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oglo

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About oglo

Founded (and crashed) two startups, Apppulp & Olive.

Occasionally blogs at arqamgadit.svbtle.com

Twitter: @arqamgadit

Recent public activity

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    Ask HN: Best CRM to use for a B2C startup with 1M users

    I am currently working on a project where the client has used WHMCS as their main CRM - it handles all their invoicing, subscriptions, add-ons, etc. The system was developed approx…

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    Comment #10588715

    Take-home projects are not the best way to judge skills (atleast in their current form). In the future, there would be some centralized solution so we don't waste time again and ag…

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    Ask HN: Best resources for reading up on B2B marketing besides SaaStr

    Besides SaaStr, what are some other quality B2B communities that you guys would recommend? Coming from a CS background, I have noticed marketing blogs/communities are full of peopl…

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    Comment #9171313

    Liked the concept. It's like applying free market models for developers! But I'm curious about anonymity? How does it work?

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    Comment #9095236

    Thanks for the suggestion. I'll take a look at SnowPlow :)

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    Comment #9063251

    That doesn't sound so nice as it would create an additional point of failure that I'll have to support. I want to use a tried and tested, managed service whose uptime/maintenance i…

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    Ask HN: Mixpanel alternatives for Desktop applications

    Are there any good alternatives to Mixpanel for desktop applications? Its a bit too expensive.

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    Comment #8822973

    I made a chrome extension + desktop software a while ago so people can shield themselves from this spontaneous blocking of websites and service. You can get it from http://getolive…

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    What are the best resources for someone who wants to start learning programming?

    My younger brother wants to learn this craft. I am looking for something very definite, a step-by-step course of sorts which is exciting to enough to keep him interested and motiva…

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    Comment #7428246

    There goes another series of my productive hours

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    Comment #6999103

    We're a game discovery service for iOS games and we're pretty new. Need your opinions. Here's the link to the product: http://apppulp.com

  12. story
    Ask HN: 20 minutes with a VC

    I only have 20 minutes with a VC. What should I show/ask him?

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    Ask HN: GameDevs, what are the appstore discovery problems that you want solved?

    Let's say if I were to provide you tools that could: 1. provide heat-maps of user touches to improve your user interface. 2. identify the habits of users who convert, through growt…

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    Comment #6689943

    That article was amazing and thanks for this line: "If I had given up one day earlier I would have thought that no one cared, but really there was no one to care. There's a differe…

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    Comment #6675161

    Thanks :)

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    Comment #6669824

    Oh .. sorry, I am not a native English speaker and in my society, such issues usually dont arise. But thanks for pointing out, I'll analyze all the content on my site from this per…

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    Comment #6669689

    Hey, thanks =) OK. So you're saying is that the 'presence of reward' is the major factor and magnitude is minor (although it should be proportional)? Makes sense.

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    Comment #6669651

    Erm .. even if I am not talking any money from them and its not on 'chance'? Basically, I'll just ask them to sign up and integrate a piece of software in their games which will tr…

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    Comment #6669620

    Hey, thanks. Yes, its a premium reward. I am thinking of creating a bundle of useful resources like software licenses, ads space on top forums, etc. The 'ability to take actions' p…

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    Ask HN: A small reward to everyone who signs up vs. a big reward to the best 3?

    I am designing a promo campaign for my startup. have a budget of x dollars. Now the question is should I follow the give something to everyone rule and give a smaller reward to eve…

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    Comment #6656171

    So .. we're all CS guys here. Does anyone have any idea as to how such a system can work? Just curious as to how they're making it work.

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    Comment #6439223

    My service is about iOS Games. Its a discovery service. onion2k mentioned the 'playing with new stuff' part as well. But, I guess you're right, unless I dont somehow communicate wi…

  24. story
    Ask HN: Converting Subscribers to Users?

    Hi guys, I beta launched my service a while ago and got around a 100 guys to sign up. Some of those guys have started using the service when I sent them the welcome email while the…

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    Comment #6350007

    "Nobody is willing to accept responsibility for the problems and everybody believes they will somehow be resolved without their personal intervention." When I look at my surroundin…