shekyboy

Maybe you can provide clarity on ACH risk. Seems like businesses have most of the risk there.. and not the billing system (keeping the gateway out of this).

Secondly, transaction/user based models are also aligned with customer incentives. With growth, customers will execute more transactions on the system.

Frankly, Smart recovery is an area where I can see you can ask for % share. Other features like payment methods etc sound transactional again.

Finally, Stripe has a payment gateway business already. This will ensure growth on that side of the business. Optically this seems like a revenue grab. You have the opportunity to disrupt the ecosystem.

Thanks for responding to my comment. Appreciate the interaction.

Billing (recurring or one time) is a transactional activity and should be monetized as such. There should be a per invoice or per customer type of rate. This whole % of revenue seems crazy to me. There is no inherent risk involved like payment processing. You can get paid no matter what in a tx model...

Based on what I see in the market with other billing/subscription providers, they all do the same thing (rev share). Since these businesses are not the payment gateway they try to do a revenue grab with the % share.

I hoped Stripe would be able to disrupt this by already being positioned as a payment gateway and offer this on top in a transactional model....

Hope they rethink this strategy. And no first $1MM isnt going to cut it. Any serious business will see this as a growth challenge. Backend billing flows are challenging to build and once you are committed to this you are locked in for quite sometime from the roadmap perspective.

The screenshots look like they did a find and replace apple logo with the G logo...

Probably makes it easier for all the merchants who might be getting tired of all this repackaging and rebranding

That is amazing!

It's a bit early but would love to see how electric cars change the auto maintenance space...

There should be some sort of penalty for canceling/rejecting even if you had availability. Just like canceling an Uber. These cancellations ought to add up over time and reflect in the rating...

Additionally potential renters should be able to rate this initial experience as well, which should factor in the rating.

Dont think that will fix this problem but might curtail some of this behavior. I believe that technology and applied correctly has potential of changing behaviors (we have seen that in spades with AirBnB already).

115k in pre-orders totaling to $4B

So today was their Kickstarter pitch :-)

Here is the periscope feed of a drive. You can see the horizontal screen better

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1dRKZyRkpgNxB

Felt the presentation ended half way. Wanted him to show the inside of the car and all the features.

Caught the glimpse the new horizontal screen, but no details on that in the presentation or on the side....

Wonder if they are not ready with all those yet. Or maybe I am used to Apple keynotes

Awesome! I would love to see one of the providers take that up and offer that in the migration process.

One of the best things Parse offered was ability to purely focus on application code and not worry about anything else. Tech pundits may balk at this approach but for a startup looking for product/market fit, this works. Until we have that nothing else matters.

Why not open source the dashboard code as well?

I have been looking at migrating options and would like to have something as close as possible to original Parse.com

The dashboard was such huge help in testing, debugging etc. Suggest opening that up too so other players can run that as well.

This is a great article. So true at all the levels.

Look at any mid to large scale company and their internal ticketing systems, HR systems, travel booking systems, time tracking systems.

The last company I worked for, did not upgrade the employee laptop OS from Windows XP for over 10 years as their legacy ticketing system wasnt supported on the newer versions. Obviously this was a cost issue of the new ticketing platform but also the unknown cost of retraining the whole company. Additionally people and organizations get comfortable with the "evil you know".

Frankly as a new entrepreneur this is also incredibly hard to test in the market. Most early customer development will give you signals that they want it, but won't act when it comes time to switch.

This is why you see SaaS services succeeding by cracking few employees or small teams at a time. Think of Yammer, Slack etc.

They don't need the whole company or department to change. Just few employees or the team can use it and slowly infect the rest of the company. That would be the only way to overcome this problem (although not all products can do this).

Think the writer is referring to the restaurant facing side of the software and not the user app/website. Those are much nicer.

Thanks, I am now horrified of that lady in the mask holding a dead crow...

The phone needs to be connected over the same wifi for the sms messages to be pushed to the computer.

It wont happen if the phone is not on the same wifi. So the assumption is if both your devices are on the same wifi network, you have ownership of both and can verify. Now if someone steals both, you have bigger problems.

Go ahead and test this after turning off wifi on your iPhone and see if this happens.

Doesn't seem like a data collection initiative. It seems more like a complementary search engine. Apple spotlight search is trying to find other contextual results which may not come back from typical search engines. For example: Apps, Music etc.

I am sure you can directly search on google or duckduckgo to avoid that.

With the upcoming EMV transition most businesses are on that path. New POS terminals will have NFC built into it.

Additionally this system offers a secure mechanism to the merchant as well without making a dent to their business processes. That should motivate them to move quickly on it to prevent Target/Home depot style mess.

Finally the narrative around this is going to evolve the public perception. They are going to demand this from merchants for security, which should move the ball forward.

Nicely done! How hard would be to add a GPS based beacon?

Apart from that here are other items. You may have these on your list, but can count my vote to prioritize.

1. Pagination 2. Image URLs 3. Focus on page types such as product pages, posts etc. That way its easy to go from content to content. Will help crawling too 4. Link back to original page included in JSON

Finally common sites/pages used by multiple users of your systems should not count against the API count requirement under pricing. You may want to charge against total calls, like Parse.

Like the parameter passthrough feature. Take a look at places where the parameters are part of the URL structure. For example a Target product page http://www.target.com/p/men-s-c9-by-champion-impact-athletic...

In order to get data for a different product, I will have to modify the URL itself. I think same holds true for blog posts.

Awesome work! Export to Excel please

Currently the app works with FB login. Rookie mistake on my part. Update is in the works to enable email only option

That is why I created this http://www.getjumpstart.me/

We had our baby girl earlier this year, which led to sleepless nights and several cups of coffee during the day. My dad who has been practicing yoga for decades recommended a different route, which involved a 10 minute session involving deep breathing.

One thing led to the other and we built this app to help everyone who may have this problem.

Sorry for the shameless plug but seemed very topical.

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Makes me think about the post I read from Nathan Kontny http://ninjasandrobots.com/what-people-really-want

Its really hard to do this if you are not completely immersed in the problem yourself. The legacy players who have this strong position have the years of understanding the problem and that is why they command the market and at times dont even have to innovate to protect their position.

If you yourself are not your customer, it is very hard to execute, prioritize etc. For enterprise businesses this is extremely critical. Also when I say Problem I just dont mean the actual product. It also includes decision makers, sales cycles, budget cycles etc etc. The whole decision matrix around a enterprise product needs to be understood.

Actually I dont think Rakasheets has failed. You just have an expensive Prototype. If you want to continue, spend the next month in customer offices selling this. Forget adwords or any other such mechanism. Your best customer acquisition channel will be Word of Mouth. Small Business owners know many other SMBs and they share such stuff. If you can crack a few they will share that positive experience with their friends and colleagues.

Good luck!