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Awesome! HaaS is a thing. You just made it one. Regarding the business model: You ever thought of a Franchise model? Perhaps train a few folks (perhaps folks who were incorrectly g…

Can share what we do at our startup. (8 people, 100 - 200 customers). We create a WhatsApp group for every customer and stay with them right from onboarding onwards. Beauty of it i…

In those United States, you would be right to think so. Yes, there are other chat apps. A flood? No. A (cess)pool, maybe. Outside of WhatsApp (2 Billion Monthly Active Users), Mess…

From Businesses - small and large. Using the WhatsApp API. That alone is a multi-billion dollar opportunity. For example, people like my startup ( https://www.zoko.io ) provides so…

:-) Interesting to read many describe that feeling you get when you read Chekhov. A Russian friend once told me it is тоска (toska) - an unbearable, inescapable anguish - "Really y…

First of all, good job on launching! Hopefully you inspire many others here to take that all-important step. Not a native english speaker. So take my advice with a grain of salt. N…

I see that you have a WhatsApp button on your site. What do you use that for?

Yes. not necessarily. Once you are able to observe active users, have paying users or even sizeable traffic to test conversions. You can experiment to find out what that "right" or…

May not be issue you need to solve right now. Your's is not "a project that gives context to news through history" @$1.00 per month. If the market wants it, it should work at $1(+$…

That would be like car dealer asking "should I get a LOI before I let folks drive the new car." For a 7-day trial dont waste your time, or their's, on a LOI. LOI's are not worth th…

Not sure where the icons are showing up. I had removed all such links. (forgot to mention its a 3 person team. me, cto and an entry level coder) > Maybe you can flesh out that scen…

Thanks for the pointers on the shortcomings of the website. Have added them to my long list of to-do improvements to the website. > How would you take me from now to paying custome…

Thank you for the pointers. Good point about "Zoko not using Zoko" :-) Will change that before teh end of the month. >Where is that from? I found a Medium post with dubious "stats"…

Thanks for the comments. > I think sharing a bit of the technical side would help attract the people you're looking for. For example, sharing your technology stack would attract th…

Follow up on a previous post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14450432 Made every mistake that many YC videos tried to get me to avoid. 19 months to launch and then 100 days …

Work Rules by Lazlo Bock may give you some good insights. It references a rigorous study by Frank Schmidt and John Hunter. The gist of it is that the 3 best indicators of on-the-jo…

"Expecting the world to be fair with us because we are fair, is like expecting the lion not to eat us because we didn't eat him" - Paul Graham I am no Paul Graham, but I think you …

like this - https://media.giphy.com/media/HNg3DbNsZ38Zy/giphy.gif

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The Mississippi would, but doesn't to that scale today, because the Army Core has leveed/dyked in most places. You can see in the pictures here http://bit.ly/2u7f2ta that there is …

Always happy when bridges get discussed here. Having built (a couple of) bridges across the Mississippi, i can attest that it is possible to build a bridge across the Amazon. This …

Your co-workers are keeping a secret. They probably took a lot of time and numerous attempts to prepare a final document with "phenomenal word economy". Mark Twain (or was it Blais…

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I have my doubts too :-) but then I fall back on two things 1. The Raj were apparently sticklers for record keeping. 2. The nature of Corbett himself. He never killed a cat, unless…

Tigers can hold a grudge alright. Remember Tatiana? the siberian at the San Fransisco Zoo that leapt out her enclosure and hunted down the 3 guys who had taunted her. Leopards are …