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by offtotheraces 4mo ago
sorry should be fixed now!
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Show HN: Open-source clone of the swarm/ctd/happenstance for warm intros(github.com)
1 points by offtotheraces 4mo ago|2 comments
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by offtotheraces 1y ago
A tool to map your network - for fundraising, sales, partnerships, etc - to get intros to people. Cold email is dying as it gets so much cheaper and easier to send emails with AI and automation, so human connection is going to skyrocket in
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by offtotheraces 1y ago
…says the Hamas-run health ministry . Nothing to see here, no conflicts of interest. Let’s trust the people who kidnapped babies and raped and pillaged their way across southern israel.
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by offtotheraces 1y ago
A tool to map warm intro paths to people in your extended network (ie 2nd degree). For finding paths to VCs, sales prospects, candidates, etc. Would love any feedback! www.draftboard.com
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by offtotheraces 1y ago
Given the negative votes I guess my attempt at humor fell flat :)
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by offtotheraces 1y ago
App Store has been a cesspool of liars and thieves, criminals and sadists for years, from Phil Schiller to Bill Havlicek and many, many more.
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by offtotheraces 2y ago
Loans get issued based on profit generation (or asset value), so no, it is not “to keep them afloat”. You can’t get a loan if your company is not doing well or too risky (that’s why startups raise equity - because they are still too risky f
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by offtotheraces 3y ago
It’s funny that Molly (a VC) ascribes so much power to VCs that they can literally create bank runs on their own. No. VCs don’t make decisions on where a company keeps its cash; the founder/CEO does. And founders freaked the f-ck out.
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by offtotheraces 4y ago
He has also become a very quiet mega philanthropist- he doesn’t publicize his giving but it’s on a huge scale
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by offtotheraces 4y ago
I’ve had this business idea for years but I would be torn apart in todays world if I tried to launch it: Build an ML model trained on actual images of women’s breasts and bras that are verified to fit them well. Once the core model is built
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by offtotheraces 4y ago
I agree - it’s about how the developer communicates (or in this case obfuscates) the price to the user. Check out the substack link and you’ll see screenshots of how Bending Spoons does it (it’s highly misleading). Generally I’m of the opin
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by offtotheraces 4y ago
search “wallpapers” in the app store and try the top results: 1. 188k reviews, 4.99/week https://apps.apple.com/us/app/live-wallpapers-for-me/id10693... 2. 120k reviews, 4.99/week https:/&#x2
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by offtotheraces 4y ago
This is a common response. unfortunately it doesn’t hold water: the average lifetime of a paid user of Splice is somewhere in the 7-10 week range (source is confidential). What super users of editing products do you know that only stay 10 w
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by offtotheraces 4y ago
This is going to be a disaster - Bending Spoons is not a good actor: “let’s talk about Bending Spoons’ business model. The basic concept is very simple: - Find a solid app that someone else built and buy it from them (see Splice (acquired f
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Thrasio’s Impending Doom(impassionedmoderate.substack.com)
2 points by offtotheraces 4y ago|0 comments
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
So are you saying that the clearing price for the ad inventory they’re competing over is $27? (If so I’ll explain why that’s not the case)
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
Until last year it took 11 taps to cancel through iOS. Bet it’s a whole lot less if you try to cancel HBO from their website.
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
Mobile app operator here - let me clarify some things: 1. Until June it was impossible for a developer to issue a refund to an angry customer - Apple simply did not allow developers to do that, despite the app store being around for 13 year
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
You’re 100% right - don’t doubt your logic! :) The problem is that what you describe is the short term positive impact to Tinder. But that’s far outweighed by the long term negative of having your whole business dependent on the whims of Ap
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
Remember two things: 1) more demand in auctions means higher prices. so if apple is taking the second slot they’re almost certainly increasing the cost of the 1st slot for hbo. which is apples whole point: to increase the cost (literal and
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
Think about this way: both companies are bidding on the same keywords. One party (the developer) collects either $97 if the consumer signs up on their website directly or $70 if the consumer downloads the app and signs up via the app store.
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
Ok maybe i’m not following your question then - do you mind rephrasing and asking again?
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
Remember, it's not that much money for Apple especially considering their whole app store business model depends on taking their 30% tax. Maybe we're talking about $50m/yr vs app store revenues of $10b (?) a year (and 70%+ ma
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
Again, by definition theyre going into negative margins because they can only ever get 30% of the revenues; how could they compete with the developer who gets 70% of the revenues without going negative?
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
You're right on two accounts: - Google gets paid no matter who pays, so they don't care - Tinder still gets the revenue (and at better margins bc they're not actually have to pay for that user anymore - Apple is paying) And e
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
The article doesn't have to say it because it's just the way that google ads work. It's a bidding-based system, so at the most basic level the person who bids the most wins the auction and their ad is shown. If the LTV of a c
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by offtotheraces 5y ago
I run a big portfolio of mobile apps, and the discussion around this is misguided. It's not about Apple taking 30% of the revenue generated from these ads. It's about Apple driving up the user acquisition costs for these companies
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by offtotheraces 7y ago
Check out the Robokiller app - their answerbots do exactly what you described. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/robokiller-block-spam-calls/id...
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by offtotheraces 7y ago
They were employees, not contractors or part-time

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