wsul

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by wsul 5y ago
Received your cold LinkedIn message... founder to founder, spending time on building a better product is always going to yield better results than scraping your competitor's launch announcement to send cold messages to all their commen
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by wsul 5y ago
We have a pretty complex onboarding process (bug bounty programs for startups), really excited to give this a try.
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by wsul 6y ago
How does this compare to other badge services like Shields.io?
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by wsul 8y ago
Appreciate the kind words! Reaching out now -- would love to get you into our beta and work from any of your feedback. Finsight seems like a perfect use case and we're excited to dig in.
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by wsul 8y ago
Hey Jacob, thanks for the kind words, and taking the time to leave a comment. I'd love to meet up, pinging you now!
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by wsul 8y ago
Just a quick preface: we started building Federacy a little over two months ago as part of this batch of YC companies. We’re a team of two FTE. Many or all of our assumptions could well prove to be woefully off-target. But.. we think that i
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by wsul 8y ago
What do you think caused being selective not to scale at other platforms? What do you think we can do to keep the quality of our researchers extremely high? What we’ve heard in talking about this to a bunch of talented researchers is that t
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by wsul 8y ago
To be completely forthright, we don’t know. Have you used Synack or Cobalt? Would love to hear your experience. We haven’t heard much about Cobalt, but there are some sharp people behind Synack. That said, I don’t think there can be too man
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by wsul 8y ago
Yeah, that definitely makes sense, and I agree. At the core, Federacy is a marketplace, and the surest way for us to constrain the transactions will be to make it difficult for startups to extract a lot of value. We’ll have to work hard on
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by wsul 8y ago
We've tossed around ideas like this -- including something similar to how Numerai uses staking for their data science competitions. The security researcher would stake a small amount based on their confidence that the report is an impa
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by wsul 8y ago
Your experience is exactly why we're building Federacy. Bug bounties can be an incredibly efficient way to work with outside security researchers to find vulnerabilities, test for best practices, etc., but done poorly, can cause more d
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by wsul 8y ago
Congrats on the launch guys. What types of customers are you seeing most benefit from working with JITX versus other contractors?
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by wsul 8y ago
Really love this concept, awesome job guys. Do you think marketing and growth teams will use to surface ideas for copy and layout changes? I could definitely see a future feature that let teams vote too -- would be super valuable for growth
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by wsul 10y ago
Check out NS1.
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by wsul 11y ago
We've thought about doing made-to-order tees before, but at the end of the day, since we sew in Los Angeles, they'd end up being like $75 each for a custom pattern. There are some companies that have done tees and polos though - P
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by wsul 11y ago
I own an online apparel company that I launched on HN three years ago, but before this, I built tech companies, so maybe I can weigh in with what I've found (and have been really surprised by). Fit is almost a philosophical decision. M
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by wsul 13y ago
This will be especially helpful if I want a certain outcome (tweak weightings, recompile, rinse, repeat).. :)
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by wsul 13y ago
Is there a weighting to how points are assigned? Can this be adjusted? It'd be cool if I could say that the #1 votes get 2X the points as the #2 votes.
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by wsul 13y ago
I've had the same problem before. Store shopping as well. Sometimes I'll try on two colors of the same shirt and they'll fit much differently. The fix to this though is just to find the manufacturers that understand how impor
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by wsul 13y ago
Damn, this author did a way better job than I did too.
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by wsul 13y ago
skipping ... ? http://reallifemaggie.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/skipping.g... I'm of the mind that 95% of being in shape is in the kitchen - and a lot of the same principles apply - find what works, put in t
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by wsul 13y ago
The best hack is being able to just re-order when things start to look a bit shabby. Set it and forget it.
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by wsul 13y ago
Haha, very true. I think that'll be the next blog - MED/tl;dr on being in shape - especially when you're time-constrained / building a company.
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by wsul 13y ago
I think the inspiration side of it is huge - seeing how a look wears on someone else is completely different than seeing something hanging or on a mannequin. Which online retailers do it best? Personally a huge fan of MFA on Reddit for insp
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by wsul 13y ago
Completely agree here. I've spent the last year and a half building Pistol Lake - we make men's shirts. There are the few of us who want to spend the years it takes building manufacturing and operational expertise necessary to bui
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by wsul 13y ago
Hey! The colors are in the slider images in the middle of the page. They are charcoal, black, white, navy, red, and steel.
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by wsul 13y ago
We're starting international shipping next week! Can't wait.
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by wsul 13y ago
I'll definitely reach out. Any recommendations for getting the word out are much appreciated!
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by wsul 13y ago
Good observation, a section got removed, adding it back now. Happy to write separate blog about it as well, if you're interested. We raised a unique round from mostly younger company founders - an advisory round.
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by wsul 13y ago
Thank you. We're huge fans of MFA (subreddit every dude should check out: http://www.reddit.com/r/malefashionadvice/ ) and jdbee was awesome. Since we were avid readers, we knew the rules and how to approach h

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