jamesgagan

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by jamesgagan 13y ago
Looks like a nice app, but this statement is far from true: "There is no channel for music discovery outside of what the majors pay to put in front of you." A new music discovery site gets posted to HN at least once a week, many o
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Show HN: Random indie and electronic playlists(tunes.io)
1 points by jamesgagan 13y ago|0 comments
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
Thanks! Tell your friends ;)
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
My traffic is pretty much direct/word of mouth. I haven't done any advertising, just a few links on places like HN. The problem with a YouTube video site like tubalr is you can't use adsense unless you have a lot of added c
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
About 400 - 500 visitors a day. CPM is ok compared to other sites I've run adsense on. People seem to like the site.
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
Do you think ads are a better way to make money than charging for the app?
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
Yeah I use adblock too - even on my own site ;) I was thinking maybe I would make a tunes.io android app and sell it for a buck just to see what happens.
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
I make around $5 to $10 a day from my site http://tunes.io I haven't put any effort into marketing it or trying to monetize it other than adsense. Maybe I should be trying harder!
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Did a hyper-black hole spawn the Universe?(nature.com)
1 points by jamesgagan 13y ago|0 comments
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
I think Rudyard Kipling did a much better job: http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
nothing new about this - it's just /r/listentothis repackaged
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
Recently got a Nexus 7, which is a great little tablet. But I was disappointed to find out you can't download zip files from the Gmail app. Wish I had known this before buying it.
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Unable to download ZIP files attached to email(code.google.com)
1 points by jamesgagan 13y ago|1 comments
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
i'm willing to accept the downvotes that will come along with saying both are pretty magnificent vehicles.
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by jamesgagan 13y ago
soundmanager2 is awesome - I use it for my project tunes.io This interface brings back memories of Mixwit! (YC W08) http://mixwit.wordpress.com/
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How Reddit became a national scapegoat(www2.macleans.ca)
2 points by jamesgagan 13y ago|0 comments
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by jamesgagan 14y ago
Pretty sure not displaying the video is a violation of the YouTube API TOS: https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms Also have a feeling the owners of the napster trademarks won't like your domain name much!
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by jamesgagan 14y ago
this is what the tomahawk project is attempting to do. you should check it out. http://www.tomahawk-player.org/
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A look at literally every single conventional weapon in North Korea's arsenal(news.nationalpost.com)
3 points by jamesgagan 14y ago|0 comments
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Massive data leak exposes offshore financial secrets(cbc.ca)
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TechCrunch Pump n Dump(brianshall.com)
206 points by jamesgagan 14y ago|121 comments
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by jamesgagan 14y ago
he is the founder of fandalism, which is doing pretty well i think. http://www.fandalism.com/pud
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by jamesgagan 14y ago
if you mean this one, it's just moved down: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5010891
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by jamesgagan 14y ago
i made a fishing bot for wow using sikuli a while back - it was rudimentary but since fishing in wow is mostly just clicking the bobber, it worked pretty well. i'd let it go overnight and would wake up to bags full of fish every morning.
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Police taser woman after she tried to buy too many iPhones from Apple store(news.nationalpost.com)
7 points by jamesgagan 14y ago|3 comments
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by jamesgagan 14y ago
looks a lot like http://chartbrain.com
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by jamesgagan 14y ago
wow it reminds me a lot of a music site I had a hand in, http://songspin.fm - it has a bit of traction, but this area is definitely a tough nut to crack
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Thanks HN - I've decided to make tunes.io my main focus.
1 points by jamesgagan 14y ago|0 comments
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by jamesgagan 14y ago
if they are actually good, shoot me an email at info at everlook dot ca
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by jamesgagan 14y ago
just click on the song that's playing. i plan to add keyboard controls at some point.

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