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avalore

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About avalore

louis.harwood@gmail.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #34998356

    A friend of mine dropped out of university and went to live the "ski-bum" lifestyle in France. His mum wasn't happy with this and eventually took to writing letters to him addresse…

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    Comment #28776924

    Sold a small SaaS product 2 years ago, which was marketed as an "AI" product. Extract from the "model": $yearsBetween = $comparisonItems->created_at->diffInYears(Carbon::now()); if…

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    Comment #23269864

    Fun fact, I only recently discovered that "renumeration" is an incorrect spelling used by many. It is actually "remuneration". I'd been spelling this incorrectly for decades

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    Comment #22834459

    Apparently not. Crazy right

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    Comment #20360989

    Not heard of airtable before, thanks!

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    Ask HN: MVP with little, to zero, code. Suggestions?

    I'm a developer, with an idea for a side project I'd like to try. I'd like to try throwing together an MVP writing as little code as possible, mainly because: 1) I have little time…

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    Comment #12889748

    Drop me an email with some details - lets chat! I've been in this industry (SaaS for agents) for 6+ years. I may even have customer #1 for you (was asked only last week).

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    Ask HN: Experience selling data/stats from your Startup/Bootstrapped business?

    Does anyone have experience on selling the data they've gathered from their web/mobile/whatever app? I'm not talking about user/demographic information. More interested in using us…

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    Comment #7799844

    I worked on the licensing and IAP SDK's so not 100% about these features. It's a holiday in the UK today so I'm guessing it won't be an instant answer as usual. I'll ask the questi…

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    Comment #7799298

    For selling outside of the MAS, Paddle is pretty good: https://www.paddle.com/developers They have a quick to implement SDK that will take care of licensing, payments, etc. Dependi…

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    Ask HN: How to style node-webkit app

    How does everyone go about styling node-webkit (or similar) apps for desktop? I'm really enjoying UI like Popcorn Time (http://popcorn.cdnjd.com/) but have no idea where to start w…

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    Comment #7176620

    https://www.lettingcheck.com - This started life as a 'profit share arrangement'. I know, you always hear this is a bad idea but it actually turned out quite well for us. We were a…

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    Comment #5954733

    I would have considered a purchase but they lost a sale from me by making it frustrating on mobile. There are still too many sites that don't make hover actions function as two tap…

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    Comment #5923663

    As someone who (1) runs a SaaS product for UK letting agents and (2) has hunted for a rented property in the last 12 months I think you've done a nice job but as some others have p…

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    Comment #5884790

    http://www.copify.com

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    Comment #5832815

    The food poisoning reminded me of "Into The Wild"

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    Comment #5405949

    Thanks for the comment, the initial idea is/was to just send a link to an app… saying that it won't take much to allow sending of further messages/updates to registered numbers.

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    Comment #5400697

    Good question. If the user isn't on a mobile device then it could be easier for a number of reasons: 1) It's not their machine, or they're not signed in for automatic syncing, so g…

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    Comment #5400634

    This is my first solo side project, that I only decided to do after the feature was requested by a couple of clients. Rather than create their own individual solutions I figured it…

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