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twitter.com 2y ago

Devika – open-source alternative to Devin

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conversionrateoptimiser.com 2y ago

Follow up with customers across channels in their language

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: Play Store removed our app, but allows WhatsApp

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

[Freelancer] Looking for work

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www.appengagementoptimizer.com 11y ago

Show HN: Update your app, without publishing on play store

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: Facebook status updates and sharing down

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

[Tell PG] Bug in submit

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blog.eashmart.com 13y ago

A Javascript noob’s guide to Node + Express + Compound.JS

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www.indiegogo.com 13y ago

Eashmart launches Indiegogo campaign

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www.prateekdayal.net 13y ago

Give freelancing a break

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www.eashmart.com 13y ago

Pay anyone with your credit/debit cards using your mobile

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www.imdb.com 13y ago

IMDB is down

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itsamit.com 13y ago

How I confirm mobile numbers with Android

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blog.targeterapp.com 13y ago

Targeter App offers free CRO for a limited time

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npmjs.org 13y ago

Mysql pool connection package for node.js

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itsamit.com 13y ago

Node-MySQL and better performance

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blog.targeterapp.com 14y ago

When and how to use node.js

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www.engadget.com 14y ago

Apple fined $2.29 million over '4G iPad'

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www.youtube.com 14y ago

Twitter launches series of web commercials

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news.ycombinator.com 14y ago

Twitter hash tags and UTF8

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kushagragour.in 14y ago

Isoblocks : JS library to create isometric text

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blog.targeterapp.com 14y ago

Why we moved from NodeJS to Ruby on Rails

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uxready.com 14y ago

The merits of personalizing Conversion Rate Optimization

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medicalxpress.com 14y ago

Indian drug company slashes crucial medicine prices by 76%

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www.yiyinglu.com 14y ago

QR codes in art

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css2less.cc 14y ago

CSS to Less

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mashable.com 14y ago

Pinstagram Pinterest for Instagram

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www.labnol.org 14y ago

Passwords For Your Facebook Account

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www.kickstarter.com 14y ago

[Kickstarter] Better coffeescript compiler

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www.labnol.org 14y ago

Send gmail attachment to Google drive

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Question is to people who say if universe is teeming with life, then why is it not visible close by: We don't know how large the universe is. If say life is "teeming" means it's found every 1M Parsec on the size of 10^100M Parsec, wouldn't it be teeming, and yet nothing in our vicinity?

I'm being genuinely curious, not dissing on anyone.

Almost always, for such emails, you are not the audience. We've done multiple tests to check which emails perform better for our customers, and always ones with a lot more visual imagery, heavily HTMLized emails work better than just text and links.

Our understanding for this has been that people are not very email savvy, and for them the visual imagery works more like story telling.

Split the dockerfile into 3 parts. builder image for gems. builder image for assets(nodejs and stuff). copy code from disk, gems from image one, assets from image two, into the third image. you will end up saving HUGE time

We do understand that some people may have a financial problem. When user's approach us and tell us that they are not paying due to such issues, we are more than happy to accommodate them in every possible way.

One such example of that is that we told our users that we won't be charging them any late fee during the lockdown as we understand they have issues. We did this even before our government came up with such an option.

- We added a checkbox which reads out everything about how the contacts will be contacted, after Google first asked us. The user is required to check the checkbox before he can even get the permission dialog to give the permission.

- You are right. We are not doing something out the jurisdiction. The contacts notified are the ones who have agreed to be sent "promotional" messages. So we don't spam these people. We are also working on something to make the loans a "group" loan that will make it a requirement for other people to be "fiscally" responsible for your unpaid loan

We run an algorithm which tries to ascertain that the contacts list is not fake/empty. Uninstalling the app would only prevent us from getting new contacts, and ability to notify you of your pending bills via push notification.

The commonality I was referring to is not having a "Checkbox" before uploading contacts as is required by Play Store.

I can understand your dislike to the practice, however, this is something common among a lot of online lending businesses for people who are defaulting on purpose, without a reasonable cause. Here are a few examples: Z2P - Get Instant Loans, Borrow Money, Loan App Instant Personal Loan Online-MoneyWOW

These people are not poor. They assume that since it's an app they taking money from, they can simply refuse to pay. We can, and do, go for the legal route, but it's much much more painful for the user, and for us, even if we want to settle it once a case is filed.

Google isn't citing the use case as issue:

This is what they told us as the reason:

Your app is uploading users' [Contact] information to [URL] without a prominent disclosure. Prior to the collection and transmission, it must prominently highlight how the user data will be used, describe the type of data being collected and have the user provide affirmative consent for such use.

Here's what Google is telling us:

Your app is uploading users' [Contact] information to [URL] without a prominent disclosure. Prior to the collection and transmission, it must prominently highlight how the user data will be used, describe the type of data being collected and have the user provide affirmative consent for such use.

We first contact the user if they don't pay despite calls/emails/push notification/sms for 45 days. Then we warn them for 15 days that their contacts will be asked to remind them of the bill, as per the terms. Finally we contact the contacts.

We do this to prevent having to file legal cases against the users as those can drag on for very long in India and are a pain for both parties

Yes. We first contact the user if they don't pay despite calls/emails/push notification/sms for 45 days. Then we warn them for 15 days that their contacts will be asked to remind them of the bill, as per the terms. Finally we contact the contacts.

We do this to prevent having to file legal cases against the users as those can drag on for very long in India and are a pain for both parties

The money comes in from businesses who are offered loans based on the transaction volume PhonePe sees. Online businesses that use "Pay with PhonePe" links have to pay commission. In the broad sense, if it scales, it's a pretty decent business.

Interesting! Is there a way to use this, or some other library, that can spin up a GPU instance, on AWS or GCE, if there are no GPUs available, and discard GPUs when no more tasks are left? Maybe also allow some "overtime", in case a new task may get registered in the time when the instance gets free and a new one starts up?