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Re:Superhost (YC W14) Is Your Personal Assistant For Your Airbnb on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @02:51PM (#7299980)
So Airbnb is going after that market, 23B. You're going after a small subset of that market. But say you get pretty popular and 10% of every vacation rental is using your service then that's only 20M (since you only take 1%).

Or are you planning on offering a different service once you're big enough?

Re:Superhost (YC W14) Is Your Personal Assistant For Your Airbnb on Tuesday February 25, 2014 @02:11PM (#7299718)
Cool service, I signed up already. I wonder though, how big do you think this market really is? I feel like this might be just a small subset of the airbnb market.
Re:Outbox Is Shutting Down on Tuesday January 21, 2014 @03:52PM (#7098272)
"total yield from the waitlist was under 10 percent" that's 10% paying customers that's definitely not as bad as they made it sound.

I'm a little surprised why did they think it would be a cheap operation. They send someone to pick up the mail from your house, that's insane. Of course that will be expensive. And it's only $5 per month. There are a few old school services that do the same but they ask the customer to redirect their mail to a specific new address. I wonder why outbox didn't go down that route.

Definitely sad to see them go.

Glad ya like it ;)
Thanks, we'll see if we can make it happen for the next release.

I don't know if you noticed, but we show you a history of your recent searches, so that could be a quicker way to get your favorite route.

Google directions APIs offer biking routes, so on the backend we figure out the time it takes to get to the destination. Unfortunately the Google maps app APIs doesn't support biking directions yet just driving/walking/public transport so for now driving makes the most sense.

If there's a biking app you usually use we'd be happy to integrate with it

The lat/long coordinates are more accurate which is why we're using it. However, we've heard this from a few people already, so we might change it in the next release.
Re:SpiffyGif on Thursday March 14, 2013 @04:14PM (#5377418)
Love the sharing feature http://spiffygif.com/?length=26&radius=18&corners=0....

super useful

Re:Show HN: We open sourced One-Time Secret today on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @06:14PM (#5142405)
hmm that's a little strange. Haven't had this problem before. I'll look into it - Thanks.
Re:Show HN: We open sourced One-Time Secret today on Wednesday January 30, 2013 @02:59PM (#5141426)
I made a very similar website. Also offers uploading files and encrypting the data you share. It offers a little more flexibility on how you want to secure the content you're sharing.

https://www.alicetobob.com

You can check out the source code https://github.com/hellonoam/cryptopad though I should probably update the readme with more info.

Typo fixed.

Trust is a challenge, I might just open source it. Although that doesn't guarantee that people will trust the website.

Separate links since they're for different purposes

I like the domain as well!

Re:What you can do in 100 lines of code using canvas on Friday January 06, 2012 @03:11AM (#3432513)
Yeah, exactly. Also interesting to see the dots in the middle of the oceans.