dinwal

I run RecurPost, a fast growing social media scheduler and hence I know a thing or two about this.

We had to go through their approval process to be able to schedule things on your behalf. Any platform that does not ask for your username and password is legit and has been approved by Meta or Twitter etc. Some platforms ask you to install a chrome plugin to connect your account, those are not legit.

I'd love to hear what you hackers think about the idea.

This is like http://prostart.me but without the long term partnership. Cool idea, but one-size-fits-all does not work.

Lol, that's a meta comment.

We built this in a day including the icon. My doctor recommended the 20-20-20 rule, which says those who work long hours in front of a bright screen should look at least 20 feet away every 20 minutes for 20 seconds.

I don't think you can do that.

Failures are inevitable. I am sure the team has learnt more from it than it would if it had worked. When you have failed once you don't leave any stone unturned and in the process improve on tens of more things.

I would love to know what HN has to say about the tool. It's totally free to try. There is no limit on how many polls you can create or where you can add them. We have tried on custom made sites as well as wordpress blogs and they work.

You made my day man.

I am the creator of this tool and we just went out of Beta. I will be happy to see what the community thinks of this tool.

Would love to hear if you guys have a feature request.

Thank you for kind words.

That is where we are planning to extend this. Also, eBay and Amazon dropshipping are a good target for this.

Since you are buying and selling from/to businesses instead of people, there is a low chance of things going wrong.

You sell the book first and get a quote. The quote is good for at least a week and in a decent number of cases for 30 days. As long as you can get the book shipped to you within that time period and ship it to the buying website, you should be good.

I understand the skepticism and that is why we have the free plan to test it out at low level.

Are you suggesting that Flippiness should use those services or are you saying that a person can use those services for free without paying?

If latter, yes we could use those but we don't know how frequently they update their prices. If there is a mismatch between their prices and source prices, our data will be inaccurate. We get prices continuously in a cycle for all books that we have (almost a Million). This ensures we remove stale records.

If you meant Former, the issue is a person can't manually check prices for a lot of books every day. Even if they did it will cost them more timewise than our membership dues.

It is only for US residents at the moment. We are working on opening it to people in other countries soon.

This is a valid point. The reason is that there is a manual process of getting the book shipped and then shipping it. This cannot scale very well. I can may be trade 50 books a day but that is the upper limit. I don't want to invest too much time into something that can't scale. By opening it up to the world with a monthly membership, I can take a vacation and still make money from this.

Does that sound good enough?

You need to swap the labels. The buying site gives you a label to put on the box so that they can keep track of who sent what.

Also, some sites like chegg send Red Bull, Starbucks or even cosmetics in the box that you would want to keep.

I like how you think :).

You need to get the book shipped to your place first and then you need to ship it to the buying website. You will need to get involved at one point.

If you hire someone from US to do this, they will start flipping books themselves leaving you.

I happen to be the creator as well, so feel free to ask me any question you may have. Tech, business, traffic or anything.

Wantrapreneur is a term that has started to describe people who are n00bs for entrepreneurship. This is where I see a problem. Instead of motivating people to graduate to entrepreneurship, we are mocking them to give it up. Not nice.

Well, this is not really true for every free theme. If you add decent plugins, you can get almost everything using default wordpress templates like twenty thirteen or the later ones.