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by _ud4a 15y ago
have you tried to actually contact the head office for the specific hotel chains? for example, instead of going to a local Hilton and talking to general manager, why not try to get a meeting with someone at the Hilton's head office? i'm not
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by _ud4a 15y ago
speaking as a University of Toronto CS grad, i would recommend him going through with it. Based on personal experience, i do agree that he won't code as much as he would if he took a college course but at the end it's worth it. the programm
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by _ud4a 15y ago
i may be mistaken but i believe since your average karma is below 2, i don't think your up votes even count! i'm on the same boat! my karma has gone up but for some reason my average has gone down!
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by _ud4a 15y ago
i was leaning towards using paypal as well but wanted to setup that merchant account right from the start. i feel that it gives your site a bit more credibility that way. I've bee very hesitant to go the chargify route for that exact reason
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Ask HN: What's your new years resolution?
2 points by _ud4a 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Monthly billing software for SaaS site
12 points by _ud4a 15y ago|10 comments
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by _ud4a 15y ago
i'm not sure what your apps do but one method to promote them is to implement a referral service within your app. For example if it's a game, maybe if the user refers 10 people they get some sort of credit in the game to help them advance e
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by _ud4a 15y ago
here is one i found which is done very nicely. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9oeJgrVrq0&feature=relat...
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by _ud4a 15y ago
personally speaking, it helped me a lot. at the end of the day, it's not a magic pill that works, as it requires a lot of work and effort to be put in by the person but i find it very motivational and helpful for me. i made my list of goals
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by _ud4a 15y ago
I tend to read "Think and Grow Rich" at least once a year!
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by _ud4a 15y ago
hahahaha love the text COD!
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by _ud4a 15y ago
most likely an intern there answering all his emails!
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by _ud4a 15y ago
i'll have to agree with SHOwnsYou. My first impression is not "Wow!". Your website design doesn't have that wow factor with it's design. i would highly recommend either getting a design to do some work for you or download a nice design from
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by _ud4a 15y ago
we use splunk in our office and i must admit, it's one of the greatest tools! to move from syslog to splunk has made life so much easier :) kudos on a great product and company.
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by _ud4a 15y ago
so do you use Twillio is the service to send sms and voicecalls?
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by _ud4a 15y ago
Congrats! looks like a very useful and nice app. just curious, how do you deal with spam so users don't send unwanted voicecalls to random numbers?
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by _ud4a 15y ago
it's great to see people come together and help each other out in such short timeframe. However, one thing i noticed is that the user posting this "teej" is a popular user on HN with a high karma and post count. Do you guys believe that's o
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by _ud4a 15y ago
totally agree with the comments mentioned above. As a co-founder you NEED to know where the money is going! even if you are the "technical" cofounder and the other partners take care of the business side of things, you still need access to
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by _ud4a 15y ago
that's true. maybe he can store the source port as well along with the IP? the source port will always be different even if behind the same router.
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by _ud4a 15y ago
there are many sample scripts already available to do this depending on what language you are using. everytime a vote is done, you would capture that users IP address and store it in a database with the ID of the question they voted for. In
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by _ud4a 15y ago
why not just use the calendar in outlook?! or calendar app on any phone :S?!
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by _ud4a 15y ago
i was thinking along the same lines with the picture, audio etc. the only downside is if you send a picture to someone and want it destroyed right after there is nothing stopping the other end to save the picture locally on their computer.
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by _ud4a 15y ago
http://hntop100.com/ not sure if that's top 100 of all time or the current year.
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Ask HN: Reading comments on HN
1 points by _ud4a 15y ago|1 comments
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by _ud4a 15y ago
from personal experience, you don't gain expertise in scalability until it's too late and the website is down and you are running around to get it back up!!! when i first initially coded the website, i took some shortcuts to get the product
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by _ud4a 15y ago
i'm on the same boat as you. we've been proftaible for over a year and a half now with revenue doubling each year. we actually just went #3 on google for a very high keyword so it's going to move up even more. Everyone always told me your b
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Ask HN: what to do about the design?
1 points by _ud4a 15y ago|2 comments
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by _ud4a 15y ago
I remember reading an article on techcrunch about a startup doing this as well. It allowed you to mark the screen and would take a snapshot and send it with your feedback. Update: didnt see the comments below, but the website posted below(j
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by _ud4a 15y ago
i have built a startup on the side while working full time still. due to the fact that we are 3 partners, the money is not enough to quit my day job but it's getting there. we have grown from $0 to $200K in 2 and a half years while all 3 of
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by _ud4a 15y ago
My question is why would your dad's company purchase an ISP without any specific strategic plan in place!?

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