MrFantsyPants

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   by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

   I do a fair bit of coding on Mac, Windows and Linux (usually ubuntu) If you switch, be prepared that it will take you a bit of an adjustment, as many of the basic actions that you do without even thinking about it will change. However, I th
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   by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

   There is a sample community ( http://sample.villagetoolbox.com ) that is linked from the from page. I'll also link it from the search results page. Thanks for the feedback
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   by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

   I have, I've played with various different ideas for generating revenue, but I think anything that charges for a community or for membership is doomed to fail. I'm going after hyper-local advertising. Members of a community can buy a banne
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   by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

   My reasoning for building this was that our community had a need for an online presence, and none of the tools were quite right. The main differentiator come from the assumption that the community members are neighbours, often with a pre-e
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   by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

   Good point. It's gotta be easy. Is it acceptable just explain that they need to create an account first, or would it be valuable to you if I allow creating an account and community on one form?
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   by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

   I've been building this in my spare time for the last year or so. It's time to go into open beta, but I'd love to hear what the HN community thinks of it. (I know, you're probably not my target demographic, but, hey)
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   Ask YC: Feedback on my community website(villagetoolbox.com)

   5 points by MrFantsyPants 18y ago|17 comments
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   by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

   A common problem with data manipulation is normalizing data in different formats: 5198826788 (519) 822-6238 1 519-454-1234 905 999 1234 +1 905 787-1912 x2234 are all phone numbers. Give me a way to make them all look the sam
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   by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

   For VillageToolbox.com, I needed a database driven mailing list with a highly customizable web interface, both for subscribe and list options, and for the list archives. I ended up writing my own mailet for Apache JAMES. It seems pretty ro
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    by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

    I've been working on a symfony project for the last six months, and after it ends, I hope to never see it again. Over-engineered fits, but I also have issues with many of their choices. In the end, I would have built a better product in t
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    by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

    I'm Vice-President in Charge of Crayons.
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    by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

    We never actually paid him a cent. We covered some of his expenses. Where it hurt us was in moral, and in internal resources poured into a dead end pit. At least he's facing 40 years in jail, and 5 years on, we've managed just fine.
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    by MrFantsyPants 18y ago

    My wife and I owned a small software company, 12 employees. It all fell apart when we hired the wrong sales person. He came to us after reading about our company in the paper (We'd just won a World Summit Award). His references checked out,