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by geekjock 8y ago
> Posting comments in relevant threads is slower, but it can drive a surprising amount of traffic over time, and the conversion rates will often be much higher than a 'featured' placement. Could you elaborate on this? Do you se
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by geekjock 8y ago
Hi @greysteil :) Couldn't agree with this more. I also have a low-priced SAAS product [0] and spent a ton of time early on talking to new users who signed up. I wouldn't even call it "sales". I just wanted to hear from e
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by geekjock 8y ago
I'm the creator of a Slack bot (Pull Reminders). I ended up building a web UI to configure the bot rather than using slash commands. The main reason for this was that Slack's platform is still evolving and I thought it'd be d
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by geekjock 8y ago
I've decided to switch to amazon gift cards!
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by geekjock 8y ago
I recently built a GitHub Markeplace app ( https://pullreminders.com ) and have been really impressed by GitHub's ecosystem strategy. They seem to taking lessons from Slack's success and doubling down on supporting integ
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by geekjock 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback!
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by geekjock 8y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Fulfillment - I plan on just manually ordering coffee to people once per week. If it gets to be too much work that'd be a great problem to have :) I do ship internationally, and if for some reason I can't
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Ask HN: I built a referral program for developers, would love feedback
9 points by geekjock 8y ago|8 comments
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by geekjock 9y ago
I have the same question. "Free for the first $1 million of recurring charges." would actually be a better deal for early startups than their standard pricing of "2.9% + $0.30 charge". Also, since they've migrated o
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by geekjock 9y ago
It all depends on a particular teams workflow. I think it's great to see GitHub continuing to invest in workflow features like this. I developed an app ( https://pullreminders.com ) that helps teams stay on top of open pull r
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by geekjock 9y ago
OP here: I created this tool because on the last few teams I've worked on, pull requests would linger around and start then start to get backed up. It's not fun for managers to chase after old PRs or for developers to constantly b
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by geekjock 9y ago
Thanks!
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Show HN: Automatic Slack reminders for pull requests(pullreminders.com)
22 points by geekjock 9y ago|4 comments
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by geekjock 9y ago
Hammer | Senior Software Engineer | San Diego or Remote | Salary: $100-$165k | hammer-corp.com (undergoing redesign) Hammer is a bootstrapped, profitable software company that's tripling in size every year. We help car dealers manage t
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by geekjock 9y ago
One of my biggest hurdles was trying to figure out if microservices were right for us (a small distributed team) and then communicating/selling the benefit of them to my team and bosses. This involved creating a mutually agreed upon de
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Coding Bootcamp Hiring Stats Are Still Misleading and Harmful(medium.com)
5 points by geekjock 9y ago|0 comments
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Dev Bootcamp Is Dead, but It Didn't Fail(medium.com)
3 points by geekjock 9y ago|1 comments
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by geekjock 9y ago
I worked at Dev Bootcamp for four years. A big part of why the company is going out of business is that it put students ahead of profits. I wrote a post about this here: https://medium.com/@abinoda/dev-bootcamp-is-dead-
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Idempotency, APIs, and Retries – Oh My(hackernoon.com)
3 points by geekjock 10y ago|0 comments
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by geekjock 10y ago
> Does that mean the top benefit of next.js is to alleviate difficulties with Webpack + Babel + etc? And server-side rendering which solves common SEO and performance challenges of SPAs. Here's an article showing where server-side r
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How to Build a SEO-Friendly React Blog with an API-Based CMS(hackernoon.com)
7 points by geekjock 10y ago|0 comments
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by geekjock 10y ago
Founder of https://buttercms.com here – we should talk!
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Slowing down in this crazy tech startup mania(abinoda.com)
1 points by geekjock 16y ago|0 comments
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Don't Make Me Think(abinoda.com)
3 points by geekjock 16y ago|0 comments