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by blakeperdue 15y ago
A very interesting idea of moving abroad to take advantage of cheaper labor. But, he suggests taking 9 months of prep time (6 to move there and try it out, 1 to vacation there and think about it, 2 to do research) before even starting the c
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
Nice use of qq.FileUploader. What are you using for those floating (top right) user notifications like when I delete a photo?
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
Wrong link (altho that cupcake is a good read): http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/12/yc-funded-picplum-beautiful...
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
I'm confused. If Picwing was acquired, why is their site still active? Was something licensed? UPDATE: from http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/a-woman-a-cupcake-a-bank-an... PicPlum acquired the assets of a previous Y-Combinator company Pic
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
More market validation: I also have a 6-month old and am really tired of the crop, upload, select photos, select size, select paper, fill out shipping addresses, enter payment info process I have to do every few months to send photos to fam
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
Off the topic of unclean code, but there are some great Spolsky articles that are more business-oriented on Inc's site: http://www.inc.com/author/joel-spolsky
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
I have a different view. I hate having to confirm my email address when I signup for a mailing list. It's more annoying to confirm my email address 50 times, versus the 1 time I have to unsubscribe from a list that someone signed me up for
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
Not related to Node, but your homepage is really well designed. Attractive, simple and clean. Nice.
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
So, you need 10 templates or just 10 HTML pages built from the same template? Is there a lot of front-end functionality that needs to be built (ajax calls, form validation, etc) or just basic HTML pages?
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
I agree, I rarely see more than two large CTAs on a page. Usually it's just one large CTA with smaller CTAs sprinkled on various parts of the page.
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
You are right: to give more prominence to the content as opposed to the callouts (follow us, and give us your email).
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Increase Conversions with Call-to-Action Buttons(pixify.com)
62 points by blakeperdue 15y ago|11 comments
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
Can you share some basic marketing numbers? What price range is your PPC? What % of clicks convert? What is your customer's total lifetime value? Thanks!
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
The response I got from Meetup.com is below. The key bit is "You'll want to 'Edit email settings' for each Meetup group that you've joined." I'm in like 20+ groups; it makes unsubscribing a huge pain. 9/12/2010 I have a suggestion. I get ma
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
After reading this I realized how many Meetup.com emails I receive. I've previously tried to navigate meetup's account preferences to unsubscribe without success. I was so annoyed I took the time to write them to tell them to put a one-clic
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
Links to other solutions?
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Use OS X Lion to Improve Your UI(pixify.com)
43 points by blakeperdue 15y ago|14 comments
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
Good point on accessibility. Anyone have links to making your UI accessible (including buttons)?
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by blakeperdue 15y ago
Nice catch. Know of an easy workaround to this?
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Use Google+ to Improve Your UI(pixify.com)
183 points by blakeperdue 15y ago|44 comments
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by blakeperdue 16y ago
I agree, E2V is a great idea. If you can find a way to simplify the setup, I have about 6 friends who would want to use it. Could you pick the most popular email app (Gmail? Yahoo?) and find a way to simplify the setup for just that app? Or
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by blakeperdue 16y ago
Most designers/developers that I know that are good charge closer to $100 or $150 per hour. What you described seems like it would take closer to 30 or 40 hours, so I would say the cost would be more like $3k to $5k.
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by blakeperdue 17y ago
Suppose you're bootstrapping and have little cash.
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Ask HN: How do you market your web app?
9 points by blakeperdue 17y ago|2 comments
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by blakeperdue 17y ago
Nearly crashed by browser. Perhaps limit the initial number of map items to load?
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by blakeperdue 17y ago
Sometimes a small rendering performance hit is worth avoiding the development headache of getting multi-column divs to display properly across browsers. Tables can still be useful when holding short content that has lots of columns.
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by blakeperdue 17y ago
With this strategic change, we are going to be figuring out what services we now provide. But, historically, we did a few things: connections: introductions to board members, investors, customers consulting: provided strategic, marketing an
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by blakeperdue 17y ago
See my comment above. Basically the ATDC is state funded and is here to help Georgia entrepreneurs be successful. We provide services, educational programs and other stuff to help startups.
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by blakeperdue 17y ago
The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) strives to be the world’s best technology business incubator. Our mission: to increase the technology business base in Georgia by helping entrepreneurs launch and build successful high-tech
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by blakeperdue 18y ago
Perhaps it doesn't look good on your screen, but on my laptop and 24 inch monitor it looks fantastic. I love the design, it's very pleasing to look at and relays the information well.

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