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by makeee 14y ago
Love it! It helped me a lot before my interview ;)
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by makeee 14y ago
Exactly. You shouldn't slap a ton of these buttons on your site and assume your maximizing your sharing potential. The 3 share links I have on imgfave.com drive 10x the traffic of the addthis widget that I used previously. I tried using the
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by makeee 15y ago
Awesome idea! http://imgfave.com could use a redesign. I've got a redesigned mockup I'm pretty happy with, but I'd love to see what better designers could come up with.
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by makeee 15y ago
Transloadit.com does that. It can create multiple resized versions of an image, add watermarks, as well as upload to amazon s3. I use it for imgfave.com which gets around 5,000 uploads a day and it works great.
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by makeee 15y ago
On my image sharing site I have a prominent facebook login option and only about 1/10 users use it to login, the rest create an account normally. I'd recommend having both options. Of course, users may be less inclined to login with faceboo
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Ask HN: Shared work spaces in Portland OR?
1 points by makeee 15y ago|0 comments
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by makeee 15y ago
I just added page prefetching to my site and I'm very impressed with how well it works. Now it will be interesting to see if the # of pageviews / per visitor increases over the next few weeks. http://imgfave.com (scroll down to the bottom
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by makeee 15y ago
I've love to be able to see / sort by rotten tomatoes score as well.
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by makeee 16y ago
If I were you I'd add a facebook like button to each thing and allow people to create lists of things they love just by clicking the facebook like button (no registration required, just save their list to a cookie). Then if they signup they
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by makeee 16y ago
Looks like a very cool service, but I wouldn't spend too much time trying to make the video go viral.. it's not going to happen. Maybe try using http://launchrock.com for beta signups.. that in conjunction with the video may boost signups
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by makeee 16y ago
What are the browser requirements for this? I'm interested in building something like this, but just want to make sure most browsers out there would be able to run it.
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by makeee 16y ago
I think your traffic is too low to bother working on a paid plan. Unless those 100 daily users are extremely devoted, I can't image you'd convert more than one a day. Seems like your time would be better spent lowering your costs. You shoul
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by makeee 16y ago
I think the concept is pretty good, and I could see something like this going viral, but before marketing it I would work on the user flow a bit more.. 1. Engage people right away. I think those login / signup forms are going to scare peopl
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by makeee 16y ago
What's the advantage of Phrot over competing blogging platforms?
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by makeee 16y ago
Did you post to a users facebook stream without asking them explicitly if they wanted to share breakup notifier on facebook? What exactly resulted in the stream.publish calls?
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by makeee 16y ago
The current design is going to turn people away. The kind of people who would use a startup, seedcamp, etc questions site are the kind of people that expect good design and UI. It needs a lot of work. What about turning it into a boating qu
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by makeee 16y ago
I know of two active stackexchange sites for startups: http://startups.com and http://answers.onstartups.com To compete I think you'll need a better design and really good content. Just seeing one "test questions" is not a good first im
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by makeee 16y ago
I don't even roll out changes really, I edit the live production code, one small change at a time. I always felt this was kind of dumb, and I know it brings my site down for a few seconds to a minute here and there (about 1k visitors are on
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by makeee 16y ago
Somewhat related question: If a viral project takes off and a month later 95% of your traffic has died off, but you find yourself with 10 million email addresses (signups), is it ethical or even legal to promote a completely unrelated proje
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by makeee 16y ago
Does anyone know how much the 253,000 email addresses (userbase of threewords) could be worth to a company that runs another social platform? I imagine that, regardless of whether threewords continues to grow, a related service (like formsp
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by makeee 16y ago
Didn't take much to get going. Posted it to a few smallish facebook pages I had. Day 1: got a few thousand visitors, day 2: over 100,000, day 3: over 1 million..
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by makeee 16y ago
Yeah noticed that.. it was exactly the same as Hey I Like. My only thought as to why facebook is allowing Hey I Like to stay up is that they're getting a portion of the ad revenue (since it's a canvas app).
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by makeee 16y ago
I made a site similar to this right after the like button was released. Grew to over 2 million visitors a day in 4 days.. then facebook started blocking sites that used the like button without any real content.. So if this grows don't expec
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by makeee 16y ago
I started an image bookmarking site 2.5 years ago: http://imgfave.com Now gets ~40,000 visitors a day and just pays my rent.. so not exactly ramen profitable yet. A few things I did which helped it grow: - Got my initial core group of use
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Ask HN: Advice on finding big brands to advertise on my site.
2 points by makeee 16y ago|1 comments
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by makeee 16y ago
Hey, I appreciate the offer to help. I ended up getting everything running on rackspace cloud, which was surprisingly easy considering I knew nothing about setting up a server.. so we'll see how this goes.
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by makeee 16y ago
Yeah I do need to execute some PHP. I'm giving rackspace cloud a try and then may move it to ec2 or a dedicated server if traffic slows down.
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by makeee 16y ago
Launched it 2 days ago. It's a facebook connect website, so I think I'm okay.
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by makeee 16y ago
My dedicated server is overloaded because I'm running a number of medium/high traffic sites on it, not really much optimization I can do there. I definitely need to move the app to the cloud or its own server. In a few days the app could ea
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by makeee 16y ago
Yep, changed :)

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