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bmle

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About bmle

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    Comment #10107948

    Great feedback. Thanks!

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    Comment #10107864

    Hey everyone, we launched Thrive for iOS at the end of July after several months of hard work. I'd love feedback from all business owners and especially if you own a brick and mort…

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    Comment #6742018

    Awesome job guys. Using Kato in our company and we love it.

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    Comment #5386476

    Unread indicator is always wrong, especially when you use multiple devices. Seems very I characteristic of google. It's been that way since they released the app.

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    Comment #5328787

    We actually talked to a few insurance people and the consensus was that insurance company didn't want something like it. It's not in their interest for you to make claims. Our resp…

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    Comment #5316010

    We consulted a few small companies. I'm not sure I'd categorize the companies as startups hoping to be acquired. They had been around for a while and made money. I think many compa…

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    Comment #5315997

    Not sure if we're gonna release the code but was written using django/mysql. I don't remember how much code we wrote. I'm guessing something in the area of 10k lines.

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    Comment #5315539

    And to be completely honest, as my post mentioned, our day jobs were more important at the time so we tried to find the target audience but not hard enough.

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    Comment #5315536

    Thanks. We're putting some effort into creating an inventory management system for Square users. https://shopventory.com if you're interested in just checking it out.

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    Comment #5315513

    Thanks for the recommendation. I'll check it out!

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    Comment #5315501

    As with any consumer type app, monetization is key and unfortunately it's something I feel businesses should have a clear path to but many do not. This is part of the reason why we…

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    Comment #5315249

    We actually never modified the codebase to handle business assets. We were in the discovery phase to find out if we can repurpose the code. When we shut it down, it was still a pro…

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    Comment #5315184

    I think there should be more of these stories. Many people starting companies learn much from success stories through books and blogs but I think there may be more lessons to learn…

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    Comment #5308269

    I should emphasize that the connection was already secure, but creating a user session on the server side took a long time so this graphic was displayed to users. So don't worry!

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    Comment #5308262

    I used to work for a major online tax software provider. I won't name them but I'm sure you can guess. Not sure if it's still there but right after you log in, there are some redir…