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by keesj 6y ago
There’s an approval process you need to go through. I wouldn’t recommend it if you can avoid it as you’ll be at the mercy of Facebook.
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by keesj 6y ago
There was a big jump in signups, but not as much in monetization. My guess is that it was mostly young consumers signing up through her, but it's the professionals and businesses that pay to upgrade.
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by keesj 6y ago
Yes, perhaps I should point that out in the article. Although to be honest it's not that hard to get featured on BetaList if you have a half-decent product :)
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by keesj 6y ago
1. Too many to count. The trick is to ship fast and see what sticks. Focus on that, ignore the rest. Tweet Photo is my first legit exit, but some of my other side projects have turned into $xxx,xxx/year businesses. Just haven't so
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by keesj 6y ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24340353 I won't be involved in the product development, but we might to the occasional video call or email to exchange ideas and insights.
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by keesj 6y ago
Instagram's new API is open to regular users as well (that's what Tweet Photo uses), but I believe it's read-only. Zapier etc probably have special deals with Facebook.
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by keesj 6y ago
That's a fair point. Having an established network and reputation definitely goes a long way. I wouldn't rule our selling a side project if you don't have the net work though. These days there are more and more platforms popp
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by keesj 6y ago
@ayewo nails it. See her/his answer. I just want to add that while it might be possible for you and me to "build this in a weekend" (although in reality it always takes longer considering all the edge cases), for other busine
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by keesj 6y ago
That's awesome. I think I've seen it before and thinking to myself, hey that's Tweet Photo in reverse :) If I could offer one piece of unsolicited advice, it's to build in that viral loop I did with "via tweet.photo
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by keesj 6y ago
I went into more detail here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24340211
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by keesj 6y ago
That's a great question I unfortunately I don't have a great answer for. The majority of the time was spent in those first few days were I built the initial product. Tweet Photo is technically quite a simple product, especially if
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by keesj 6y ago
In addition to that Hey.com[1] was recently released which is a new app built by Basecamp. Where Ruby on Rails originated. This new app comes with many new technologies. Some of which are already extracted into Rails (ActionText and ActionM
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by keesj 6y ago
Matouš Borák published a few interesting write-ups about the front-end: https://dev.to/borama/a-few-sneak-peeks-into-hey-com-technol... Basically it's a new, unreleased version of Turbolinks[1] + StimulusJS[2] The
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by keesj 6y ago
This is what I did with Tweet Photo [1] — It automatically tweets your instagram photos. It started out as a Medium post[2] describing how to set this up with Zapier. Seeing how much traffic it got even years after publishing it, I decided
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by keesj 6y ago
FWIW, in terms of user interface I think we’re all consciously or subconsciously inspired by the apps we use everyday such as Spotlight and Alfred. For example, here’s my todo list menubar app launched many months before Remember: https:&#
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by keesj 6y ago
That makes sense. Thanks for sharing!
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by keesj 6y ago
Curious to hear how people use these!
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by keesj 7y ago
Maker of WIP here. You're right. The homepage doesn't make a lot of sense to new (potential) users. Our focus has been on increasing the product for our existing members, but eventually we'll be improving the homepage/et
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by keesj 7y ago
Hi there. Maker of BetaList and WIP here. I think there are two things being conflated. BetaList (startup discovery platform) was created before Product Hunt, and WIP (our community for makers) is an offshoot of that. Product Hunt eventuall
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Startups of 2020(betalist.com)
1 points by keesj 7y ago|0 comments
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by keesj 7y ago
I made a similar list at https://submit.co a while ago. The idea was to provide a definitive resource which was more user friendly than just a bullet list of links. If you did come across it, I’m curious to hear if you have any
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Show HN: Startup Job Trends of 2019(startup.jobs)
2 points by keesj 7y ago|0 comments
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by keesj 7y ago
In my experience the novelty effect of a good productivity tool doesn’t wear off that quickly. It will become an indispensable tool in your workflow. For most members $20/mo (or $150/year) is well worth the boost in productivity a
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by keesj 7y ago
Since you seem to care what others think about your code, it’s worth considering making your code public or find someone to share your pull requests with. Someone who occasionally reviews your code. You can even pay someone to do this. Alte
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by keesj 8y ago
added! thanks for suggestion
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by keesj 8y ago
thanks I appreciate the compliment :)
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by keesj 8y ago
good luck with that
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by keesj 8y ago
I custom designed it.
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by keesj 8y ago
Yes. They offer something called metered billing. You report usage, and only invoice once the customer hits a certain threshold or after a certain time period. (whatever comes first).
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by keesj 8y ago
Users are charged only once every 24 hours aggregating their usage of the previous period. This way the number of charges/fees/invoices are limited to a relatively small number.

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