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bumpkinjunkie

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    Comment #36169442

    Location: New York, NY Remote: Yes, hybrid preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Experienced product/GTM/business/design generalist (10 years banking, 5 years B2B softwar…

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    Comment #34554322

    This was a life saver when I was traveling in Europe and had limited data to use! Thanks for making and keeping it running.

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    Comment #34518505

    Pretty cool, love that it keeps track of your score at the bottom. One comment is that the user feedback when answering incorrectly displays the name of the correct country, not th…

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    Comment #33769455

    I’ve heard this called “um carioca” in Portugal where they will pull a second shot from an already extracted espresso puck.

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    Comment #32232763

    Similar thing happened to me, but my card on file had expired . Zipcar sent me an email threatening to send me to collections. I sent them a polite message on April 11th and they f…

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    Comment #30469445

    A few ideas that I've seen out in the wild: - Engage with your most consistent readers and find out what makes them such big fans. Use that to create premium/paid content. - turn i…

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    Comment #29790654

    Re: labor of love, according to AA's Form 990 for the year ending 2019[1] Revenue: $11.3M General Manager salary: $352k 7 other execs making ~$150-200k There are lots of impact acc…

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    Comment #29783603

    Looks fantastic. What did you use to build this? Any interesting changes/user insights since you posted to HN in July? I love the low-friction approach to signing up and getting st…

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    Comment #29765170

    In my limited experience, no-code tools are really great for idea validation & prototyping because you can get to the core of your value proposition faster than starting from scrat…

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    Comment #29706855

    Is this tongue-and-cheek? Seems like you are creating value for people and should be compensated. Or is there some monetization of user data?

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    Comment #27264911

    Pretty cool! How long did you spend building before you launched? Did you target any specific niches at first?

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    Comment #25985133

    How would that happen?

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    Comment #25680839

    Simple's Safe-to-Spend® feature was ahead of its time and today is still a really unique feature among digital banks (standalone budgeting apps notwithstanding). I wonder if a chal…

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    Comment #25680800

    They were, but then they hit funding issues in spring 2020 and appear to be scaling back their US expansion. https://techcrunch.com/2020/04/09/monzo-to-shutter-las-vegas...

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    Comment #25680772

    Varo Bank offers 2.8% on up to $10k in your savings account if you get direct deposit and use your card 5x/mo. Not the rich features of Simple, YNAB, or even Virtual Wallet...but w…

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    Comment #25188275

    The "Show Labels" on the color options is a nice touch. I am colorblind and was clicking on purple instead of blue, etc., until I saw that feature. In fact, since this is targeted …

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    Comment #24031894

    Have you heard of Van Westendorp's Price Sensitivity meter? It could give you numerical insight into how you might raise prices further (vs. guess and test).

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    Comment #23285304

    my $.02 - Sales is similar to finding product-market fit. Exhaust your network doing pain discovery interviews. Ask lots of good questions. You can't pitch a solution until you rea…

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    Comment #23074857

    fyi still showing the word "feedbacks" in Collect multi-channel feedbackS In-app, Website, Interview, Emails We make it easy. Overall this looks pretty cool! I'm excited to test it…

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    Comment #22744413

    They had me at: Register Now, Add Funds, Get Profit. I can't give them my money fast enough.... Sounds like loan repayments (ie principal + interest) are suspended indefinitely. Th…