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Understanding the Covid-19 Recession(divinations.substack.com)
5 points by nbashaw 6y ago|0 comments
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Understanding the Covid-19 Recession(divinations.substack.com)
2 points by nbashaw 6y ago|0 comments
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by nbashaw 6y ago
A lot of this post seems to be loosely plagiarized from the "Eat Dirt" chapter of the CFAR handbook: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UZYBtOJ3QZ7FTI_4eKjVzBSNUqC... Not good! Edit: he does link to it in
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Why “incentive alignment with customers” is key to growth(divinations.substack.com)
4 points by nbashaw 7y ago|0 comments
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Ben Gilbert on how Acquired launched their paid podcast(divinations.substack.com)
2 points by nbashaw 7y ago|0 comments
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by nbashaw 7y ago
Me too. The speed of using "j" and "k" to navigate articles (that load instantly) feels amazing.
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by nbashaw 8y ago
I remember that app :)
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by nbashaw 9y ago
Thank you! This is very thoughtful. I'm definitely taking some time and thankfully not under too much financial stress. But honestly I actually feel really fine. This happened a couple weeks ago and I have had some time to process it.
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by nbashaw 9y ago
You're right that the probability of any individual "unicorn" type idea succeeding is ridiculously slim. But I think you're not appreciating the larger context. Consider this: 1) I have never had more job offers in my li
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by nbashaw 9y ago
I was in a really low place a couple weeks ago, but I actually honestly feel pretty fine now. I've given myself the space I need to process it. I definitely wouldn't have been able to publish this post when it first happened. Also
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by nbashaw 9y ago
It's ok! And I am really sorry to hear about your dad's business. That must have felt terrible, far worse than I'm feeling right now. We're all human and doing the best we can.
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by nbashaw 9y ago
I appreciate that! I mean, obviously I was wrong about _some_ things, otherwise I wouldn't have had to write that post. So I'm super open to new ideas and learning. That's also why I'm replying to all these comments. I&#
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by nbashaw 9y ago
Actually we had a pretty detailed financial model for how we expected to get to profitability! We currently have ~1,200 subscribers, and about half are paying us $1.99/mo (our old price point) and the other half is paying $3.99/mo
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by nbashaw 9y ago
You're right -- it takes a long time for most media companies to get off the ground, and it's often near-impossible to raise money in the early days. But how many youtube channels that get ~7,000 weekly unique viewers are able to
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by nbashaw 9y ago
Am I? "Now, everyone has moved on but me, and I’m trying to figure out how to move forward. For the time being, we’re not going to be able to release any new stories (it sucks, I know), but the app and website will stay up. I am not re
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by nbashaw 9y ago
It's $3.99 but yeah, we have a subscription model
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by nbashaw 9y ago
What does that quote mean in this context? I am trying to decode the meaning but am failing haha
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by nbashaw 9y ago
It's definitely something we considered! We actually were really focused on that for a long time, but didn't get a lot of traction with it, because creating content in our format requires illustration and animation, which is not e
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by nbashaw 9y ago
The ferrari thing was definitely a little distracting, for sure, but literally it was the only good free photo I could find of a car driving towards the horizon in the desert.
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by nbashaw 9y ago
OP here. I'm curious, what makes you think that you know anything about what our plans were? You're absolutely right that we weren't profitable at our current scale, and that our goal was to raise funding from VCs, and since
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How Concrete Became a Thing(hardbound.co)
2 points by nbashaw 10y ago|1 comments
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by nbashaw 10y ago
Hey, I co-wrote this! I'd love feedback :)
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by nbashaw 11y ago
Thanks for posting, @rmason! Author here - I'd love feedback / questions from HN.
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by nbashaw 11y ago
Ha, it's amazing to see a Leo Strauss reference in a HN thread! I majored in Political Theory at Michigan State, and the department was full of Straussians. Worlds colliding.
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by nbashaw 13y ago
Thanks!
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by nbashaw 13y ago
Furniture? Are you talking about http://www.producthunt.co/ or some other site? Anyway, thanks for the feedback!
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by nbashaw 13y ago
Good point! I'm to blame for that :) but I'll fix it!
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by nbashaw 13y ago
It's just generally a cluttery, unfocused website. I attempted to make a replacement but the network effects of Goodreads make it really difficult to compete, and this was just a side project
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by nbashaw 13y ago
Interesting that they're using Codemirror instead of Ace ( http://ace.c9.io ), which is their progeny. It used to be called Bespin: http://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2009/02/introducing-bespin/
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How to design meaningful learning experiences(medium.com)
1 points by nbashaw 13y ago|0 comments

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