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Well, trollish or not, I'm kind of curious. HAS anyone put together a technology breakdown of YC companies?
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Ouch. "App crashed" messages not the best marketing for an auto-scaling app.
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So ThatHigh.com is making say $1K a month roughly from advertising. Want to share some more numbers? How many pageviews is that requiring? Click through rate, etc. Anyone else on HN have a pure advertising supported website and want to shar
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Name To Know: Geoloqi, Foursquare’s Biggest Threat?(blogs.forbes.com)
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Was one long night away from launching www.rankoro.us on the 30th when the power chord for my laptop died. Ordered a new one but we're in the middle of a snow storm in Dublin so it's delayed. With a bit of luck, break in the weather and a s
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Very cool. I'd definitely pay for a service to give me a history of my web apps over time. I'm often asked when we implemented a feature and have to dive back into (poorly documented) subversion commits. This would be much easier in many ca
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Price-Convergence and Mailing List Services (tl;dr They are all the same price)(smithshop.com)
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by dclaysmith 16y ago
I'd start by taking the advertising banner off of your homepage. You'll spend much of your time trying to get visitors to your site, why give them a reason to leave. I doubt it will generate much income for you and will likely cost you in t
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by dclaysmith 16y ago
There seems to be a growing resistence to these machines (lots of chatter here, reddit, etc) but at the same time they are becoming more commonplace. I have always thought of airplane travel as an option domestically (you can always drive)
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by dclaysmith 16y ago
I don't see a "Get Started" button on https://dnsimple.com/ . There is one on https://dnsimple.com/plans . If the homepage read "Manage All Your DNS, From Any Registrar, In One Place -- Get Started" you'd get alot of converstions off of y
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You'll definitely be getting 3$/mo from me. I've assumed there was such a service but hadn't found it yet. I probably have domains registered in 5 different places and definitely need a single way to manage them. 2 bits of advice: Put the "
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by dclaysmith 16y ago
Looks like a great service and a good pricing structure. Will definitely dig deeper into it. Good luck. (Designwise, the gray text is hard to read in Firefox--not so bad in IE).
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His example is a bit trollish but his point is valid. The amount of people who use something doesn't make it valuable. The only reason I would take a job at Facebook would be because it's pre-IPO and because you'd get to tackle some pretty
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by dclaysmith 16y ago
This belongs more in a "Ask HN: Show us your 'dead on the vine' projects": http://www.jooque.com/d_clay_smith/band_of_horses_everything... You could play videos and keep searching while the video played, make and share playlists, etc. It
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I work in Ireland for a company whose primary market is the US which, as far as builds go, is the best you could ask for! I do builds around 9-10am GMT after a good night's sleep when I'm nice and alert (and have had a cup or two of coffee)
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If your service is compelling and your cost per customer is low enough, then I'd go with #1. If you can't convert the users to paying customers then you probably need to revisit your business model. Assuming your service is useful--and the
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by dclaysmith 16y ago
We have a bash script which grabs the latest Phing config/property files and then Phing handles the rest... * calls YUI Compressor to minify css/js * calls a custom script to upload images to the CDN * calls dbdeploy to update our staging d
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Looks great! Good luck.
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I think you'll find your experience with an SEO firm was fairly common (if not universal). They over promise and can't possibly deliver without a longterm (ie. prohibitively expensive) involvement with your company. The company I work for h