kevinholesh

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by kevinholesh 14y ago
Couldn't have said it better myself.
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
We don't have any plans to make a hardware system for taking payments. Only online. Square is not a business I want to be up against right now :-)
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
We're purposely not trying to compete on price. There are always going to be cheaper solutions out there. We're aiming to be the best. We're aiming to be the absolute easiest checkout process and the simplest experience for the merchant.
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
We cap our Forge fee at $500 a month. You'll always pay the 2.9%+30 cents per transaction, but you'll never pay Forge more than $500 a month.
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
I don't see us competing with Stripe. If you're a developer and have the time to write and maintain a payment solution around Stripe, then Forge definitely isn't for you. We're going after the people who don't want to code all of that thems
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
That's certainly a valid point. We're trying to convey that you're forging a lasting online business and doing the hard work to be independent from a corporate job. If the name turns out to be losing us business, then we'll have to address
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
Absolutely. If you're doing enough business, that 2% really adds up. At that point, it is financially worth it for you to build your own backend payment solution using Stripe or Balanced to save money. But when you're first starting out sel
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
Thank you for the feedback :-)
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
Believe me. We're bummed about that too. We're working as hard as we can to get into other countries, but we had to start somewhere.
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
You are correct. We are more expensive than Stripe if you're just looking at money. But we look at it from a time and capital perspective. With Stripe, you have to code and maintain your own payment solution on the backend and your own chec
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
Designer at Forge here. Those are both great questions. We're aiming Forge at people who cannot write their own backend payment processor to use Stripe, and only know basic HTML. If you have the skills and the time to code and maintain paym
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
I didn't mean that programmers and "people who barely understand HTML" were the same person. Sorry for the confusion. We're aiming Forge at people who can't code their own website from scratch, not really you or me. These non-techies can ma
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
We appreciate all the feedback and we'll try to clear things up based on your advice with the homepage. Thank you.
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
I agree. It would be better if we had storefronts for these people, and product pages they can link to. That's on our todo list.
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
That's a great point. Perhaps a demo video explaining how it works would show the "easyness" of it.
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
Easy enough for programmers to use, but not people who barely understand HTML. That's the market Forge is serving.
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
Designer of Forge here. We're aiming to solve the problems of the non-techie market. People who just want to sell something online shouldn't be worrying about payment gateways, payment processors or designing a checkout process. Forge handl
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A warning about cliff vesting(kevin.is)
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by kevinholesh 14y ago
Were these high quality users in the sense that they converted to paid from a free account? What source lead to the highest quality users?
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by kevinholesh 15y ago
From the source of the website: "" It was worth a shot.
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by kevinholesh 15y ago
I don't think filling in a form online will ever be glamorous. The thing I strive for when designing a form is that it is usable by anyone and instantly recognizable as a form. This is a great plugin, but consider the consequences of using
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by kevinholesh 16y ago
"I suspect that what want they’re really pursuing is recognition, either from Facebook or in court, that they were the brains behind Facebook." In my mind, these twins will never be the reason why Facebook was successful, no matter what som
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by kevinholesh 16y ago
I've been using Things since it came out for the Mac and I've been wanting OTA sync since the iPhone came out, but it isn't completely necessary. It is a nice to have feature, but I would rather have it done right than rushed to production.
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by kevinholesh 16y ago
Why not put it up on Github so we can help you finish it? I'm currently a full time jQTouch developer, but I would much prefer a working environment like the one you're describing. I would certainly be willing to help develop it.
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by kevinholesh 16y ago
Though I disagree with Arrington quite often, congratulations on the acquisition. He worked his ass off to build TechCrunch to where it is today.
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by kevinholesh 16y ago
Or use a 3D printing service like http://cloudfab.com/ if you just like making the 3D .stl files.
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by kevinholesh 16y ago
It's great to see Apple taking on the problem head-on. I'd much rather see honesty from a company than have them deny it and sweep it under the rug as if it were never a problem.
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by kevinholesh 16y ago
He's using CSS media queries, similar to what's being done here: http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2010/04/using-css-media-queries... Check out the code he uses to make this happen near the bottom of his main CSS file: http://hicksdesign.co.u
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by kevinholesh 16y ago
I give my projects a deadline of about 6 months of part-time work. That doesn't mean Google has to buy them within 6 months, but they have to be profitable after that time. Profitability is my ultimate gauge of success and determines whethe
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by kevinholesh 16y ago
Interestingly enough, I was thinking about how I would do a case study this morning and here's what I came up with: * Tell a story. This would be in the form of an interview. Basic questions from my company and let the business do most of t

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