justinchen

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   by justinchen 16y ago

   We use Amazon EC2 via EngineYard and we're a profitable bootstrapped company that's been around for 5 years.
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   by justinchen 16y ago

   Nice! How about some keyboard shortcuts to navigate articles without clicking?
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   by justinchen 16y ago

   When I first started scrolling I got a little confused b/c I didn't realize the header was fixed. The sign up button disappeared and I couldn't figure out how to get it back.
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   by justinchen 16y ago

   Users, owners or partners. We also aggregate online menus from around the web.
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   by justinchen 16y ago

   Menuism ( http://www.menuism.com/ ) - bootstrapped in 2006 and profitable for a few years now. 2 FT founders.
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   Be careful what you ask for. How 2 words dropped CTR 36%(blog.appsumo.com)

   47 points by justinchen 16y ago|21 comments
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   by justinchen 16y ago

   Isn't there a distinction between letting a single user export the emails of his/her friends and having an API method for this?
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   by justinchen 16y ago

   A CDN is probably the easiest service provider to switch. We've tried Panther, Voxel, Cloudfront and use Edgecast. It's just a matter of changing some CNAMEs.
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   by justinchen 16y ago

   Here's the docs: http://pages.github.com/
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    The SEO landscape does change quickly, but books are a good way to understand the theory in a nice "from the beginning" way (blogs are sort of hard for this). Rand Fishkin heads up SEOmoz.org and co-wrote the "Art of SEO" book so you won't
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    They don't want their taxes raised to pay for the clean up :)
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    I wish that people would remember that "it's made by people" when they email customer support. Sometimes people can be so harsh.
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    Offer HN: 3 Free Questions on PickFu.com

    1 points by justinchen 16y ago|0 comments
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    I'm in year 4 of my startup(s) and I just had my first child earlier this year. It's been very doable for me, but maybe it's because we're profitable. I can definitely see how it would have been tough in the beginning when it was all nigh
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    My brother is dating someone he found on okcupid.
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    New Yahoo Mail offers unlimited storage(features.mail.yahoo.com)

    1 points by justinchen 16y ago|0 comments
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    I see the homepage mentions 5 minute intervals. I pay for pingdom because they offer 1 minute intervals. Are you planning to offer increased frequency?
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    When I joined HP in 2001 out of college, the first thing my boss had me do was read the book "The HP Way." It was by Dave Packard and outlined their history and philosophy for doing business. My boss was an HP lifer and loved the HP cultu
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    Actually some people have used PickFu to test out kid names :)
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    ihackernews is probably the most visited site on my iphone. nice work.
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    I was pleased how easy it was in Chrome too. I made a flickr CC image search shortcut to make it easy to search for images to use on the blog.
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    It shouldn't have any effect since Google views subdomains as separate entities. This is why it's better to have your company blog at www.domain.com/blog as opposed to blog.domain.com. Getting a lot of links to blog.domain.com doesn't hel
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    Awesome, I'll give it a try!
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    Any chance this would work with dynamic content? i.e. a listings page that has similar structure from page to page but different content?
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    I hear their ads all the time on my local NPR member station.
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    Does anyone use bit.ly pro? Any other white-label url shorteners people recommend? http://shortswitch.com looks pretty decent.
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    I bought the deal just for the Twilio credit since we're existing customers. Prob won't use any of the other apps.
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    This concept works great for custom 500 and 404 pages. Put an Adsense for Search box and make money when you're not able to serve something else.
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    I upgraded my MBP to the Corsair Force 240GB and it's been blazing. Boots in seconds and I'm never waiting for anything anymore.
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    by justinchen 16y ago

    Dr. Nic just joined as VP of Technology http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/the-boys-and-girl-of-sum...