andrewljohnson

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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
There are in fact a couple good ways to do some "white hat" SEO: 1. Title your pages appropriately - if you want to get searches for "Yosemite Park Map" - then make sure that's the title of the page. 2. Make sure your pages are linked - Go
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Ask YC: Do you receive Google alerts on your company and industry?
4 points by andrewljohnson 18y ago|9 comments
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
Exactly. I think a reasonable deal is a 30% discount, ~5% interest, and a big bonus if there's never a valuation.
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
The product look pretty cool, but the marketing sucks. You should get a business type!
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
It said I was answering to quickly by the way. Less robo-defense and more features please!
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
You;'re site is a neat idea, but it broke on me and I never got to learn "dogs or cats" :(
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
Sounds like you're going to be violating some Terms of Service that users of a software like adBlock skirt because they're just private citizens. Verdict: if your software is good, you'll get your pants sued off. But, I assume since you did
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
We'll be uploading some aussie data this month, if not this week.
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
We'll do that eventually... it's just another feature filed in our bug tracker. It's not clear how valuable that is though, particularly on a US level. The first goal for personal geo-location will be to show foreign visitors a world map.
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
We do have a bounce rate of about 40%, which is something we're trying to manage. I think part of that is not knowing what to do on the site, and part of it is because the site is really slow (until tomorrow when we launch the new version).
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
Yeah, right now it's running off of Django's dev server, forwarding a port on my laptop through an SSH tunnel to my production server. So it's a little slow :) I'm surprised it hasn't crashed under all of this traffic actually, since Django
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
Yeah, the site includes a list of millions of USGS waypoints, along with other data we have collected.
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
This is roughly what we are going to launch tomorrow. The current site is at: www.trailbehind.com
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
The button says "Find Trips." How might it be made more clear?
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
I think that many start-ups fail because they try and build enterprise systems at the outset, for their small business. You just gotta do what works and what's fast, and focus on your product. It's not that hard to scale up your finance sys
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
TrailBehind is going really well! Our big news recently was winning an fbFund grant, ands we're going to have a cool launch tomorrow.
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
When does it ask for a zip code?
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Ask YC: Review my Website, Being Served from My Laptop Right Now - dev.trailbehind.com(dev.trailbehind.com)
11 points by andrewljohnson 18y ago|17 comments
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
It takes one to know one. I'd find somebody technical to do your hiring for you.
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
My buddy's company: www.predictwallstreet.com If you use Ameritrade, they've probably given you stock advice already.
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
You should use a spreadsheet (Google or Microsoft will do) until you are actually taking payments of any sort, and use whatever capabilities your bank provides through their online banking as well.
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by andrewljohnson 18y ago
As a CMU alum, I hate to bad-mouth a professor there, but this guy doesn't seem to understand the psychology of start-ups. This method may lead to an equity split that seems to reflect the inputs of the founders, but could potentially, and
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Start-up making maps - here's one of Yosemite(trailbehind.com)
1 points by andrewljohnson 18y ago|0 comments