Scheduling meetings across multiple time zones has always been painful for me, especially across daylight saving time transitions. So I built a visual timeline that makes it easy to find overlapping availability.Add your locations, drag to select a time range, and share a link. Recipients see the proposed times in their local time zone automatically.A few things that might be interesting:*...
This has been done two other times before:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139638 (2016), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007 (2015)Both threads generated a lot of really interesting discussion, and I was curious what the discussion would sound like if this were asked again in 2018.
We put this together over the last day or so because we thought it'd be a fun way to show people another interesting use case for Minno.
We'd love to hear your thoughts, both about the project and about the payment experience :)
More generally, there seems to be an entire class of apps out there that could be really useful, but which are really hard to monetize with subscriptions and/or ads revenue alone. Think about an advanced file converter, or maybe a one-off fax service. There are also the more traditional use cases, such as purchasing a single article from an online journal, or streaming a single movie online.
Minno provides an effective alternative to monetize these services, and it does so with much more ease than with traditional payment systems.
But your right--we could make this more clear on the site. We'll also be sure to keep HN Posted as we add more features to the product!
You can check out the finished (alpha) version of the product here: http://hawtcakes.com/
My co-founder and I worked on it from 10am to 3am on Saturday, 1pm to 3am on Sunday, and a little more this morning. It doesn't look quite as nice as Gumroad, but we can pretty it up later :)
Here's an example of a file you can buy/download with Hawt Cakes: http://hawtcakes.com/rfPFsN4q9
What do you thinks think? We're particularly interested in your thoughts on the payment experience :)
Nowadays, I can't imagine a startup not running on AWS/GAE/etc.
For now, we're restricting sign-up to Facebook because it 1) allows for really easy signup, 2) reduces password friction to simplify purchases, and 3) helps us reduce fraudulent signups. As the business grows, we will certainly open it to alternative signup options, but for now, Facebook is the only option.
During our beta period, we're offering completely free transactions to all of our partners. This means that if a user pays $0.25 for your digital good/service, you will receive $0.25 :)
If you have any other questions, feel free to email me directly at [email protected]'d be glad to help!
Calvin
Minno only receives information about the size of the download (1GB, 2GB, etc) so that it can charge accordingly. TorrentTraveler deletes all of of its records for each download after 24 hours.
If you have any other questions/comments about Minno, feel free to ping me at calvin [at] minno.co