dzohrob

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by dzohrob 19y ago
don't worry about making $60k. i'm 26, i've lived in SF for a few years, and i started bootstrapping my own startup earlier this year on a (post-tax) budget of ~$2400/mo, including a studio apartment and health insurance. i'm sure you can
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by dzohrob 19y ago
apple-C, apple-V.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
creative startup capital = selling your $90 startup guide for $40 to yc.news kids. please tell me nobody here bought this! i guarantee you your money and time would be better spent working on your product.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
i can't say whether you should move to SF or not, but i can tell you my experiences. i've lived in both seattle and san francisco, and currently live in SF. though i was more involved with the corporate scene than the startup scene in seat
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by dzohrob 19y ago
try stars of the lid's "and their refinement of the decline." some of the finest ambient music since eno. http://www.amazon.com/Their-Refinement-Decline-Explicit/dp/B...
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by dzohrob 19y ago
the answer to your troubles lies here: http://developers.facebook.com/terms.php
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by dzohrob 19y ago
i've had it for about a year. the idea for this site has been kicking around for a long time, but it's taken me this long to actually use the domain. :)
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by dzohrob 19y ago
okay, you got me -- i'll admit it: i spent 30 seconds making the graphic, and .5 seconds looking at it. maybe i'll change it. i'm not a designer, and i didn't think it was worth my time. but i would guess from our verification rates that
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by dzohrob 19y ago
it's a joke.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
to you and the others who have asked: how many regular, non-geek people do you know who know what RSS is? my count: 0. they might use My Yahoo!, but they don't know what RSS is. there was a study by yahoo from awhile ago [1] that stated t
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by dzohrob 19y ago
Is it the boldness? http://images.apple.com/home/2007/images/ipod_title_20070905...
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by dzohrob 19y ago
Thanks for the comments. Much appreciated.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
and to save the rest of the curious folks time: http://readr.com/?ver=0 http://readr.com/?ver=1 http://readr.com/?ver=2 http://readr.com/?ver=3 just trying out different things to see how they perform.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
i appreciate the feedback. the reason i opted for smaller filesize is because i'm not sure if anyone but web folks would notice the difference, but i'd be curious to find out if they do.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
thanks for the feedback.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
thanks. we're testing different versions o fthe front page, and this is the one that's done the best from CPC ads... though i found it less informative. i thought #1 would do better, but it doesn't perform as well. for those who are curio
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by dzohrob 19y ago
a combination of boredom at a job, and snapnames.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
It integrates with facebook status updates. nothing else yet, though we're definitely considering a lot of options.
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Readr -- my latest site. Feedback is appreciated.(readr.com)
21 points by dzohrob 19y ago|44 comments
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by dzohrob 19y ago
i just can't imagine a regular user ever really understanding why (or how) their username for a bunch of websites is a URL.
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i invented facebook too. how about you?(muhammadsaleem.com)
1 points by dzohrob 19y ago|0 comments
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by dzohrob 19y ago
doesn't this website seem like a giant plug for the author's books? the author's suggestion is that, if you don't have any former investors or family & friends who will give you money, you should buy his ($90) book. smart startup, ind
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by dzohrob 19y ago
you don't have to promise not to run ads. but ads are a drag on your acquisition of users, and the quality of your site improves with the number of active users -- so are you doing a disservice to your early users by running ads?
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by dzohrob 19y ago
umm, this just takes me to weebly.com. am i crazy?
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by dzohrob 19y ago
it's probably from a bidirectional or right-to-left character set. some languages go from right-to-left, but (incredibly) some can go in both directions, depending on the context.
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by dzohrob 19y ago
sort of close: readr.com.