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Re:Ask HN: Have you launched a failed web business? on Monday August 15, 2016 @12:37PM (#12291537)
Along with a friend, I made an app for getting team feedback after the team meetings. It was done in short span during holidays for a hackathon. Also submitted here. Got some feedback but not many sign ups. Since I am not good at marketing what I did, we dropped the idea.

Had some pivot plans to change it to be a customer feedback platform for folks who are always mobile and dependent on their calendars while meeting with their customers. Not much enthusiasm left, hence dropped.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8855648

Every now and then would see something and get inspiration to reignite this but didn't go back.

I had done couple of projects before and one of them was somewhat successful. I made around $1.5k from that. Giftcardzilla an aggregator for discounted gift cards. I had to shut it down after Google Penguin update.

Currently building AppsUlagam.com (apps world) as a mobile app discovery site for apps with Tamil language content.

Senior BI/ETL Engineer working with DataStage and OBIEE.

Working on www.appsulagam.com : "Tamil language" content based mobile app discovery site. Learning Python, machine learning and text analysis for this project. Would appreciate any feedback/comments/help.

Ask HN: Any small businesses buying K-cup pods

Note: I am not sure if this is the right place to ask for help. Please guide me if this is not the right forum.We usually buy Keurig K-Cups from Amazon on a monthly basis. Our quantities are low and hence cannot go to the big box distributors for a better price.Any small businesses that are doing monthly purchase of Keurig K-Cup pods interested in joining with us (within U.S.), so that we can...

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Re:Looking for Small Businesses Purchasing K-Cups on Wednesday October 14, 2015 @05:54PM (#10389808)
Comment here or send me a note logicbala-at- Google Mail.
Interesting. What you did for marketing this?
Re:Will you pay for this service? on Thursday January 08, 2015 @12:37PM (#8857571)
Thanks for comment :-)
Re:Will you pay for this service? on Thursday January 08, 2015 @12:20PM (#8857441)
Can you please elaborate on privacy issue? We are capturing the responses in a way that the managers will not know who gave the response. Only aggregated responses are shown to the team managers.

Of course, this will only work with a team size more than 5 people.

Re:Will you pay for this service? on Thursday January 08, 2015 @12:14PM (#8857391)
Honest & constructive feedback are always welcome.

You made a good point. We are trying to target the team managers who want to take control of their team's productivity by monitoring their happiness metric.

Re:Will you pay for this service? on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:37AM (#8856797)
Our intention is to ask for the survey after your daily sprint status meetings or the weekly status update meetings.
Re:Will you pay for this service? on Thursday January 08, 2015 @10:30AM (#8856769)
Thanks for your motivating feedback. I haven't put a lot of effort on the website and had put up a basic site.
Re:Will you pay for this service? on Thursday January 08, 2015 @04:34AM (#8855650)

Will you pay for this service?

For the HappinessApps challenge, me and my friend developed a web based app (mobile friendly) for capturing the employee happiness surveys after every team meetings (daily/weekly or monthly).The app is available at www.happymeet.ccWe developed this as an MVP and wanted to hear from the community. Give us a try and share your feedback.Do you think this is worth as a paid service ?

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Show HN: GIFTCARDzilla.com - The discount gift card exchange marketplace

My recently launched discount gift cards exchange marketplace http://www.giftcardzilla.com, aggregating discount gift cards from more than 6 shops currently (more to be added soon).I started working on this project last year. When I was working on my site last year, Cardnap.com launched with a good write-up at Techcrunch.com. But they folded soon and I got more encouragement to launch my site...

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Re:Ask HN - Any interesting side projects you can share? on Thursday November 17, 2011 @03:16PM (#3249041)
A gift cards marketplace @ http://www.GiftcardZilla.com

Trying to finish the BUY section and soon need to add the SELL giftcard section.

Re:Ask HN: Legal rights for US alien status developers on Sunday October 17, 2010 @11:08PM (#1802225)
I agree. I also heard the owner of a small but decent ERP consulting company was working for a different company in L1 or H1B.
Re:List of YC Companies on Sunday October 17, 2010 @11:03PM (#1802215)
Your list is good enough for me :-)
Re:Share your comments on my startup idea on Sunday October 17, 2010 @10:04AM (#1800326)

Share your comments on my startup idea

I am getting ready for the November's "Launch an App Month" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1773398) to launch AppsToWin.com.I just updated the landing page with a sample contest. Would like to hear the comments from HNers on my app and also what kind off web apps would you like to see in the contest.

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Re:Show HN: My side project, Instant Visual Search for Etsy. on Thursday October 14, 2010 @10:38PM (#1793478)
Cool ....
I have a base page jotted @ AppsToWin ( http://www.appstowin.com ). Didn't do much advancement during the week. Friday & Saturday should have more productive sessions to complete some of the basic functionality.
Re:Do you want to build it with me? on Thursday October 14, 2010 @10:23PM (#1793445)
Hey.. All the best for your startup !
Re:Procrastinating? Find the Next Step Up on Monday October 11, 2010 @10:49PM (#1782119)
I face the same thing as yours. I will try to follow your new approach.
Hi Alberto, it is very very cool. would like to try out soon when I am launching my app contest site AppsToWin http://appstowin.com
Re:Feedback on my startup ideas on Sunday October 10, 2010 @12:43AM (#1776568)
hi, i am going ahead with the first idea of contests for apps. started with a landing page http://www.appstowin.com , sign up if you are interested.
Re:Feedback on my startup ideas on Sunday October 10, 2010 @12:42AM (#1776565)
hi, modified the landing page along with a sign-up form. sign-in if you are interested. :-)
Re:Feedback on my startup ideas on Sunday October 10, 2010 @12:41AM (#1776564)
martin, modified the landing page along with a sign-up page. please sign-up if you are interested.

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