girasquid

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by girasquid 12y ago
I've been using http://gdne.ws for this, but it's cool to see another service cropping up. I'll keep an eye on it.
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by girasquid 12y ago
Not quite - I replied to a comment just underneath yours that has been deleted. It was something along the lines of "don't start a content business, investors HATE content businesses".
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by girasquid 12y ago
You don't have to start a content business in order to take on investment - running something that aligns with your interests can be rewarding enough on its own. Optimizing for what investors like seems shortsighted.
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by girasquid 12y ago
I'm not sure if they have something exactly like this, but http://erlibird.com/ has gotten me pretty good feedback on projects before.
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by girasquid 12y ago
I'd be interested in using the data that came out of it as a result. If there was an easy way for me to contribute back I would be interested in doing that.
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by girasquid 12y ago
There are plenty of developers still actively producing and releasing games in Flash - the fact that it can cross compile to iOS, Android, and Mac/Windows desktop applications with a single codebase is pretty compelling. Haxe and Unity
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by girasquid 12y ago
I've been teaching myself actionscript 3 so that I can build games - right now I'm working on a game where you run a pizza shop, because I used to like playing lemonade stand: http://d.pr/i/zJh4 Today has mos
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by girasquid 13y ago
No API, but someone has bundled up the scraping into a gem for you: https://github.com/speric/kindle-highlights
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by girasquid 13y ago
Not always though. I didn't get a degree but have had recruiters from both companies reach out to me based on work experience. Based on the conversations we had, it didn't sound like my lack of a degree was a big deal. If you have
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by girasquid 13y ago
You already accepted the offer from the second company. It's clear from the speed that the first company has been responding to your emails that they're either disorganized or not very interested in you - neither is a good thing f
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by girasquid 13y ago
Who are you pre-selling to? You still need those first five.
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by girasquid 13y ago
I was after people who used iTunes to listen to their music for Beathound ( http://beathound.com ), so I created a survey asking them about their listening habits and offered a $100 iTunes gift card as a reward in the hopes that f
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by girasquid 13y ago
I built a service that tracks new music releases because I got sick of missing things from the artists I was interested in ( http://beathound.com - iTunes only for now) - it only emails you at most once a week, so I use it genera
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by girasquid 13y ago
Arq
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by girasquid 13y ago
You might try signing up on https://www.odesk.com/ - you'll probably want to stick to small projects to build up your reputation at first, but once you have a few under your belt you should be able to raise your rates
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by girasquid 13y ago
Keep your job and start selling the product. Don't take investment capital unless you absolutely have to, and don't quit your job until your profits are high enough that you can do so comfortably. If you do it this way, you'l
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by girasquid 13y ago
In a lot of cases, the "performance" people care about when making language choice is "developer performance". People choosing Python feel (perhaps incorrectly) that they will be more productive and able to build things
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by girasquid 13y ago
This seems like it actually detracts from the PDF experience. 1) I can't search anymore 2) I can't click to get to the next page - I have to click the corner of the page and drag it over, which feels gimmicky after the first time.
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by girasquid 13y ago
There was at one point - Clutch ( http://clutchio.github.io/ ) did it and then got acquired by Twitter. They've open sourced everything though ( https://github.com/clutchio ), maybe you can start researchi
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by girasquid 13y ago
Depends what you want. http://99designs.com is good if you need a logo.
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by girasquid 13y ago
How many billable hours would it take to make the $60/year this will cost you?
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by girasquid 13y ago
My first guess would be affiliate commission from the various services where you can buy the music.
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by girasquid 13y ago
I'm curious: if a gaming company were to distribute a game that had an option where you paid for it and an option where the client partitioned 10% of your capacity for mining (only while playing the game) - how many players would go fo
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by girasquid 13y ago
They used to enforce that, but then relaxed the requirement a (year?) ago. Since then there's been a lot more marketing shots instead of screenshots showing up in app listings.
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by girasquid 13y ago
Right now it's iTunes only, but I'm doing a lot of research into what to support next. Some of that research has led to new projects ( http://magic-playlist.com puts music recommendations into your Rdio or Last.fm accou
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by girasquid 13y ago
Beathound ( http://beathound.com ) is making between $50 and $100 a month in affiliate revenue from the various music stores. I'm working on rolling out some new features that will increase that.
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American Giant: The problems of being an overnight success
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by girasquid 14y ago
You could try Erlibird - http://erlibird.com . The crowd is typically less technical than HN readers, in my experience.
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by girasquid 14y ago
I highly recommend CoSupport ( http://cosupport.us/ ). They were great to get up and running with, and do an incredible job of fielding the simpler requests and learning from you for the more challenging ones (eventually they can even help
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by girasquid 14y ago
This page seems really light on data - do you know how they decide which artists/albums get listed?

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