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Interesting. Releasing in August will give you three months till November 5th, which is just enough time to manufacture thousands of masks, distribute them across a large metropolitan city, and purchase tons of explosives to rig the underground subway headed for parliament. I feel there's more to your story.
I am outed. It is over!
Max has made it very clear that what he's doing isn't particularly complicated, difficult or innovative. It seems clear to me that that the value he creates is in identifying and targeting specific underexploited niches. I imagine that he has spent a lot of time and money on identifying these niches. If my assumption is correct, it'd be commercial suicide to give away almost all of the value in his business to a baying mob of smart, fast entrepreneurs.
We like openness in this community, often for very good reasons, but I think we do tend to fetishise it. I think we often forget that secrecy is the norm in business and our penchant for publishing sensitive business data is seen as very odd by the majority of businesspeople. There are often compelling business reasons to keep certain things private and I think it's unfair to infer guilt from silence.
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If it's so obvious and trivial to duplicate, why don't you have scads of competitors already? You can't be operating in a vacuum.
Because the other companies in the niche are not posting blog entries like I am. It's not "obvious" but it's easy to copy.
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Because the other companies in the niche are not posting blog entries like I am. It's not "obvious" but it's easy to copy.
This is what doesn't add up. If you want to make money, why would you post anything and risk killing the golden goose? If you want to share your wisdom or experience, why do so in a vague, watered down fashion? Why not just wait, and publish when you can back up your posts with hard facts?
That was my plan, and I'm currently executing it.
exit, are you planing to develop iphone apps ?
I guess maxklein himself would be the right person to answer this. He can't be that hard to reach. Which raises the question, why didn't you ask him directly? Or did you? Is this a show-move because you know what those apps are, and you want to "expose him" for making cheap spammy apps (note: I have no evidence whatsoever that maxklein makes spammy apps, but your post does seem to have some undertones of that)? Or ma…
i've asked him twice in the comment threads http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1171696 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1344398 his blog posts are great. more over, particularly after a very xkcd-ish comic he made about starting out, i associated him with success stories like patio11 (whose recent mixergy interview really inspires me). but i just can't seem to figure out what exactly he does (whereas patio11 is i…
(When I first asked Patio11 for an interview, he asked me to wait too.)
Why don't you just email me if you are so curious? My business model is easy to duplicate and posting something like this is not good for me, I would prefer it if you would just do this privately.
It is a strange thing to say given that your products are already in the market. You sound very confident in your posts and you sound awfully scared in this comment of yours. Are you particularly scared of HNers?
Clearly he's a pornographer.
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Because the other companies in the niche are not posting blog entries like I am. It's not "obvious" but it's easy to copy.
This is what doesn't add up. If you want to make money, why would you post anything and risk killing the golden goose? If you want to share your wisdom or experience, why do so in a vague, watered down fashion? Why not just wait, and publish when you can back up your posts with hard facts?
"If you want to share your wisdom or experience, why do so in a vague, watered down fashion?"
Seems to me that your two questions here almost answer each other.