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HN, Please Review My Startup: Stormweight.com(stormweight.com)
10 points by jbr 17y ago|46 comments
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by jbr 17y ago
I'm most interested in: "If you have artistic inclinations and fear that the search for wealth will coarsen such talents, you will never get rich. (Because your fear, in this instance, is well justified.)" This stuck out as something I've n
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Bringing a (physical) product to market — 6 tips(productdesignhub.com)
2 points by jbr 17y ago|1 comments
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by jbr 17y ago
There's a fine line here; how does one know whether their situation is special or if what worked for them is applicable to others? As you say, overzealous generalization yields bad advice, but it's easier for consumers of advice (us) to fi
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by jbr 17y ago
Another vote for no scribd on the landing page -- it looks foreign and distracts from the sign up button (your "call to action"). "How it works?" isn't really a question. Either "How does it work?" or "How it works:" This might just be me,
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by jbr 17y ago
Somewhat generic advice: Find a good local bookstore (way easier in cities, particularly those with universities) and start flipping through relevant books until you find one that speaks in language you understand -- there's really no sub
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Name an emerging movement(radar.oreilly.com)
1 points by jbr 17y ago|0 comments
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by jbr 17y ago
This is really quite cool. A few thoughts: - When I click "claim your identity," it should take me to the create an account tab. At this stage, why not make that the default tab? - I'm no designer, but the tan / pink / fleshtone color isn
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by jbr 17y ago
This seems like it might have an accessibility audience; easy navigation for people without a mouse. Simple question to frame the inquiry: What's the advantage of your technology over control/command F and control/command G? The answer to
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by jbr 17y ago
Another note if you're doing recurring billing: Check with your payment provider if you can get your customer payment data out ever. At my previous startup, we were locked into PayPal because they wouldn't release the consumer CC#s and it'
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by jbr 17y ago
I do think it's $200/mo, but as far as we've been able to tell, it's perfectly legitimate to run our own $200 transaction and pay the processor fee (a few bucks a month on $200). We've only had our merchant account for ~1 month, though, so
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by jbr 17y ago
> Slicehost can more easily upgrade your plan. Linode has to switch your box should you want to move plans. Often Slicehost can move plans while keeping you on the same box. I'm on slicehost, and when I upgraded ("resized") a slice, it
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by jbr 17y ago
SnapTwitter is archive.org for twitter -- historical snapshots with a high degree of time precision. Be able to roll forward and backwards through time to see (and search) all of twitter at any point. Maybe it even has a visual timeline a
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by jbr 17y ago
It matters a whole lot what sort of payments you need to take. Is your payment model a sale (one-time transaction) or recurring billing? If you're going to take credit cards and/or do recurring billing: I've built two recurring billing pay
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by jbr 17y ago
Let my people go surfing -- Yvon Chouinard http://amzn.com/1594200726 The seven day weekend -- Ricardo Semler http://amzn.com/1591840260 Getting Real http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ -- Also, help flesh out the list of books for star
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by jbr 17y ago
Project management is a fairly broad domain and includes a bunch of different tool types. If you're using sites, you might be interested in pbworks (was pbwiki) or 37signals basecamp. Pivotal tracker provides a very focused (and thus inte