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by macournoyer_ 16y ago
What I did at first is I bought stuff from competitors or similar products. It was easier for me since I considered it market research in my head :) But now of course it's a lot easier to spent the money I've made online on other products.
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by macournoyer_ 16y ago
Sorry about that, I think I fixed it. My english is not as good as it should indeed. You can see I "translated" valorizing straight from French there...
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Low Barriers Are A Good Thing(garyharan.com)
61 points by macournoyer_ 16y ago|29 comments
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What Is Your Dream Job?(garyharan.com)
27 points by macournoyer_ 16y ago|16 comments
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Actions That Made Me Happier(garyharan.com)
155 points by macournoyer_ 16y ago|49 comments
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Great presentation! Some exciting new stuff in Eventmachine.
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
1. I did everything myself, except reviewing 2. Sorry the old page is gone, it was a very crappy 2 colors page w/ a box in the middle w/ bullet points. My idea was, if I get decent CR on this, I'm guaranteed to sell some. I don't remember t
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Of course I was not working full time on this. Most publishers give an advance of $6K when writing a full book, which can take a year or so. Nice article about this: http://beginningruby.org/what-ive-earned-and-learned/
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
No I'm not worried. I'm just trusting people buying the book like they are trusting me by buying it. I hate penalizing everyone for what some people might do. Also, it's a pretty small niche and it got good exposure when it came out. I thin
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Thx a lot! I'm also surprised by the low quality of most products on ClickBank & other sites. That's why I'm talking openly about it, I'm sure most geeks here could do way better then everything on those sites.
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Based on other similar package/eBooks around at that time and the price it cost me to run AdWords for 1 day. The initial market research w/ AdWords can also help choosing a price. According to my tests, I guessed I could sell one book per d
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Aww yes I need to learn LaTex :/
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
1. I've been interested in language and VMs about 1 year ago, built http://code.macournoyer.com/tinyrb/ and a couple other languages. 2. No, it all started w/ a passion for languages. I had the idea to write a book after reading 4 Hour Wo
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
I've heard ppl selling a lot more then I did in a lot less time. Self-publishing is probably less glamourous, but surely more profitable.
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
That's why it's important to sell more than just an ebook. I included 2 full languages you can use in OSS, http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/ started from the Ruby language included in the package. + screencast and more. Also the
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
ClickBank is ok, a little better the e-junkie, but e-junkie has digital delivery built-in, but still... we're very far from the nice UIs we usually take for granted in our community. My dream setup would be Shopify + http://www.fetchapp.co
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
5 so fare fyi.
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
It started as an experiment to apply what is described in the 4 Hour Work Week book, Muse Project chapter. I've learned about marketing and ebook publishing mostly by looking at how others did it. http://javascriptrocks.com/performance/ c
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
http://www.rubyinside.com/how-to-create-your-own-programming...
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Yes exactly! It works for everything you want to sell online.
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Writing took about 2 months IIRC. But the learning took >1 year :p
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
e-junkie is OK, but the UI is horrible, it's all in flash. I went w/ e-junkie at 1st because of the coupon code that gave me 120 days for free & because they handle all the digital delivery logic like link expiry. I'm now w/ ClickBank a
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Yes yes of course! Don't try this unless you can land other stuff. I've been snowboarding for 15 years and still land on my butt most of the time, but I know how to avoid breaking my neck. The point I was trying to make is that most of the
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EtherPad collaborative editor now in Talker group chat(talkerapp.tumblr.com)
14 points by macournoyer_ 17y ago|0 comments
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Yes we tried XMPP at first but was way to complex for our needs. We use Orbited for comet. The backend chat server is custom and based on RabbitMQ. See our protocol on https://talker.tenderapp.com/faqs/api/talker-protocol
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Yes! That's what we're working on now, we just decided to launch before we had video/tour on the site. Thx for the suggestion.
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by macournoyer_ 17y ago
Talker is more extensible, we're focusing on API and plugins http://talker.tenderapp.com/faqs/api , has inline feed notification for eg.: github commits, twitter search results, tickets updates in the chat room. And a lot more to come. Tal