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alouanchi

57 karma · joined October 2, 2013

Software developer, interested and curious about how to apply technology to build a business.

Like having a good chat/laugh with friends.

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alouanchi··on (White)US police officer gave a free lift to a grieving (black) man
Hope the story will give some hope
alouanchi··on How good is your French accent?
+1
alouanchi··on How good is your French accent?
It's funny when you read the comments, I got the same issue when I move to UK, trying to hide my accent or let's say trying not to have an accent. What I learned is they don't mind your accent while you are trying to speak their English. The experience made me change the way I see others speaking/learning languages.

Nowadays it's all down to the communication and it's why I learn languages at the first place, being able to communicate and having fun learning from each other.

Unfortunately is not always the case in France, where we expect people to speak French as it should be, hopefully with more people travelling and having experiences abroad we will be more open when foreigners try to speak French.

alouanchi··on Apply HN: Get your CV proof read by others
First, thanks a lot for your information.

Doing more competitive research would a good path to start with and I have to say your advices/thoughts are really appreciated.

alouanchi··on Apply HN: Get your CV proof read by others
Cheers for the suggestion, I think it's good way to keep both parts interested.

My first thought was to delay the payment till it passed the second review (max 5persons).

However I think your suggestion will get more tractions, the only downside is how to keep track on the applicant whether or not he got a job/interview. But who says it will be easy :).

alouanchi··on Apply HN: Get your CV proof read by others
Thanks for the feedback.

I agree petervandijck's question has to be asked and getting the answers and validating the hypotheses have to be done. As a start I should go to find "fresh-out-of-uni" as you've called them to see if they can get out some money from their pockets. As the summer break is close, should be a good time to run the experience.

alouanchi··on Apply HN: Get your CV proof read by others
Be honest it is an idea I was/am thinking about, just started looking at it and how to tackle it. And when I saw the thread about 'Apply HN', I said post the idea and see what lessons I can learn from it.
alouanchi··on Apply HN: Get your CV proof read by others
First, I got this idea while ago when I moved to the UK from France, I was struggling to find someone to review and correct my CV to match the county culture and the market.

And to answer your question, most (ones I came across) of proofing services are done by software and the result is not good enough to have a confidence to send my CV to apply for job, my idea would use human to do so. This is why I think having some sort of reward will good so people can commit to it.

alouanchi··on Ask HN: Pick startups for YC to fund
Hi there, is it possible to post/apply for more than one idea?
alouanchi··on Tell HN: Hello
Good luck man, wish you all the best in this journey.
alouanchi··on Ask HN: What are the best videos cast to watch developer?
Thanks for your comment.
alouanchi··on Ask HN: What are the best videos cast to watch developer?
I am Java developer and interested on the web, but have also an interest on Erlang and Python.
alouanchi··on [dead]
It is taking more than 30mins since I noticed it.
alouanchi··on Snappy Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi 2
Very happy to hear this news.
alouanchi··on Announcing Rust 1.0 Alpha
Finally time comes to have a look at it.
alouanchi··on Ask HN: a bookmarking app focused on the content
For now I don't see it fitting my need. But if I have many many bookmarks, how can I deal with them? what if there is a rank feature to let me see what the audience/friends are interested on will be greet. Like hot/cold.

Edit: Just to let you know I am in the same case then you (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7692320).

alouanchi··on Ask HN: a bookmarking app focused on the content
Hi. If I understand it's like parsing and putting a link extract for users next the content. So if it's that it can be help some.

But quick question, if I want the content and the video/photo under the same bookmark link. Will it not be as getpocket?.

If you don't mind. I will be more interested on the app that can track the update of the content or the comments or even the product price. But I don't know either if it's good idea.

Good luck.

alouanchi··on Would you use java for your startup?
Thanks, as you did it.
alouanchi··on Ask HN: can you review my idea, please?
After reviewing comments and having a small break I think I didn't explain to idea well. When I said hairdresser I meant the salon.

So when customer submits a request salons respond with offers matching the criteria. But booking can be must have feature.

Cheers.

alouanchi··on Ask HN: can you review my idea, please?
For your update (edit). To be fairly honest it sounds good too. I think I should have a break and work on it again.

I chose the hairdressing domain because many women around me always speak about beauty and hair style. But from your update maybe I should consider other domains and see if they fit better the concept.

Again a big thanks.

alouanchi··on Ask HN: can you review my idea, please?
I was wondering if I have to use this feature at the beginning. Also I want to check if the offer feature is more atractive. And to see on what I have to focus more.

Maybe I have to review the strategy of the idea and test some models to find the one I should follow.

Thanks for your return and time.

alouanchi··on Ask HN: can you review my idea, please?
Thanks a lot to point me all these questions.

If you don't mind I will try to answer you.

For Q1. because I will not have a lot of customers (but if I got them I will be more than happy) at the beginning so the hairdressers can handle making offers. Of course I will provide them a system to assist and help them. And because it will be not in real time (at least not at the beginning) so they have a time to do it. And when customers grow I will provide a new way to make offers, by having a pricing calendar. So they can put price by shift time (ex: 9-10 at 15$, 10-11 at 18$...) in advance and update it occasionally.

For Q2: I hope to make it simple. One request to receive differents offers from differents hairdressers matching the request and choose one. But for the question online I did not have a think about it yet. Thanks for it.

For Q3: I agree and disagree with you. But hairdressers are going to make offers only for customers that are looking for. But let's say if I add the real time offers. So this gives the ability to the hairdresser to target only people close to him in real time to fulfill the empty time. But real time will be not the first step but who knows.

For Q4: for anyone looking for good offer matching his avaibility. (Or for regular customers provide booking feature and adding the reward. However I have to review my idea for this. Good point to warn me about the relationship customer-hairdress).

I came up with this idea cause there is many deals in the web but they do not match always my need at that time. But with my idea I wanted to move the search and comparison to the software and local shops. So I have to make one request and got (hope) offers fitting my need.

And again thanks for your feedback.

alouanchi··on Ask HN: can you review my idea, please?
Thanks for your return. The honesty is all what I am looking for.

What I want to achieve is to be able to book haircut for my suitable time and at the good price in my local area.

alouanchi··on How to validate my idea(s)?
Thanks for the link.
alouanchi··on How to validate my idea(s)?
Thanks for the advices.
alouanchi··on Ask HN: can you review my idea, please?
Thanks anyway.
alouanchi··on Ask HN: can you review my idea, please?
Good point. It's the next step. But looking how they lose with groupon and other group deal. I hope I am coming with new way to lose less and also they are able to handle butter their offers.

But I agree I have to deal with hairdressers first. But I wanted to know if people want it.

Thanks.

alouanchi··on How to validate my idea(s)?
I red some blogs but not yet the books. I will do. I understand and I agree I should interact with users/business to see If my idea can solve their problem but my concern is I don't have yet the product to show it to them. I wanted to get some feedbacks from experiences that someone got. I thanks for the link. I will try to follow it.
alouanchi··on Would you use java for your startup?
Thanks for all your comments. I think you are right the issue is not with which language to code it's the way to get a product people wants. If you don't mind. I got another question (from your experience) how to get/interact with users to understand what they want before to start build something let's say MVP?
alouanchi··on Would you use java for your startup?
To give more details about what I want to do. I want to build web app to match between users' need and shops' offer. It will be not real time at the start but it is going to work I will add kind of real time to notify each part.
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