JayNeely

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by JayNeely 14y ago
Spreedly.com's still going strong; used them when they were first getting started in 2007. They're still top in my book because they've done the best job of integrating with numerous payment gateways, and their Stripe-competitor, SpreedlyCo
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by JayNeely 14y ago
Some feature suggestions: Add collapsible comments (previously done here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2680632 ) -- this is my most-used HN browser addition. Refresh the 'More' links at the bottom of pages so you never get an 'expi
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by JayNeely 14y ago
I've been in your shoes. If you have any tech skills at all, they will be valuable. At the beginning of Startup Weekend Boston I was doing product management and front-end dev, but by the end of it I was writing code for a language I'd neve
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by JayNeely 14y ago
Please don't editorialize in the link title.
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by JayNeely 14y ago
Top-left is a bad position for the login form, because it's the very first thing people see. Put your slideshow there, and the login / registration on the right. Also, add some graphics. Text-only slideshows do not interest people. It can b
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by JayNeely 14y ago
Babson and Olin are two schools in Boston with a big focus on entrepreneurship. Babson is more business-focused, Olin more engineering-focused. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babson_College http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olin_College I also
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by JayNeely 14y ago
Nice. I think your topic categorization needs some work, but I dig the idea and think the API would be useful for a startup I'm working on now. Would love to talk more; drop me a line at the email in my profile?
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by JayNeely 14y ago
Any plans to offer an API for this?
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by JayNeely 15y ago
I'd also try posting on 4chan's /tg/ (traditional games) board. Lots of table-top gamers there.
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by JayNeely 15y ago
I like this concept. I'd provide a few more examples than "farmers market" on the front page. Get a "How it Works" page going, too. Creating an account (after signing in with twitter) felt sketchy. Password displayed in plaintext, typos "ge
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by JayNeely 15y ago
There's a standing feature request to make this more apparent: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1017933 - help it out with an upvote. :)
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by JayNeely 15y ago
I've seen a big improvement in the quality of my designs since I started using using a grid system ( http://960.gs/ )for horizontal alignment and element spacing.
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Reminds me of http://workvibe.com
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by JayNeely 15y ago
I've been working on a directory of Boston-area tech startups: http://startupsinboston.com/ Currently about 242 listed -- I know there are more, but discovery is challenging; many web startups don't make any mention of where they're physi
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The First Six Steps of Getting Your Startup Noticed(marketingstartups.com)
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by JayNeely 15y ago
That sucks. I don't want to support that. With Flickr going downhill, what should I switch from SmugMug to?
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Rand Fishkin (SEOmoz CEO) and Dharmesh Shah (HubSpot co-founder / CTO) are working on a site for this now: https://plus.google.com/111294201325870406922/posts/1dJvk7Ax...
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Who's doing the actual lobbying? How are you ensuring accountability that the groups receiving the funds are advocating actively enough, and doing it in a way that you support (e.g. no backroom deals, future consulting jobs for politicians,
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Function follows form in this case. If the centerpiece action is choosing who you'd bang, count on more users having expectations of sex on the first date -- expectations their date might not share, because it's not clear if that's what t
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Look through search results for "our ycombinator application" - https://www.google.com/search?q=%22our+ycombinator+applicati...
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Sure thing. jay [.dot.] neely [@at@] SocialStrategist [.dot.] com
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Why are you looking for someone in Queens if you're in California, and you're trying to pivot to a broader audience? The site's a mess. I'm sure your friend worked hard on it, but this is nowhere near being able to compete with Yelp, even l
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Use https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/ for hosting - they have great privacy and are frequently recommended as a host that won't cave to baseless legal demands. Take a look at the links here for info on anonymous publishing: http://www.ci
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Reddit thread with on-going updates: http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/ns2pu/pa_makers_of_a...
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by JayNeely 15y ago
You can try GraphicRiver's item request forum: http://graphicriver.net/forums/topic/item-requests/42 I'd be curious to hear more about what happened with 99designs.
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Personally, I really like the map -- the information is related to state representatives, and these people are going to listen to their constituents more than anyone else. Having a map helps me quickly answer: - Are any of my representati
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by JayNeely 15y ago
Can you make searches return partial matches after exact matches? "General Advice" yields 49 results right now, while "Advice" yields only 3. P.S. http://hackerbuddy.com/users/2863 here, if anyone needs help with CSS or marketing.
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by JayNeely 15y ago
While we're at it, please browse through the feature requests in general and give some upvotes: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363 There's still no indication that the "email" field on your profile isn't public, leading to a lot of c
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by JayNeely 15y ago
There's a Chrome extension that allows this, in the meantime: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/amenlkcfjlmchdpogj...
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by JayNeely 15y ago
I switched to http://www.newsblur.com a while ago, and have been happy with it.

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