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6 Tips To Help You Create Better Estimates(projectorpm.com)
1 points by bdunn 15y ago|0 comments
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by bdunn 15y ago
Remember: Twitter Bootstrap's UI is just some default styles. I think Bootstrap is a great foundation, just like 960gs and Blueprint. But it's just that: a foundation. Overload or add your own custom styles, and you can easily break away fr
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by bdunn 15y ago
Good point. Outside of sacrifices to your well being (health, family, etc.), what other actions do you think diminish your success score?
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by bdunn 15y ago
Amy Hoy calls this concept "stacking bricks" - working on project after project until you have a wall of success. Overnight successes get a lot of praise and press, but they're rare. Extremely rare. And often times a fluke rather than the r
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Don't Hate Twitter Bootstrap(projectorpm.com)
5 points by bdunn 15y ago|1 comments
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5 Time Management Tips for Freelancers(projectorpm.com)
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Mounting a blog within a Rails application(projectorpm.com)
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by bdunn 15y ago
No they didn't. It's @homakov. With an "A".
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by bdunn 15y ago
We just pushed the new marketing site yesterday. Good thinking - making those edits now, thanks!
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by bdunn 15y ago
Unfortunately, my attorney brought this up to me the other day. We'll more than likely ultimately need to rebrand - probably sooner than later. Thanks for the heads up :-)
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Show HN: My consultancy built a project management tool made for client work(projectorpm.com)
25 points by bdunn 15y ago|11 comments
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by bdunn 15y ago
I created a (now defunct) product called Inbox Assistant which would parse plain text emails and create events automatically in your calendar. I had to figure out how to do essentially what Apple does, and I'm by no means a computer scienti
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by bdunn 15y ago
Get 500 people to pay you $30 a month. Now you're making close to $200k a year - most likely a lot more than you would make consulting or playing the startup lotto. That's the basis of Amy's 30x500 course (disclaimer: I gladly paid > $1
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by bdunn 15y ago
People will always pay for things of value - myself included. I run a consultancy of 10, and I love the tools I use. - I pay $100 a month for Harvest - I pay $100 a month for Pivotal Tracker (though we're going to be replacing that shortly
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by bdunn 15y ago
The iPad 2's onboard camera and microphone make it perfect for personalized flashcards. Aeir Talk, while built for special-needs kids, could be used as a flashcard app for any child. My 3 year old uses it and loves it. Instead of simple cli
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by bdunn 15y ago
Disclaimer: I own the development company that built Aeir Talk for equity. If there's anyone who can be labeled a "hustler", it's Joe Hill. First, he had to sell us on the idea - we get a ton of people who want us to take equity stakes in
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by bdunn 15y ago
Awesome idea! I'm very interested to see how this plays out, as my shop (along with quite a few others that I'm aware of) are combating the shortage through apprenticeship programs. This looks like to be a super-structured version of just t
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by bdunn 15y ago
Barely noticeable text: "Help us get featured on", followed by the logos of TC, Mashable, etc. Cute :-)
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by bdunn 15y ago
As somebody who knows and have done work for the Paperlex guys, I can genuinely say that they have a really interesting product, and the guys running the biz are bright. I think they're going to do well.
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by bdunn 15y ago
Those are some lofty goals. Good luck.
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by bdunn 15y ago
Stack those bricks :-)
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by bdunn 15y ago
Many of our non-technical clients have Github accounts and are collaborators on our projects - we treat the commit log as our way of reporting status updates.
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by bdunn 15y ago
You're right, I probably should have mentioned that I work with Andrew. I absolutely love competition, and I think App.net serves a real need - and so does Limelight. Also, I have an older account ( http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brenn
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Experimenting with Natural Language Processing(blog.myinboxassistant.com)
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by bdunn 15y ago
I wish their theme offering was more...creative. IMO, the generated sites are a bit bland. Another alternative to App.net that was covered here last month: https://www.limelightapp.com/
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by bdunn 15y ago
The goal is that emails CCed to Inbox Assistant send the recipients an accept/reject email and an .ics attachment. Still waiting on more usage patterns and feedback to emerge so I can figure out if it's something people want.
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by bdunn 15y ago
Thanks for the support, Colin! Yeah, I know some organizations wouldn't condone outbound email going through a third party. Part of my inspiration came from Highrise's ability to copy emails to HR and having them be attached to the relevant
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by bdunn 15y ago
I schedule a lot of things over email. Lunch meetings, phone calls, and so on. Inevitably, I'd sometimes neglect to add a particular appointment to my calendar after confirming via email... So I decided to write a simple product backed by N
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by bdunn 15y ago
Exactly. It's also helpful when you can reference an established player in your space and talk about why your product might be better for them, rather than attempt to both explain WHY they need your product and then WHAT your product does.
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by bdunn 15y ago
A startup should be treated like any other business. Almost every business imaginable has competition, and most manage to survive. Building a product that appeals to 100% of a "target market" is impossible. Carve your niche, target a partic

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