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by michokest 9y ago
Thanks for sharing! You’ve talked about your ontology, can you explain a bit more about how you build it?
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A Tale of Three Stonecutters(micho.biz)
1 points by michokest 11y ago|0 comments
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by michokest 11y ago
Good point. That's attracted a lot of criticism to the post. The rationale behind that is: We want a strong company culture. As a fitness startup, that involves things beyond work, which include working out, brainstorming over walks an
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How We Hire: Compensation and Hiring in a Small Startup(micho.biz)
2 points by michokest 11y ago|2 comments
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Product vs. Growth, or why startups hijack roadmaps(micho.biz)
1 points by michokest 12y ago|0 comments
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by michokest 12y ago
By investing in Berlin and Barcelona, where I've paid from €50k to €150k approx per apartment, and leveraging 50-80%.
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by michokest 12y ago
True :) that probably deserves clarification: I made a clear separation between "spending money" (rent, travels, food, leisure) and "investment money". Anything spent is either an investment, where I try to keep returns
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by michokest 12y ago
Last year I sold some stock from my last startup, a little over $1m after taxes, and I can say it's definitely changed things for the better. In this period of time, I have been able to: - Quit my founder position at that startup (thus
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Designing in a vacuum: Why do designers hate useful graphs?(micho.biz)
1 points by michokest 12y ago|0 comments
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by michokest 12y ago
And you can see that strength training or HIIT are completely left out from the announcement. Strava, Withings, Runtastic, Runkeeper and Noom Coach: all of them tracking apps, with very little emphasis on the prescriptive aspect of fitness.
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by michokest 12y ago
That's my main problem with the fitness app industry at large. They are much more focused on steps, running and calories than actual fitness. And don't get me wrong, cardio works to a good extent. For most of sedentary folks, doin
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Minimum Viable Channel(micho.biz)
6 points by michokest 12y ago|1 comments
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by michokest 12y ago
Following the exact same approach helped to lose 20 lbs and motivated me to start a product around it. Check out http://8fit.com , where we propose simple HIIT workouts you can do at home and low-carb meal plans (40/40/
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by michokest 12y ago
I use mediahint.com for it, which is now a paid service, but has worked great for me
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by michokest 12y ago
This is especially useful for iOS repos, where a lot of auto-generated stuff creeps into the pull request
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Collapse files in GitHub PR diff view(gist.github.com)
1 points by michokest 12y ago|1 comments
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by michokest 12y ago
As a second-time founder, I found Mixpanel to be the most expensive piece of SaaS we were using in our stack: at barely 30k users, it was already far more expensive than our whole hosting bill combined! Then I switched solutions for a while
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by michokest 12y ago
I wish Google would take a second to try their own iOS dialer in real-life scenarios: 1) Paste an international number like +34 911 111 111 from the web to Hangouts: it gets pasted as 34911111111, losing the + 2) They don't follow the
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Google for Work (new Name for Google Apps for Enterprise)(google.com)
2 points by michokest 12y ago|0 comments
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The Scale of the Universe (2012)(htwins.net)
11 points by michokest 12y ago|2 comments
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by michokest 12y ago
From my experience with my previous startup, we'd be able to comfortably support 50k actives without exceeding $10k a month in infrastructure.
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by michokest 12y ago
I posted ads on craiglist advertising free coaching
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by michokest 12y ago
Fitocracy's great as well! But they're more centered in tracking and gamifying. We take a different "just tell me what to do" approach. Users sign up, enter their stats and choose a goal: strength, weight loss, etc. With
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by michokest 12y ago
We simple used Google Docs and pretended the product existed. Here's the original survey: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/18Se8QtvIKrGPWd8HEN4ILZz3Yyp...
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by michokest 12y ago
We are a three people team of founders. Two of us live cheaply while traveling, so we keep it very lean, and one of us is living off his savings. Here's the breakdown of expenses: - $5.000/mo for paychecks - $2.000/mo for mar
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by michokest 12y ago
Glad you found it useful! I think it's working because the market is huge (everybody has a "fitness" problem) and it's such a simple product. Our expenses are at $10k with a 3 people team, some freelancers and a $2k&#x2F
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by michokest 12y ago
Haha, I left it out on purpose! It's the number of signups :)
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How we raised capital one month after launching(8fit.com)
71 points by michokest 12y ago|27 comments
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Reminder: Level-up your JS with Chrome Devtools(developer.chrome.com)
1 points by michokest 12y ago|0 comments
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by michokest 12y ago
My story with fitness echoes this post closely. Gyms have long had the motivation to push the latest machines or fitness fads, because that's how they retain customers with the promise of a new program that'll change everything. A

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