ramikalai

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by ramikalai 3y ago
"if my product were a success in the US market it would make more profit." The "If" in your statement is exactly my point.
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by ramikalai 3y ago
You're right, the US government has zero corruption. haha jokes aside, that's a fair point. But if you're selling there, you can still manage to avoid a lot of the red tape, bureaucracy, etc. You can be a c-corp and sell ther
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by ramikalai 3y ago
What about it? Solid business
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Talent in Brazil is far cheaper and as good - I would argue that that is part of the setup ease. US has overinflated salaries making it inaccessible without private funding. That works when the VC funds are flowing but not in this interest
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Brazil is a great example. 218M+ people. 1 Language. Sure there's less willingness to pay/wealth, but the fruits are lower hanging. You can sell less complex products at a wider scale with less competition. Sure they have limits b
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Sure, but how many apps does the average Manhattanite already pay for? You think they care about your app? In Brazil for example, the fruits are lower hanging it's 200M+ people, the probability of making more money is higher.
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Yeah but Brazil is homogenous and has 200M+ people - not as wealthy but far less competition there. Why would you try to capture the US market if there's lower hanging fruit? I don't get it.
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by ramikalai 3y ago
The equation is $$$ X ability to capture $$$. US is oversaturated with products, solutions, competitors, etc...
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by ramikalai 3y ago
I agree - I just think that there are far more enriching businesses to build than social media. Especially with the current business model. Not much good in that IMO
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Yeah but we don't need another social media site... Such a waste of time building more of those. I'm talking valuable businesses that add to society. I think you can achieve "scale" in markets like Brazil which aren&#x27
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by ramikalai 3y ago
I wanted to emphasise as usually the product that works is the "simplest" - we made lots of pivots and wrote lots of code before we came up with this more simple solution
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U.S. Market Is Overrated
5 points by ramikalai 3y ago|20 comments
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by ramikalai 3y ago
We don't build on top of WhatsApp Business API - we enable sales teams to use WhatsApp personal and WhatsApp Business accounts to talk to clients. This is something that lots of businesses prefer doing for higher touch relationships.
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by ramikalai 3y ago
There is - it just involves us helping get you setup. We haven't built the UI side of things for self-serve so a quick setup call and we can then configure things in the backend for you directly
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Didn't fit in the title haha - just wanted to emphasise that its just serverless
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Show HN: Pivots and millions later, I built a lambda to start WhatsApp chats(compose.im)
23 points by ramikalai 3y ago|8 comments
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I haven’t optimised nor tested on those platforms as I don’t have access to them. It should be working on all mainstream OSes/browsers.
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Show HN: WikiWho? – A Wordle-Like Wikipedia Based Guessing Game(playwikiwho.com)
1 points by ramikalai 3y ago|2 comments
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Afraid I don't have much in the way of experience with Rust or WASM so can't help there. Maybe instead of lat/long, you expose a dropdown of popular cities? Again not bulletproof but does make the user's life easier
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by ramikalai 3y ago
It is the just Forest haha. Yeah, having a target number of ants or varying sizes could be interesting but I don't want small ants dying either :'( Agreed in game time is nice to match up to real life. But, do you really need deta
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Ask HN: How do website analytics tools track where traffic came from?
1 points by ramikalai 3y ago|2 comments
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by ramikalai 3y ago
I like the concept and I'm a big fan of it being a mental health companion - a bit like that forest app that went viral (sorry cant remember the name). But I do think that the mechanics linking the ant colony and the player's ment
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Thanks - already have a couple. See you there :-)
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Update: Have been digging into this more and it looks like we're going to switch to QuestDB. Seems like a solid bet with clear roadmap, pricing and strong performance. Also, looks to be more affordable than Timescale. InfluxDB was such
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by ramikalai 3y ago
yeah AirTags did that for me too - I put one in my suitcase. Gamifies waiting for luggage haha
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by ramikalai 3y ago
It seems like they added an "alternative face" feature - managed to scan that after putting in my password
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by ramikalai 3y ago
Haha yeah - colleagues did a double take today
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by ramikalai 3y ago
It's better because you can keep that video floating on top of your other apps. It'll follow you as you switch between windows and you can even hide it to the side if it's blocking something.
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Ask HN: What products that you've used recently have felt magical
3 points by ramikalai 3y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: FaceID stopped recognising me after I shaved my beard – what do I do?
4 points by ramikalai 3y ago|7 comments

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