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by cfinke 16y ago
> Advertise in non-intrusive spaces. I've tried this one, and it did ok - $500/month or so at its peak, when I happened to release updates to my most popular extensions all in the same month. Still felt a little spammy, but not too muc
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by cfinke 16y ago
I've experimented with this route as well via FireFound ( https://www.firefound.com/ ) - $20/year for additional capabilities for the basic add-on. It's probably not applicable enough to most people, but subscriptions pay for server and do
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by cfinke 16y ago
Here are my add-ons: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/user/2519/ They cover areas like Twitter, feed readers, geolocation, productivity, YouTube, and random browser improvements.
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by cfinke 16y ago
I've tried something similar (see http://www.chrisfinke.com/2010/09/13/my-experience-with-deve... ) without much success, but I don't have enough data to determine the exact cause of failure.
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by cfinke 16y ago
I've worked from home every single day since I graduated from college 6 years ago. My first job was as a one-man team managing a webapp for a local insurance adjusting company. I lucked into working remotely, as they didn't have a central o
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by cfinke 16y ago
> invite the user to make a donation I forgot to mention this in the main text: Mozilla's add-ons site has support for soliciting donations from users during the install/upgrade process, and I've opted in on several of my most popular a
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Ask HN: How would you monetize 360K people?
18 points by cfinke 16y ago|20 comments
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by cfinke 16y ago
I think you've proven beck5's point.
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by cfinke 16y ago
> I'm sure to this lady her time is worth much more than $1.48 per hour Sometimes, it's the principle. During my wife's last pregnancy, our insurance company would overcharge us by $20 for every single pre-natal checkup; we debated the
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ChroSh: The Chrome Shell (An implementation of Chrome's new Omnibox API)(chrome.google.com)
2 points by cfinke 16y ago|0 comments
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by cfinke 16y ago
Update: A very simple version 1 is live at https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kipnlkomdkndemni...
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by cfinke 16y ago
Update: I've started coding; anyone who wants to watch can continually reload https://github.com/cfinke/ChroSh . :-)
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by cfinke 16y ago
Update: The Omnibox API doesn't allow a single extension to register multiple keywords, so I'm moving ahead by registering "$" and then parsing the input for the shell command.
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by cfinke 16y ago
The site-specific search examples cited in the blog post are just about the lamest possible implementations of this API. I'd like to see things like an implementation of the built-in Bash commands, but mapped to various Web-centric commands
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by cfinke 16y ago
Is there any (standard) technology stack that has proven to be unscalable?
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by cfinke 16y ago
There's nothing "innovative" or "visionary" about making me fill out a CAPTCHA just to read your blog post.
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by cfinke 16y ago
I've turned down an offer from Google; here were my reasons: 1. I had just started at a startup (Mahalo), and I was excited about being 1/5th of a company's development team; being 1/1000th of a company's dev team felt less appealing. 2. Th
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by cfinke 16y ago
That was the first guest post I've ever read on Techcrunch that was genuinely interesting and didn't read like droning self promotion. Thanks, Justin!
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by cfinke 16y ago
The headline should read, "If Groupon has 3,000 sales reps, and each rep calls 40 businesses a day, every day, then by the end of 2011, Groupon could have called every business in the United States." Not quite as catchy, but much more accu
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by cfinke 16y ago
I have 21 different add-ons on AMO right now, and while it's kind of annoying to do so, it only takes me about 10 minutes to update the maxVersion on all of them every time a new version of Firefox comes out. Of course, the problem isn't t
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by cfinke 16y ago
Weblogs, Inc. was the company that created Engadget, AutoBlog, Joystiq, etc. That acquisition essentially became the backbone of the content-oriented company into which AOL is transforming.
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by cfinke 16y ago
In terms of unique visitors, HuffPo beats TechCrunch 10:1.
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by cfinke 16y ago
It's amazing what kind of revenue you can make when you own some of the most popular websites on Earth. </sarcasm>
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by cfinke 16y ago
Since this password was sent in plain text at signup-time, there's a chance that it was still hashed/encrypted before being stored. Not a good chance, given the fact that they thought it was ok to send it in plain text at all, but still a
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by cfinke 16y ago
I always answer "Bullets." It's never gone poorly.
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by cfinke 16y ago
Also, developers in Toronto (and all of Canada) don't have to worry about affording health insurance if they join a startup instead of some BigCorp, leaving talented engineers free to pursue the companies and causes that interest them rathe
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by cfinke 16y ago
If you get a whiteboard, I would suggest putting it far enough away from your desk that you need to stand up (or roll over to it) in order to use it. I've found that kind of physical separation very helpful in creating a mental separation
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by cfinke 16y ago
Thanks! The shelving turned out better than even I expected, mostly due to my wife's design and direction.
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by cfinke 16y ago
Thanks! This was my first serious carpentry project apart from just fixing things around the house, but I've been watching shows like The New Yankee Workshop and This Old House for years, as well as reading every Wood/Handyman/American Wood
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by cfinke 16y ago
I just finished four months of do-it-yourself carpentry in order to turn a sitting room at my home into a home office: Before: http://family.efinke.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/House-Vi... After: http://family.efinke.com/wp-content/upl

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