choogi

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by choogi 6mo ago
Awesome to hear! Let me know if you have any feedback!
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by choogi 6mo ago
Thanks! And appreciate the feedback! You're right the location database is currently limited to larger cities. I'll take a look at closing this gap.
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Show HN: Timezone App – Visual meeting scheduler for distributed teams(timezoneapp.co)
19 points by choogi 6mo ago|5 comments
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by choogi 4y ago
This is awesome. Definitely using this for my next project.
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Finding the Goldilocks zone for applied AI(techcrunch.com)
1 points by choogi 8y ago|0 comments
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by choogi 8y ago
Does Checkr ( https://checkr.com/ ) solve this problem? Or is it more complicated than that?
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Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?
241 points by choogi 8y ago|245 comments
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CryptoMasterpieces: New project for collecting digital art on the blockchain(cryptomasterpieces.com)
4 points by choogi 9y ago|0 comments
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Ex-Googler is bringing self-driving excavators to construction sites(cnbc.com)
10 points by choogi 9y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs(searchablepdfs.org)
73 points by choogi 11y ago|21 comments
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Show HN: SearchablePDFs – Convert scanned documents into searchable PDFs(searchablepdfs.org)
1 points by choogi 11y ago|0 comments
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(Hackers change highway sign) Police: No rogue pandas about(azdailysun.com)
2 points by choogi 15y ago|0 comments
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[Stack Overflow Post] Why doesn't my Python script work?(stackoverflow.com)
2 points by choogi 15y ago|1 comments
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by choogi 15y ago
This is a really cool idea. I can't wait for more people to start using it :)
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Minno Rebrands As BuySimple, Raises $700K For Micropayments(techcrunch.com)
4 points by choogi 15y ago|1 comments
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by choogi 15y ago
This is the latest project from the Minno labs--we're selling Groupon gift certificates for 50% off. We put this together over the last day or so because we thought it'd be a fun way to show people another interesting use case for Minno. We
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Show HN: Minno sells Groupons for 50% off(realgrouponforgroupon.com)
12 points by choogi 15y ago|1 comments
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by choogi 15y ago
That's exactly the right analysis. More generally, there seems to be an entire class of apps out there that could be really useful, but which are really hard to monetize with subscriptions and/or ads revenue alone. Think about an advanced f
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by choogi 15y ago
We'll definitely let users with <$10 "cash out" their earnings eventually, but we're still working out the details. After all, we just built this over the weekend =P But your right--we could make this more clear on the site. We'll also
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by choogi 15y ago
I'm the co-founder of a startup called Minno ( https://www.minno.co ), which is a new take on micropayments. We were inspired by Sahil's work on Gumroad last weekend ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2406614 ), so this weekend, we decid
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Show HN: weekend project, Hawt Cakes(hawtcakes.com)
16 points by choogi 15y ago|6 comments
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by choogi 15y ago
"When I was your age, I managed my own web servers." Nowadays, I can't imagine a startup not running on AWS/GAE/etc.
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by choogi 15y ago
Kamme, For now, we're restricting sign-up to Facebook because it 1) allows for really easy signup, 2) reduces password friction to simplify purchases, and 3) helps us reduce fraudulent signups. As the business grows, we will certainly open
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by choogi 15y ago
Yea, if it ever launches.
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NY Times shuts down a paywall bypass in just 68 minutes(thenextweb.com)
13 points by choogi 15y ago|13 comments
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by choogi 16y ago
The payment provider, Minno, is our primary project--we put together TorrentTraveler mostly as a proof of concept for it. We built Minno with an emphasis on user experience and privacy. Minno only receives information about the size of the
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by choogi 16y ago
We completely protect the anonymity of our users. We do not condone the downloading of illegal content. On the back-end, we run a separate sandboxed instance of transmission-daemon for each download request. Interestingly, although the back
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by choogi 16y ago
Yes, all records are destroyed after 24 hours in order to protect the anonymity of our users. You don't have to pay unless you actually download the file, and our downstream bandwidth should give you ample time to complete the download. If
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by choogi 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback -- the health of the torrent ecosystem is very important to us. We seed to 1.2 or we kill the seed after 24 hours, whichever comes first. We delete all records associated with each download after 24 hours in order to
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TorrentTraveler: Micropayments-based anonymous BT proxy(torrenttraveler.com)
41 points by choogi 16y ago|26 comments

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