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by cloudkj 16y ago
From the articles, it looks like the extension isn't listed in the Mozilla or Chrome galleries. Is there a reason for this? How do you think it affects the distribution and exposure of the product?
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Looks pretty similar to the Four Hour Work Week muse model touted by Tim Ferris and co. Attractive product page (Wordpress theme), informational product (software templates), outsourced commerce pipeline (e-junkie). Only thing is that he di
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The first thought that popped into my head was - this guy sounds somewhat sophisticated. He might even read HN. I think these emails provide further evidence that this guy may in fact be on HN.
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I'm not really in a position to tout startups, but for me it's more about building and creating things that people use, find useful, and enjoy. It's about being artists and creatives at heart - and engineers and programmers by trade. Softwa
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+1 for SQS. It pretty much matches all your criteria to a tee. The replication guarantees messages won't be lost, and will occasionally result in duplicate messages. I think another potential downside is that the messages get purged after 1
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Firebug Greasemonkey S3Fox ColorZilla DownloadHelper Vacuum Places ... and a shameless plug for Compass, a Firefox/Chrome/Safari add-on I wrote that adds a "table of contents" to various e-commerce sites to help you find stuff faster. Searc
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Along those same lines - I started working on my first iPhone app and added a simple feedback button to gather user feedback. Then it occurred to me that this feedback mechanism itself can be offered as a service. Kind of like a Get Satisfa
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Despite not being an employee, I have close personal Microsoft ties, so I regularly hear about what goes on in Redmond. Anytime I'm involved in a discussion about Microsoft's future, the first and foremost point I bring up is how Microsoft
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It also allows them to serve more ad impressions at a much faster clip.
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Out of curiosity, how'd you drive traffic to the MVP/smoke test landing page?
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+1. That's exactly how I view Twitter - as a modern version of "away messages." I remember looking forward to the always-on Internet connection in college dorms as a way to set long-lasting away messages so friends can see what I'm doing or
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Just read the comment you made re: RescueTime. I guess that's the MVP/dry testing tactic. I recently learned about it and am fascinated as well. Getting customers before writing code - a simple, yet brilliant idea that a lot of hackers aren
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Simultaneously reading the iPhone dev book and going through the Objective-C manual from Apple. Objective-C is pretty easy to understand as long as you understand object-oriented programming and have a solid grasp on C. It's just learning i
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I'm in pretty much the same situation as you, fast-forwarded a few weeks. However, I decided to take the plunge into learning iPhone development. Once you start playing with it, you'll realize why the iPhone is such a compelling platform an
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Yup. For a social web app.. using PostgreSQL for high-value, low-volume authoritative data and MongoDB for high-volume, low-value non-authoritative data (like news feed items). Works like a charm.
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I recently created http://feedbark.com with pretty much the same idea as this. You use the service and submit anonymous feedback against someone's identity. That portion just never seemed to gain traction, at least amongst the small numbe
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Berkeley all the way. North side of campus is quiet and cheap, and I'm sure you can get rent down to the $700s if you share a house/apartment. It's also close to all the engineering buildings, so any interns you want to hire will be within
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Was the startup building solutions around generating content for dry tests? Like a skeleton landing page generator? That thought crossed my mind as I read through some of these articles.
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Wow, I feel really late to the game. Had no idea what MVP stood for and had to look it up. This looks like a pretty awesome approach to test the market for new product ideas instead of building blindly and hoping it sticks. This also remind
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It is similar, but the goal with this is to have a more social, personal outlet for questions to friends. I think it's more similar to (and was inspired by) sites like failin.gs and formspring in that you can participate anonymously.
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You can answer questions without logging in or signing up. The answers need to be approved by the person that originally asked the question before they show up.
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Review my app: Feedbark - ask questions, get anonymous answers(feedbark.com)
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Actually, I feel that these are some of the reasons that I find MongoDB to be an attractive solution for certain purposes. You can give up some facets of durability and make up for it in ease and performance. MongoDB actually fits quite wel
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I wrote a couple browser extensions for Amazon Gold Box: http://webslices.s3.amazonaws.com/goldbox.html (IE 8) and https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/abgkkmmoanpopajo... (Chrome) I actually got the web slice accepted into the I
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Wow, it's as if I wrote those few sentences :) I totally feel you on the chicken/egg problem. It's definitely a big hurdle for any kind of social web app these days.
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Looks awesome. A quick glance at the demo showed that the site was hosted on your domain, even though custom domains are offered in all plans. It might work to offer a cheap/free plan that's hosted on your domain, and use that as a loss lea
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Oh yea, I also like the integration with oEmbed. First time I've seen it. Definitely will play with embed.ly when I get the chance. It appears that you're rendering the embedded content using AJAX? I tried pasting a YouTube link directly, a
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I'd say just remove the text about recommending specific browsers. As long as the functionality is the same, a loss of certain a look and feel isn't worth mentioning to the user and causing a big turn off. At least, that was my initial reac
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If you can enumerate all the rules, properties, cards, etc., it seems to me the shortest game problem can be solved with dynamic programming. :)
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I just took a glance at a couple controllers in the lovd source, and they do just look like generic scaffold controllers.

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