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avimeir

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About avimeir

Co-Founder of hotelninjas.com

avi at hotelninjas com

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    Do you mind sharing what's working for you these days? which channels? Do you do offline also? Would make sense given your vertical..

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    Following up the discussion on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5773831 . I posted something a while back with a crazy idea for Google - charge me $5/month for Search and remov…

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    In my previous gig we used to spend single-digit millions/year, and saw all metrics falling down like OP did, and we had a team of 6 experts with tons of experience in AdWords. Not…

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    Comment #5537235

    avi at hotelninjas com

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    Comment #5533032

    This is what the app in question suggests on their website. Not linking as I agree that it might be a PR stunt

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    What happens if you password-protect your Mac and install Hidden? Won't the thief have to format the computer, therefore rendering Hidden useless? I'm thinking about installing it …

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    My issue with this is that history teaches us that you don't need big money to reach scale, you only need the cash to support scaling up from a technical POV. Look at FB early days…

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    For technical reasons. We're waiting for a deal with a strategic partner to close, we can't technically start charging money or distribute our app before that. Can't go into specif…

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    Comment #5532634

    I think that you're addressing a real issue for job applicants, but not sure about the domain name.

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    I don't see the logic of raising $41M for a company that doesn't need it to buy equipment, raw material, real estate or physical stock of something. Unless your revenue model is to…

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    Thanks for sharing your learnings. If you are available maybe we can do something together in Turkey. We will be very happy to get customers there and our product works perfectly f…

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    For us "launch" means the date that we can start charging money for our product. We did the part of telling our friends/family when we had the closed beta ready, but there is a big…

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    Ask HN: Best way to launch your product?

    We are about to finish coding our first public beta of hotelninjas.com which means we can finally accept high volume of customers. And I was wondering what is the best way in your …

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    Comment #5236878

    Sounds like the world described in the book Ready Player One. Awesome read BTW.

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    Hey Everyone, We are a small team based out of Barcelona, Spain. This tool is a public beta for our cloud-based hotel management software. We're trying to help the long tail of hot…

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    Good idea, I'll give it a try.

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    Upgraded the day it was released, last few days I feel that you could cook an egg on my MBP after 2 hours of working (nothing fancy, IDE and browsers open - no heavy GPU usage). Do…