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Show HN: Voilo Launching in Beta

Posted by mattjung on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:20AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://voilo.app/productivity/

I’m currently looking for beta testers to help validate the usefulness of Voilo, stress-test real-world use cases, and shape it into a production-ready tool. If you enjoy tracking things, care about owning your data, or already live in Google Sheets, I’d love to hear your feedback.Here the elevator pitch: Voilo turns your spoken updates into structured entries in Google Sheets. Simply record,...

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Ask HN: please review our startup

Posted by mattjung on Friday February 18, 2011 @04:55AM
from the ask-hn dept.

"Elastic Detector" does security monitoring for EC2. We are still in private beta until the end of Feb, here are 10 invitation codes for testing: http://elastic-detector.secludit.comY9RJYWAN6R SNHKVVYB5G XXOO1KVW78 RYTCM8LIY8 2RSF5FQVG3 V97Y4OXEQ3 38232M8OF0 T2KJS6QNV4 FFKX4RH9L8 40LIX829SB

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Ask HN: What's your competitive advantage?

Posted by mattjung on Wednesday January 26, 2011 @01:28PM
from the ask-hn dept.

We are asked this question, but were not able yet to craft an answer that was convincing enough without going deeply into technical details - and at the same time easy enough for investors to understand. I would be curious to get some good and short answers to this question by you - either for your own startup or for one of the YC startups.

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Re:Seedcamp Week 2010: Europe fires up the warp drive for the Enterprise on Tuesday September 14, 2010 @10:22AM (#1690638)
"Trying to solve the issues for the millions of small and medium sized enterprises out there that have real problems in a time of economic upheaval is smart, very smart.

But will these produce the big exits which VCs tend to demand? The jury is out"

Re:Ask HN: Would you employ a developer who talks to himself during work? on Friday September 10, 2010 @10:47AM (#1678988)
In fact, I was wondering if someone who needs to talk out loud has a different approach of solving problems or if he has even has some shortcomings given that he is not able to keep things in his mind. When children learn reading at school, the first step is to read loud, then to understand what they read out loud. It takes considerably more efforts until a child is able to understand a text she is reading silently.
Re:Ask HN: Would you employ a developer who talks to himself during work? on Friday September 10, 2010 @09:34AM (#1678775)
Nice link!
Re:Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2 on Thursday September 09, 2010 @03:19AM (#1674669)
Seems that EC2 feels some competitive pressure...Yet a big move that kills the (superficial) cost-argument against the Amazon offer.
Re:Ask HN: Cost structure of SaaS company on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @08:41AM (#1514382)
estimations...

Ask HN: Cost structure of SaaS company

Posted by mattjung on Wednesday July 14, 2010 @06:27AM
from the ask-hn dept.

I am about to make a presentation to investors and thus looking for some authoritive numbers to calculate and proove my financial projections.Does anybody have information/links about the typical cost structure of a SaaS company: how much needs to be calculated per visitor/prospect/customer for support, marketing, acquiry, infrastructure, ... (did I forget something important)?And is there a...

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Ask HN: What's your churn rate?

Posted by mattjung on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @05:59AM
from the ask-hn dept.

A question to web-application providers: what percentage of your clients quit your service every month? is the rate different for free accounts compared to paying accounts?p.s. Any links to some stats?

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Re:You are Not the CEO on Thursday May 27, 2010 @03:30AM (#1382977)
We put "Founder" on it. Does this make a difference compared to Co-Founder (I'm not a native english speaker)?
Re:A new approach to China: an update on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @03:40AM (#1212456)
Respect to Google! But I'm afraid the servers in Hong Kong will be blocked very soon.

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