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Damn, I just paid $10 in Bitcoin and I'm not sure if the checkout works. The only thing I was asked was my email address, and I don't see anything in my inbox. Well, I hope they deliver.
Give it a bit of time. He is going to reply personally and probably got dozens of questions. It might take a day to reply to them all.
Why spend the $10 with brutalhonesty.io when you can just post your question on Ask HN? The way HN is going these days, your honest answers will be here within 24hrs!
Would you pay (amount) for (product/app/service)?
Do you like my app? (web/iOS only, for now)
Does my landing page look professsional?
Getting one guy's opinion about any of these things is anecdotal at best. It's not a comprehensive information source. And it would be foolish to use it in your decision making process.
There's better ways to collect data:
1) Spend that $10 towards an adword campaign for a pre-launch signup page for you website/app idea. Maybe this guy won't sign up, but maybe a dozen, a hundred or a thousand other people will. Why waste your money on one data point?
2) Put the money to buying beer. Invite your friends and family over, get them liquored up a bit. I guarantee you'll hear a great deal of honest feedback.
3) Post on HN, reddit, slashdot or any other number of web sites where armchair cynics freely administer scathing advice.
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Creator here - no vote manipulation. In fact, I don't actually know anyone who has a hacker news account, believe it or not. Just an intriguing title I suppose?
No vote manipulation but you used another new account 'RainSunshine' to talk sugar about yourself? That was a dumb move.
This is actually an intriguing business idea. I believe that most of the upvotes the submission is getting here are genuine expressions of interest in a radically different idea. (It's also fun to make snarky comments about this submission.) I won't be snarky here, but will suggest a news story of related interest. Journalist A. J. Jacobs turned on his full sense of humor as well as his honesty when he wrote a story…
I think in this case we are dealing with a discrepancy between what people think they want, and what they actually want. I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of people try this once, but he might have trouble getting repeat clients and I have concerns about how helpful, outside the most narrow niche cases, this will be. I'm a counselor, and going into the field I naively thought that straightforward evaluative st…
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I think we're missing the joke here: this is an update on the concept of "my 2 cents", with the difference being... ...he has adjusted for inflation, with a markup. http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
From 1913 to 2014, $0.02 cents inflated to $0.48 cents. At that rate, wouldn't it be over 100 years before reaching $10? In which case, in 2014 he'd have to share 20.83 opinions per session to justify the cost.
This is actually an intriguing business idea. I believe that most of the upvotes the submission is getting here are genuine expressions of interest in a radically different idea. (It's also fun to make snarky comments about this submission.) I won't be snarky here, but will suggest a news story of related interest. Journalist A. J. Jacobs turned on his full sense of humor as well as his honesty when he wrote a story…
This is actually an intriguing business idea. I believe that most of the upvotes the submission is getting here are genuine expressions of interest in a radically different idea. (It's also fun to make snarky comments about this submission.) I won't be snarky here, but will suggest a news story of related interest. Journalist A. J. Jacobs turned on his full sense of humor as well as his honesty when he wrote a story…
They don't really make much(/any?) money or involve cool tech, but I think they are fun, and good times. Maybe I'll get working on the one I've been wanting to do most.