Ask HN: Most clever business models?
Sometimes, very clever business models appear that are key to the success of a product. For some research I'm doing, I'd like to collect as many examples as possible
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Re:Flopstarter: a platform for bad ideas
on Sunday May 13, 2018 @03:10PM (#17060432)
This was hilarious. I’d be cool to have flopstarter come up with 20 projects every day. I’d go to the website every morning just for laughs. Well done.
Re:Now: Introduction to Neural Networks
on Sunday April 29, 2018 @09:29AM (#16951909)
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Ask HN: Examples of SaaS companies that monetize through whitelabeling
Is this a viable business model for saas companies? Anyone here have any experience?
Re:Ask HN: Uncommon advice to grow your SaaS
on Friday April 20, 2018 @12:09AM (#16882094)
Probably Cold Calling, since so many of us are afraid to pick up the phone and do the grinding.
Re:Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?
on Thursday March 29, 2018 @05:02PM (#16710988)
Ask HN: What company mission do you find inspiring?
Re:Ask HN: What’s your favourite landingpage?
on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:02PM (#16673866)
My all time favorites:
Re:Next-Gen Display: MicroLEDs
on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:48PM (#16650894)
There was a time where I’d get super hyped when reading these kinds of promises. Transparent displays, foldable screens. Truth is, we’ve been seeing working prototypes at events like CES for more than 15 years. I’ve come to realize the mechanics of these companies are similar to the car industry. New technologies are presented for the same reason car companies present strange concept cars: PR
Re:Now would be a good time for Mark Zuckerberg to resign
on Thursday March 22, 2018 @03:22AM (#16646508)
Rather: Now would be a good time for Facebook users to resign. Zuck is doing exactly the same things when he started Facebook. It’s the users; The users that need to leave the platform. Does anyone really believe that a FB without Zuckerberg will all of a sudden be great for people? Reporters like these should inform users better about how their data is being used and how they can change things for themselves by simply leaving the platform. That’s 1. more practical and 2. the only actual solution to the problem.
Re:P&G and WPP: How shit hit the fan in digital marketing
on Monday March 05, 2018 @03:49PM (#16524254)
I feel there's so much to gain in the advertising space. Companies want to advertise, publishers want to make money and consumers want to learn about stuff they love. I wonder if there are startups tackling this problem. If you can create something that all 3 stakeholders love, you can change the landscape.
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Re:Amazon will stop selling Nest smart home devices
on Saturday March 03, 2018 @04:08PM (#16511593)
This is usually the beginning of lots of bad things. When a company with such a monopoly starts banning competitors to promote their own products, it’s clear that their customers aren’t at the core of their engine. You should never ‘be evil’ to your own customers for short-term profit gain.
Re:An intro to Pen Plotters
on Thursday March 01, 2018 @04:08PM (#16496350)
This is absolutely fascinating. It got me all excited about pen plotters and I’m thinking of ordering to hack around with it. Would love to try attaching water pencils to it for example. How about hacking 10 of these to move a long a real person’s hand so you can sign multiple pages. This one article is going to hijack so many of my upcoming weekends...
Re:Spotify Form F-1
on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:25PM (#16486475)
It would be super interesting to see if Dropbox and Spotify do well and set an example for profitable tech companies to go public. Companies like Twitter & Snap went public too early IMHO. It’d be a great signal to young entrepreneurs to chase a business model early on.
Ask HN: What are other research programs like MIT media lab?
Re:African elephants are migrating to safety, telling each other how t...
on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:12AM (#16482734)
I wonder if having for-profit organisations/startups who's core mission it is to protect these fantastic animals would be more successful vs non-profits or government projects. Not necessary to make a buck, but in many cases, for-profit organisations get more done because of the constant pressure they feel to perform.
Re:Pricing low-touch SaaS
on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @03:02PM (#16477280)
This. I once ran a SaaS for $7/mo. Churn rate was horrible. People never stayed longer than 3mo. Now I do something with a 4 figure / mo price tag and people stick around for 7/mo on avg. it’s totally counterintuitive
Re:Pricing low-touch SaaS
on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @02:31PM (#16477003)
The single best advice Patio11 has given is "charge more". Seriously. It's been one of the scariest thing to do in the beginning, but I've now 4X'd my pricing (from 3 figures to 4 figures a month!) and the customers got 10X better, complain less, I work less and earn more. Please! If you read this, double your prices today. See what happens in the next 3-4 weeks.
Re:Ask HN: How do you overcome the problems of task switching?
on Tuesday February 27, 2018 @11:02AM (#16474607)
Pomodoro has been a lifesaver. It took some time to get used to m
Ask HN: Do you feel like marketing should be taught in art school?
Wether it’s art school or a CS focussed curriculum, wouldnt it be super helpful to learn how to sell your skills/services/product? Learning the craft seems to be the only focus of school. Would you have wished you had learned how to make some dough with those skills?
Ask HN: Has YC funded service based businesses?
Asside from product based businesses has YC funded companies that offered a service (ie. A business that depended on Manual labour of the company)
Re:Ask HN: How does one identify markets and their sizes?
on Saturday February 03, 2018 @05:09PM (#16299970)
Publish to the public? Would love to see what you mean.
Ask HN: How does one identify markets and their sizes?
Ask HN: What website, from your early days on the net, do you miss?
Re:Elon Musk’s $600 Flamethrower Will Be Released into the Civilian Ma...
on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:47PM (#16243847)
Makes me wonder... it worked for Airbnb with selling cereal to get some funds flowing. Musk made it work with the hats and now this. Should it be a serious strategy for startups to sell funny/share worthy swag to fund their ventures?
Re:Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers
on Thursday January 25, 2018 @05:26PM (#16235305)
You could completely anonymize when certain key variables are met. In your example, when the ride is successfully completed and both parties confirmed this, the data can be anonymized.
Re:Former employees say Lyft staffers spied on passengers
on Thursday January 25, 2018 @05:17PM (#16235240)
Whether it’s Uber or the NSA stories of staff spying on people for a variety of reasons... it always comes down to people who seem to have access to things that they probably shouldnt have gotten access to in the first place. Users should be protected by having their data encrypted and anonymized so no other human being (staffers, governments or hackers) can connect an ID to the data. This way they can still access the data and use it for what ever work related purpose, with less risk of these things happening