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by il 16y ago
I have a question: Does scraping like this execute Javascript on the scraped page? Am I able to access the output of Javascript/AJAX on that page? As far as I know this is impossible with any other server-side scraping technology. If so, th
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by il 16y ago
There was a startup posted on HN recently that did this, I can't recall the name. Honestly, it's super easy to roll your own and run it yourself. That way you're not giving up (potentially very valuable) keywords to anyone in the cloud. Ins
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by il 16y ago
This article is also factually wrong when it comes to the US. It is NOT illegal to send unsolicited email according to CAN-SPAM. All you are required to do is honor unsubscribes and provide contact info. Also, if customers are already on yo
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by il 16y ago
I wasn't aware not having a Twitter account was considered pathological in our Web 2.0 world. Why do I need to sign up for a microblogging platform to use a completely unrelated calendar app??? Anyway, my comments about reducing friction ar
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by il 16y ago
For a simple webapp like this, please don't make me get a twitter account/sign in to use. Generate a unique URL for me to use, or hash my email address or something like that. Reduce friction, I want to be able to use this with 1 click.
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by il 16y ago
The protection thing runs both ways... You will usually lose chargebacks but you will win item not received/not as described disputes filed with Paypal every time. But if you're doing 30K a month why are you with PayPal??? Get a merchant ac
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by il 16y ago
Toolbar PageRank updates are done on a rolling basis too now, they stopped doing massive updates every few months some time ago. Patrick is right, PageRank is basically a completely worthless indicator. Monitoring your position in the SERPS
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Ask HN: Share Your Blog
4 points by il 16y ago|2 comments
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by il 16y ago
Don't do the upsell thing, Google will perceive it as cloaking and will kill your account very quickly. Contacting site owners is a good idea though, it's a simplified version of media buys. You don't need to pay CPM or use an adserver, jus
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by il 16y ago
Have you tried media buys, both on the big CPM networks and direct?
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by il 16y ago
Come on. Everyone who has actually tried it knows that "if your content is good, people will link to it" is not a valid SEO strategy- especially if you're doing e-commerce and actually trying to sell something.
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by il 16y ago
This is great tech, but I'm worried it might set a precedent for rogue sites stealing my computing power/CPU cycles anytime I visit them.
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by il 16y ago
I think you're right- I'm in the first group you mentioned. I think to myself that I'm willing to do anything to get ahead...but when it comes time to act, I can't bring myself to screw others over. As I've learned, the best way to succeed
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by il 16y ago
When I was in college, I paid all of my expenses- food, rent, and out of state tuition doing affiliate marketing on the side. This was not throwing up banners on a site, but rather running PPC campaigns to affiliate offers (arbitrage). I al
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by il 16y ago
Advice like this baffles me. Everyone says you need to find a cofounder with skills that are complementary to yours who can compensate for your weaknesses with his skills. If the OP is good at the business side, let him focus on the busines
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Ask HN: How did you meet your cofounder?
64 points by il 16y ago|21 comments
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by il 16y ago
Do basic market research. Of course, look at existing services but also, more broadly, look at the target market as a whole. How big is it, who are the customers, whether they would be willing to pay and how much, how competitive and expen
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by il 16y ago
Googling reveals 750 attendees: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eU-e6C9... No idea how many applied, of course. Given the HN audience, it could have been thousands.
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by il 16y ago
Does anyone else think posts like this are trite, vapid crap that doesn't belong on HN? What could you possibly hope to learn from this thread? If I knew an easy way to make a million bucks, I wouldn't tell you, I would just do it. Then I w
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by il 16y ago
I don't mean to be overly critical or dismissive, but I think this is a guaranteed recipe for disaster. It takes more than a couple of months to build steady traffic and gain traction. For me finding customers is the easy part- they're out
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by il 16y ago
Can anyone who has attended a past Startup School share their experience? What's the general atmosphere of the event? Is it similar to other conferences you've attended? Does it offer value on its own merits, or is it simply a day-long sale
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by il 16y ago
Sadly, no. There are definitely entrepreneurial/startup-minded people in the Midwest, but they are scattered and not organized, there's nothing approaching the concentration of talent and events that exists in the Bay Area. That's one of th
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by il 16y ago
This seems to allow backups only, not homebrew.
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by il 16y ago
This article is fluff, it says nothing beyond "submit to app directories", which is an unsustainable and small source of traffic. Getting 1000 visitors is trivially easy. Write a single blog post, social bookmark it, do some very simple lin
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by il 16y ago
It's funny to see those names here, they are both industry friends of mine. There are thousands of affiliates quietly making six and seven figure incomes without any angel funding or hope for an exit. I know, I was one of them. terra, are y
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by il 16y ago
I think this is best answer in this thread so far. Saying " here you can use cool technology to solve interesting problems" seems to be a very attractive part of a startup for many hackers.
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by il 16y ago
What if I, like many founders, am young and don't have any cash or, for that matter connections? I'm of the school of thought that it's best to wait until you have a beta/MVP built and getting traction before fundraising rather than trying
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by il 16y ago
As mentioned above I(and, I imagine, many business cofounders) would bring marketing, monetization, and bizdev. This isn't vague writing a business plan strategy stuff, but rather concrete steps to take a startup from a side project to a bu
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by il 16y ago
Does anyone have any advice for finding and attracting a technical cofounder? As a hacker, what would you look for in a startup where you take the lead technical role and build most of the product? I would consider myself a hacker, but I'm
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by il 16y ago
"Ecstatic users do much of your marketing for you." is one of the biggest misconceptions a startup founder can have. Please don't make the mistake of depending on your users for marketing- you will fail. And your marketer should absolutel

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