Travis

39 ms·

361.
by Travis 16y ago
I'm curious how you respond to my comments/questions from another thread from today, on the same topic. Link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1572858 I'm actually planning on implementing this tonight for my startup. We're going to
362.
by Travis 16y ago
Without trying to hijack your thread, I'm curious exactly HOW opens are tracked by these apps. They seem to stand by them (but they're evil marketing people). Seems liek they just embed an image in your email. When it loads, they have a u
363.
by Travis 16y ago
I break more of these rules than I obey. 1. version control. get it. force it to be used. I use SVN but I'd recommend using git or mercurial. Doesn't matter as long as it's a newer one (CVS, yech). 2. automate. automate everything. Yo
364.
by Travis 16y ago
Are you sure your motivation is correct, WRT pagerank? I'd always thought that PR applies to your PAGES only. not domains. So, in your example, it's not that blog.twilio.com has a higher PR than www.twilio.com, it's that the blog.twilio.c
365.
by Travis 16y ago
Apologies in advance if this sounds harsh. I think you raise some good points about the HN community and general human feedback mechanisms. I would vote to keep the meta-chatter on HN to a minimum. Let's focus on our discussions and posts
366.
by Travis 16y ago
I don't have many stats, but I believe some IT installations (where the browser is supposed to connect only to intranet sites) will severely restrict the allowed use of JS. Also, I've had JS randomly break in firefox sometimes, and it doesn
367.
by Travis 16y ago
Just a quick review -- I like the funky look of it. Reminds me of how-to sites from the late 90s, before spam overrode everything. The one thing that bugged me was the $29.95 crossed out, with $9.95 written in. Whenever I see a discount
368.
by Travis 16y ago
It sounds like you have a lot of the abilities and skills to be a back office, background type entrepreneur. Your efforts to manage your mental illness goes a long way (for me, at least) towards your value. As a potential co-founder, I wou
369.
by Travis 16y ago
Why was this posted to HN? Doesn't seem appropriate, and since your username and domain name seem the same, it appears like selfpromotional spam. Flagging it now.
370.
by Travis 16y ago
I suppose the obvious answer would be large scale data analysis. Distributed programming of statistical and learning algorithms. So, less emphasis on theoretical math, more on applied statistics. Distributed computing. Experience in huge
371.
by Travis 16y ago
I'll avoid the database section, as that's a bit involved. I bill customers on the day that they signed up. It's easier to bill Joe Smith on the 12th every month than to explain to him why his first months bill was smaller than the others
372.
by Travis 16y ago
I would suggest you immediately read Steve Blank's "4 steps.." book. He discusses this issue directly, and provides very detailed methods for validating your idea.
373.
by Travis 16y ago
I don't disagree that there are ways of doing it. I just think the prevailing attitude of (founder level) engineers and coders is that you're not really building anything. It's the typical dismissal that non-tech people get from tech peo
374.
by Travis 16y ago
I don't think this is really an appropriate post for HN. There is some self-promotion of consulting work in other threads, but nothing quite as self-serving. Please do not post this type of material here.
375.
by Travis 16y ago
i LOVE the idea of getting your users to design the shirts... Also, given your market (pot smokers), you should look towards impulse buy items. T-Shirts are fantastic -- marijuana supporters love to buy "420" and "legalize it" type gear. As
376.
by Travis 16y ago
Obviously, at a tech startup, the primary street cred comes from being able to do something technical. This doesn't necessarily mean coding or sysadminning, but it DOES mean that you have to produce something in order to even get any credi
377.
by Travis 16y ago
Can you not just make the format of your default login different from that of the client? W/o knowing more details, take this with a grain of salt. BUT, I would just have the standard user/pass login form, and let your backend do the heavy
378.
by Travis 16y ago
My list (let me know if any of these are unclear): - good use of whitespace - objective driven ("let me help you balance your checkbook" rather than "click here to login to our system and enter your account information") - design elements h
379.
by Travis 16y ago
Never heard of a hiring consultant, actually. Do you have a little more background on what you do and why I need your services?
380.
by Travis 16y ago
Email is a pretty complicated, and frequently opaque, field. 5 years ago, most spam filtering was based on tech solutions (better Bayesians, DNS blacklists, RDNS ptr checks, SPF, etc.) Now it seems to be more "relationship" based. First is
381.
by Travis 16y ago
My startup is going to (hopefully) be in this situation in a few months. I think we're going to try the HN consultants list first, then look at the SO job board. I want to hire someone as a consultant first, to get the feel of how they wor
382.
by Travis 16y ago
What kind of distribution do you expect to see from your traffic? If it's even (i.e., you're visitors are pretty internationally / time zone diverse), you're looking at: 60k / page * 10k page views = 600MBytes transferred / day. IF you're
383.
by Travis 16y ago
Unless you're hiring workers at low wages (data entry type stuff), I wouldn't bother filtering the net. It'll create more problems (and cost money) than it solves. If your employees are fairly reasonable, you should explain the policy to t
384.
by Travis 16y ago
We're a b2b startup in the manufacturing and design sector. The basic app is a profile page gets matched to a project posting (think craigslist-like, where someone posts "wanted to buy" and it matches with people's profiles who sell that o
385.
Ask HN: startups web dev advisor
6 points by Travis 16y ago|3 comments
386.
by Travis 16y ago
What's the hook? This seems to be in the fmylife style of sites. But FML capitalizes on the very basic human experience of schaudenfreude versus sympathy. When I read those, I get a reaction of "ha! they deserved it" or "oh crap, that s
387.
by Travis 16y ago
I think the problem is that "music" is too broad of a category to operate in a similar manner to HN. You'd need to do a reddit-style sub-category system, which not only increases the complexity but also diverges from a HN-like setup. What'
388.
by Travis 16y ago
It depends on what kind of problems you like to solve, I suppose. Usability isn't going away, and neither is classical IT type stuff (like your SP project). If you like to work with more fundamental projects, I'd stick with SP. Fewer fuzz
389.
by Travis 16y ago
Agreed with what everyone else is saying. A startup is not just a corporation writ small. In a startup, the only think that matters is results. Your complaints about morale and "presentation" don't belong in this world. Let me ask you th
390.
by Travis 16y ago
I think you should want to be accessible at home. You're part of a startup -- it's a lifestyle. And it's hard. How much would it cost your company if something died at 5:01PM, and you couldn't fix it for 16 hours? Would you feel perfe

More ›