ulugbek

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Kickstarter project to improve your posture(kickstarter.com)
2 points by ulugbek 14y ago|0 comments
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by ulugbek 14y ago
We did a startup that used the same model in stopping online procrastination: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268710 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuc0_ZMQ4P8 and our competitor in productivity space blogged about us : http://blo
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by ulugbek 14y ago
I am super excited, I have been doing backend development with rails and been kind of intimidated moving into doing more front-end stuff. I think LT is the answer.
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by ulugbek 14y ago
one of those times when continually clicking "refresh" is fun.
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My first blog ever: on Wall Street Brain Drain. heroku + toto = noob love(beklog.heroku.com)
1 points by ulugbek 15y ago|0 comments
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by ulugbek 15y ago
I do believe that the best engineers of the world read HN. Perhaps this belief is fueled by my recent admiration for the way software engineers solve problems and the intellectual rigor and diversity of submissions and discussions here. Why
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by ulugbek 15y ago
You are right
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by ulugbek 15y ago
Only way you compete with Wall Street is you increase the utility of expected payoffs, not just the wage. People who are going to WS have different risk profiles than entrepreneurs. You can have low participation in entrepreneurship as long
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by ulugbek 15y ago
Economics of startups and ad industry is a lot like that of farmers and corn. Hard to find quality food without junk load of corn syrup in it, and farmers are always poor. Ads, like corn will keep winning unless tech crowd is able to think
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by ulugbek 16y ago
rexreed is right, it shouldn't take long to set up the system. Most of the time is wasted waiting to get approved. I integrated Braintree api in half a day, while the application process was taking a few days. We had to drop them and go for
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by ulugbek 16y ago
Honestly, I wasn't aware of the convention. Seeing DropBox's color, we went with our own. Thanks for letting us know, we will definitely try to include it for our next update.
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by ulugbek 16y ago
forgot to mention, stickk.com does that with other types of commitments that require peer monitoring.
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by ulugbek 16y ago
That's where the inspiration came from, but it was easier to monitor time use than to measure the cotinine levels in someone's body.
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by ulugbek 16y ago
For now it is, we are developing Windows and Linux versions. Thanks for 7, it will get better day by day I promise :)
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Ask HN: Review our startup, TimeCarrot
4 points by ulugbek 16y ago|9 comments
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by ulugbek 16y ago
It is better if NGOs are promoting the service to their existing and potential donors. It is possible that revenue from giving away $150,000 with a buzz brings in more users than 2 engineers can.
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by ulugbek 16y ago
I have explored this kind of marketing before. This creates a buzz among the non-profit organizations and non-profits will be doing the marketing for you if they consistently receive funds through SwipeGood. Instead of asking for $10 one ti
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by ulugbek 16y ago
I can sympathize with discontent about this, but almost nobody has brought up the positive uses of unique Internet ID. Suppose you want a system where you want to signal to all internet companies that you don't want your browsing data to be
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by ulugbek 16y ago
I am not familiar with B2B, but I had the impression that the B2C companies in the area of technology and manufacturing have been mostly founded by high-net worth individuals, and scalability has been a function of enlisting the help of pro
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by ulugbek 16y ago
Very timely and useful post, thanks.
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Chinese Startups: How they differ from US(venturebeat.com)
53 points by ulugbek 16y ago|9 comments
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by ulugbek 16y ago
Nice job! I used to be in translating business for a short while. I would suggest that freelance translators are asked to enter their profile information in all languages they translate to and from. Depending on initial language a site user
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by ulugbek 16y ago
Problem rises when gas station operators, assuming they are rational, know that customers are using this strategy. In this case, they will set a price that will be function of how far and frequent other gas stations are located. The favorab