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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
(This is different from worrying about pages that “degrade gracefully” is a terrible idead in my opinion. If you’re not using JavaScript, you’re not using the web. Special considerations shouldn’t be made for you.) That's the full quote.
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
It is great to see a company get a lot of money, then put it to really smart / great use. I love Skitch. It is one of the apps I use throughout the day in my normal workflow. It is just too easy to grab a screenshot, add a big red arrow p
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
let the businesses come to them That will never happen. That's the fundamental problem with "local". Small businesses and mom-and-pop shops need to be called and convinced. They need their hand held. They aren't studying lean marketin
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
No. The email subscribers are Groupon's customers - if you define "customer" as "where the money comes from". Every day Groupon sends out a daily deal to their email subscribers. Some percent of those subscribers opt to purchase the deal
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
Wow. Imagine if DropBox dealt with problems and potential PR disasters this way... I was moments away from completely writing off AngelList when I read the parent comment. Now they seem cool. Disaster averted.
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
You also get to skip the question of "Login" vs. "Log In"
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
For what it's worth, I'm going with SIGN IN. I think that sounds more consumer-y. LOG IN sounds like a corporate intranet.
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Ask HN: What do you use: SIGN IN or LOG IN?
4 points by OpenAmazing 15y ago|8 comments
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
What do we do when there is an excess of human labor? We get to work building some really awesome space ships and start colonizing other planets. Seriously.
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
It doesn't even have to be someone credible. Simply puting some images of human faces on your site near the call-to-action button helps. The Facebook widgets that show who has "liked" your site work great for this. Our eyes are drawn to p
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
Don't they let any user from Google past the paywall? Just google the article title.
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Pentagon’s "Lightning" Gun Sold for Scraps on eBay(wired.com)
3 points by OpenAmazing 15y ago|0 comments
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Cracked the viral code. But old-fashioned coupons are what's driving sales.(adage.com)
1 points by OpenAmazing 15y ago|0 comments
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
Most people looking at your Purchase page are not willing to give you money. A typical shopping cart abandonment rate is more than 75%.
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
It depends. On an older site I ran we discovered the same thing and exploited it. We made it easy to find coupons for our product via Google. Interested visitors would land on our buy page, see the coupon field, search Google, find one an
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
I hope you will come back here in search of answers to the many questions that loom large. That's an interesting thing to say, especially after recounting the emotional impact the internet trolls have had on her. It seems she may be strug
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
True. I should have prefaced with "from a business standpoint".
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
Its seems that, based on the positive media reaction to this, AirBnB has done everything right from the start: Everyone is piling on them for screwing up the initial reaction to EJ, by not going far enough in offering to help her. But AirB
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
Looks great. Does Hasbro (owner of Scrabble) have any IP protection on the wooden letter tiles with a number in the corner? Seems like a small thing, but it wouldn't shock me. And could be an issue if this gets big.
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
Ha ha. From the bottom of his post: "Oh hi there, Hacker News. Someone apparently submitted this and it's doing pretty well. Some sort of HN or reddit flare-up happens with more of my posts than not, and it always has me wanting to find a
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by OpenAmazing 15y ago
Offering to give EJ a new house is like offering to buy a rape victim new clothes. And if you think the way EJ feels is not similar to what a rape victim feels, you probably haven't talked to one before.