WingH's comments

Yes, there is often times a lot of money to be made (see Buffer and their dependency on the Twitter api). People say you shouldn’t start a business depending on a 3rd party, but what if your only profitable idea depends on one?

Is there such a thing 'escrow as a service' in face to face transactions?

I agree. That ship has sailed long ago for me. I actually liked Google Talk, when it was incorporated to your email. Then they came out with something called Hangouts that does GodKnowsWhat.

There is an opportunity cost in playing though. There might be a 10% chance of $1 million but what if it required giving up $100,000 in opportunity costs?

I have this issue as well. I just over-allocate nodes to my cluster so every node is comfortably below a disk usage threshold rather than waste time on optimizing this.

Nobody gets fired, but nobody gets promoted either.

BuzzSumo | buzzsumo.com | REMOTE (Must be citizen in UK, France, Germany, or USA) | Full Time | £55,000 to £65,000

BuzzSumo provides social insights to marketers and publishers. We run extensive crawlers that crawl the entire web 24/7, storing terabytes of data that need to be indexed, processed and queried. Our SaaS product is used by over 3400 customers, ranging from publishers like BuzzFeed to Fortune 500 brands like Disney.

We are looking for a backend engineer with at least 3+ years of Ruby experience. We prefer candidates with experience working with either large Elasticsearch clusters, or enterprise-scale Sidekiq deployments. If you hate front-end work, or love writing crawlers, you're probably what we are looking for :) Our entire team works remotely.

What you'll be doing:

- Build new backend features for the BuzzSumo platform using Ruby as our main programming language.

- Possible NLP work involving topic classification

- Occasionally perform devops-related tasks such as upgrades on existing infrastructure (ie Elasticsearch servers)

Tech Stack

- Elasticsearch

- Sidekiq

- Ruby/Ruby on Rails

- Postgres

- Redis

Note: Due to employment laws, we can only hire someone who is based in 1 of these countries: UK, France, Germany and USA. The role is remote, however.

Contact [email protected] with your resume if interested, and mention HN.

“He hesitates when it comes to sales because he does not see himself as a sales person.”

isnt this a warning sign to you? at such an early stage you simply dont want just a “strategy” person who doesnt want to get his hands dirty

I thought I was the only weirdo that prefers to interact with random strangers rather than people I know on Facebook. I miss the days of IRC and AIM screen names. Now we have "real name policies"...

“I think we need each other."

This is the epitome of cognitive dissonance. Deluding oneself into thinking Facebook "needs" them, when in actuality it's Facebook with 1000 times the power. Did anyone seriously believe this?

Starbucks used to have something call "Tweet a Coffee" where you could tweet a coffee to someone, and Starbucks would tweet them a link to a gift card where they could redeem it.

I used it a lot to replace cold emailing and it did lead to a lot of serendipitous online conversations with decision makers. Starbucks have since removed this feature, so I now just email random people Amazon gift cards instead, hoping they'll respond (which they do, with a very good response rate!)

However, for my use case, I would never use this because A) this isn't that serendipitous/random B) There's really no way for me to send a custom message with my email address so I can start a conversation with them, is there?

sure email me at henley dot wing at gmail.

When I saw "Message meetup coordinators and ask for speaking gigs at local events" I misread 'message' as 'massage', and thought that's brilliant!!

..then I saw it read 'message' and was disappointed at the generic advice :(

You are most likely right, but OP was asking what was worth $10K to me personally, not what I thought would be worth $10K to others :)

Just giving my domain-specific 2 cents.

I would pay $10,000 for an API that gives me the Linkedin company updates for any single company.

I would pay $10,000 for an API that gives me real-time Asian news (Korean, Japanese, Chinese) content that matches a keyword.

I would pay $10,000 for an API that classifies an article into a topic such as politics, tech, etc.

I would pay $10,000 for an API that shows me the annual/monthly trends for FB likes, Twitter followers, Instagram followers, and App Store downloads for public companies that are in the equity market so I can analyze these companies and buy/sell prior to earnings.

I would pay $10,000 for an API that gives me a stream of Instagram updates that have a certain keyword.

I would pay $10,000 for an API that gives me the social metrics, given an Instagram handle.

And yes, I work in the social marketing industry :)

You can be an entrepreneur and still hate receiving cold calls.

Just like you can be a dentist and hate getting tooth fillings.

Or you can be a surgeon, and hate having surgery.

Absolutely, but I find in many cases, people are just too lazy to want to dig into another piece of code, and just give up prematurely.

That's actually a very good product idea. I would pay for something like this :)