1 with SEO as the primary user acquisition channel. So most of the engineering effort has been to ensure that the images are saved, all of the text is preserved, and all links are crawled to their final landing p
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by chaz 7y ago
The vast majority of brands have no problem with what the site does, and use the site frequently for their own purposes. A handful have asked for the emails to be taken down, usually because they send discount codes that they only want to d
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by chaz 7y ago
Thanks -- will fix on next deploy! That typo has been there for ... 2.5 years. Appreciate the fresh eyes!
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by chaz 7y ago
I asked around a little bit, but generally just built it. My hedge, though, was to time-box dev to a few weeks and then show it to more people for feedback before spending additional dev time.
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by chaz 7y ago
I didn't. Instead, I manually subscribed to hundreds of newsletters myself to get started. Eventually thousands. It wasn't until 4 years in that I added the ability for brands to add themselves. Prior to that, they could only requ
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by chaz 7y ago
I was running email marketing for a brand, and I noticed two things: 1) we spent several days to create each email blast, but the traffic / revenue impact was over in < 24 hours, and 2) I subscribed to dozens of competitor emails fo
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by chaz 7y ago
Hey, I built this! Solo founder and profitable. Stack is primarily Amazon SES + Rails, and affiliate monetized. Happy to answer any questions.
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by chaz 7y ago
I understand why one might expect r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse to have similar results, since they're both politically extreme subreddits. But after having worked in SEO for a pretty long time, I can't conclude that
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by chaz 7y ago
r/The_Donald is "quarantined" by Reddit, which means you get a gateway page if you visit for the first time, asking if you really want to visit it (try an incognito window). In the HTML, you'll see that there's a &q
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by chaz 7y ago
That's only useful if all of the photos that I want to search are already on my iPhone. I can't search from a different device, and I can't search the hundreds of GB of photos from years ago because they don't fit. >
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by chaz 7y ago
I think the reminder is just that backups are necessary, and cloud isn't a required condition. I had a bare-metal host turn off my server because they were concerned I was violating the trademark of a big company with what I was servin
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Ask HN: What day-to-day tasks have you automated away?
2 points by chaz 7y ago|0 comments
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by chaz 8y ago
> But why the F... would my bank want to notify FB that I am using their app? Probably for ads: either measuring ad conversions, or building ad targeting/exclusion buckets. For example, your bank can exclude your devices from their

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