bumpkinjunkie
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Comment · 3 years ago
Comment · 3 years ago
This was a life saver when I was traveling in Europe and had limited data to use! Thanks for making and keeping it running.
Comment · 3 years ago
Pretty cool, love that it keeps track of your score at the bottom. One comment is that the user feedback when answering incorrectly displays the name of the correct country, not the incorrectly guessed country.
Example: Flag is Brazil. Finland is guessed by user. Message to user: "You guessed Brazil incorrectly".
Comment · 3 years ago
I’ve heard this called “um carioca” in Portugal where they will pull a second shot from an already extracted espresso puck.
Comment · 4 years ago
Similar thing happened to me, but my card on file had expired . Zipcar sent me an email threatening to send me to collections. I sent them a polite message on April 11th and they finally got back to me on May 30th that the charges would be removed.
Comment · 4 years ago
A few ideas that I've seen out in the wild:
- Engage with your most consistent readers and find out what makes them such big fans. Use that to create premium/paid content.
- turn into a paid newsletter (or paywall for the blog). Keep some content free but write additional content for paid subscribers.
- add a premium content tier that could include: slack community, monthly "mastermind" or guest events, job board access, etc
- turn each article into a podcast episode, youtube video, twitter thread, etc. to earn more advertising revenue and/or grow audience
Comment · 4 years ago
Re: labor of love, according to AA's Form 990 for the year ending 2019[1]
Revenue: $11.3M General Manager salary: $352k 7 other execs making ~$150-200k
There are lots of impact accelerators out there who might fund solutions like this. Saving people's lives comes in different forms and there is a big societal economic benefit created, there could be different ways to capture a fair share of that. Maybe it's solving another problem, like job placement or sober housing, that creates a revenue stream down the road.
[1] https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/display_990/13167...
Comment · 4 years ago
Looks fantastic. What did you use to build this? Any interesting changes/user insights since you posted to HN in July?
I love the low-friction approach to signing up and getting started right away with a cohort. I have a family member battling alcohol addiction, and while I feel the group accountability/support of AA can be helpful, AA often focus too much on the 12-steps with a heavy dose of religion. When my family member entered an in-patient rehab program, one of the "highlights" was the close connections with their intake cohort (phones weren't allowed, so staying connected was up to them - so higher friction to staying in touch for support).
Lockdowns during the pandemic have likely exacerbated conditions that lead to and enable alcohol addiction, with less physical interaction with others to detect warning signs or get access to traditionally "in-person" services.
Comment · 4 years ago
In my limited experience, no-code tools are really great for idea validation & prototyping because you can get to the core of your value proposition faster than starting from scratch. As things scale, maybe you can't rely on V1 as much, but that can be a good problem to have.
One company that started on Bubble is Qoins. https://bubble.io/blog/bubble-app-qoins/
Qoins have raised $2.3m according to Crunchbase https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/qoins/company_financ...
Comment · 4 years ago
Is this tongue-and-cheek? Seems like you are creating value for people and should be compensated. Or is there some monetization of user data?
Comment · 5 years ago
Pretty cool! How long did you spend building before you launched? Did you target any specific niches at first?
Remote: Yes, hybrid preferred
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Experienced product/GTM/business/design generalist (10 years banking, 5 years B2B software). PostgreSQL and MySQL, Python, and Javascript in light capacity (querying, scripting, scraping, webhooks and API calls). Postman for API testing. Front-end web/devtools for QA. Miro and Figma for design and prototyping.
Resume: linkedin/in/douglas-c-rogers/
Email: douglasc.rogers [at] gmail
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Hello, I'm Doug, an experienced software business generalist looking to be one of your early non-technical hires. I've worked on product, sales, marketing, and ops for three B2B startups, including one for a year as co-founder. Previously a capital markets banker doing marketing, account management/sales, and multi-stakeholder deal execution. Adjunct instructor in digital service innovation.
Example of a side project I worked on for creators/consultants to change Google Drive file permissions (Apps Script) based on a successful Stripe payment (Webhooks). https://twitter.com/DouglasCRogers/status/162925050782170317...