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julianilson | 3 years ago | on: Twilio’s toll fraud problem

Same thing happened to us, same day. We're now on the hook for $3,500. When Twilio PROFITS from known fraud, they have no incentive to stop it even when it's obvious. (In our case, tens of thousands of premium SMSs to the same number within the span of a few hours). They aren't issuing a refund for us. As an unfunded startup, this is incredibly deflating. We feel robbed, and Twilio should feel ashamed for pocketing a juicy kick-back from the robber for letting them continue their robbery without making a peep.

julianilson | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to get the attention of a human at Meta/FB?

Please stop. You're just making me jealous now.

In all seriousness, what's driving me nuts is that they say they'll reply "by the end of the next business day", and there's NO response AT ALL.

What the hell are we supposed to do? We've been using the API for over 2 years. It's in the happy path UX. Removing it and creating a new UX for uploading individual photos feels insane just because nobody is there to flip the switch on our account.

julianilson | 7 years ago | on: Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? (2012)

Yeah, I miss those days of just popping in without calling. In Mexico, this is still largely the norm, but now that I live in Canada, that's just a no-no. This is why I ended up creating an algorithm to connect the most compatible people together in a city. Would be great if this community connected in meat-space more often. For those curious: https://www.we3app.com/

julianilson | 7 years ago | on: Life as an entrepreneur can be a tough and lonely ride

It doesn't, but the problem is that people aren't usually very kind to other people on the internet. So I can see a good chunk of users rollin' the dice and seeing if they match with attractive people, and if they don't, they just move along. This would ruin the experience for the other two people that are left hanging and feeling like shit. I really want to prevent that from happening.

julianilson | 7 years ago | on: Life as an entrepreneur can be a tough and lonely ride

At the moment, we're keeping genders separate. I know, it's very 90's. The issue is that we're just two guys and we don't want to police the platform. The reality is that the friendship apps out there are thinly-veiled dating apps, and that's ruined it for everyone else just looking for friends.

I put down some more thoughts on this in this blog post: https://www.we3app.com/why-tribes-same-gender/

We'll be experimenting with mixed genders later this year, but it will have to be in a careful rollout to make sure it's not abused.

julianilson | 7 years ago | on: Life as an entrepreneur can be a tough and lonely ride

We're mostly in English-speaking countries (US, UK, Canada, Australia). Especially cities like Boston, LA, NYC, London...

But we're growing the team now! We're no longer just two guys. So we should be growing much faster in the coming weeks/months.

Thanks for your support

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