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by farout 16y ago
I would add Logo Design Love to your excellent reading list! Thank you for putting this together. I am going to use your checklist this weekend to fine-tune my latest creation, cardealerquotes.org. Maawaaahhaha :)
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by farout 16y ago
I always hated wearing the company T-shirt - I felt like a drone. Also at Sun they never gave women sizes - 8 years - not once. Tons and tons of night shirts for me. Plus the damn logo is right across the chest - yeah that is exactly where
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by farout 16y ago
really? I did not code that anywhere - all I am doing is javascript and jquery for setting up the form - but nothign gets downloaded except images and code. are you sure you went to cardealerquotes.ORG I do not own cardealerquotes.COM I agr
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by farout 16y ago
I am curious: What made you think this was spam since it is not?
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by farout 16y ago
I beg your parton. This is not spam. I worked hard on this. There are several companies that in the lead generation business as viable business model. This is not spam. I am asking for technical and design feedback, if you want to use that
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Ask HN: please review my app/site: cardealerquotes.org
4 points by farout 16y ago|12 comments
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by farout 16y ago
I agree with you - critical mass is required in B2C market. There is an excellent book called Viral Loop that dissects past companies that were able to do this correctly in the B2C market. Also Mark Bao talks about this threewords.me has a
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by farout 16y ago
I just emailed you about a way to do this without producing anything yourself. All the ingredients to do this are easy to assembly and easy to buy. You should be able to get this done in 1 hour - a working prototype actually not even a prot
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by farout 16y ago
Thanks for sharing. Screw the English - the ideas were spot on especially about market reach. In general I find people who have no real value to add with usually criticize not the ideas but the person. It shows low self-esteem in my eyes. M
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by farout 16y ago
the biggest issue usually between idea and execution is locating and actually reaching the market cost effectively and in a timely manner. Suppose your product is for x people who like y. Good. You have an Ideal Customer Profile. Then you s
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by farout 16y ago
darn - I feel like a groupie - but it is true. I can't believe you are on HN!!!
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by farout 16y ago
here are the three that within in a month you should be able to write some sweet apps quickly. 1. Head First Rails I first poohed this book but I had read 7-8 other books adn still was confused so I thought what the hell. I did each project
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by farout 16y ago
I am not sure who you are asking, but I will respond. There is no such thing as an easy wins. Most companies do not realize a customer is not a sale. A customer is a customer that renews, tells others (referral aka word of mouth), or comes
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by farout 16y ago
Edit: andrewstuart's said the quote on item 4. I am just responding that I do not agree.
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by farout 16y ago
Haha - you are so right on several accounts: 1. Any good sales rep should be able to sell self, their best product. 2. When I went for jobs I was mainly interested in commission. However if the sale took long that is not good enough. You ca
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by farout 16y ago
Having been a hi-tech quota exceeding :-) sales rep for a number years, here is what I advise: 1. Hire two reps: one for each coast. Even two part-time reps at each coast I say is better than one rep running around from coast to coast. Time
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by farout 16y ago
Ruby on Rails. Get the Head first Rails book then the Agile programmer book, see amazon. There 2 excellent Ruby books:Beginning Ruby and Pragmatic Ruby but you can do those later. Then practice like hell. meaning do each project in each boo
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by farout 16y ago
Yes you are right. One sample is not representative. I should have added that I also noticed - of the 35 people (that I knew very well) that I checked in LInkedin, all 35 had misrepresented themselves in Linkedin to some degree. As a stati
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by farout 16y ago
Oh and one more, always ask the designer for the psd (Photoshop) files not just png or jpg - this way you can easily modify it.
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HK share: what do you do at your business that can help a startup save money?
1 points by farout 16y ago|2 comments
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by farout 16y ago
I remember looking up a former coworker who was a great coworker who I was trying to recruit. It was so odd that he had links to people that he hated. Not only that they each had written about each other and how good the other person was. I
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by farout 16y ago
Stop reading unless it can help you immediately - got this tip from 4hour week from Tim Ferris's book. Books are first vetted for fit by analyzing the star3 comments in Amazon. Then I write what I will do once I read this book before I read
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by farout 16y ago
good questions. However the first question "Who is your audience" should include implicitly - how will you reach and find your audience. Too often the market is there but very hard to reach economically and efficiently.
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by farout 16y ago
Thanks, these are great ideas. I never thought of doing this way. The site dos not take in user generated content that is immediately displayed. The data is first curated and verified so the attack will be a bit harder. So there is fresh (d
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by farout 16y ago
my 3 favorites are: http://allrecipes.com they have ratings; large selection http://epicurious.com they have ratings; more sophisticated http://showmethecurry Indian recipes that actually work via video
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by farout 16y ago
I want to make sure a person votes only once. But if they want to game the system fine as long as they are willing to submit a captcha For another website, I used to store the IP address and do checks but for a simple system that seem to be
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by farout 16y ago
As you stated: If computer wanted to hack it - sure it is easy enough. But I was looking for a easy way to do some verification. I asked this because I was creating a reddit clone and wanted a captcha system. I detest the ones that exist ri
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by farout 16y ago
This focus translates into the questions we ask to begin with. What are we asking ourselves when we solve something? What questions are asking when defining the problem? If the problem definition is askew than ...
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by farout 16y ago
As a side question, why are captchas using alphanumerics? Any reason why you can say, what is 1+1? And flip the terms and answers for each captcha. Is it because a person can't solve 3+8?
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by farout 16y ago
The problem is as an UX programmer everyone in the company gives you their 2 cents (the bike shed issue). However as a backend programmer you are left alone to do the job at hand without either specs changing at the speed of light or having

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