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choogi

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About choogi

http://calvinyoung.org/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #47582587

    Awesome to hear! Let me know if you have any feedback!

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    Comment #47580102

    Thanks! And appreciate the feedback! You're right the location database is currently limited to larger cities. I'll take a look at closing this gap.

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    Show HN: Timezone App – Visual meeting scheduler for distributed teams

    Scheduling meetings across multiple time zones has always been painful for me, especially across daylight saving time transitions. So I built a visual timeline that makes it easy t…

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    Comment #31470644

    This is awesome. Definitely using this for my next project.

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    Comment #16996345

    Does Checkr ( https://checkr.com/ ) solve this problem? Or is it more complicated than that?

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    Ask HN: What problem in your industry is a potential startup?

    This has been done two other times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139638 (2016), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9799007 (2015) Both threads generated a lot of…

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    Comment #2875618

    This is a really cool idea. I can't wait for more people to start using it :)

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    Comment #2471955

    This is the latest project from the Minno labs--we're selling Groupon gift certificates for 50% off. We put this together over the last day or so because we thought it'd be a fun w…

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    Comment #2434621

    That's exactly the right analysis. More generally, there seems to be an entire class of apps out there that could be really useful, but which are really hard to monetize with subsc…

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    Comment #2434530

    We'll definitely let users with But your right--we could make this more clear on the site. We'll also be sure to keep HN Posted as we add more features to the product!

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    Comment #2434353

    I'm the co-founder of a startup called Minno ( https://www.minno.co ), which is a new take on micropayments. We were inspired by Sahil's work on Gumroad last weekend ( http://news.…

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    Comment #2421258

    "When I was your age, I managed my own web servers." Nowadays, I can't imagine a startup not running on AWS/GAE/etc.

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    Comment #2390265

    Kamme, For now, we're restricting sign-up to Facebook because it 1) allows for really easy signup, 2) reduces password friction to simplify purchases, and 3) helps us reduce fraudu…

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    Comment #2388632

    Yea, if it ever launches.