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  1. OverByte

    Can we smoke weed in the entrepreneurial world?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    While I agree with your main point, this statement assumes that the drug is a vice which may be your perspective but I'm not sure is necessarily true depending on person and usage. I think the big thing to answer OP is.. does this help you achieve your goal, if so what's the cost, if you can...
  2. OverByte

    Starting an eCommerce Competitive Intelligence Site

    EXECUTION 
    Glad you're continually pushing ahead. Re: webscraping... definitely a gray area. I believe LinkedIn lost their case which set a bit of a precedent but I'm not a lawyer and I would agree it violates control. That being said, there are a lot of successful businesses which rely on webscraping...
  3. OverByte

    [Idea Poll]SAAS business for analytics and monitoring

    IDEA SAAS / APPS 
    I wouldn't use it. Upwork has a system for this though so they have identified a need presumably. I think it sets a bad precedent to not trust your employees and measure instead based on deliverables but there are companies that would probably want this. Your pill is unclear are you looking for...
  4. OverByte

    Money extortion from former virtual assistant

    I never thought you had bad intent, I just wanted to point out the fallacy of comparing oranges to apples. OP is in a worried state so it's important to be clear. I agree they should save the emails/correspondence. Maybe even my comment about blocking them should actually be redirect them to...
  5. OverByte

    Money extortion from former virtual assistant

    You are linking to large data breaches due to company negligence. If you own a massive company with a massive database of customer information and you failed to protect access to that information then yes, there's liability there. One of the examples you give is that a company threw away private...
  6. OverByte

    Money extortion from former virtual assistant

    I highly doubt that if a bad actor published someone's name online a court would automatically fine a business tens of thousands of dollars. If a bunch of customer data was leaked due to negligence, that would be a different story, but that's not whats going on here. Do you have experience with...
  7. OverByte

    Money extortion from former virtual assistant

    So are you still employed and your main concern is they are going to call your employer and say that you have a business? They will continue to email and threaten if they think you might budge. All of this is your own fear. Granted it's easier for me to say but it's also easier for me to be...
  8. OverByte

    Need Advice on R&D of My Product - Weightlifting Gloves

    I'm definitely in agreement there is a good % of people who wear gloves. Was more interested in the ratio of heavy lifters who wear gloves if that was the target niche. But like you said, you'll only know for sure through testing.
  9. OverByte

    Need Advice on R&D of My Product - Weightlifting Gloves

    I definitely wish you luck and like that you have narrowed down the focus to a specific niche market. This wasn't clear from the earlier posts. Since your market is the heavy weight lifting crowd, do you know many who use gloves? I didn't think gloves were popular with that group (could...
  10. OverByte

    Money extortion from former virtual assistant

    Can't you just remove their access? Re email I would reckon it's likely an empty threat if you don't pay up why would they go through the trouble. Plus you can remove them from being able to send from your domain so the risk would be limited to them copying email addresses and sending from a...
  11. OverByte

    Need Advice on R&D of My Product - Weightlifting Gloves

    Since so many replies focus on the callus aspect I think it's worth pointing out that isn't the only reason people wear gloves. It may not even be the primary reason. I used to wear them because I could lift more because the bar didn't slip. Chalk has its own disadvantages and many commercial...
  12. OverByte

    Need Advice on R&D of My Product - Weightlifting Gloves

    There's obviously a market for weightlifting gloves but I also am not convinced a different padding material is substantial improvement over the current market. There are a lot of option out there, the comment saying "all gym gloves on the market now are this or that" is pretty naive, have you...
  13. OverByte

    Can we smoke weed in the entrepreneurial world?

    HOT! MINDSET 
    I wasn’t going to bite on this but decided to give my perspective. There are many drugs, each affects people differently and some have more social stigma than others. I think cannabis is particularly interesting due to how its cultural perception has evolved over time. I believe it’s a positive...
  14. OverByte

    Programmer looking for the best way to make money

    Sounds like you're worrying about the wrong things and making excuses not to move forward. Why would you get sued and even if you broke ip that shouldn't land you in jail. Though I don't know what country you're in but if they are that unfriendly to entrepreneurship then my advice is to get out...
  15. OverByte

    How to get feedback from page visitors?

    Are you offering them anything to fill it out? I offer a discount code and have a 4-5% response rate. Can you think of a way to incentive visitors to fill it out and then prominently display the offer. I indicate in the headline "Want X% Off" and then the copy is something like "We'd love to get...
  16. OverByte

    How to get feedback from page visitors?

    If anyone has a Shopify store and is looking to get feedback from customers I built an app for my own store to provide surveys for just this purpose. It's style is more customizable than hotjar so likely fits better with your theme. The app is currently unlisted but is fully functional, simple...
  17. OverByte

    Apple to lose Control of App Store?

    HOT! 
    All these examples are through apps. You can still buy the books on amazon.com. You said all commerce (in the post I responded to) which is not the same as all in-app purchases. I edited my original post to clarify what I meant by "hosting" which is really to say hosting the installation and...
  18. OverByte

    UPSCALE: What do you think of my invention?

    HOT! 
    While this is a long term strategy I think it's a really good idea for organic traffic. You'll get people searching for scales and a certain % will see the links to your product (which I'm sure you'll find a way to feature prominently) and think 'hey I could use that' so you capture that market...
  19. OverByte

    Apple to lose Control of App Store?

    HOT! 
    Not going to happen. Apple and Google are able to get away with charging fees on in-app purchases because they control the infrastructure those apps have to use and are the gatekeepers to apps on those platforms. As long as ecommerce stores are hosted on www they (apple/google) won't be able to...
  20. OverByte

    Apple to lose Control of App Store?

    HOT! 
    It's a creative move for Epic to attack Apple's brand. The ad is very well done however, I wonder how many people seeing it are old enough to remember the original apple ads (I'm not and only know about them from marketing case studies). I would think only a small proportion of Epic's audience...

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