montbonnot

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by montbonnot 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11456060 It was a fun distraction on a Friday...
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by montbonnot 10y ago
A shorter and cheaper version of this would be to create an emotional connection between your users and your product. You need to become a user and figure out if you feel accomplished after using your own product.
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Ask HN: Who would be up for a co-founder meeting in San Francisco?
2 points by montbonnot 10y ago|2 comments
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Will we need firewalls in 2020, not walls?(blacksheepvalley.com)
3 points by montbonnot 10y ago|0 comments
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Is Silicon Valley corrupted?(blacksheepvalley.com)
6 points by montbonnot 10y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What is the best (FREE) Chatbot?
1 points by montbonnot 10y ago|0 comments
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by montbonnot 10y ago
This app is indeed the complete opposite of what you're looking for. The FrenchMeter is not meant to teach French. It focuses on the spoken aspect of the language, unlike most of the apps out there.
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by montbonnot 10y ago
The accuracy is better if you maintain the same distance from the mic when you try several times in a row. If the distance is significantly different between 2 tries then you might get odd results. The recorded voice has to be used as a ref
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by montbonnot 10y ago
For people who're blocked via proxy, just go on the app store and search for FrenchMeter.
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How good is your French accent?(frenchmeter.com)
153 points by montbonnot 10y ago|179 comments
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by montbonnot 10y ago
Yep, reality sounds like an nightmare. Thanks for re-clarifying :)
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by montbonnot 10y ago
Interesting article. You can turn a small business into a corporate any time. So indeed, you can start small and grow from there. Going the VC route is more about having a huge support and resources behind you back. It's not only about
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by montbonnot 10y ago
if they're already profitable (original co-founders) then I'd say you might be offered %5. Could go up to %10 if they think you can help double/triple that profit. If it's only to take care of the technical aspect of the
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Ask HN: What is your best trick as an interviewer?
1 points by montbonnot 10y ago|0 comments
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by montbonnot 10y ago
retaining earnings is a solution. And you're right I didn't mention it. Another solution is less taxes which sounds more reasonable to me. As I said at the beginning of this thread, Republicans seem to understand the problem and h
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by montbonnot 10y ago
We're saying the exact same thing. "Income passes through the members" = members pay income taxes = federal + states + self employment tax = +%50 if your income is $1 million. You can eventually avoid the self employment tax
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by montbonnot 10y ago
Transform these %50 taxes (money you're giving away for free) into time. You're now working %50 of the time for free while you could spend more time with your family, kids, friends, learning things, etc. It's not a fiction, i
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by montbonnot 10y ago
Welcome to my life. Where you're at right now is where I was not a while ago. So it's too early for me to tell you it's awesome just quit and go on your own... Though, I've worked as a SWE for 10 years going from junior
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by montbonnot 10y ago
I went over these options when I incorporated. Nevada, Delaware and Wyoming. Unfortunately, I'm the only member of my LLC and my office is my house. For a software company selling online it is not recommended to incorporate in a foreig
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by montbonnot 10y ago
I do. But a police officer gets taxed. A fireman gets taxed too (a lot in my opinion). What are they subscribed to? Themselves? How about using big corporate money to pay for that? Look at Apple they run most of their offices outside of the
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by montbonnot 10y ago
Regarding your last point, assuming you'd be an employee with a steady income of one million dollars per year. I believe you'd be a CEO in a large corporate or you'd have a very generous employer. Then yeah, you could chill a
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by montbonnot 10y ago
If you make $900k/y and you're fine losing $378000 then we need a flexible system. Where people like you you'd be working %42 of their time for free, while people like me would chose to earn each and every minute back. Time i
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by montbonnot 10y ago
Sure.. what if you're an LLC making apps (single owner). How do you re-invest your million dollars into your business? Your business consists on a laptop and yourself. That's all you need to make apps and to sale them on the app s
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by montbonnot 10y ago
I'd push the logic even further. How about taking away $100k from someone who's making $250k per year? If you reach $250k/y you're supposed to make a statement. Someone who studied hard (for example), got into student de
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Ask HN: Do you feel like you're paying too much taxes?
16 points by montbonnot 10y ago|43 comments
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by montbonnot 10y ago
I agree with $100/hour for consulting, it's "easy" money. It depends on how you deal with micro-management. If you work as a consultant you'd be treated as an expensive external resource by your clients. Which is us
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by montbonnot 10y ago
You can certainly fail on the App store if you think like you do. Nothing is easy in life, people who succeed are people who start with a positive attitude and transform a failure into a learning experience. Anyone can make it on the app st
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by montbonnot 10y ago
app store... write your own app, submit it, do some marketing by putting up a website (wordpress template = 10 min kick ass website), run some FB/youtube marketing for like $100 and you're set. If you end up having a great idea it
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by montbonnot 10y ago
I'm on linkedin but I used a different email address for that. I might have sent out a few resumes about 5 years ago... I believe emails are one of the best form of contact, not engagement.
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Ask HN: Why Recruiters still believe in cold emails
1 points by montbonnot 10y ago|2 comments

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