ianpurton

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by ianpurton 15y ago
What kind of data ?
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"Tell the lawyers you've decided not to bother and get back to work." Probably the best legal advice you're going to get.
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A dedicated server is probably your best bet, shared hosting solutions are always going to have contention. But first, is there anyway you can measure where the time is spent in your application ? I know from profiling Java apps you often g
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by ianpurton 15y ago
shellinabox. http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/
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by ianpurton 15y ago
Thanks, I really appreciate your time.
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Mike, I'd appreciate some feedback on my sales page for Status2K http://status2k.com . Does it look professional ? Would you change anything about it ? Thanks.
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There's a lot of "Coming Soon" sites out there. So I don't sign up for that reason. I figure if it's any good then I'll hear about it again when they're up and running. Also, the tag line. "GROOOVY LETS YOU MEET NEW FRIENDS COMFORTABLY AT Y
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It really depends what you're bringing to the table.
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I can't stress enough what good advice that is.
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"What happens to developers who get old" We look at the young kids and think "What chance have they got". We've had decades to assimilate Basic (C64), Assembly (6502, 68000 and Z80), C, Pascal, Serial Comms, Linux, Windows, X, ASN.1, C++, S
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"its value is always expected to grow" It's value is down to about $5 from a high of about $30. The deflation argument is well argued here http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/66/will-deflation... "no central authority and no conver
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That's a great one.
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I liked the idea of your service although I was reluctand to give it access to my dropbox as I wasn't sure what that meant. Would you be able to see all my files ? In terms of monitization I think you're screwed, unless you got down the ban
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Use 'we' in your marketing copy and automated emails. It's rare that a 1 person startup hasn't used other people along the way such as designers, developers and testers. So there's no dishonesty and it sounds better. Use 'I', when you commu
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"I came up with an idea. I researched potential competitors, talked to potential customers, and overall got good feedback. So, I went along working out features (as well as refining down to MVP) and started designed a pretty detailed wirefr
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Show HN: StrongCoin a Bitcoin e-wallet with the encryption on the client side.
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5 months is a long time to be prototyping. You need feedback from real users not co-founders. Who else has seen the prototype ? Perhaps you can gently turn this around by introducing the concept of the MVP and estimating how close you are t
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I don't know if your product is viable or not but your landing page will turn people off. Sorry. It's hard to be a developer and then do design, I get that. However there are resources to help us with layout, fonts and all that stuff. Have
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CodeBase - http://www.codebasehq.com/ Git repository, issue with watchers, time tracking and more. I've been using it for about 2 years. It's very feature rich and has a great workflow.
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I can't see any reason why you couldn't start right now. You should be able to complete the following with the skills you already have. 1. Follow a Ruby Rails getting started article and create a blog app. 2. Open a heroku account and deplo
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I use Vim which definitely has a learning curve. The advantage of Vim is it's available in most unix environments and it's cheap. If you're ever on a prod server and having to hack some code (obviously I don't do this) then your Vim skills
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The advantage of discuss is that it has a common signon for all disqus users so your more likely to get comments. The disadvantage is that the comments are pulled in by Javascript and are not part of your page. Therefore they won't get pick
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"Biggest one of them - UX of online forums" I don't think that's forum owners main concern, I bet they're more interested in fighting Spam and Trolls. So you gave yourself quite a hard task here. You went up against onstartups, hacker news
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The "see a demo deals site" link on the left hand side launches as a popup this was a problem for me. I don't have my browser full screen so I had to maximise to see it. Then the popup was corrupt. I refreshed and maximised the page and cli
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It looks great. It's good to see more things appear in the Bitcoin space. I would add a tour page, perhaps with screenshots so people can see how it works without signing up.
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Using Paypal to collect payments is probably the quickest way to get a startup up and running. Even for recurring payments paypal works quite well. In fact for users who already have a paypal account, signup would be easier than entering cr
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Sebastian, I couldn't see any pricing information. Without that I wouldn't normally sign up to try it out.
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I think you can achieve the same thing using shellinabox. Take a look at http://blog.servermonitoringhq.com/posts/the_ultimate_web_ba...
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I also use Paypal for my SaaS applicationm ( http://servermonitoringhq.com ). I run a free trial so I'm not asking for payment upfront. Only when the customer decides to signup do they see the paypal subscription button. My target market is
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I've setup a web based IDE. Using a browser based terminal emulator (shellinabox) and Vim, I can cut code from anywhere I have an internet connection. http://blog.servermonitoringhq.com/posts/the_ultimate_web_ba...

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