allang

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by allang 17y ago
I think it was. Twitpic emailed me asking to start caching. I may have killed twitpic.
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Couldn't sleep. Wrote some code to displays live feed of latest twitpics.(pingwire.com)
102 points by allang 17y ago|50 comments
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by allang 17y ago
I don't mean the design of the code, although that's a little bit of a mess as well. I mean - Your site and Stack Overflow share some functionality, but they do not serve the same purpose. You've basically taken the Stack Overflow design an
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by allang 17y ago
Perhaps you should focus your target on simply foodies, rather than foodies + computer geeks. Simplifying will pay off when making decisions in the future. Rather than thinking "what would a food-lover/computer geek want?", you should be as
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by allang 17y ago
It is a good idea, but there are issues with the execution. I'll outline them below. The most critical problem is that your site has serious SEO issues. Stack Overflow was built with the goal of having crawlable questions and answers. That'
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by allang 18y ago
By the same reasoning, Friendfeed copied Facebook's older UI.
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Ask YC: What to do when someone beats you to the punch?
2 points by allang 18y ago|8 comments
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by allang 18y ago
Jason, It may sound harsh, but I'm pretty sure that you didn't learn any lesson from your failed startup - or learned the wrong ones. 1. Your target audience was not small. 2. Your lack of marketing had nothing to do with your failure. 3. T
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by allang 18y ago
Since when is competition something a business should foster? They should, in fact, do everything within their power to make competition as hard as possible. This typically happens with things like patents, trademarks, copyrights, exclusive
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Tips on creating another layer of security with .htaccess (0x000000.com)
4 points by allang 18y ago|1 comments
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by allang 18y ago
I don't buy it. Where are you getting your information, or is this just conjecture?
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by allang 18y ago
If you're the only person behind simplist, why are you referring to yourself as "we" throughout the site? Along those same lines, I'm not sure how this qualifies as a start-up as such. It's nifty side project, but it would do you better to
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by allang 18y ago
AJAX changes the CPM (cost-per-1000-impression) advertising model, so you'll need a different type of ad network. The more mainstream ad networks haven't really addressed the issue for smaller sites, despite the fact that AJAX's popularity
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by allang 18y ago
This may be just for fun, but it's rather ominous and appropriate for the times. Daydreaming about VC and acquisition rather than profits and running actual businesses.
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by allang 19y ago
It actually looks like a nice take on feed aggregation - and sports is a great niche to start with. If you're planning on taking the look & feel further in the direction of print news, check out sIFR and consider making it an interface