ericmarcos

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by ericmarcos 6y ago
Martian
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by ericmarcos 7y ago
1) Work your network. Our first few customers were personal connections or connections of a strategic business angel of ours. Identify the ones that most feel the pain you're solving. I'm talking about specific roles in these comp
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by ericmarcos 7y ago
I'd recommend you to do some consulting. I know it's counter-intuitive and something you don't want to do forever, but at the beginning of a B2B company it's extremely useful for 3 reasons: 1) It provides quick cash so i
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by ericmarcos 7y ago
Simplicity of features != UX Simplicity It's way more simple to tap on a button than to write complex sentences. We've studied this, when users have both options available (buttons and input text), 80% go for buttons.
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by ericmarcos 7y ago
Chatbots on Whatsapp are kind of hard from a UX point of view because the platform don't support rich elements like buttons or webviews (unlike Facebook messenger). I hope Whatsapp adds these kind of features soon, otherwise users will
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Whatsapp Business API(whatsapp.com)
9 points by ericmarcos 8y ago|1 comments
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Botoku: Heroku for chatbots(botoku.com)
3 points by ericmarcos 9y ago|0 comments
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by ericmarcos 9y ago
Hubtype ( http://hubtype.com ) | Barcelona, Spain | Senior Full-Stack Engineer (First Employee) | Onsite | Full-time | Equity Hubtype is a messaging/chatbots platform for developers and businesses. Banks, insurers, TVs and ot
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by ericmarcos 9y ago
This is extremely similar to BotSON ( https://hubtype.github.io/botSON ), but it looks a bit more complex (disclaimer: I'm one of the authors of BotSON). I encourage you to try it and reach me out with comments at eric a
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by ericmarcos 9y ago
The spanish government is trying to ban everything related to the referendum: physical urns, ballot papers, websites and apps, violating the most basic human rights. However, for each ban, 10 new websites/apps/bots will pop up. I
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Voting chatbot goes viral in Catalonia as spanish gov shuts down websites(referendumvirtual.cat)
2 points by ericmarcos 9y ago|0 comments
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by ericmarcos 9y ago
Startup School was great, but it doesn't end here. I expect we all will get more value from this amazing network in the following months. Best of luck for all the founders! BTW, I'm one of the founders of Hubtype ( https:/&#x
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Show HN: Hubtype, Messaging and Chatbots solution for developers and businesses(hubtype.com)
1 points by ericmarcos 9y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Tips and tools to make a great screencast?
2 points by ericmarcos 10y ago|1 comments
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by ericmarcos 11y ago
I agree with that. And I would add: over regulation "imposed" by the old unicorns this article mentions. They don't want new, disruptive players enter their well stablished monopolies / oligopolies. In EU they have lots
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by ericmarcos 11y ago
The D-Wave computer is called a quantum computer because it uses some quantum properties when running a simulated annealing kind of algorithm (which is a well known classical algorithm so find sub-obtimal solutions to combinatorial problems
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by ericmarcos 12y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Barcelona, Spain). Full-stack engineer (Python/Django, AngularJS). I'm currently working on my own projects ( http://www.dareyoo.com and others), but I'm willing to take freelance projects (m
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by ericmarcos 12y ago
ericmarcos.p at gmail
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by ericmarcos 12y ago
I don't think whatsapp will change their protocol too much, as they'll break millions of clients installed in old phones. The benefit for the company looks obvious to me: save money on call centre / community management. Deli
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by ericmarcos 12y ago
I'm woking on a AI/NLP interface to connect enterprises to customers through whatsapp and other messaging apps. I'm using Python/Django and Yowsup (a python lib that reverse engineered whatsapp's protocol) with Post