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by luke_s 15y ago
I really like your bottom line! At the end of the day, it all comes down to a really subjective subjective judgment on if you should proceed. And frankly, I'm not sure that I have all the knowledge or experience to be making the right deci
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by luke_s 15y ago
Thanks! I think at the end of the day, the only opinion which really, matters is that of the person who will be spending the money.
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by luke_s 15y ago
You make a couple of really good points - programmers are much better at visualizing how a solution would work than the general public. Also, sometimes people really, really just don't know what they actually want :-) However on the flip s
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by luke_s 15y ago
Well, a mockup would have been my next step, if I had received a more positive response at this stage. However it became obvious right away, that my feature set was wrong and I had miss judged how big the market was. I think the ad-words a
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by luke_s 15y ago
As somebody that has made many things on the web and never had anybody come, I have to agree :-) These days there is so much noise on the web that I feel you have to be sure your idea really will grab peoples attention.
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by luke_s 15y ago
I agree that its sometimes very hard for people to visualize what you are proposing. One screen shot does go a long way. If there had been a more positive response my next step would be to create mockups and re-confirm with my target mark
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by luke_s 15y ago
Thanks for your valuable feedback! Its quite true, that just because I haven't found anybody _yet_ who say they will pay for my product, that those people are not out there. I guess it always comes down to a very subjective decision as to
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by luke_s 15y ago
I dunno? What do _you_ do when it happens :-) Seriously though, probably just buy their app and congratulate them on a job well done. There are way more good ideas under the sun, than there is time to develop them. If somebody else can m
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I canceled the project: A success story of talking to your potential customers(plus.google.com)
51 points by luke_s 15y ago|38 comments
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by luke_s 15y ago
Invite has been received. Thanks
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by luke_s 15y ago
I would also appreciate an invite: luke.sleeman at gmail.com
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by luke_s 15y ago
At the moment: not many sales at all. My last one was 3 weeks ago to the day! However its very seasonal - during winter in the northern hemisphere, I will get 1 or 2 a week. Thanks for the suggestion on the front page.
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by luke_s 15y ago
Really. This is very interesting - it definitely goes against the grain of what other commenter are saying. Don't you think the theme market is over saturated?
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by luke_s 15y ago
Melbourne. Well, this certainly makes me re-think my strategy. Here I was thinking I was getting no hits, because I was down the bottom of the search results, while it turns out I am #1 across most of the world! Unfortunately pageviews and
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by luke_s 15y ago
Hmmm, I'm having the same problems with one of my sites. I have no proven solutions for you, but I would suggest: * Try and engage with the lego community - post to forms, blogs, etc. The lego community is very large online, with many act
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by luke_s 15y ago
If only it was that simple! Last time I checked, there were several solutions to integrating buy now buttons with google analytics conversion tracking. Each one 'almost' works, but fails to track some percentage of conversions. The net i
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by luke_s 15y ago
Hmmm, I think options 4 (android photo management app) and 5 (Paypal to google analytics integration) would be very well suited for that approach. Perhaps I should spend the 1st month on one of the other options, while trying to talk to po
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by luke_s 15y ago
Hmmmm, that seems like solid advice. I think google analytics to Paypal buy now button integration is something people would pay $20 to $30 for, if it was a simple .php file people could drop into their web server. Some sort of hosted solu
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by luke_s 15y ago
For the 4th option (android application to sort photos on phone), last time I looked (about a month ago) unfortunately, there was nothing. Specifically I'm after something that allows me to keep my photo library on my main PC, in something
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by luke_s 15y ago
Thanks for the feedback! But are you sure your not just seeing me as number 1, with your own personal google goggles? When I search from a new browser, with no cookies I actually appear down the bottom of the 1st page. At least here in A
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Ask HN: I've got 3 months of long weekends. What should I build?
11 points by luke_s 15y ago|19 comments
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by luke_s 15y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "that religious beliefs (and indeed many unfounded beliefs) are rational". How can a belief be unfounded, yet rational?
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AA Gill does Dubai - a response to the Vanity Fair Dubai article(lowyinterpreter.org)
2 points by luke_s 16y ago|0 comments
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by luke_s 16y ago
Erik Meijer gave a presentation on this during YOW 2010, in Melbourne. The ideas are very deep, and I hope they will be taken on board by the IT industry and find practical applications. It would be nice to think that at YOW we witnessed
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by luke_s 16y ago
Wow, it’s a small world! I've tried to convince them to make bench grafters, but unfortunately they feel the market is too small and won’t pay for their R&D costs. They are more interested in making tools where they can get an order o
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by luke_s 16y ago
Yeah, I read his posts - its what inspired me to have give it a try. That and somebody who posted on HN, saying they had a passive income stream from selling their holiday photos as stock. 'Staged' photos of people in various situations do
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by luke_s 16y ago
Just a suggestion - perhaps you place a sample of the book on your page? A paragraph or two, just so people can see what they are getting. Also it would be good to know how long it is.
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by luke_s 16y ago
I run a e-commerce website, selling tools for grafting produced by a company my wifes family own: http://www.grafting-tool.com/magento/index.php/ I started by buying a few samples to sell on e-bay to see if there was a market. So I guess
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by luke_s 16y ago
Well, its not 3:35 anymore! Australia and NZ are definately not listed under asia which would be the logical place. This is very anoying, as I would really like to see how FF4 uptake is going over here.
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by luke_s 16y ago
Hmmm, from reading your other post, it sounds like you can create a start up anywhere, but if you want to make the 'next big thing', you will get a bost from being in SF, because, there is a bigger network of people working on startups, tha

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