ssebro

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by ssebro 14y ago
Most definitely - we love honesty. Can you flesh out your comment a little? I think most businesses have problems getting traction to start out - what specific challenges are you seeing?
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by ssebro 14y ago
Great feedback. You can press esc to exit the nudge dialog - we purposefully made it hard to exit because we wanted people to engage in seemingly silly questions, because in our experience, that's when you have breakthroughs. As an aside, w
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by ssebro 14y ago
The URL is http://beta.monsterlumen.com , and I'll be sticking around in the comments to get your feedback!
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Show HN: MonsterLumen helps you brainstorm business problems
5 points by ssebro 14y ago|14 comments
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by ssebro 14y ago
Please, please fix "I am a good writer, the content that I create is quiet good (I think)". That's the first line of your paragraph about gramatical oversights, and you say "quiet" instead of "quite". Also, the "(i think)" makes me feel lik
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by ssebro 14y ago
I agree. I can't help but feel that MIT's brand is being terribly tarnished. It certainly wasn't worth it.
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by ssebro 14y ago
I would imagine they would give the digital good away for free, and add it as a separate line-item in checkout, so vat would be 15% of $0.
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by ssebro 14y ago
I think the average InstaCart customer doesn't realize that per-item prices are higher. I didn't.
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by ssebro 14y ago
I noticed you guys used the same form UI as Barack Obama's donation page. I like it!
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by ssebro 14y ago
I agree with most of what you said. Sharing needs to be #1 to have viral growth. Large audiences are required for IAP and Advertising to make sense (I'd also add freemium to that list). An intrinsically leaky funnel needs even heavier viral
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by ssebro 14y ago
What stops other investment firms from making identical blanket investments, or how do you guys plan to stop that?
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by ssebro 14y ago
This is patently not true, and a very low-value article. Pay per use has been around just as long as SAAS, and most businesses prefer knowing what they will pay rather than getting variable bills, because 1) they're risk averse and want to
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Three myths about copyright law and where to start fixing it(scribd.com)
1 points by ssebro 14y ago|0 comments
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by ssebro 14y ago
What's the difference between your site optimizer and cloudflare's optimization?
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by ssebro 14y ago
That's an interesting powerpoint at the bottom of the techcrunch article. I see your argument that slower page loads leads to less engagement and higher bounce rates, and I'm somewhat skeptical - how do you know that your data isn't saying
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by ssebro 14y ago
I think you missed my point. I'm saying that fizzbuzz is very, very unlikely to be something you should use for evaluating someone's experience. What I'm pointing out is a fundamental problem with coding problems. FizzBuzz is a relatively s
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by ssebro 14y ago
Yip. I wonder if it makes more sense to focus on bd (for hn, this was building the YC brand) once you reach some measure of product market fit... Very interesting observation.
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by ssebro 14y ago
A better metaphor would be those things happening and your boss saying "solve fizzbuzz in 10 minutes or we'll fire you". (or we'll fire you == not getting the job/failing the interview). The big difference between the two metaphors is that
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by ssebro 14y ago
I have to agree with this one. It sounds absolutely crazy that the average engineer can't write fizzbuzz during an interview. But if you take a second and think about it, how the hell could these same people who fail fizzbuzz write producti
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by ssebro 14y ago
Done.
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by ssebro 14y ago
Thanks for that feedback - I'll add a "tour" section in the near future.
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by ssebro 14y ago
If you're interested in doing this for your work life, check out my startup: www.impacttrail.com . We're currently in super early MVP, but it's open to the public.
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by ssebro 14y ago
I think they would have done better to design a dongle for keys instead. People are already used to keyfobs.
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by ssebro 14y ago
Context is what matters here. You're a terrible programmer for established businesses building products they know people want (so it has to be rock solid and easy to maintain/upgrade). But you're great at churning out MVPs, which is really
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by ssebro 14y ago
If you try to sell this to the distributor, either they'll clone it, buy it outright or ignore it.
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by ssebro 14y ago
Actually, I take some of this back. If the upstream provider can make significant profits by selling this as an add on, then you're in business.
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by ssebro 14y ago
It's usually easier to sell to someone who's experiencing a pain than it is to an upstream provider. In other words, if it was a big enough issue that you built something to fix it, and your apartment complex hasn't fixed it themselves, you
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by ssebro 14y ago
Check out how Lockitron is marketing their product - yours can deliver similar value, except to residents of apartment complexes. https://lockitron.com/preorder I would first figure out the size of the market, then pick a price point (inf
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by ssebro 14y ago
You're clearly wrong: if using TLDR didn't deliver some sort of value, nobody would do it. Your argument is similar to how my parents argue about texting - you just don't get it, and because of a cultural mismatch, you probably never will.
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by ssebro 14y ago
His point is that he thinks that many people with the square card reader never read any cards. He's right - unless there's a government subsidy that I don't know about, Square does not make money from every user.

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