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by aymeric 16y ago
you can't really be sure your new signup page is better than the other unless you measure the improvements. Maybe when doing this kind of change, you should to run some a/b tests to confirm your assumptions?
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by aymeric 16y ago
The VC's arguments are quite sound. He is not saying he wants to outsource everything, he simply wants the culture of outsourcing in early to make it smoother in the case outsourcing is needed. I would outsource non-critical areas of your d
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by aymeric 16y ago
I'd be interested to hear how you guys kickstart the traffic on a new website. (Let's assume you don't have a huge following on your blog or on Twitter)
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How to get cheap and targeted paid traffic?(aymeric.gaurat.net)
11 points by aymeric 16y ago|7 comments
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by aymeric 16y ago
One method can work in complement with the other. Basically, with the Tim Ferriss, if you get to profitability in your experiment, you are 100% sure that you will get profitability as a business. But if you don't get such result, it doesn't
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by aymeric 16y ago
What is the address of the blog that drove the initial traffic for Freckle?
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by aymeric 16y ago
I highly recommend the book "Your Money or Your Life". It gives you a step by step process to take control on your expenses, and then to move towards financial independence. I read this book 6 years ago and it is still the most influential
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by aymeric 16y ago
Context: I am preparing some presentation for an Ignite event and I asked my future audience which topic they would like me to cover. I decided to blog about the topics that I won't be presenting at the Ignite event.
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How to test the viability of your online business idea(aymeric.gaurat.net)
23 points by aymeric 16y ago|9 comments
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by aymeric 16y ago
Tell us the technologies you use so that we can better advice you.
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by aymeric 16y ago
I recommend you get more servers, get a dedicated one for db and make sure the HD is super fast (15000 rpm). Cloud solutions would be too expensive for your scenario. I used to develop facebook applications with one that reached 1 million u
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by aymeric 16y ago
They call it Silicon Beach here: http://siliconbeachaustralia.org/ There are Open Coffee events, Drinks every fridays, some events every now and then (not enough in my opinion) Lots of world-class startups were born in Australia (Remember
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The Kayakist Entrepreneur(aymeric.gaurat.net)
1 points by aymeric 16y ago|0 comments
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by aymeric 16y ago
Awesome execution. Starting the first issue with 1500 subscribers, a great design and a quality magazine is quite a feat! Not for me though, I remembered 90% of the articles included in the issue and rereading them didn't really add much va
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by aymeric 16y ago
I am french and visited the Guedelon castle a few years ago. Before visiting the castle, I had done a full year trip around the world to see all the greatest human made monuments (Angkor wat in Cambodia was my favourite). I was stomached wh
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by aymeric 16y ago
Has anyone tried treadmill desks? I would like to give that a try but would love to hear people's opinions on it.
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by aymeric 16y ago
http://killerstartups.com http://makeuseof.com http://go2web20.net http://feedmyapp.com/
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Ask HN: Sites of communities of expert designers or expert marketers?
2 points by aymeric 16y ago|1 comments
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by aymeric 16y ago
By the way, I have used your application in the past, and I can attest that it is an awesome application, simple to use and very useful. My only worry is the extra request to fetch your javascript. I saw the script to take quite long on som
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by aymeric 16y ago
I got my little webapp http://weekplan.net featured by Lifehacker.com by doing the following: 1. I submitted to KillerStartups.com and waited three days for it to be approved (free) 2. MakeUseOf.com saw the post in KillerStartups.com and
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by aymeric 16y ago
I have learned Ruby on Rails and I am amazed that after three weeks with RoR I am more productive than after 10 years with .net I reported my own experience moving from Asp.net to Ruby on Rails in my blog a few days ago: "How an experienced
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by aymeric 16y ago
As Jason suggests, you should try to find the answer to your questions in your own frustrations. Where there is frustration, there is a market (usually). I went through the exercise myself and blogged the results: http://aymeric.gaurat.net
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Is the incompleteness of your application hiding behind the term ‘Simple’?(aymeric.gaurat.net)
1 points by aymeric 17y ago|0 comments
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by aymeric 17y ago
It is hard to answer this question, it really depends on the nature of your application and the mother tongue of your users. Applications with english users tend to be much better paid than other languages. But it is easier to be visible in
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by aymeric 17y ago
This has been ok for a year or so but in the last 6 months Facebook has introduced a lot of breaking changes (ie: removing the notifications, and stream.publish)
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by aymeric 17y ago
It is definitely easier to get traction quickly (especially if you target a growing market like France was when I started)
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by aymeric 17y ago
I read some people use the Google SMTP server to send their emails (when they use Google Apps for your domain). What would be the benefits for me to use MailChimp / AuthSmtp / SendGrid / PostMark? Where do I get the best chances to have my
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by aymeric 17y ago
Your answer made me realize something important. The Covey system is premium, and targets a different group of people. Thank you for that, it is very valuable and will probably shape the way I present my web application to the world :)
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by aymeric 17y ago
I will re-read them, thanks for the reminders.
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by aymeric 17y ago
Adam, thanks for taking the time to answer. An iphone application has been a frequently asked feature from my users and I considered setting up an API for them to develop the iphone app. I don't like the iphone/ipad model (one-off sales ver

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