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upgradeind

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About upgradeind

Founder, UPGRADE INDUSTRIES (.com!)

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    Comment #26515782

    Thanks for the insight about email addresses, I hadn't considered that. I know from personal experience that I usually get new addresses but rarely abandon old ones. I wonder if pr…

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    Ask HN: Single-factor authentication via email – good idea or not?

    Background: I am attempting to create a very minimal website for my company written in Rust (yay!). All it does is list products and accept orders with no community or user submitt…

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    Comment #4345726

    looks nifty, will need to try it out a bit then get back to you

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    Comment #4203529

    How the hell did you get get somebody to give you money. I have a product but no money, want to trade places?

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    Comment #4085815

    yeah, affiliate marketing is generally more trouble than it's worth for a business my size, at least for the moment. I've just heard too many horror stories. I guess what I ultimat…

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    Comment #4081108

    Eh I look at it like this: if a sales person is confident in their abilities in social marketing/online ads, it would be a great deal for them because they're getting in to it late…

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    Comment #4081098

    Hey thanks for the tips, I'll check this out. I tried adwords, saw absolutely no ROI after lots of experimentation.

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    Comment #4070496

    Hmm those are good ideas. At the moment, a rather strange side effect of having these boards mass produced is that the completed boards are cheaper than the boards + parts separate…

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    AS HN: How do I build a sales team with little-to-no funding?

    Some background: I founded upgradeindustries.com, which sells my creation known as BoardX. BoardX, in a nutshell, is a boutique circuitboard for hobbyists and tinkerers that want s…

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    Comment #3961019

    Anyone interested in checking out the kickstarter campaign that was successful, there are lots of photos and a backstory: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/upgradeindustries/boar…

  11. story
    Who has a great electronics project idea and needs a sponsor?

    Hey Everybody, I recently launched my open source hardware startup, UPGRADE INDUSTRIES, and am looking for great projects to sponsor. If you have or know of a project run by studen…