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by dgunn 15y ago
If you made a HN that was much better, everyone would probably switch. Better design won't do that I'm afraid. I use stylebot on chrome to make it look really nice. Lots of HN folks have made css rules for HN. Just search for them.
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by dgunn 15y ago
http://i.imgur.com/WBNjE.png is an image that shows a big part of the problem. It adds vert and horiz scroll bars. That means some buttons which you may need are hidden. When you scroll down to use the buttons, they just move the page to
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by dgunn 15y ago
I'm using the latest chrome and this website is unusable. For a page designed to give me advice on how to make better web pages, it does about 100% less working than I would expect.
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Star Ratings. Shortest solution(dabblet.com)
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by dgunn 15y ago
function createCookie(name,value,days) { if (days) { var date = new Date(); date.setTime(date.getTime()+(days 24 60 60 1000)); var expires = "; expires="+date.toGMTString(); } else var expires = ""; document.cookie = name+"="+valu
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by dgunn 15y ago
Techstars created a reality show out of their program and I think it was widely regarded as a pretty bad decision in hindsight...
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A word on idea protectability(natsturner.com)
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by dgunn 15y ago
Few questions not necessarily about design so feel free to not upvote. I'm wondering why you're creating this. Who has asked for it? Really, myspace is largely considered a failure and they are actually quite huge in this arena. They have a
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by dgunn 15y ago
Have any groups ever tried this before now and succeeded? As in, they filled out the application, indicated that they had no idea yet, and got accepted?
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by dgunn 15y ago
I'm not sure why people keep saying this. I'm not reinventing either of these things but I suspect, like the services they each replaced, they too will be replaced with things that look strikingly similar to themselves. For an oversimplifie
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by dgunn 15y ago
My startup launches in Chicago the beginning of april. We do social dining if you're interested. https://soupnextdoor.com . I live in NYC so I won't be at many event in Chicago. But if you ever want to go to one, email me first and we can
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Can we stop with the maps? Or do something better?
1 points by dgunn 15y ago|1 comments
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Startup Tutorial: An Introduction(soupnextdoor.com)
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by dgunn 15y ago
Just build a kill switch into the code. If they don't pay, use it.
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by dgunn 15y ago
That's not a bad solution. But doing things like that should be a last resort. It's just really easy to change the styles on your website to make it more readable. So I'll see if it gets changed. Maybe there's good reason to keep it this wa
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by dgunn 15y ago
I hope asking for upvotes doesn't sink me but I don't have an up-vote ring to keep this post alive. So drop a vote if you don't hate it so I can get some good feedback.
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by dgunn 15y ago
Thanks. It's easy to forget about that stuff when all the images are cached. I'll work on that asap! Does it break the home slide show or was it able to download them fast enough to keep it going reasonably smoothly?
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by dgunn 15y ago
The month of December was good for us. We weren't going to launch until Jan but a chef contacted us and wanted to get started right away. We gave an amazing deal on the first event and sold out. We ultimately had 3 events in Dec which incre
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by dgunn 15y ago
I agree but to be fair, they look exactly like any icons which are meant to look hand-drawn.
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by dgunn 15y ago
So you're selling icons? How do you plan to compete with all the free icons out there? Gnome alone offers dozens of really nice icon sets. I commonly replace my default icons with more interesting ones and I've never paid for them. Who is y
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by dgunn 15y ago
Thanks for the kudos. It's just two of us. We both do "it all" but if we have a lot to do, we break up and I'll work mostly front end design, js, etc and Matt, my cofounder, will do back-end (django) cause he's way better than I am.
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by dgunn 15y ago
We've heard this a lot and couldn't agree more. Originally we tried to find a market of home cooks that wanted to host events but (fortunately) we couldn't find them which led us to the pros. They were easier to find and they have the added
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by dgunn 15y ago
You're probably thinking of Housefed.com. He took the site down a while back I guess. I actually contacted the owner and chatted a (small) bit. Housefed was by far what I would consider to be the most popular of any of these types of servic
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by dgunn 15y ago
I hadn't actually heard of that. Very cool concept though. Our software is generic enough that something like this could easily spring up. As in, we don't limit our event to food only, we're interested to see how our users bend the site to
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by dgunn 15y ago
Hello HN. For those who do not want to click, the premise is a GrubWithUs for private chefs or an Airbnb for food. We have about 20 chefs in NYC who will cook and host meals in various locations (houses, restaurants, bakeries, apartments, f
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Show HN: SoupNextDoor - GrubWithUs for personal chefs(soupnextdoor.com)
9 points by dgunn 15y ago|11 comments
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by dgunn 15y ago
You need to get a game like this picked up by spencer's gifts or a similar novelty shop. Their brand is known for carrying this type of merch and if your game has promise, as you seem to indicate, you should give it a real chance. Go with a
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Max Levchin: There Are Too Many Incubators(sfgate.com)
1 points by dgunn 15y ago|0 comments
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by dgunn 15y ago
On what grounds? I'm not sure you've given any reasons at all to ditch google.
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by dgunn 15y ago
Basically everything to make it look as much like our site as possible. For example, we have a textured background, so to begin with it would be nice if the iframe background was transparent by default. We have taken care of this, but we ha

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