simoelalj

Thanks for the feedback! I rephrased the conclusion :)

Apple is only using this vocabulary: "Apple Certified Refurbished" on their store

Thanks! I just pushed an update to fix that :)

Indeed, my bad – I meant the first generation of the Macbook Pro (2006 Aluminum model). The retina came later in 2012.

I think there would still be a supply for refurbished products (maybe a bit less this time with the shortages) – as Apple cannot sell open-boxes or returned products as new.

Just updated that. Thanks!

Generally it's around 2-weeks from the "announcement date" and "order date"?

This would be hard to track when you see the scale of Apple's logistics!

That was the case of the the first Macbook Air M1 (which was super popular): https://www.refurb.me/stats/macbook-air/macbook-air-13.3-inc...

106 days exactly since its first release.

The first batch would be more for people who bought it to review it and return it.

Not All Apple refurbished products are created equal though.

Apple have literally the BEST condition you can expect on any refurbished product on the market. But all other refurbishers (Gazelle, Mac of All trades, Amazon Warehouse, Decluttr...) grade them in a scale (A, B, C) based on their cosmetic condition and add a year warranty as well.

That was exactly my pain point back in 2007 when I wanted to get a specific configuration for the retina Macbook Pro. That's why I built RefurbMe as a comparison and monitoring service :)

It seems that even 3-4 lines was long... Did you tracked the open and click rates?

We combined different approaches to make it work:

First, inspecting all network requests that are happening on the web client. That helped to inspect all requests made to read a page and edit content (a lot of data is transiting, maybe that's why it's slow on the startup...).

And then I realized there were few existing open-source projects that already done that (https://github.com/kjk/notionapi and https://github.com/jamalex/notion-py), but there were lacking an HTTP API endpoint so that we can easily plug them that to Zapier/Integromat or a Webhook.

These two repo didn't had a way to convert a Markdown to a Notion content - which would make it complicated to know every type of blocks that makes a Notion page.

Finally you needed to be tech-savvy to be able to deploy the open-source projects and there wasn't any simple integration SaaS out there – so it was limiting a large section of people who use Notion extensively, and are familiar with automation tools.

Did you hired them as full time employee in the US or as a freelancer?

Thanks for sharing your experience :) I'm curious about your hiring process, how did you found your candidates and interviewed them?

http://www.refurb.me/ is monitoring service for the official Apple refurb store. Because it's hard to know when the product that you want to buy will become available. RefurbMe will alert you by email or SMS to go buy it on the Apple Store.