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mkaroumi

95 karma · joined October 13, 2014

I love products!
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mkaroumi··on Screenshots f*cking destroy your desktop – here’s the quick fix (takes 1 min)
Lol yeah. That may appeal to everyone who directly understand what screencapture path means. But a "clickbait" title like this focuses directly on the feeling that many people get when they see their cluttery desktop. That was the intention of the title :)
mkaroumi··on Iconset for all
Broken link!
mkaroumi··on Facebook fraud gangs turn gullible middle-class teenagers into criminals
Rule No.1: If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is!
mkaroumi··on Herd Mentality
Works for me...
mkaroumi··on [dead]
Is this your site?

The owner should consider creating a more visually telling site. Sure, it explains the steps but graphics that explain every step briefly in 1,2,3 would be much better.

Some examples of snail mails that you've sent would make it even better. I want to see what the "product" looks like (quality etc.)

mkaroumi··on Why I gave up on Asana after 15 minutes
Great post. I felt the same when I tested it!

User Onboard should review this site. Check them out if you haven't already (not my site) https://www.useronboard.com/

mkaroumi··on Onboarding teardowns
Probably my favorite site ever made (after Hacker News) haha.

The only thing I hate is that they are too slow to make new onboarding teardowns!

My favorite - how they criticize Apple Music's onboarding process: https://www.useronboard.com/how-applemusic-onboards-new-user...

mkaroumi··on Mistakes business students make when founding a startup
I HATE business plans. BMC though, that's pretty useful :)
mkaroumi··on Mistakes business students make when founding a startup
True. But what about a BMC instead of a 200 page business plan? Sure, it takes time to create a good BMC but man, they've helped me so much!
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
Glad to hear that from you.

I'm really sorry, I can't tell you how much I invested but I can tell you that it was for the first batch and not per-item charging. So you kinda need to invest a lot of money to start something like this - if you want to create great quality products :)

Vintages from the 60s are sooo amazing. We were actually inspired from some vintage watches (and modern watches) :)

mkaroumi··on Show HN: Marketing newsletter from me – raised $800k via crowdfunding
That's why it's a Show HN. I wanted feedback and BOOM! Now you gave me great feedback ;)

Will add that soon. That will make it much better!

mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
Great questions. I can't answer as detailed as I would like to do.

But, I can't be 100% sure that these watches will be of the same quality, but I'm 99% sure. I've dealed with these manufacturers for a while and we have a tight partnership.

I don't want to misinterpret and give you wrong info, so what do you mean with ballpark? Not sure what you mean :)

mkaroumi··on YepJet: Stripe for airlines
Great. Shoot me an email if you need any help with that kind of stuff. I'm glad to help: marcus[at]karoumi[dot]com
mkaroumi··on Mistakes business students make when founding a startup
That's how it is if you use full size "hero image" on Medium. I wish Medium would allow its users to add the title in the foreground of the image.
mkaroumi··on Mistakes business students make when founding a startup
Love No. 4.

Me and my friend (both business students) tried to start a business with having the Business Plan as our first step. It went to hell.

Now we started with validating the idea - selling! It worked soooo much better. More people should try that instead!

mkaroumi··on YepJet: Stripe for airlines
Love that gradient! And the product of course ;) But I would consider a Call To Action before fold, right under the first hero image. I can almost promise you - it will generate more sign ups :)
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
I could, but that would cost $300 for that sample. I got a sample of another watch to feel the quality. And I can tell you - it felt good!
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
Renders. The watches will be finished soon and then we'll be able to show you real photos. That'll happen in weeks, I hope :)
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
Totally understand. It's hard to make people trust you before you have the real pics of the watch. But they'll be finished soon and then we'll have some real photos ;)
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
Thanks a lot! It won't be able at first, but probably in March/April :)
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
As I said before, this is not really passive income, but I can easily sell watches just with the effort I put in earlier. I don't have to put as much time and effort as soon as the watches come if I don't want it to scale.
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
The easiest way is to contact a manufacture and ask how they would want it. I used CAD and sent it but it's different from time to time.
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
Totally agree. Always consider increasing your price. If people find it valuable, they'll still buy it:)
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
The watch case design is a render and the band is a photo of real bands. But as I said before, the watches are under production right now, finished very soon. So we're not able to have any real photos of the watch yet :)
mkaroumi··on Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2015?
My watch company.

Started it in September and started selling before the watches were made. They're still in production and will be finished soon.

Wouldn't maybe call it "passive income", but the sales keep coming through WOM. (http://gardannewatches.com)

mkaroumi··on Accelerate your Instagram for more targeted likes, comments and follows
I've tried this tool for a while to generate more engagement. I create fashion watches for men and automatically like posts under tags like #mensfashion, #gardannewatches (my own watch brand) etc.

This have helped me gain so much more traction than I ever could manually. But if you'll try it - be careful. It's easy to use it in the wrong way and act spammy!

mkaroumi··on 12 Best Tools for Playing Around with Color (UI)
Great, that's what was missed in this list. Actually used Paletton earlier today. It's probably one of the best "palette" apps for us non-designers.

Any more suggestions? :)

mkaroumi··on Show HN: A Chrome extension that brings back stars on Twitter
Oh... I saw now that you probably already know that. My fault!
mkaroumi··on Show HN: A Chrome extension that brings back stars on Twitter
Haha this is so fun. We want the star back!!! (or do we?)...

Anyways. You're now on PH:

mkaroumi··on Ask HN: I want to sell web products, I'm Bolivian and don't know how to start
What do you want to sell? All of that or just one of these things? Ps. Have you checked out Pat Flynn and his podcasts/blog?
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