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Need Advice on building a product for US market

I am a co-founder at an India based hardware startup. We build routers that can bond multiple 3G and 4G connections together and give you a higher combined bandwidth output. Simply put you can insert AT&T, T-mobile, and a Verizon SIM into our device and get an aggregated output of about 20-40Mbps(depending on signal strength).Our product currently is aimed at the B2B segment in India and...

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Re:Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @09:46AM (#10587937)
We will be launching paid plans soon. If you like it so much please take it for a spin and mail me your thoughts to meat [email protected]. We use it internally and find it useful and wont be shutting down fully even in the worst case scenario,we may trim some features that is as far as we would go.
Re:Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @09:39AM (#10587882)
Fetch is focused on turning your browsing history into a searchable knowledge base. Fetch doesn't just index links, it indexes content as well, and it ranks them by time spent, which is very handy to find the links you need quickly.Coming soon you will be able to sign in with the same acc into mozilla and safari as well, your history across browsers will be clubbed together making it all the more valuable.
Re:Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @09:08AM (#10587712)
Thanks for the kudos cooperadymas.

We take a snapshot every time you visit the page. We don't version the page yet. Do you have a specific use case for a feature like that?

There's a very strong correlation between time spent and usefulness of the article. We index all articles, even the ones you spend less time on, so when you search, a few page scrolls get you to the link you need. That said, time spent is a heuristic, its useful in a lot of cases, but not all, we'll have to see.

"Proprietary algorithms", we have a patent pending on how we sort and filter data

We'll think of a catchphrase around ""Imagine never having to re-google what you had googled before"

Hope you enjoy using the extension. You can send us feedback from the plugin directly, or mail us at [email protected]

Re:Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @09:06AM (#10587703)
If you like using the default google bookmarks then probably will love using fetch. There are so many instances during which we forget to bookmark something and managing bookmarks is a nightmare in itself. Fetch streamlines all and makes finding links a breeze.
Re:Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @08:11AM (#10587461)
We see the amount of links amassed by a person over time is his knowledgebase of sorts and we want it make it available to the user where ever he wants. We will be launching a mobile app soon, where in you can sign in and find any link from your history.
Re:Show HN: Fetch – A Chrome plugin to manage your history on Wednesday November 18, 2015 @07:47AM (#10587361)
Imagine hypothetically today you are researching a router. You would look up youtube video reviews, look it up in amazon may be craigslist, checkout consumer reports etc. The next day if want those links you will either comb your browser history or go those sites you visited again. But with fetch all you have to do is type the name of the router and it will show the links in descending order of time you have spent on various websites associated with the router :) Imagine the time saved :D
any specific reason why it should be that way ?
we are looking for feedback as of now, and once we get market fit right for iOS version we ll do an android one.
Re:Show HN: Realtime collaborative ebook publishing on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @11:39AM (#5744399)
the app itself is a great idea! but don't know if collaborative editing is something big!
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:50AM (#5091949)
bunch of fonts should more be like "bunch of fonts that they use on a regular basis" and I would like to incorporate your second comment into the slide if it is ok with you. I am making corrections in the app based on usability tests and thanks for pointing out the fb and twitter icons.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:35AM (#5091884)
glad u liked it :) and best of luck in your endeavor.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:22AM (#5091828)
now that is tempting, may be sometime in the future & thank you for your kind words.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:19AM (#5091822)
thanks a million, Done.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:17AM (#5091813)
Bulls-eye with the comment, Learning design takes several years and I am in the process, I see this more like a guide for getting a MVP done. I ve outlined my learning journey.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:13AM (#5091793)
In any case we had to get a design guy, even novice guys cost bomb, So I thought it was better spend a few weeks and learn.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:03AM (#5091743)
Hello fellow banglorean! initially we plan to roll out an iphone version, andriod will come a few months later.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @10:02AM (#5091737)
The honest answer is that I dint know what I was doing when I began and Photoshop was the only software I had and I remembered seeing people designing stuff with Photoshop and so I stuck. I still haven't used Illustrator. I ve heard Illustrator is good for creating vector graphics and Photoshop is great for UI design. But please do get a professional opinion.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:57AM (#5091721)
thank you! yea did realize it a little too late. But will be more careful next time.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:55AM (#5091707)
A post about someone's journey learning code gave me inspiration to start programming, I intend to give back in the same fashion. Will be happy if someone finds inspiration with this presentation and designs something.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:45AM (#5091658)
Exactly! I finished the app in about 8 weeks, but dint read thru the guidelines and had to rework the major portions from scratch again and took me another few weeks to get it completely done. Not paying attention to apple guidelines cost me dearly.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:41AM (#5091640)
few people have mailed me asking the same, I am planning to put it up as a small eBook and give away.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:39AM (#5091631)
I am unable to understand your question, In the presentation I have just outlined how I learnt Photoshop to design elements in our mobile app.
Re:How I taught myself Design and shipped an app in 12 weeks on Monday January 21, 2013 @09:22AM (#5091562)
Guys, Traces is a mobile blogging application for iPhone, we are planning to launch in a couple of weeks time.
Re:Show HN: Papyrus,a simple way to create ebooks on Thursday January 03, 2013 @07:55AM (#5002112)
looks great, is it going to be a free service ? i don't see any pricing page!