maxklein

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by maxklein 17y ago
You misunderstand the optimisation principle. A project that makes $1 a day but is impossible to modify to make new projects is not a valid project. A project that requires an hour of maintainance everyday is not a valid project. The point
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by maxklein 17y ago
Yes, if you're going to try to get into adsense or adwords at this point in time you are really behind the curve. The game has moved on - offer something people want. Use your hobby or pick something you can research and offer good info. Fo
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by maxklein 17y ago
15k followers is not in-crowd that's more like the exclusive country club crowd. Most seem to have 60 or 70 followers. The people who are just random programmers and not real marketers seem to have 400-600. But I obviously did not do any se
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by maxklein 17y ago
One of the reasons I write now is to grow my popularity, so that one day I will have enough reach to be able to build something big and grand and people will actually notice.
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by maxklein 17y ago
If you want to make $1 a day, go search for a keyword. Like Owls. Then find a bunch of videos of owls in YouTube, put them on the site and call the site OwlVideo.com. In a week you will be making $1 a day. Or if you prefer to program for th
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by maxklein 17y ago
I'm not saying it is impossible to write and sell good software and keep improving it. I'm saying that a lot of people have tried it and do not have the neccessary advice and reach to make the software successful. Look at all the Review my
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by maxklein 17y ago
That's the point - you don't start a new project every 2 weeks. You start off with an idea easily adaptable to various scenarios. Then adapt each time, target new people, and observe if the variation makes you required $1 a day. When you ha
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by maxklein 17y ago
Actually, it's not. If you have to move 1000 copies of software in a month, then you need to market. If you want to move 1 copy a month, list it on download.com and you will move 1 copy. That's the beauty of the system - it minimises the ne
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by maxklein 17y ago
I will write about specific time optimisation techniques sometime later - I could write a lot about that, but I don't want to distract from the core message.
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by maxklein 17y ago
1. It's very very difficult to learn to write well or be interesting. I have many friends and I know that no matter how hard they actually tried, they would not be able to write stuff people want to read. They are good at what they do, but
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by maxklein 17y ago
I think that's the first option. Which is focusing on one thing and making it better and making more money from it.
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How to become rich even if nobody is following you on Twitter(blog.cubeofm.com)
248 points by maxklein 17y ago|188 comments
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by maxklein 17y ago
That's a pretty clever trick. I heard from some people that after doing the bulk upload thing, if your account in any way promotes a business, it gets shutdown after about a week. Anyone who uploads large contact lists to facebook gets into
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by maxklein 17y ago
Around that time, I will be in the Shenzhen area to setup shop, and if my trajectory remains the same as it is now, I will most certainly love to have a remote HN news software developer on doing our projects, but who is near enough to visi
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by maxklein 17y ago
Why don't you start such a company then? Seems like an opportunity. You have access to a pool of people who need developers right here on this site.
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by maxklein 17y ago
Well, I'm the guy. If it's an anomaly, I don't know, but it's not a fabrication.
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by maxklein 17y ago
They are doing this on the side in the night to make some extra cash, not their main job, from what I understand.
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Surprising Facts about HIV/AIDS in 2010(blog.cubeofm.com)
19 points by maxklein 17y ago|15 comments
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by maxklein 17y ago
My thought is usually this - if a person is interested enough in the type of money that ads bring that he clutters up his personal website, then this person must be pretty broke. And pretty broke people in the IT industry are usually not ve
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by maxklein 17y ago
I don't think 200k will be enough for that number of people over that period of time. You'll be cash strapped.
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by maxklein 17y ago
So far, of the 6, the only one I would invest in is skribit. But I don't have that kind of money. Let me add my idea in there, in case anyone has an extra 300k to throw at it.
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by maxklein 17y ago
You're getting a bit meta here. I disapprove of this post, and the post asking if you should post this. Just post it on your blog and that's it. Don't create discussion that contributes little - this is not a tabloid.
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by maxklein 17y ago
Please remove the ads from your website. Those ads bring you SMALL income now, but they affect your FUTURE income strongly. Removing the ads is delaying gratification - you give up the amount they give you now so that in the future you will
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by maxklein 17y ago
Games are very competitive, appeal to only a a specific demographic, and most of the time do not have in-built virality. I don't think games are a good money maker if you're not already established there.
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by maxklein 17y ago
If you take an old idea an adapt it to a new device with new possibilities (GPS, compass), then it's possible to innovate.
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by maxklein 17y ago
That's pretty cool. There are some good ideas that can be implemented for the iPad, and if several iPhone devs could get together and apply together, I think this would be quite an opportunity.
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by maxklein 17y ago
This looks very cool. I wish I could get my hands on one.
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by maxklein 17y ago
Experience running a private school.
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by maxklein 17y ago
You assumption is that teachers are motivated enough to actively seek out ways to make their classrooms better. Hope you've insanely tested that assumption out and you're sure it's true.
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by maxklein 17y ago
I'm not going to sign up for this unless you tell me what pricing ballpark you are looking at, or give me some guarantee it will always be free. Do you know the amount of trouble it would be to move an entire school to your system? And what

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