dchuk

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   by dchuk 8y ago

   Just so you know, I setup a site here for this experiment: https://hackerforums.co I'll get a Show HN going tomorrow!
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   Just so you know, I setup a site here for this experiment: https://hackerforums.co I'll get a Show HN going tomorrow!
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   UPDATE: Got something up and running here: https://hackerforums.co/ I've tweaked it a bunch, but I'm sure there's a lot more to do. Please take a look if you're still following this HN thread...I'll
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   I'll reply to everyone here when it's online, and will post a Show HN. Hopefully it will get some traction.
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   I live near the beach in San Diego, where house prices are pretty damn high, so my wife and I still rent. On the weekends, we ride bikes or walk to the beach and hang out. It's how we like to live our lives. I've been to a lot of
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   Nothing is wrong with it, it's just a different interpretation of forums that is a departure from the "classic" bulletin boards we are discussing here.
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   Thanks!
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   You're probably suspecting correctly :)
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   by dchuk 8y ago

   I'm going to tackle setting something up tonight and tomorrow night. I don't know anyone at ycomb so can't speak towards making anything official, but at the very least we can give it a shot and see if it can gain some tracti
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Update: Spent the evening researching software options for the "old school" style forums, and it seems like Xenforo is a solid choice in terms of active development, lots of addons/themes, and not crazy expensive. So I think
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I think to kick things off it will be best to allow anyone to sign up and potentially lock it down in the future if things get out of hand. Usually forums have features like limiting new thread creation to users with enough karma/comme
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    HN is quite different from forums because of the temporal nature of the content, the voting, and the threaded comments. Forums can foster very long running discussions, HN isn't really meant for that. Also, there are all the components
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    No doubt that discourse is really nice software, and I will give it a go, but it does lack the “nostalgia” referred to by the original comment I replied to with this idea. All options are valid at this point though!
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I’m going to try and fire something up this week. I’ll do some research on software for it, I’m fine spending money on xenforo or vbulletin but it looks like there are quite a few options out there. I’ll announce it here when it’s ready!
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I’ve actually been thinking about this recently, as I was also a heavy forum user back in the day. Why don’t we just start a forum for the HN crowd? Not a new interpretation of the forum model or anything like that, literally any instance o
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I'm actually interested in hearing more about this if you're willing to share it.
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I maintain a similar site here, but it’s all hands off, RSS feeds + hn style voting interface: https://engineered.at problem is no one votes so it’s basically chronological. The curation quality of your site is fantastic! Keep i
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Thank you!
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I've been meaning to keep hacking on this project, but I have this site: https://engineered.at/ that has a ton of rss feeds fronted with an HN/Reddit style voting and commenting interface
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I would really like to pick your brain a bit more if possible. We directly compete with both XRS and GeoTab, so getting insight into your fleet's decision making process would be super helpful if you're willing. Also could potenti
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Thanks for the reply! That certainly does look like a pain in the ass. Being on the telematics side specifically, we deal less with EDI stuff, but I'm sure down the road I will have to, and I agree that a structured API would be much b
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Building an ahrefs/moz/majestic competitor?
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I work in the trucking (telematics) industry. I've dealt with a decent amount of ftp file transfers, but most stuff I've seen has been some sort of API based (SOAP, REST, etc). Can you give a few more specific examples? Are you in
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Are you starting new companies that frequently?
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    With both email and slack (and other forms of "push" messaging) you have no control over what someone sends to you when (you could of course just close them, but then you have to remember to open them). What I'm instead think
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    I've actually been thinking about hacking something together for this! I can't stand slack interruptions all day, would love all requests to work with me queued up for certain designated response windows that I control so I can ha
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Thanks for the reply! Would you be at all interested in chatting a bit more via email about this?
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Sort of related: For a while now I’ve been thinking that a product that helps you monitor your competitor’s job postings could be pretty interesting. Anyone here find value in that concept? It wouldn’t be for finding a job necessarily, but
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    9 months is nothing, especially in the B2B world. A lot of entrepreneurship is surviving the grind of the process itself.
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    by dchuk 8y ago

    Then do something about that! Don’t quit, go talk to the users and figure why they didn’t adopt. The answers are laying right in front of you but you seem deterred by doing the work. B2b is hard, try harder before quitting.