davidhansen

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by davidhansen 15y ago
In direct answer to your question: just launch. In response to your app itself: I would suggest offering arbitrary thumbnail sizes( not just 72px ), up to and including full-screen resolution. In addition, I would suggest a snapshot sche
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by davidhansen 15y ago
We are currently in a huge bubble. I wouldn't try to ascribe rational valuations to anything investors do in the middle of a bubble. When a company like GRPN, who lies about its own revenue in its own S1 filing, loses money on every deal
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I can't recall seeing anyone looking for a hire with a "large community following." companies are most usually looking for ... team working skills I believe there is an operating assumption here that active membership and following in a
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Really? Do you believe that founders and other team members would gain followers simply by virtue of being founders and team members?
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by davidhansen 15y ago
This looks to be an also-ran related to the Project Kotlin that JetBrains launched some time ago: http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/Kotlin/Welcome Also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2784086
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Their technical services have been outstanding. Clearly, you don't have any instances running in their Fremont datacenter. Hurricane Electric is like an unreliable, abusive alcoholic, and Linode is like a doting battered wife who stays w
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by davidhansen 15y ago
That is a fair point, but what about product domain names, e.g. shirts.com, beer.com, etc, for companies that sell those specific product types?
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I may be biased here, but I don't understand the animosity toward exact-match domain names. The claim is made that such a name is uncool, but an explanation, for why this is so, is not self-evident.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Could someone more knowledgeable about internet community infighting explain what the hell Winer is talking about when he makes vague reference to being ostracized, persecuted, etc? Was there some epic battle that is so well-known that Wine
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Yes, we do this right now. Three of our web properties sell effectively the same collection of products, but with different branding, somewhat different pricing, and different target demographics. Most of our efforts target just a few mai
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by davidhansen 15y ago
My role as an employee is technical leadership and architecture. I also write code and deal with some low-level administration tasks, just by virtue of the fact that it's still a relatively small company. But as a board seat and shareho
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by davidhansen 15y ago
How, exactly, does twitter facilitate connecting in business? Unless you're wildly popular, the experience is much like talking to a wall.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I am not asserting that the market is full of completely rational agents. I am asserting that voluntarily excluding yourself from a resource pool or limiting your access to a resource pool will decrease your likelihood of success. To give
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by davidhansen 15y ago
This is not a political site so I'm not going to debate the merits/drawbacks of outlawing bigotry in hiring practices. But one thing that ought to be pointed out is that free markets tend to punish companies, over the long term, that intent
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by davidhansen 15y ago
"I care about perfect code and perfectness at all." "While going to projects' pages at github I looked up Issues in a hope to see some feature requests. But most of issues was bug reports or pull requests. I didn't want to work on bugs, I w
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by davidhansen 15y ago
To be fair, this is not an easy transition to make, if good processes weren't started from day one, which is the standard state of most early startup technical projects. Everything from source control commit logging, to conflict resolutio
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I'm not defending the mentality, just describing its origination. Please note my last few sentences.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
I wouldn't call it a stigma. I'd call it a general disinterest. It's the same kind of disinterest that follows bootstrapped businesses or any business that chooses to make money instead of burning it. As the cofounder of a bootstrapped bu
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Well, the general reason for this attitude goes back to the old phrase "sticks and stones can break my bones but words will never harm me". When someone initiates physical force against you, it is an action being done to you, the consequenc
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Surprisingly, indeed. My experience with twitter is that it's not a very good communication medium, let alone a community-building one. You can follow "the right people" all you want, but without being followed, the conversation is rath
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by davidhansen 15y ago
From Arizona, but working out of Southern California now.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Still more self-promotion: http://www.ties.com/ and http://www.scarves.com/ We are relatively unknown, but growing, and profitable. According to our rose-colored glasses, we have a lot of potential.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Did you try to make an offer for productx.com first? The fact that a given domain name is taken shouldn't immediately preclude you from obtaining it. If you were to contact the current owner and pitch a deal, you might be surprised by how
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by davidhansen 15y ago
This may be a geographically unique phenomenon to the SV area. Then again, I don't really go to pitch competitions or cocktail parties. We'll just continue quietly building our business :) Thanks for your input.
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by davidhansen 15y ago
What kind of events? I'm curious about this question because as a cofounder of a bootstrapped business myself, nobody seems to care too much about what we do or how we do it. It's a world apart from the experience of funded companies, who
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Except large, established organizations usually have HR departments that perform the functions of recruiters anyway. Or at least they do in my idealized fantasy world, where the role of HR is to acquire, foster, encourage, and compensate ta
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by davidhansen 15y ago
Not to detract from rfurlan's thread, but is there really a lot of interest in the stories of bootstrapped and profitable companies?