jonathanleane

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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Thanks Jay - I hear you on both points. Actually, your second point in particular is one that has come up again and again over the last couple of months, so that will definitely be my #1 fix if I decide to persevere with this. Also apprecia
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
> Just like everything else, theme creation (configuration) will continue to get easier for most people to do on their own. As the barrier to entry is reduced, the market for themes will be reduced. Thanks for the reply. Your post initia
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Haha, well thanks for not sugar coating it :) Anyway I hear what you're saying. I agree that it's a growth market - my question about the concept being flawed was not so much about theme/template marketplaces in general, but
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Thanks Spyder. To address your last point first - I'm actually already doing that :) For example, if someone does a search for 'premium wordpress portfolio themes', then I would send them to something like this: http:/&
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Many thanks thegrif. I'm actually quite experienced with PPC - though admittedly in completely different industries to this one - and it had occurred to me before I started that PPC was simply not a viable strategy for this particular
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Ask HN: My Startup is floundering. Pivot, persevere, or pull the plug?
8 points by jonathanleane 12y ago|20 comments
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Sorry to hijack, but I literally just launched something very similar: http://www.themebeacon.com/ I even posted about it to HN the other day ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745 ) but it seemed to
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Thanks for the compliment! Any tips on what could be done better? Re seeing this on the front page sucking, not at all - just proof that great minds think alike :) But to be honest it did suck the way my initial submission seemed to disappe
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Yeah, I'm almost positive you're right about the animations, etc. still loading off-screen. I'm not sure how much of this is due just to javascript stuff going on vs. loading a bunch of things at once simply being really CPU
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Hey thanks! Re number of columns and left/right sidebar, a lot of themes are customisable in this respect (particularly the sidebar bit). I'll look into it though - it's a good point. Re result loading... yeah :( I have tried
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
I like your solution too - it 'gets you to the goods' much faster :) At the moment I feel like mine sort of overpromises and underdelivers, e.g. the style and features functionality doesn't work particularly well yet. About t
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Sorry to hijack, but I literally just launched something very similar: http://www.themebeacon.com/ I even posted about it to HN the other day ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7888745 ) but it seemed t
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Hi guys, been working on this as a bit of a side project for like 4 months or so. Still some bugs and not quite finished, but any feedback would be most welcome :)
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Show HN: Themebeacon – My attempt to make theme/template discovery easier(themebeacon.com)
3 points by jonathanleane 12y ago|1 comments
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by jonathanleane 12y ago
Actually all of the Scandinavian countries have fertility rates of < 2 births per woman...
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by jonathanleane 13y ago
Hard to believe they couldn't have made a go of this. The 'WebMonkey' brand has a decent amount of cred - why doesn't Wired try to transition it into a proven model, like the Envato 'Tuts' sites? I guess if the
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by jonathanleane 13y ago
Hi guys – I put together a (very) simple suburb explorer type site. Useful if you want to look up a suburb's profile, location, pics, etc. There's also some Australian Census data in there for most of the suburbs – basic stuff lik
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Show HN: My first app (an Australian 'suburb explorer')(suburbprofile.com.au)
2 points by jonathanleane 13y ago|1 comments
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by jonathanleane 14y ago
> For what it's worth we have done several experiments. We even tried having a remote worker on a constant skype connection, with a monitor/camera in a shared office with other workers (over a period of several months). Did this help th
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by jonathanleane 14y ago
How many cookie monsters until we see diminishing returns?
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by jonathanleane 14y ago
Having nukes works well as a deterrent to being nuked, but using them (even defensively) could only ever be as a last resort. It's not hard to see how a country with nukes defending itself from a country with nukes AND a conventional mili
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by jonathanleane 14y ago
Not sure if you're being funny? France has one of the highest rates of productivity per capita [0] and is the 5th highest military spender in the world [1]. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP... [1] http://e
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by jonathanleane 14y ago
Serious question: How does a country that embraces 'degrowth' defend itself militarily from a country that is still working on the high production paradigm?
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by jonathanleane 14y ago
Curious as to which countries you were considering, and which one you eventually decided on?
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by jonathanleane 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistan...
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by jonathanleane 14y ago
I had the good fortune of being born Australian. Through sheer dumb luck I'm entitled to: - Free healthcare - Free education - Free roads and parks - Free safety and security (i.e. a relatively well functioning police force that will prot