billydean

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by billydean 17y ago
Call me picky I guess but I want a story, you know, with a beginning and an end. Not just a collection of stuff the author dumped into a WYSIWYG editor. No reflection on you for submitting it, of course, but it's the laziest way there is to
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by billydean 17y ago
Top 5 ways I feel about this article: 1) I 2) Hate 3) Top 4) 10 5) Lists
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by billydean 17y ago
Trueslant's been spamming the shit out of the site the past few days. I wish there was a way to sort domains by the average karma of submitters.
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by billydean 17y ago
That donkey slash man, man slash donkey is freaking me the hell out.
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by billydean 17y ago
A LOT like Campaign Monitor. The bold white headline and subhead, blue horizontal nav, 4¢ graphic, the location of the screenshot, etc.
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by billydean 17y ago
Just for the record, I was spot on: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/10/the-cost-of-friendfeed-...
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by billydean 17y ago
$25-50 million
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by billydean 17y ago
All that work on the backend and, sadly, the lack of time put into the landing page will make it all for naught. * 7 steps? Why would I want to be involved in something that complex? 3-4 steps max. * 11 benefits? I'm not going to read or be
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by billydean 17y ago
Sorry but that's nothing but an excuse, "I could do great things, too, if I had a great domain name..." Unless, I guess, you really think linkedin.com is a better domain name than business.com
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by billydean 17y ago
Mamma mia! That's-a some great-a news!
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by billydean 17y ago
> You're playing against other people, not against the casino. You're playing against other people's bots, not against other people.
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by billydean 17y ago
I just assumed this was going to be about the Locator.com guy ...
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Tapbots shows how much you can do with just a little upfront(37signals.com)
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by billydean 17y ago
Can you just add something that kills all headlines that have an initial number+adjective? I'd really hate for HN to become http://delicious.com/popular .
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by billydean 18y ago
Haha, man would Doug Bowman be pissed.
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by billydean 18y ago
If you still think it's all about a "killer app idea" and not timing, execution, marketing and a million other things, you're doing it wrong.
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by billydean 18y ago
Can we please keep these types of posts out of HN? "20 blah blah blah", "140 ways to be rich yesterday" -- we don't need another http://delicious.com/popular
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by billydean 18y ago
Anyone else think "Jump to Conclusions Mat" when they read this?
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by billydean 18y ago
"I told him he was brilliant and that his moves this month would be remembered for decades. Decades." I'm amazed Scoble's been able to keep his tall talk intact after this many years of announcing next big things that never go anywhere. But
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by billydean 18y ago
Not really worth the time to read, same stuff that's been said before. Showing a user an ad while they're searching for something works amazingly well -- any other time it's a crap shoot. For the foreseeable future I think the best way to a