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by yvoschaap2 8y ago
Actually the house owner doesn't own the ground the house is build on. But the city remains owner ("leasehold"). Hence they can add restrictions and terms before you are allowed to build/use the land.
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by yvoschaap2 8y ago
That has been for a long time: the equity Yahoo Inc. held in Alibaba was for a long period worth more than Yahoo Inc. itself.
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by yvoschaap2 8y ago
I remember that 199X trend, where you would re-create an FBI warning: orange tape, gif of a spinning warning light, etc. Expect this to be the same era joke.
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Google launches reCAPTCHA v3(developers.google.com)
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by yvoschaap2 8y ago
Just announced during GitHub Universe: "Workflows can be triggered by GitHub platform events (i.e. push, issue, release) and can run a sequence of serial or parallel actions in response. Combine and configure actions for the services y
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GitHub Actions(github.com)
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`Slack App Directory` Developer Review(dev.to)
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Digg's v4 launch: an optimism born of necessity(lethain.com)
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Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge(blog.cloudflare.com)
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Myriahedral Projections (WebGL)(philogb.github.io)
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by yvoschaap2 8y ago
Build.amsterdam | Growth Hacker | Amsterdam, NL | Onsite | https://build.amsterdam Side-projects-as-a-Business. We're building several projects, and looking for a key team member to be responsible for (early) growth. A hack
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State.of.dev – The current state of front end development (2018)(stateofdev.com)
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State.of.dev – Explore the current state of development (2018)(stateofdev.com)
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On the Turing Completeness of PowerPoint(m.youtube.com)
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
Back then there was a minimum commitment in the 6 figures.
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
Genius is killing it. They bring more then just lyrics, and build a community. Something I failed in both. But its always fun to remind them that Justin Bieber & Ed Sheeran are their top traffic sources.
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
So many lawyers here on HN, I forgot...
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
There are two companies available who are intermediaries between me (site) and the lyrics publisher (writer) and handle all licensing: - Gracenote (they sold their lyrics licensing to lyricfind) - Lyricfind E.g. Google and Bing also license
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
I never measured that. But the numbers I deal with are so large, that even after blocking the number of ad impressions are still huge. The biggest revenue hit was the decline of ringtone revenue.
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
So I went out and found licensing pro-actively. I wasn't contacted before in a formal way. But I know they (NMPA) did sent C&D letters to over 40 domains eventually.
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
My license provider has a database of over 1.2M lyrics. But matter of fact is that Directlyrics hosts only around 10k. A decision made early on to focus on less pages compared to competitors that needed to rank 1M+ paghes.
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
Yes, good eye. A great example of continuious testing SEO opportunities. What if Google would start ranking directlyrics on specific 'azlyrics' queries? I haven't seen it happen yet, but if it worked... expect it to be revert
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
Well back in 2004 there was no way to get an actual license. Most lyrics sites claimed to be safe under DMCA or "Educational Use". Only up until the publishers stood up for themselves, the industry shifted slowly.
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
It's actually pretty aligned with the traffic graph shown. Exceptions are months (e.g. around Christmas) where my advertising partner would be able to attract up to 3x revenue from the same amount of traffic as the month before.
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
So back in 2010 the first law suit started against lyrics sites: > http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/californ... It was pretty clear that others would be next. Hence unlicensed wouldn&#x2
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by yvoschaap2 9y ago
Hi, OP here. Happy to answer any specific question...
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I’ve supported myself for the past decade with my side project(indiehackers.com)
173 points by yvoschaap2 9y ago|79 comments
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Medium introduces a paid model(blog.medium.com)
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by yvoschaap2 10y ago
Actually based on the Hype Cycle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hype_cycle
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by yvoschaap2 10y ago
Yes, reading and absorbing the feedback. The current charts are a starting point. To re-emphasize (from the linked blog post) I would love it to evolve to an community/expert consensus based on transparant arguments.

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