BenSchaechter

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Want More Traffic? Fix Your Product(gopollgo.com)
4 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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View of a Shuttle Launch From a Commercial Flight(youtube.com)
4 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
So someone in the audience was using Firesheep. Horrors. https://twitter.com FTW
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Reasons Why Your Startup Should Have a Blog(gopollgo.com)
11 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Palo Alto, California http://www.gopollgo.com is a social polling platform and we're looking for rock-solid talent. Our stack is Ruby on Rails / JQuery / HAML / SASS / MySQL / Nginx / Passenger / Git. Competitive pay + options. Sadly, we
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Palo Alto, California www.GoPollGo.com is a social polling platform and we're looking for rock-solid talent. Our stack is Ruby on Rails / JQuery / HAML / SASS / MySQL / Nginx / Passenger / Git. Competitive pay + options. Check out our opp
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Time: An Entrepreneur's Most Valuable Resource(gopollgo.com)
7 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Ruby on Rails
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Ask HN: Why does it cost money to post on online job boards?
6 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|11 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
As a previous CrunchBase developer I can tell you that while it is usually pretty accurate there are times where it doesn't have a funding recorded. I usually go with what's written in the article because it is usually a quote directly fro
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Mark Zuckerberg -- I Fear My Facebook Stalker(tmz.com)
3 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|1 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Huzzah, I asked this question!
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
This is what I was thinking. It might be better for people trying to raise money from other angels who aren't a YC company because the new YC batch now has their boats floated for quite a bit more time.
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Give HN: Free Analytics on HN Polls(gopollgo.com)
4 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
As someone who felt the exact same thing as you going through school, I say just enjoy school if you can. I loathed school -- but looking back, I wish I had embraced it more. Not necessarily the academia -- but the atmosphere. Plus, your
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Google Pwns Apple(gopollgo.com)
2 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Thanks -- I'll definitely put one on the home page. Thanks for the feedback!
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Thanks for the comments. Great advice! Very much appreciated!
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Two others and I just launched http://gopollgo.com a few days ago and its starting to pick up a bit of steam! There are two parts to it: There is the free, consumer side of the site for anyone to use. People can create, vote and comment
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Please Review My New Site(gopollgo.com)
21 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|7 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
This is going to sound so fan-boyish -- but I really respect what team Airbnb has done. Its so exciting to see them continue to kick so much ass and grow.
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Monitoring Nginx [With Graphs](bensign.com)
2 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|0 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
http://gopollgo.com I'm creating a consumer/social polling website set to launch in about a week or so. On a consumer level it is basic. But we're going to offer advanced reporting, etc for bigger brands to connect with Twitter follower
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
I can really relate to this post a lot. While I have feelings of being sort of a dick when I come to terms with this, it is completely true. I don't really hang out with a lot of startup people (perhaps I need to). But mostly it is becaus
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Bah! I met you guys at a TechCrunch event. Sad to see it not work out. I would recommend Flippa. Or, perhaps what all the cool kids are doing: "Offer HN"
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Ask HN: What is with Rotten Tomatoes' HTML Source?
2 points by BenSchaechter 16y ago|3 comments
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Yup, I initially clicked a paid plan, then clicked back, then clicked the free one. I was redirected to PayPal upon creating an account.
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Very cool idea and I agree that the site looks awesome. Something sort of annoying though: If I sign up for a free plan, I don't think it should automatically redirect me to PayPal to try to get me to upgrade. I think having it redirect t
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
I built everything myself from scratch in regards to the maps. This includes all vector paths (you wouldn't believe how much work this is), JQuery & Raphael interaction. There is also some websockets goodness. 90% of everything is ha
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by BenSchaechter 16y ago
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out how to best solve this problem without complicating the UI. I've thought about making everything ajax so you can use your arrow keys to navigate through polls much easier. The overhead for that would take som

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