hamhamed

I think Tripnary is doing a great job at it, though probably failing because it's a hard business to start with (they haven't updated their app since last year)

Nice design, but tool already exists everywhere.

So my question is: how will you differentiate yourself from the other 1000 budget trip planning tool other than a better interface?

Also how will you acquire your users? Travel startups are on of the hardest to acquire users, merely because it's so expensive

About time

It's disabled if you do autocomplete=off in the attributes

Chrome doesn't store the CVV, Google does. It syncs with your Google wallet account, and if the CVV is matched, then the credit card is auto filled

love tech events and how technical they go. Anyone know the organizers of the event? I built a product that helps event-goers find places to sleep around the venue through a widget. Would be cool to get it out there with big events! Here's a few examples: http://www.tractionconf.io/accommodations http://en.esl-one.com/csgo/cologne-2017/information/#stay22-...

Stay22.com | Denver/Boulder, Montreal | Co-founder | ONSITE

Stay22 helps events solve the accommodation pain for their out-of-town attendees. We offer a map plugin directly embedded on the event page where the attendees can find the best place to sleep at the best location.

A few of our customers that are using us: Traction Conf, ESL, Everfest

We're currently at an accelerator in Colorado since last week. Decent traction, making money, and looking for a full-stack developer that can do the company's bidding ;)

Reach out directly to me: hamed@stay22.com

Consequently, repeating something too many times is a flag to detect a lie. Amateur liars usually forget that rule. Good liars create doubt. Bad liars create certainty. However, the former knowns how to gain ppl's trust.

You learn that with camp fire based games like Mafia/Werewolf

Does this research also consider actual real Brain training games like Elevate? It teaches you techniques like how to get better at estimating, improving your WPM, your thesaurus, etc. Nothing to do with memorizing a pattern or serving coffee to customers as fast as possible.

Nylas, Polymail.. just to name a few

They have way more competitors in that space, but I still use it because it's clean and bloat free.

Warm intro's work better, but I'd also wager that good cold emails work as good. For example; if you can connect with the writer about one his articles, and transition into your startup..this is a good 25% chance to get covered (assuming your story is good).

Don't just submit a "tip" or go to the contact page, actually find the person who has written similar stuff and find his email

That depends, for my sect, Shia, it's solely business profit. If no profit, then no Khums.

This is a good initiative. Muslims like me have to already give out a fifth (%20) of their earnings every year called Khums https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khums

We also believe from numerous Hadith's that the money comes back in double for those that give. As they say, you can't take with your palms closed.

I have a startup and want to raise money. It just feels like listing on Angellist won't do anything, and I'm better off doing "offline" (emails) traditional way of raising. It just feels like good deals are done through emails and meetings not through a portal. At least for now

You might hear an advice about going out to conferences or meetups and networking physically. For me this doesn't work as good.

Believe it or not, emailing an author about their blog post is much better than randomly talking to someone who shares your interests at a conference. The former being more targeted and personal.

You seem to very much understand Stay22's business and product ! Very impressed!

To answer you, yes Airbnb does know about us and did show interest. Can't comment more than that.

I've been looking for an investor that believes in us and has the proper connections/industry experience that we are looking for. Not the easiest when you're based in Montreal.

haha appreciate the roughness, but let me assure you I'm not quitting or look for an excuse to delay this. I'm looking for a quick solution instead of spending a month to re-build from scratch. Time that could be spent on partnerships and other product areas.. Plus gMaps is the best imo. Anyways, it will probably come to this..

Hey Courtland - u make some good points let me address some of your points:

1- Caching won't help. It seems I'm being limited on just "map loads", up to 25k https://developers.google.com/maps/pricing-and-plans/#detail... After that I'm billed $0.50 per 1000 requests, and that's still a lot since we have around 200k loads a day (plus not to mention we're growing like crazy expecting to triple that amount by the end of this year). And the costs is just too damn high for us because our widget is like an ad impression..it doesn't always convert and requires lots of loads.

2- If I go OSM, or Bing maps, I might as well do the rest because I'd be spending more time trying to connect the services together. It wasn't meant to be changed or scaled..

I remember IndieHackers when it was launched here in HN, very good reads. I'll give it a try, thanks man!

Yup well aware of the alternatives. It's just that converting my gMaps javascript code into this new API is gonna be a big pain and ensure downtime until I'm back live (I'm currently paying gMaps as a temp fix until I find a solution). Looking to find an easier solution

Of course, too much of anything is bad. At the end of the day to be a good listener, you need to listen.

This is why I come to HN..to find articles like this. This defies what you learn at school, because I have been taught numerous times, to nod and stfu when you're holding a convo.

Always interrupt if you have something constructive to say in a casual/business conversation (unless you're in a debate), that's how you gain trust and credibility.

Agreed, which is why getting into YC or something similar is very important.. that's how you'd get intro'ed to those CEOs for a round

Except you make those ideas sound easy to execute. How am I supposed to get a CEO's attention and trust to invest in my startup with just email?

You just say no man, it's that simple. Then you follow up with the reason.. (no, because I have a deadline for X project, and X gets delayed, we'll make less money..do you wanna make less money?) They hired you, so they trust you.

Obviously if you don't have a reason for your no, then you have to go with the yes. As a manager, I'd rather get a no instead of a 'yes' that ends up fucking up everything later because I wasn't aware of something.

If anyone abroad is coming down to Cupertino and wants a place to crash near the Flint Center, I run a startup that helps you with just that: https://www.stay22.com/events/startup-school-2016

You do really need it, at least for me. I'd rather write $ sign calls instead of getElementByID or querySelector just to start with. The sizzle library in jQuery is so advanced, that you can't do complex queries on the dom yet with today's browser.

Maybe try it on HN threads, don't think Godwin's Law would be as effective

an even simpler answer would be because it is the default browser..

IMO Zumper has a shitter user experience than PadMapper.. also Zumper hosts a third of PadMapper's growth..kinda makes you wonder how companies are successful today... seems like making money is more important than a better product or more growth