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by matt1 17y ago
Hey, good questions: - You might not be interested in making an biographical timeline for yourself, but consider making for your father or grandfather. If you're like me, you probably don't have a good idea of what they were doing and where
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by matt1 17y ago
Don't worry about it. Your feedback is perfect. The fact you're thinking about these types of things is a really good thing. A few other folks have mentioned editing right on the timeline too. My question in response is: how often are you g
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by matt1 17y ago
He's referencing this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1059075 And yeah, it was a great choice.
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by matt1 17y ago
Thanks, that's a good idea. I'll see what I can do.
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by matt1 17y ago
Free for now, likely some sort of freemium model in the future depending on how things go. It's too early to say for sure.
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by matt1 17y ago
Not yet -- this is a minimum viable product of sorts. Once I get the kinks worked out, that's one of the first things I want to do.
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by matt1 17y ago
Fixed -- thanks.
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Ask HN: Review my Startup - Preceden(preceden.com)
28 points by matt1 17y ago|46 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
Reading these gives you somewhat of an idea of what it must be like for pg and team to read through YC applications. it's amazing how similar many of them are, which I imagine is part of the reason why YC started doing Requests for Startups
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Feedback Army Website Usability Testing HOWTO(blog.feedbackarmy.com)
3 points by matt1 17y ago|1 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
People often ask me why I want to move to the west coast if I want to work on an internet business. After all, you can access the internet from anywhere. The best analogy I've come up with is to say that it's like being a talented actor liv
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by matt1 17y ago
Ryan, great points. I have mixed feelings about listening to users. On one hand, I'd like to think that my vision for the app should lead me and that users are there to keep me on track. On the other hand, what good is a vision if your user
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by matt1 17y ago
I'm working on an app at the moment and despite my intention of releasing early, I find myself adding additional features for the initial release. Here's my logic; tell me if I'm out of line: 1) As a user of my own product, I have a pretty
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by matt1 17y ago
These are both very good but I'd go with 44 for the simple fact that the caterpillar in 47 is looking at you, which is awkward. I recently asked HN to help with a submission for my upcoming project ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10
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Words That Lose Money : Ecommerce Optimization & Marketing(zencartoptimization.com)
1 points by matt1 17y ago|0 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
What will this enable people to do?
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by matt1 17y ago
Very interesting. Thanks for the tip. Section 230 for the curious: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_230_of_the_Communicatio...
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Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act(en.wikipedia.org)
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by matt1 17y ago
I think if I get a take down notice I'm going to consult a lawyer :)
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by matt1 17y ago
In theory, anyone can sue me regardless of how big the site is, right? I think you mean that since its a small site, no one is going to waste the time and money to do it?
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by matt1 17y ago
I wanted to launch a minimum viable product and wasn't planning on talking to a lawyer until I have better confirmation that the site is going to do well. But given that there are going to be tricky situations like this almost immediately,
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Ask HN: For user generated content, how do you deal with questionnable material?
7 points by matt1 17y ago|9 comments
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by matt1 17y ago
I'm always impressed by how many excellent products John and the jQuery team produce. Out of curiosity, how does John earn a living? I saw him speak at the Philly Emerging Tech conference last year and his talk convinced me to switch over t
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by matt1 17y ago
If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend Dawkin's new book: The Great Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Show-Earth-Evidence-Evolution... The book, for example, contains a part of this interview. But y
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by matt1 17y ago
89 is probably my second choice, after 28. I'm pretty sure the designer of 89 saw my high score on 28 and just modified it a bit because he knew I'd like it. Not a bad strategy. What do you think of the bars on the left (89) vs on the right
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by matt1 17y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I like the name for several reasons, though I agree it usually seems a little awkward at first. But hey, what domain name these days doesn't? Can you elaborate on conceptualizing the branding instead of visualizing
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by matt1 17y ago
I'm a hypocrite for saying this since I'm the OP and I just paid $200 + $30 (submission cost) for this service, but a much better way to spend your money is on a few design and Photoshop books. That way you can stop depending on others for
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by matt1 17y ago
Preceden, similar to the word Precedent (which has to do with time), is nice to say and is nice to look at, I think. The .com, .net, .org, GMail, Twitter, and Facebook names were also available, which is a nice bonus.
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by matt1 17y ago
When you give feedback, most people revise their designs and submit new ones. You don't have to withdraw old ones, but a lot of people do since the new submission will almost always be better than the original, assuming you took the feedbac
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by matt1 17y ago
My concern with 120 and the rest of Snipp's submissions are that the horizontal bars are curved . You'll notice on the Preceden screenshots that the timeline is made up almost entirely of rectangular shapes. To me, the distorted bars don't

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