gathersight

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by gathersight 2y ago
Bad signalling to insist on 6 months. Unless I'd worked with someone already, I'd be extremely wary of signing away a quarter of my business to them within such a short period of time.
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by gathersight 4y ago
I agree. Four years ago I dove deeply into blockchain and token models for a marketplace project I was working on and failed to find any startups or initiatives that looked anything like a customer facing product or platform. Four years on
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Ask HN: Do you know of any live B2B applications built on blockchain?
5 points by gathersight 4y ago|5 comments
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by gathersight 4y ago
Changing the 'birth' date of a Twitter account to anything less than 13 years old results in the account be immediately locked without warning and without a mechanism to reset. This is obviously an age consent control but the und
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Things that are breaking on Twitter – add to thread
17 points by gathersight 4y ago|5 comments
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by gathersight 4y ago
Prospect Path | Web development engineer | REMOTE | Full-time | prospectpath.com We build innovative marketing platforms that help connect buyers and sellers of enterprise software. Thousands of organizations use our data and insights to im
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by gathersight 5y ago
Yup! My curiosity is this: at what scale does using contractors instead of employees start to break? Is it possible to build an infinitely large business with contractors only?
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by gathersight 5y ago
Thanks, builtwith.com is a pretty useful tool too.
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Ask HN: Are there any substantial product-based businesses with zero employees?
2 points by gathersight 5y ago|7 comments
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by gathersight 5y ago
Thanks, as you say the issue with this is the need for a proprietary wallet to receive payments as this will add a fair amount of friction to the process.
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by gathersight 5y ago
Yes, the prepaid visa is something we've looked at although the payments to users are recurring so we really want time to be able to store ongoing payments as a balance and then transfer to their own bank account whenever they want.
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by gathersight 5y ago
Thanks, but this group of users don't pay anything to us so there's nothing to discount against. Good idea though.
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by gathersight 5y ago
Thanks, it looks like it could work really well for us. I'm checking it out now. There's also a discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25289796
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by gathersight 5y ago
Cheers, I'm looking now.
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by gathersight 5y ago
For context, average payment in the low hundreds.
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by gathersight 5y ago
Hey thanks, we bank with Mercury and I didn't know that wires were free. Just domestic US I'd assume.
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by gathersight 5y ago
Yes, agreed, an even bigger minefield than payments.
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by gathersight 5y ago
It's unlikely. Fiat only kind of user base!
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Ask HN: What is the best way to pay users?
14 points by gathersight 5y ago|25 comments
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by gathersight 5y ago
The golden rule of exercise: frequency beats duration beats intensity. We're habitual beings and quickly establish behavioural patterns so just do something (anything) every day and you'll improve your fitness surprisingly fast.
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by gathersight 5y ago
This is a useful resource and nicely organized. Do you have any monetization plans beyond promoted listings?
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by gathersight 5y ago
Nice and fast. How are you extracting the data for the Summary tab? On the searches I tried, it pulled in a block of, seemingly, random text from mid-way down the destination page. It didn't appear to be summarizing anything.
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by gathersight 5y ago
UK founder here. If you post your question I'm sure you'll get some help.
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by gathersight 5y ago
It sounds to me as if you need gift yourself some mental time off. You're clearly an entrepreneur, so I'd caution against getting a job, but you've not had a follow up hit and may have lost a little confidence in yourself and
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Beyond Metcalfe’s Law for Network Effects, and Towards a Better Model(future.a16z.com)
1 points by gathersight 5y ago|0 comments
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by gathersight 5y ago
Also have a look at Future / a16z a list of DAO resources and reference articles: https://future.a16z.com/dao-canon/ There's a handful of articles about getting started in DAOs.
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by gathersight 5y ago
Nothing to add on the marketing side, but for company setup and admin: * Atlas Stripe for international incorporation * CorpNet for state by state registrations (e.g. employees) * Gusto for payroll * Revolut Business for banking * GBS Tax
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by gathersight 5y ago
The charging infrastructure in the UK is limited so this is welcome, although really just table stakes. Core problem to solve is that a high percentage of the housing stock in the UK is terraced housing with no off-street parking and no res
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by gathersight 5y ago
In 10 years we'll look back on these kind of discussions and laugh. The idea that human productivity is a corollary to office 'presence' is now absurd. Industrial centralization was arguably economically and socially necessar
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by gathersight 5y ago
I'm a brain.fm fan too. It blocks out the internal monologue and, like you say, is surprisingly effective at entering a flow state. I'm a fan of free jazz and I've found it has a similar dissonant effect. Ornette Coleman is a

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