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waterlooalex··on Show HN: Ax-check.com – Can agents use your product?
I tried testing my site syncwith.com and it says its blocked, but its not clear to me why, any ideas? I tested with Claude and it doesn't find any issues like this.

https://www.ax-check.com/syncwith.com

waterlooalex··on Data Warehouse Benchmark: Redshift, Snowflake, Azure, Presto, BigQuery
I didn't have that problem, maybe they've since fixed it?
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
https://transferwise.com/blog/2012-04/send-money-abroad-comp...
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
Wow. When ever I've done cross border wires they take at minumum 1 day.
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
I'm curious, are those payments for work you've done for a US company?

I do love what transferwise is doing, thats awesome that the banks are riled up about it :)

waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
Thats pretty slick.
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
A friend had mentioned XE to me, it looked like a good option. What makes it a PITA? You mentioned broker but I'm not sure exactly what you mean.
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
Even international wire transfers? Eg US to another country.
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
Is it safe to use Bitcoin?
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
Wire transfers always seem to take so long. How long do they take for you?
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
I read about them, they sound awesome. Is your employer happy to use them?
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
Does PayPal also charge their international fee and currency exchange fee?

https://www.paypal.com/cr/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-xborde...

https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/helpcenter/helphub/article...

waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How do you receive USD for work abroad without getting ripped off?
Yes, transfer fees etc. Also I found out my bank takes a cut on currency exchange!! Eg they take 2.5% vs the market rate. PayPal fees seem high.
waterlooalex··on Show HN: React Canvas Example App – Rotten Tomatoes
Very slick, works well on my phone. But I dont really get it. What does it do?
waterlooalex··on A source for this picture?
You could avoid that by 1. having many apps up at once instead of just one. 2. Probably isn't hard to use a proxy for each device.
waterlooalex··on A source for this picture?
Ah interesting, as in: she's the person who rates your app if you "buy" some ratings?
waterlooalex··on Ideal Image Slider
The swiping seems to be really laggy, makes it seem like its broken.
waterlooalex··on Level 3’s Selective Amnesia on Peering
Bandwidth doesn't grow on trees :)

Verizon's position is that simply adding more cards within the free peering agreement will make it even more unbalanced in level 3's favour, hence their suggestion that level 3 pay for bandwidth through a different agreement.

waterlooalex··on Level 3’s Selective Amnesia on Peering
I think Level 3 is saying they'd be willing to pay for the cards, but not bandwidth, eg continue using the free peering agreement.

Verizon is saying that Level 3 should pay for the bandwidth (probably way more costly than the cards), since they are already getting more than they are owed in the free peering agreement.

waterlooalex··on A Way to Reverse Coronary Artery Disease? [pdf]
It doesn't look like they had a control group, did they?
waterlooalex··on OpenRoss – fast, scalable, on-demand image resizer
Looks like you built your own http://cloudinary.com but with less features
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io
I'd be interested in discussing further. Fire me an email alex at alexblack.ca
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: What do people buy most on Craigslist?
Idea: look at Craigslist for some big cities like NYC and see which categories have the most posts, and use that as a proxy for sales?
waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io
OK makes sense. 40 customers, nice!

What are your transcoding costs? Eg what is your profit margin on $0.3 per min?

waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io
Thanks for the responses!

3. From what I've seen customer acquisition is the key challenge of any startup. If you can acquire customers for less than their life time value then you are set!

Without a process to acquire customers your business is much less valuable.

Someone would likely pay more for transcoder.io if it had a scalable way to acquire customers but no tech, vs what you have which is tech but no customer acquistion.

5, 6. I did read that blog post before posting the questions.

From the end user perspective they just want their videos transcoded, it seems like all 3 of these services do that. I was hoping you could summarize the tl;dr of why someone would use your service to get their videos transcoded vs someone else's.

waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io
Also:

5. What are the reasons someone would pay to use transcoder.io instead of zencoder?

6. What are the reasons someone would pay to use transcoder.io instead of elastic transcoder?

waterlooalex··on Ask HN: How to sell my startup transcode.io
A few questions:

1. How much do you want for it?

2. How much revenue do you have?

3. Have you found a way to acquire customers?

4. How much will it cost the new owner to get it developed further?

waterlooalex··on 3D for the real world
I want this + something to preview paint, furniture and renovation changes to my home!
waterlooalex··on Real time form analytics
"67% of your potential customers who start an online form or checkout don't complete it.

Find out why."

This sounds pretty useful, yet very simple. I wish I'd thought of it!

waterlooalex··on This Is What Happens When Publishers Invest In Long Stories
Agreed. Title should be "If it seems too good to be true (Jaw dropping improvement in bounce rate) then it probably is."
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