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iamkoby··on California law bans delivery apps from listing a restaurant without an agreement
What's wrong with CA? It seems to me that state tries it bests to kick innovation out, and start another tech ecosystem somewhere else...

If impersonating is the reason they couldn't have just regulated a requirement to clearly list if the ad is by the owner or a third party, and not throw away the baby...

iamkoby··on Why I turned down my Y Combinator interview
YC is not a VC, they are more of a community.
iamkoby··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?
100 years is my favorite fiction book of all time...
iamkoby··on Top Checklists on HN
This is great! So many great posts!!
iamkoby··on Breakup, as captured by my fitbit
He broke up on me.
iamkoby··on Basil.js – Smart persistence layer
looks great!
iamkoby··on Show HN: Visualize every GitHub push with Awesomebox
Wow guys! This is just cool! And the site is beautiful! Congrats!
iamkoby··on Surviving Hosting On Airbnb When On Vacation
Thanks for sharing!
iamkoby··on Surviving Hosting On Airbnb When On Vacation
First, screening your guest is a task that takes time and effort as well. We are offering to reduce the work needed for the really low price of 1%. Moreover, it's not just guest support, but you can also accept new guests while on vacation, allowing even back to back guests. It's almost turn-key service.
iamkoby··on Surviving Hosting On Airbnb When On Vacation
You are right. Mobile version did have a bug, hiding the navigation bar! Thank you for noticing! We will fix it asap!
iamkoby··on Surviving Hosting On Airbnb When On Vacation
Thanks! I appreciate the feedback!
iamkoby··on Surviving Hosting On Airbnb When On Vacation
I can definitely relate. Had been using Airbnb around the world a lot. This is why we put a strong emphasis towards quality of service. As a paid service we know that if we do badly you won't hire us again. We do our best as if it was our own listing. We give fast an accurate response, and we are always there for more clarifications. And our guests love us, so we must be doing it right. You can read in our website some of our testimonials.

Koby, co-founder of SuperHost

iamkoby··on Surviving Hosting On Airbnb When On Vacation
For most of the cases, answers can be found in the listing, and guests are looking for clarification or confirmation. As we do get access for the listing, we can learn a lot from your previous responses and repeat that in future scenarios. Also, as we are experienced hosts we understand Airbnb platform better so we can give answers to problems people face with.

Lastly, you are right, some of the questions cannot be answered by us, those are a fraction of the inquires and we give you, the host, the option to not let those interrupt you in your vacation. If you do want us to send you important questions we will. Think about us as a personal receptionist desk.

Koby, co-founder of SuperHost

iamkoby··on Show HN: Kimono – Never write a web scraper again
i love this! and amazing video!
iamkoby··on Make-A-Wish Foundation Turns San Francisco Into Gotham for 5-Year-Old Batkid
made my day :)
iamkoby··on Let's have coffee.
Just a reminder- Mark Zuck. was founder, but also CTO, CEO and what not at the age of 21, and of an almost billion $ company in the age of 23. Grow up, the world belongs to the young!
iamkoby··on Stupid Apple Rejection of the Day
Sometimes legal litigation forces companies to take extra measures and describing the obvious is something that already was tested in court. You feel that's obvious because you understand the tech behind it but some users (maybe the less educated ones) don't understand this, and then they sue apple for shorter than published battery life. By forcing you to include this label in your terms it releases legal responsibility.

For absurdity in warning labels follow one of the most famous cases: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restauran...

iamkoby··on Let's have coffee.
looks like an idea for a startup... thumbsup
iamkoby··on We're auctioning off a chance for your kid to come to a YC dinner
I think you should consider adding it to the auction page. It would probably make it clearer and help raise bids.
iamkoby··on We're auctioning off a chance for your kid to come to a YC dinner
it's pg who posted it...
iamkoby··on What Is Node currently $0 on Amazon
no, that's the name of the book.
iamkoby··on What Is Node currently $0 on Amazon
Is there really anyone that reads HN that doesn't know what's Node??
iamkoby··on CodeCombat in Y Combinator
I didn't get it when you where on stage, but seeing your website I have to give you thumbs up. It looks great, it's fun to play (even for me as experienced dev), and overall very promising. Congrats on YC!
iamkoby··on Poll: Where are you currently living?
Israel
iamkoby··on Apple Hires Burberry CEO Angela Ahrendts to Head Retail Efforts
Burberry has been showing technology adaptation consistently in the past few years, and also took part in the music promotion with their Burberry Acoustic department, which is close to what Apple is doing with iTunes and iTunes Festival. I think this relates to the Apple culture deeply, not to mention their deep link to aesthetics and fashion. I see it as a great evolution for Apple retail and Angela.
iamkoby··on Ask HN: Why do all payment processors charge 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction?
great read, thank you
iamkoby··on Ask HN: Startup School worth it?
hesitant about 2 hours??? i'm coming from Israel!