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How do you market your startup on a shoestring?
6 points by hxf148 15y ago|5 comments
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by hxf148 15y ago
I think it's hard to get great honest constructive reactions from people you don't know let alone the people you do know who just want to support you. With a startup ( http://infostripe.com ) outside the insider circles of the west coast (o
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by hxf148 15y ago
As a service ( http://infostripe.com ) we generally only store public information but we still encrypt most of it to make it less valuable as a whole in case our db got stolen somehow. Whether the password was plain text or decrypted by a t
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by hxf148 15y ago
If the information is marked public then crawling it is how the web works, or at least how searching and indexing works. I ran into that a bit with our startup ( http://infostripe.com ) when doing demo's it was sometimes shocking to people
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by hxf148 15y ago
I have worked corporate government web development for over a decade (sigh). I helped bring in use of open source and php there and in a way it has always operated as a startup with constant staff/tech changes. But going it alone in the rea
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by hxf148 15y ago
Ahh sorry about that I sign my link as a sig all the time out of habit. I guess in a way it could be related as that link is a project I work on that has minimal intentional IE6 support. :) I'll remember that tip regardless.
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by hxf148 15y ago
It's funny, I have been around so long in this game that I remember never really liking Netscape, ever. IE3 in some ways made web dev fun and interesting again. Then IE4 took over and I was pretty happy using it as Netscape grew fat and slo
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by hxf148 15y ago
Hanging in there is key. I have found that sometimes you have to dig deep and hold on to the good idea that with good work everything will work given enough time. Something I have reflected on after three months at http://infostripe.com
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by hxf148 16y ago
We posted about infostripe to the overnight/overseas HN crowd last week. After implementing many of the suggestions and comments I thought I would resubmit it to the day crowd to see what you thought of it in it's current form. Also check o
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Review our startup(infostripe.com)
2 points by hxf148 16y ago|1 comments
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by hxf148 16y ago
I hardly know whether to call my infostripe.com operation a startup or not. I've invested in good scalable hosting with rackspace and act as all dev/ceo/marketing roles.. it's early for us but I guess being a startup is a presence of mind i
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by hxf148 16y ago
Suggestions for the Favorite social networks list?
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by hxf148 16y ago
We have changed the Social tab and now feature a dozen or so of the more popular sites at the top.
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by hxf148 16y ago
Our aim is to provide the service to as many people, business and things as we can reach. Thank you for your suggestions they are being integrated.
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by hxf148 16y ago
infostripe are embedable with iframes. We are working on an official solution to embed the stripe in any site but for an iframe works nicely.
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by hxf148 16y ago
I have switched the order of the form and the question. The question is now first. I guess it was silly to have the form up front first. I've tried rewording things.. I am still working on it. More of a programmer then a poet so any suggest
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by hxf148 16y ago
Wow great replies. I will take action on some if these suggestions right away. More please :)
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Review my startup - infostripe.com(infostripe.com)
18 points by hxf148 16y ago|21 comments