waterlooalex

I tried testing my site syncwith.com and it says its blocked, but its not clear to me why, any ideas? I tested with Claude and it doesn't find any issues like this.

https://www.ax-check.com/syncwith.com

I didn't have that problem, maybe they've since fixed it?

Wow. When ever I've done cross border wires they take at minumum 1 day.

I'm curious, are those payments for work you've done for a US company?

I do love what transferwise is doing, thats awesome that the banks are riled up about it :)

Thats pretty slick.

A friend had mentioned XE to me, it looked like a good option. What makes it a PITA? You mentioned broker but I'm not sure exactly what you mean.

Even international wire transfers? Eg US to another country.

Is it safe to use Bitcoin?

Wire transfers always seem to take so long. How long do they take for you?

I read about them, they sound awesome. Is your employer happy to use them?

Does PayPal also charge their international fee and currency exchange fee?

https://www.paypal.com/cr/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-xborde...

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/helphub/article...

Yes, transfer fees etc. Also I found out my bank takes a cut on currency exchange!! Eg they take 2.5% vs the market rate. PayPal fees seem high.

Very slick, works well on my phone. But I dont really get it. What does it do?

You could avoid that by 1. having many apps up at once instead of just one. 2. Probably isn't hard to use a proxy for each device.

Ah interesting, as in: she's the person who rates your app if you "buy" some ratings?

The swiping seems to be really laggy, makes it seem like its broken.

Bandwidth doesn't grow on trees :)

Verizon's position is that simply adding more cards within the free peering agreement will make it even more unbalanced in level 3's favour, hence their suggestion that level 3 pay for bandwidth through a different agreement.

I think Level 3 is saying they'd be willing to pay for the cards, but not bandwidth, eg continue using the free peering agreement.

Verizon is saying that Level 3 should pay for the bandwidth (probably way more costly than the cards), since they are already getting more than they are owed in the free peering agreement.

It doesn't look like they had a control group, did they?

Looks like you built your own http://cloudinary.com but with less features

I'd be interested in discussing further. Fire me an email alex at alexblack.ca

Idea: look at Craigslist for some big cities like NYC and see which categories have the most posts, and use that as a proxy for sales?

OK makes sense. 40 customers, nice!

What are your transcoding costs? Eg what is your profit margin on $0.3 per min?

Thanks for the responses!

3. From what I've seen customer acquisition is the key challenge of any startup. If you can acquire customers for less than their life time value then you are set!

Without a process to acquire customers your business is much less valuable.

Someone would likely pay more for transcoder.io if it had a scalable way to acquire customers but no tech, vs what you have which is tech but no customer acquistion.

5, 6. I did read that blog post before posting the questions.

From the end user perspective they just want their videos transcoded, it seems like all 3 of these services do that. I was hoping you could summarize the tl;dr of why someone would use your service to get their videos transcoded vs someone else's.