Hacker News: niyogi

New comment by niyogi in "Show HN: Amurex – An open source AI meeting copilot"

niyogi — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:23:01 +0000

i was wondering the same thing until i found the rest of it:

https://github.com/thepersonalaicompany/amurex-backend

New comment by niyogi in "Show HN: Amurex – An open source AI meeting copilot"

niyogi — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 14:22:11 +0000

great start/work with this! i think clarification on the "it's free (for now)" mention on the website would be worth clearing up.

New comment by niyogi in "Googling Is for Old People. That's a Problem for Google"

niyogi — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 05:25:00 +0000

actually bing is for old people because it's default search on ms edge which comes with PCs. default PC with default browser and default search.

New comment by niyogi in "Show HN: Free mortgage analysis tool to avoid getting screwed by closing costs"

niyogi — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 19:27:33 +0000

here, take my data but tell me nothing about yourself.

New comment by niyogi in "Notion's mid-life crisis"

niyogi — Sun, 29 Sep 2024 02:03:59 +0000

notion was the beneficiary of the mass exodus of users who felt betrayed by evernote's weird pricing change many years ago. they had a great evernote importer which made it easy to migrate and then grew way beyond the elegant simple product they once were.

a new notion is lurking somewhere waiting to ride in the wake of a growing disgruntled pile of notion users

New comment by niyogi in "Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation"

niyogi — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 03:06:30 +0000

i don't really get this. it's just another competitor to the other players in the market at same price tiers.

New comment by niyogi in "A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing"

niyogi — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 02:44:58 +0000

definitely marketing. they tried so hard to hype clubhouse. i think the experiment was to see if they could birth stars out of nothing only to learn it does not work that way.

New comment by niyogi in "Magic Leap raising up to $1B in new round"

niyogi — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:20:47 +0000

I don't get it.

New comment by niyogi in "I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10"

niyogi — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:47:46 +0000

How do you believe auto-suggest works?

New comment by niyogi in "I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10"

niyogi — Thu, 30 Jul 2015 20:38:20 +0000

It's too bad that microsoft continues to be villainized when companies like Facebook and Google have social networks and browsers respectively that have similar practices that users are even more unaware of when they use them.

Computers these days have become thin clients for browsers (especially for the typical consumer). Except for the occasional open of Word or Excel, you're in your web browser browsing the web and have a tab open for Facebook. With new features like "sign into your browser" or ad retargeting across the sites you visit today, consumers are already being subjected to practices that Microsoft at least gives you the ability to turn off piecemeal if you so wish. They're just doing so at the operating system layer instead of the browser.

Think doing so at the operating system is more criminal than at the web browser or website level? Consider that Google Chrome is moving to become "Chromebooks" and that Android integrates Google Search. It's already happening and we take Google's "don't be evil" mantra for face value while continuing to poke Microsoft out of sheer habit.

New comment by niyogi in "Show HN: Big Billion Day"

niyogi — Mon, 06 Oct 2014 04:52:51 +0000

Analysis of artificial price inflation to give appearance of discounts:

http://missionsharingknowledge.com/flipkarts-the-big-billion...

New comment by niyogi in "Retention is King"

niyogi — Wed, 04 Jun 2014 00:49:33 +0000

There's a sweet irony here in that it's a guest post by somebody who hyperlinks to their website with google analytics tracking (likely for lead gen) but discusses why retention is more important than acquiring users. Oh and it's posted by the guest author.

Not that there's anything wrong with that or that the article itself is bunk in any way - just that it's ironic.

New comment by niyogi in "Google News Growth Hack Exposed"

niyogi — Sun, 04 May 2014 21:38:51 +0000

Isn't this just a very sparse interstitial in front of the article placed by the publisher?

New comment by niyogi in "98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb"

niyogi — Sun, 26 May 2013 02:58:18 +0000

The irony of this blog post is that it's very existence proves that the 98% routinely behave (and believe) they are the 2%.

The other important point is that the 2/98 split is largely exaggerated but you could make it 10/90 and the point would remain valid.

It's sad that all VCs want to be "entrepreneur-friendly" publicly (largely to widen dealflow) but are largely the opposite behind closed doors.

New comment by niyogi in "Twitter is the new RSS"

niyogi — Wed, 01 May 2013 11:32:22 +0000

true and not true.

rss is has no single "owner of platform" and poses no rate limits. twitter has both.

New comment by niyogi in "My company's first SaaS app. Thoughts?"

niyogi — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:13:06 +0000

great idea. if you're finding that sales go up dramatically too quickly you might want to consider raising prices to weed out shitty startups. your service is only as good as how your partner publishers value the stories you submit. one way to mitigate that is by having a high price floor that only "serious startups" will pay for.

New comment by niyogi in "Social Vanity"

niyogi — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:55:58 +0000

and so is posting a link to your own article on hacker news

New comment by niyogi in "Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups"

niyogi — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 06:31:44 +0000

Love how appsumo is mentioned at the bottom without any real quantitative statistics. Leadgen.

New comment by niyogi in "Think Twice Before Installing Any Chrome Extension"

niyogi — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:22:41 +0000

this coming from the guy monetizing his site with with obnoxious google ads and hover-over links.

New comment by niyogi in "[dead]"

niyogi — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:29:54 +0000

this article would disagree:

http://www.quora.com/Yishan-Wong/How-Google+-Shows-That-Goog...