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myWordBiLLY

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About myWordBiLLY

We are a couple of college students from North Carolina and WordBiLLY is our version of the AirBNB-cereal- box bootstrap for our tech start-up. The other reason we created WordBiLLY was to experience entrepreneurship first-hand, building a product, and tackling issues relating to customer acquisition and service. We design all the pieces and have sourced a local company here in North Carolina to manufacture them. After this, we Hand-finish each piece before shipping them.

What's a BiLLY?

We created the BiLLY to be thought of as a mini-billboard. They are Custom crafted Word Sculptures of your favorite Word/City/Name or Quote. Made in the USA for your Home and/or Office.

Check out our Stay Hungry Stay Foolish BiLLY and two more coming soon: - Live Long & Prosper - May The Force Be With You

Order a Twitter ID BiLLY? Or a BiLLY of your favorite Name, Date or Word.

@myWordBiLLY https://www.facebook.com/WordBilly

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    We launched a physical product - inspired by the AirBNB cereal box story: The WordBiLLY. http://www.WordBiLLY.com What's a WordBiLLY? They are custom-crafted Word Sculptures of you…

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    This is great advice. We are very grateful to you for taking the time. If there are any suggestions the cross your mind from time-to-time, please do share. Thank You very much agai…

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    This is a delightful and very helpful advice. Thank You! I must point out: my efforts to reach out to Media personalities on twitter has not been as successful as I had anticipated…

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    >I don't even need to look at the data to say that in the US most successful companies have at least one white, male founder. Does that mean that if you start a tech company and ar…

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    This was a fun read. Thanks for sharing.

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    This is an interesting post. I wanted to ask about the following: "I played it nicely by just asking a discount to the host." How does that work from the host's standpoint? I can c…

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    Thank You very much Wise Weasel. BTW, where can I get some good advice to market our product effectively? We are preparing a Kickstarter and also ran some fb ads (which were not gr…

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    Ask HN: Would Twitter have a problem with this also?

    At WordBiLLY.com we've been making custom word signs and one of the items we offer are custom Twitter ID pieces to be hung/placed at the office and/or home. Would this be a problem…

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    So, based on their guideline, if we made and sold Twitter ID BiLLYS which are custom made wooden signs for the or office (and BTW makes for a cool present), would Twitter have a pr…

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    Ask HN: Newbie Mistake. Is there anything we can do reverse negative karma?

    We were new to Hacker News and made a mistake and posted a comment with just our website name) our bootstrap e-commerce effort). We are very sorry about this and would like to know…