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by il 16y ago
This is the first time I've heard anyone favorably compare San Diego to SF. I've always heard that compared to SF, San Diego is dull, boring, and suburban. Care to explain why you like it more?
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by il 16y ago
Probably because it's hard to get millions of signups to any web service?
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by il 16y ago
It's obviously tough to make sweeping generalizations about people, but if you study psychology you will learn that all humans(and indeed other animals) share certain innate drives that are part of our genetic makeup. The need for sex,repro
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by il 16y ago
Wow, my comment must have hit a nerve. I wonder if the people downvoting me have ever experienced being in a good relationship. I don't mean meaningless sex, although that is great too, I mean an emotionally involved relationship. All I'm s
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by il 16y ago
Isn't making a personal, emotional connection with another human being pretty universally considered an important part of being human? If you're one of those people who look down on the pursuit of sex as not worthy of their time/intelligenc
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by il 16y ago
It would be interesting to learn what they did to get to the front page of CNN. Excellent PR firm? Techcrunch/YC coverage? Or just hard work and ingenuity by the founders?
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by il 16y ago
I briefly tried this too, data mining thousands of high-paying keywords and looking for available exact match domains, so I didn't even have to worry about SEO to get to #1. I still couldn't make this profitable, even to cover domain/hostin
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by il 16y ago
Well, for one, some of the most brilliant coders I've ever spoken to have been in Russia. A lot of incredible web technology we in the startup scene don't hear about comes from Russia. Unfortunately, most of it is used for spam/fraud.
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by il 16y ago
Google gets paid for clicks, not impressions. As long as the same percentage of searches terminate in clicks on ads their revenue will remain unaffected. The only conceivable impact on ads is that traffic will shift from long-tail to shorte
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InDinero (YC S10) makes small business finances a snap(money.cnn.com)
30 points by il 16y ago|15 comments
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by il 16y ago
It's not hard if you can get traffic, either with a good product or good marketing or SEO. Think of it as a numbers game, get as much traffic as you can and monetize. About a million pageviews a month will probably get you to $40K a year.
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by il 16y ago
Google's domain is pointed at Google nameservers. If you point a domain you control to your own nameserver, you can direct it to any IP you want, on any network.
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by il 16y ago
If you've ever studied persuasion, for example Cialdini, you'll find that there are very specific, concrete concepts and techniques presented. The type of theories Cialdini presents can very easily be taken into practice.
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by il 16y ago
Fulfillment is relatively cheap and you benefit from significant postage discounts. There's no reason you should be shipping products yourself.
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by il 16y ago
You know, not everything is the next Google. Network effects and the size of the userbase are very important.
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by il 16y ago
I can't tell which you loathe more- SEO or a real business model reselling actual products. This is an article someone who created a very successful startup at a young age by "hacking" the traditional clothing value chain and business model
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by il 16y ago
These types of e-commerce businesses are not something you hear I'm trying to do something similar right now as a side project. I'm not selling t-shirts, but the economics are similar. If you actually research it, it takes very little start
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by il 16y ago
True, there are obviously good and bad business people just like there are good and bad hackers. I'm just against the blanket "we don't need business people for our startup we only need hackers actually building things" attitude that seems
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by il 16y ago
I think it's more inconvenient truths like "Your startup is overwhelmingly likely to fail". Those types of pragmatic posts/comments generally are hushed over in favor of the more exuberant ones.
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by il 16y ago
Here's the question that article didn't answer: If I'm currently bootstrapping a startup, with no current connections or previous successful exits, straight out of college without connections at a past employer, and I'm not in a program lik
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by il 16y ago
Note that it's usually the programmers who have never had a successful startup who look down on business people and then wonder why their project failed.
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by il 16y ago
I don't think this is a "review my startup" type post.
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Ask HN: What's up with the Google logo today? What does it mean?(google.com)
12 points by il 16y ago|9 comments
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by il 16y ago
You're in luck- web developers are a very easy audience to target online due to the wealth of content aimed at them. Stop screwing around with niche stuff like BuySellAds and get into some serious high volume media buys, especially on tutor
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by il 16y ago
I'm actually a liberal arts graduate myself(Psychology), and the reason I went the startup route is that it was easier than looking for a job with my degree. As for the unemployment rate, you come on. Quoting that 4.5% figure is intellectua
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by il 16y ago
I assuming parent is correct and he gets 150K uniques a day, which is probably on the high side. However, I maintain that getting $10 CPM for a finance site, even one without an ad sales team, is trivial.
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by il 16y ago
I think that's the problem. Everyone wants talented developers. Many companies can no longer afford to hire less talented developers who many have been able to get a job in a booming economy. And I'm not mentioning the millions of libera
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by il 16y ago
In the personal finance niche- that's enough to get rich! He can easily get $10 CPM for his posts. At 150K pageviews a day that's $1500 a day profit.
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by il 16y ago
Second this idea. Nothing like this exists currently except for a couple buggy poorly documented dead projects. Selenium might be OK for usability testing a single site, but it's useless for large scale multithreaded crawling and scraping a
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by il 16y ago
Is that due to a technical limitation or a security issue? Would everything need to run in a separate sandbox if the JS was from a trusted source(i.e. google)?

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