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by devbot9 2y ago
Your company's product will never be the best version of itself if your only business goal is to lead a VC backed mindless race to an IPO. Your company will almost always have to dilute it's value proposition to make more money to
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by devbot9 4y ago
I think OP is asking for any alternatives that are more fullproof than simply holding into a cane or walker. It can only take one stumble or slip and fall for someone at 80-90 to break a bone, never completely recover, and lose their abilit
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by devbot9 4y ago
People that are calling it a failure because of quality are missing the point. Facebook makes its money by leaving the feed an unorganized mess of random posts, leaving the user disoriented so that more eyeball time can be harvested for adv
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Last year Chiptole launched a game to win a Tesla. No winner was ever announced
10 points by devbot9 4y ago|12 comments
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by devbot9 4y ago
It's a publicly traded company with a fiduciary duty to increase shareholder value every quarter. For Facebook specifically that means a jumbled mess of a feed of ads, random notifications, and clutter that keeps users as engaged as po
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by devbot9 5y ago
The question really becomes how do you make any platform/service that will stay true to it's mission and stand the test of time. The answer seems to be private ownership + the will of the founders to keep it that way and not sell
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I often hear of lawyers turned developers. Anyone gone from developer to lawyer?
7 points by devbot9 6y ago|7 comments
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by devbot9 6y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it a fairly simple answer that most founders just prefer mindlessly chasing rounds of investment and "growth for the sake of growth" and cashing out on an exit, rather than just gro
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Ask HN: Are there any thought leaders in our field on office ergonomics?
6 points by devbot9 7y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Best way to monetize how-to content?
19 points by devbot9 7y ago|10 comments
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by devbot9 8y ago
"If your business idea is so fragile that can be blown away by competition, you might want to rethink your strategy." It may not be that you "want to rethink your strategy," but if you stumbled into becoming a one man sh
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by devbot9 8y ago
As a long time independent seller, Amazon has virtually already done this by gating nearly every brand under the sun. It's hard to sell so much as a box of pens without a bulk purchase invoice and a picture of you high-fiving the manuf
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by devbot9 8y ago
I got my current job after getting accepted to Indeed Prime, where my current employer reached out to me for an interview. I uploaded my resume, and after getting in (every potential candidate has to be accepted) I got free advice over the
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Ask HN: What free/paid API's are there for online retail price and UPC data?
1 points by devbot9 8y ago|0 comments
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by devbot9 9y ago
In your opinion, what is the biggest failing of software engineering now that you hope to correct with a "true" engineering society?