fxthea's comments

fxthea | 11 years ago | on: How to Do QA Testing with Fred at Rainforest (YC S12)

Great podcast! I feel like this podcast really fills in that gap between non-technical and technical.

fxthea | 11 years ago | on: Amazon Dash Button

The increased switching cost isn't by force, though. Customers are less likely to switch because of convenience -- you're paying for the conveniene which, I think, means that Amazon is providing a service that consumers want.

fxthea | 11 years ago | on: Slack was hacked

They probably send a message to you for every team you're on.

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: Save more with Google Drive

$9.99/month for Dropbox 100gb plan.

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Rebump – Bump Important Emails Until They're Answered

Maybe pixels are placed in the emails?

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: Project Tango

I've been looking for something like this! Downloaded.

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: Two Stories of Passive Income Excess

I've heard and like the term "leveraged income" more.

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: My Startup has 30 Days to Live

Again, it's not about semantics. Replace small business with whatever term you want. The point is that the blog writer built a certain type of business then tried to take it onto a different track that put pressure on faster growth and got in over his/her head.

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: My Startup has 30 Days to Live

I don't think he's arguing about semantics of startup vs. small business. I believe he's trying to explain that new businesses fall into a path where they think they are a "startup" thus must take VC funding. He's trying to explain that there's also the "small business" route where you just bootstrap and fund your business from customer revenue.

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: 25 year-old's company makes millions on cracked iPhone screens [video]

You could have made the same point without saying "Stupid title".

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Upboat, idea validation with a twist

Who's benefiting from not releasing contact information until a certain threshold is met?

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: Video on Instagram

Good point. Instagram's killer feature was that it made amateur photographer's photos look better, but the answer for video can't be just apply filters again, right? Could it be transitions (like how Vine has hard cuts in and out now)?

fxthea | 12 years ago | on: Are coders worth it?

I would argue that the premium you are paying for the wedding photos is attributed to the service rather than the content. You are paying several thousand dollars to a professional photographer rather than a hundred bucks to your nephew so that they do not mess up your special day. While I'm sure the photos are exquisite, no one else would pay several thousand dollars for the exact same photos you received.

fxthea | 13 years ago | on: Mutator: Really Mute Your iPhone

Is this the same as plugging in headphones?

fxthea | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: A photo sharing app that you can finally trust

I'm not an instagram or facebook photos or flickr power user by any standards, so take this with a grain of salt: I didn't know I couldn't trust photo sharing apps.

fxthea | 13 years ago | on: Don't build a Galapagos product

Currently reading the book and when I came across that part a lightbulb went off in my head, too - I never thought about it that way prior.

fxthea | 13 years ago | on: Evernote adds reminders

Can I set reminders for all the checkboxes that I'm creating inside each note? I would much rather prefer that. Having a new note for each todo seems like overkill.

fxthea | 13 years ago | on: Send money with Gmail

Interesting that this was PayPal's original plan - to allow people to send money over email.

fxthea | 13 years ago | on: My last Android app sales figures and why it's still great to start a mobile app

Is there a way to 'push' your new apps to customers or do you just have to wait for them to discover it themselves (pull)?

fxthea | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Quick and anonymous salary "surveys" at lunch

That's probably a good thing, no? You probably feel discontent because your mind is telling you that you should do something about the situation. Either correct the injustice if it is an injustice or invest in yourself more to put yourself in a situation where you can be earning more. If you are a company where the workforce is in high demand and you are not paying your employees enough to stop them from thinking about these situations then you are going to start slowly but surely swapping out top talent for mediocre talent.