Hacker News: iosnoob

New comment by iosnoob in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

iosnoob — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 08:55:44 +0000

Thank you for doing that. We're all better off with people who use their good fortune to help others in need.

New comment by iosnoob in "Garry Tan tech CEO and campaign donor wishes death upon SF politicians"

iosnoob — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 05:38:00 +0000

It's mentioned in the article (reference to Tupac song)

New comment by iosnoob in "Garry Tan tech CEO and campaign donor wishes death upon SF politicians"

iosnoob — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 05:27:52 +0000

Agreed - quite a shock to realize the type of person who is now in charge (haven't kept up to date on leadership here)

New comment by iosnoob in "How Gyms Make Money (2015)"

iosnoob — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 06:17:22 +0000

Funny how serious / loner type people often open up when you ask them to help spot your bench press. At least that's been my experience, that moment of them helping you out at your vulnerable time somehow lowers the guard / the friction to chatting

New comment by iosnoob in "What are farm animals thinking?"

iosnoob — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 07:54:44 +0000

An interesting read on the relative likelihood of consciousness of various lifeforms on earth: https://rethinkpriorities.org/publications/opinion-estimatin...

Long story short, relative chance of plant consciousness is a lot lower than that of members of animal species.

Regardless, the point is moot - if plants are sentient, that's even more an argument to consume less of them, directly, vs a lot more of them, via animals.

New comment by iosnoob in "What are farm animals thinking?"

iosnoob — Tue, 26 Dec 2023 07:35:37 +0000

Growing up always thought about the thought experiment of how aliens would treat us compared with how we treat our fellow sentient beings in the animal kingdom (I couldn't find a good answer and stopped consuming animals). Now with a potential for AGI and perhaps sentient AI in coming years or decades, those philosophical questions suddenly become a lot more pressing

New comment by iosnoob in "Exec who cleaned up Enron calls FTX mess 'unprecedented'"

iosnoob — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 18:28:56 +0000

What startup deliberately builds back doors to siphon away customer funds with the knowledge of only the founders, and deliberately misleads internal finance folks.

Who "lends" customer funds without any documentation to let founders buy multi million dollar property in their own personal names

This isn't messy, move fast break things of a startup, it's fraud

New comment by iosnoob in "Show HN: Sale – A live cash register for your Stripe account"

iosnoob — Mon, 15 Aug 2022 08:06:26 +0000

Can it be for week or month instead of current day?

New comment by iosnoob in "Show HN: Don't Break the Chain"

iosnoob — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 19:52:45 +0000

Nice but this would be better as an app with notifications.. hard to remember to return daily to a website

Ask HN: Landing page for non technical founder?

iosnoob — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 09:29:23 +0000

I have to get a landing page up for a new startup idea (consumer service). It's a biz I'll get folks to do for clients, so no coding required.

What's a good landing page builder a business founder can use that integrates nicely into stripe/subscriptions?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23516256

Points: 2

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New comment by iosnoob in "13,402 unhappy users and no lessons learned–so we built this"

iosnoob — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:13:45 +0000

We're meant to be the new product guys and come up with the new ideas, asking users to come up with new product suggestions is a recipe for a product that does a lot and not well.

In a past web forum I used to admin the users would ask for a million different things and if we implemented them all it would have been chaos.

At the end of the day someone has to have a creaive vision and see it executed, even if it only does one thing.. but does it really well..

New comment by iosnoob in "13,402 unhappy users and no lessons learned–so we built this"

iosnoob — Thu, 28 Aug 2014 12:48:52 +0000

Good to see real numbers in these sort of articles..

But let’s face it - users are never going to tell you what they need...or what you should build.

Shouldn’t they have spent more time building a great product first - before launching it? Those retention numbers to me say the product wasn’t working.

I doubt Apple asked any users for input when coming up with the iPhone.

Buffer Daily – "Tinder for content sharing"

iosnoob — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:13:41 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.bufferapp.com/daily-by-buffer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7949710

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by iosnoob in "Anatomy of a startup pivot: lessons learned from our radical change in direction"

iosnoob — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 06:22:57 +0000

Nice write up. Interesting how you discovered a different use case with the tech and ran with it

New comment by iosnoob in "Ask HN: Ask for credit card at the start or end of free trial?"

iosnoob — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 06:26:50 +0000

Good question - we see a lot of value in our tool, hence are leaning towards paid rather than free plans ala basecamp or zendesk. We're also bootstrapped so really focussed on bringing in revenue earlier..

New comment by iosnoob in "Ask HN: Ask for credit card at the start or end of free trial?"

iosnoob — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 04:48:22 +0000

Thanks for the feedback, yes agree about having a way to export data. Luckily we have that built in but have to implement the "not allow them to do further data entry" part..

New comment by iosnoob in "Ask HN: Ask for credit card at the start or end of free trial?"

iosnoob — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 21:28:16 +0000

Good question - our definition of best is the one that would maximise total revenue coming in (not so concerned with the number of accounts). ie- weighing the negatives of dropping more people at the start vs increased revenue of the remaining people who do sign on and give credit card when they remember and are interested in the service..

Ask HN: Ask for credit card at the start or end of free trial?

iosnoob — Fri, 13 Jun 2014 17:49:27 +0000

Hi HN, we're developing a new analytics tool for app developers which uses paid plans, each with a free trial.

Any recommendations on whether to ask for credit card at start (required to begin) or end of trial period? Or what criteria to help us decide.

ps - yes we can test it but won't have enough statistically significant traffic for a while

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7890019

Points: 3

# Comments: 10

New comment by iosnoob in "Show HN: Bandit Algorithm for iOS, Android and Unity"

iosnoob — Tue, 27 May 2014 17:14:20 +0000

As a splitforce user this is pretty cool.. biggest issue is having to wait for conclusive results, whatever speeds this up and auto prunes away the losing options is welcome.

New comment by iosnoob in "Why virtual worlds died"

iosnoob — Sun, 12 May 2013 21:37:49 +0000

Good point about Steam. The community part is more important than the visual identity. Actually the avatar as a 2d icon or profile pic could do ok. Like in all the fb games.