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Re:ProductHunt launch FAQs from my experience on Thursday June 18, 2020 @04:58AM (#23561184)
Interesting take.
Re:Show HN: An app to find how much time you waste in meetings on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @11:07AM (#21649030)
Two of my friends struggled with something that most of us do - trying to be more productive at work. One of them did an analysis of the meetings and calendar manually for a few months and surprise surprise (not really!) there was a clear corelation between where he spent his time and what output came out.

And the result of this exercise is Timewise.

Timewise can help you do some stuff like:

Exhaustive analysis of calendar See how you compare with peers No extra logging required 100% privacy first

Re:Social-Media App Musical.ly Is Acquired for as Much as $1B on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:37AM (#15668184)
I agree with you. When it comes to media restrictions, there are a lot of challenges chinese companies will face. In Musical.ly's case, it is an app. More importantly, a teen app - a market, companies have been trying to target and succeed but have been unable to barring a few (Snap amongst the list).

When it comes to app, companies will be ready to compromise to get as much data as possible (available).

Re:Social-Media App Musical.ly Is Acquired for as Much as $1B on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:15AM (#15668101)
One of those few apps which cracked the teen and tween (as they call it) market
Re:Social-Media App Musical.ly Is Acquired for as Much as $1B on Friday November 10, 2017 @12:14AM (#15668095)
But it would be interesting to see how they use musical.ly. Toutiao has AI capabilities and I think they want to make use of the lip-syncing ability.

Microsoft's push for its cloud platform

Posted by Ravikiran on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @06:24AM
from the self-post dept.

The way Microsoft is growing its cloud platform is by making investments in hyper-growth local startups. For instance in India, it had made a substantial investment in Flipkart - India's leading e-commerce marketplace (which competes with Amazon.in). Soon after, flipkart announced that it will use Microsoft Azure for its cloud infrastructure. Seems like Microsoft is getting into a similar...

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Re:Twitter trolls itself on new 280 character limit on Wednesday November 08, 2017 @12:30AM (#15650095)
It's a stupid move. dont see any reason why it would not get trolled on its own platform.

Sapiens: Changing the way you think

Posted by Ravikiran on Monday November 06, 2017 @01:35AM
from the self-post dept.

After a long time, I came across a book which keeps me gripped to the seat at all times and makes think each and every event that is mentioned in the book. The book brought about a change in the way I think, the way I look at things and definitely is one of the worthwhile books I've ever come across.

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Re:iPhone 7's price goes up to INR 92,000 in India on Friday September 16, 2016 @07:43AM (#12513318)
Absolutely. With every release, it's getting more and more out of pocket.

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