lloyddobbler

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by lloyddobbler 1y ago
“A 30% revenue share can easily be the difference between a company that can afford to scale, hire new employees, and reinvest in its product, and one that is perpetually struggling to stay afloat.” This brought up a fun thought exercise fo
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by lloyddobbler 3y ago
I mentioned it above, but FusionAuth is supposedly good. They offer a paid cloud and free self-hosted version, so you get the benefits of rolling your own without as many risks. (No affiliation with the company on my part, so I can't s
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by lloyddobbler 3y ago
Have heard good things about FusionAuth. (Not a user, but friends speak highly of it).
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by lloyddobbler 3y ago
Interesting. Yeah, in Los Angeles, Denver, and Atlanta, it’s always worked to my advantage as the buyer. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by lloyddobbler 3y ago
In the U.S., at least, I've never known a seller's agent to do that (having done a good number of real estate transactions). In fact, in my experience I find it to be the exact opposite. Seller's agents are incentivized to no
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by lloyddobbler 3y ago
Agreed. I was a professional actor 20 years ago when digital and streaming were first coming into play, and the seeds sown in the agreements from that time were painfully lacking for working actors. The precedents set have continued to this
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by lloyddobbler 3y ago
This. Consider the market. Samsung also doesn't add its newly-engineered, top-of-the-line solutions to its lower-end new models. Almost all the people on this forum are in the target market for the Pro. The standard iPhone is not built
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by lloyddobbler 4y ago
It's the internet. Everyone is an expert! (/s, if it wasn't blatantly obvious.)
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by lloyddobbler 5y ago
Hello - Kipp from TextExpander here. Great question that we get a lot (and rightfully so - security is of paramount importance to both our customers and us). We wrote up a brief FAQ on the topic of snippet security here: https://
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by lloyddobbler 5y ago
With the possible exception of the lyrics "rain on your wedding day," which in some ways seems like a bad thing, but is supposedly good luck. Aside from that, the entire song is filled with non-ironic scenarios, yep. Agreed: the m
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by lloyddobbler 5y ago
> I'd put my money that they included 'online scoreboard' as the first phrase in the `<meta name="description" content="Online scoreboard"> tag per Google's recommendations for SEO which put
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
As a writer, I hate apps like this. As a web writer, I love them. I've been using this app for at least the past 7 years. I wouldn't use it for any other type of writing. However, when the medium dictates succinct, direct writ
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
Agreed. My family has actually looked at moving away from Denver, with all the influx of people. The cost of living is no longer as attractive, and the politics that are coming in from out-of-state are much more slanted. I moved away from C
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
As someone else mentioned, one reason is it's cheaper...for now. The "for now" is key. Having lived in Denver for more than 10 years, our housing and costs of living are growing incredibly quickly (relative to the Bay Area at
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
Me, looking over the printed product images... ...is that a double-decker couch I see?
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
I'm impressed as well - but I do think many of us here are overestimating the size of the audience that sort of technical messaging would apply to. It being open is a big deciding factor for us on HN - but there's a much larger
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
As someone who's marketed consumer apps to iOS users (with in-app purchases) - you speak the truth. One freemium iOS app I worked on did nearly 5X the revenue compared to its Android counterpart (others were at varied-but-similar multi
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
See also: The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek. Great read (based on a previous work, Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse) on the need to play on a different playing field than the one that supposedly has a 'winner' and a &#x
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
History repeats itself. This is straight out of Microsoft's playbook from back in the day.
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
> I have no idea why I'm spending my time writing this, but I do appreciate the post as I vividly remember being enthralled with the prospect of money popping out of a coke can as a child and wanting to then rip-open the can to see
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
This book is great. Although anytime I see it, my mind jumps to the meme about "If the people who wrote computer programming books wrote math textbooks." https://i.pinimg.com/originals/71/40/36/
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
Yep to the catnip. As others have mentioned, though, the big benefit of the first million-dollar homepage was the SEO value - along with the fact that for a few hundred bucks, you could have a bold ad that caught someone's eye amidst t
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by lloyddobbler 6y ago
Yeah - I moved to Fraser (next town over) a year-ish after Marv’s wild ride. Always interesting to see this come up. IIRC, the story was much more complex than this article paints it (& much more sympathetic to Marv). There were apparen
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
As a Russian hacker I think this is a REALLY great idea because of the security implications surrounding it.
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
This. The thing about "get out the vote" campaigns is, they're intended to draw out the least-involved, least-informed members of the electorate. Which in my book is a bad thing. Voting is not the only civic duty - educating
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
They've done some really interesting brand work, for an early stage startup in an industry notorious for long development cycles. Here's a video they did for an airshow (Paris? Can't remember) earlier this year. https:/
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
Ask any 18 year-old 3-star high school senior football recruit whether he's going to play in the NFL. Let me know how many of them tell you "maybe, but I'm not sure I'll get there." Then ask the 4- and 5-stars.
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
> I think the ideal use case for a MVP is exposing it to a limited subset of users. This. So much this. MVP has a key role in product development - but its place is not necessarily at the phase of "launch it to the public with a mar
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
Well-said. This makes me circle back again to the concept of "Minimum Viable Product." It's been said that as a startup, if you're not embarrassed when you ship v1, you waited too late. But what's often not looked a
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by lloyddobbler 7y ago
They did - explicitly in the section that starts "Obsessing with Customer’s Experience is a Win." That being said, when writing engaging content, it's usually better to show, rather than just tell. That's also what they

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