timharding

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by timharding 6y ago
This is cool but, oh boy, a mute button that makes a sound when you click it is user hostile.
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by timharding 7y ago
This is more or less what my lawyer suggested when I set up my will with her. Apparently very few people have ever asked her about this. I don’t think it has yet become part of the checklist for arranging one’s affairs.
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by timharding 11y ago
Nerdiest gang signs ever.
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by timharding 11y ago
Unreadable.
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by timharding 11y ago
Either that or you have a pretty fucked up model for love.
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by timharding 11y ago
Dude, it really isn't like seeing someone you love dying from cancer.
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by timharding 11y ago
Tea bags on strings make steeping time really controllable. There are pack-your-own tea bag systems too here in the UK but I think most people would rather just have something good/familiar rather than blend their own weird tea.
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by timharding 11y ago
Note that he wants to create a lifestyle business, not a startup. Not sure how important scalability is for that.
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by timharding 11y ago
Programmers are really boring analogy whalers, out at sea forever hunting their perfect, elusive, bloody boring, analogs.
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by timharding 11y ago
I just finished reading Dark Star — an entertaining scifi noir epic poem set on a planet with a dead sun. It isn't going to tell you about the practicalities of this type of thing but it is a good yarn. http://www.amazon.co.
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by timharding 13y ago
I interviewed someone who had a failed startup. He couldn't tell me what he would do differently if he was to do it all over again. It didn't fill me with confidence that he's learned anything during the experience. Make sure
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by timharding 13y ago
You could turn off bluetooth, that would lock Coin, after a period.
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by timharding 13y ago
Fascinating. Thanks for the post. Not sure what your unfair advantage is here, perhaps being part of the community? What barriers do you have to competition from a one or two person company w/ lower costs? This is an excellent talk abo
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by timharding 13y ago
Why on Earth would you want to be notified about email? Letting other people choose when you can be interrupted sounds awful.
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by timharding 13y ago
Our entire cash outlay, pre-revenue, not including founders time, was about £1,000. We bought a VM, a domain name, a copy of Flash to build an little interactive game our domain required and paid some admin fees on content we acquired. We m
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by timharding 14y ago
On finding a business partner: do some sort of tangible work with them before you start on a larger project, make sure you've got some seriously deep social validation of them and be sure you have a complimentary skill set. Oh, and liking t
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by timharding 14y ago
Finding a business partner you trust and who shares a vision for the company and then getting the fuck on with it seems like a better approach. I agree with @hmurakami on this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4940379
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by timharding 14y ago
I think that "be a payment provider" is a much easier thing to think than it is to do. While it may be easy to build the customer side of the equation you've got to build a vast network of merchants willing to accept payment and that's hard
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by timharding 15y ago
I'd add that everyone knows about paying for a subscription to a magazine and everyone knows about paying for advertising so you won't have to teach people about the value (or not) of those two things. Alternatively just copy the Hacker Mon
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by timharding 15y ago
You're overcomplicating things. Pick the simplest idea to implement and then test it by offering it to the market. See if it works, go from there. And just do one thing to start with.
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by timharding 15y ago
Is there a plan to profit share with authors at some point? Will the editor simply continue to rule out those that ask for payment for their work? Presumably there's some reasonable profit that the editor must take out for himself to sustai
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by timharding 15y ago
Charge money for it. Charge money for advertising in it.
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by timharding 15y ago
No. I think the tech industry should learn how congress works and beat these fuckers at their own game.
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by timharding 15y ago
Again, it's not the fixed cost. It's your per transaction pricing that has doubled so over the lifetime of your business and as you grow you'll pay 40c instead of 20c every month for every customer.
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by timharding 15y ago
None of these guys pay the banks. Their customers are already paying a for payment gateway for that service, they sit on top providing recurring billing and subscription management.
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by timharding 15y ago
It's not so much the rise in monthly fixed costs that's the problem. It's the doubling of per transaction pricing (that will just sting month after month) and the lack of features compared to now cheaper competition. Recurly at 10c vs. Spre
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by timharding 15y ago
London, UK - Product/Marketing Manager, Well Informed Ltd. Come and work directly with the founders running the business side our successful, profitable, SaaS business. http://blog.theorytestpro.co.uk/2011/08/01/were-hiring-onlin...
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by timharding 16y ago
Here's how you do it. 1) Stop reading Hacker News. 2) Pay attention to problems people have. 3) Build a solution and charge money for it. 4) Spend 2 years marketing it (i.e., talking to your market and learning) and making it better. It wor
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by timharding 16y ago
Don't forget that you don't have to cash out of a successful business to move on to other things. You can install managers to grow a business once you figured it out and become an owner rather than a doer.
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by timharding 16y ago
You can check which password has been crypted without posting it to a website using: ruby -e 'puts "hackern".crypt("8h")' #=> 8h48GPxmwy.EA

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