patrickambron

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The poor man's 1u inference GPU – MSI GTX 1050Ti 4G OC(projectable.me)
18 points by patrickambron 9y ago|4 comments
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How we reversed a $300K/mo burn without layoffs or downsizing(medium.com)
2 points by patrickambron 10y ago|0 comments
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by patrickambron 12y ago
Yes, I would love to ski as a sasquatch
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by patrickambron 12y ago
Absolutely love the game! Well done!
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by patrickambron 13y ago
That sounds exactly like a government to me
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by patrickambron 13y ago
I like imagining the other end of this. Walmart notices guy starting to gain some traction with a competitor. They use their private army to "convict" him and hold him prisoner. Which private army fights to get him free?
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by patrickambron 13y ago
Well it was interesting. He asked us if we had a link to the drug dealer article. We looked and couldn't find one. I was in contact with him the whole time, sent him links to other criminal results and even offered to do the interview
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by patrickambron 13y ago
That's just a custom report from Google analytics
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by patrickambron 13y ago
Haha thanks
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by patrickambron 13y ago
I agree, it is disingenuous, especially in this context. That slide was specifically made for an in-person presentation that was later posted online (it was posted by somebody else about a year ago). For the sake of a presentation, we thoug
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by patrickambron 13y ago
Thanks man. I remember that interview (it was a headache). The interviewer seemed to have an agenda going in. Before the interview he kept saying he thought it was "foolish that people would use Google to research people in the first p
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by patrickambron 13y ago
OK great, I will definitely join
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by patrickambron 13y ago
Basically anything around 8% is considered very good. We spent ALOT of time optimizing our sign up flow. We did hundreds of usability tests. I think the key was making it clear what the product would do and why they needed to complete each
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by patrickambron 13y ago
I think it depends on your business model and audience. As a b2c product, any press is good obviously. However, I think it's more important to understand who your audience is and how to relay your story to them in a way that's dig
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by patrickambron 13y ago
I think this was the key takeaway. Making a product people want is the first step. The second step is boiling it down into a message people quickly understand. If we described our product as "DIY SEO tools to improve your personal SER
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by patrickambron 13y ago
Hi Guys, My name is Patrick, I'm the CoFounder of BrandYourself and I'm the one who made this presentation. I read HackerNews everyday, and was literally knocked off my chair when I saw my own presentation on the front page. Thank
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by patrickambron 13y ago
I originally wrote a post on my personal blog about this. Let me know if you find it helpful :) http://www.patrickambron.me/we-unexpectedly-got-60k-users-in...
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by patrickambron 13y ago
I'll do a follow up on this :)
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by patrickambron 13y ago
There are actually a lot of different databases that match IP addresses to companies, university's etc. For example, Max Mind GEOIP has some of that info. The trick was just compiling those different sources into a more reliable custom
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by patrickambron 13y ago
Yes within the company we've adopted a motto "customer service is the most underrated marketing channel". I think this is what has driven most of our steady growth which comes through word of mouth
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by patrickambron 13y ago
That's a very good question. We're not a social network or a game, so most people come to us to solve a specific problem: they don't like their Google results. We have a free product because we realize many people simply want
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by patrickambron 13y ago
Exactly. We already had the MVP--the key here was boiling down our product into a value proposition people could quickly understand. Rather than saying "we can match an ISP to a location and company" we said "you can figure o
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by patrickambron 13y ago
Hi, I'm the author of the slideshare/founder of the company. You are right, before the actual surge, there was a lot of upfront work understanding how to build our product and how to tell our story. That said, once you have the ri
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by patrickambron 13y ago
You might be right. I don't really know people who use foursquare, and it's use cases from a consumer standpoint are really limited to people who live in cities (forget middle america) That said, this round does make a lot of sense for inve
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by patrickambron 14y ago
it helps people improve what shows up when someone googles their name
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Good Call: The actual product is BrandYourself.com
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by patrickambron 14y ago
I didn't even realize you could do that. Thanks for the heads up. I'm going to check that out. I agree, the bigger the graphic, the better
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Thanks man, the goal is to get our product in front of more people. We convert very well when we get people to our site, so this seemed like a cool, fun way to do that
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by patrickambron 14y ago
Thanks, appreciate the kind words. In terms of posting a photo, we are. We're posting a graphic of their grade. Is it not showing up for you? I will definitely let you know how the conversions are and how many people we get to our actual si
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Show HN: We made a "Google grader" FB game to promote our product(apps.facebook.com)
8 points by patrickambron 14y ago|9 comments

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