metalmanac

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by metalmanac 9y ago
> getting users to join/participate, or even interested is going to be the biggest up-hill battle. Exactly, getting users to join is hard. It's a chicken and egg problem. It's not useful until there are users on the platfo
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by metalmanac 9y ago
> the domain, if you look at it really quickly, appears to almost be 'metalmaniac' The domain name confuses people a lot, I've actually received similar comments before. Terrible naming choice from my side. > Where does
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Show HN: Meta Almanac – Reddit for programmers(metalmanac.com)
6 points by metalmanac 9y ago|4 comments
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Show HN: Meta Almanac – Reddit for programmers(metalmanac.com)
1 points by metalmanac 9y ago|0 comments
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Paranoia won’t save you in the end(m.signalvnoise.com)
3 points by metalmanac 9y ago|0 comments
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by metalmanac 9y ago
It's almost as if lessons in building a startup are more often than not, learned the hard way. Even people who have read blog posts and how-to books fail to recognise when the lessons/advice they are reading are applicable to th
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by metalmanac 9y ago
Might seem a little far fetched, but Google and FB should offer a way to opt out of being tracked around on the web. The average revenue per user in North America is around $20 per quarter, so charge $80 per year to use these services witho
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by metalmanac 9y ago
ublock.org is controlled by Chris and is meant for his now unmaintained uBlock extension. Note to everyone : use uBlock origin only which is built by gorhill. ublock.org is not related to uBlock origin in any way.
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by metalmanac 9y ago
> Break the rules. Max out your credit. Survivorship bias? That's terrible advice. It worked out in their case and we get to hear their story, what about the people who did this and failed? Don't extrapolate what worked for the
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by metalmanac 9y ago
I think it would be better to focus on getting businesses who use open source software to pay the authors of the software. Businesses have money, most users of open source software don't have enough money to pay for (F)OSS donations or
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by metalmanac 9y ago
It depends on the specific company, but lots of companies require a Linkedin profile to submit an application and some companies go as far as requiring an FB profile. And in cases where social media profiles are optional, applications whi
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by metalmanac 9y ago
Just curious, what are the specs of your VPS?
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by metalmanac 9y ago
How many of those will actually bring in meaningful traffic? It would be nice to see a list from people who have successfully launched a product on multiple platforms and have traffic numbers to backup their suggestions.
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by metalmanac 9y ago
You should have put up a demo site where users can try out the comment engine. Requiring the installation on a user's laptop/desktop is just too much friction, not to mention mobile users who don't have the luxury of running
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by metalmanac 9y ago
I agree with you. The site is still very, very early and I am currently focusing on the UI and UX to make the site memorable. Thanks for the honest feedback!
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by metalmanac 9y ago
My hypothesis is that 99% of the people who use Stackoverflow only visit the QA part of it and things like the community wiki and chatroom receive minimal traffic. From talking to a few dozens of users, most people don't even know that
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by metalmanac 9y ago
That's what I am currently working on. The home page will primarily focus on explaining what the site is about. I am thinking about using gif+text to explain how the site works.
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by metalmanac 9y ago
This is exactly the problem users are having. Since the purpose of the site and how it works is buried in the About page, people are clueless about what to do next. I am redoing the front page to only focus on explaining what the site is ab
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by metalmanac 9y ago
Getting the first hundred users in itself is not hard, post to forums where your users hang out and you'll be at 100 users fairly quickly. The hard part is getting users to keep coming back to your site aka engagement. The best advice
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by metalmanac 9y ago
Can you share a link to the site?
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by metalmanac 9y ago
After realizing that there is no common platform for people interested in Startup School (founders and spectators), I decided to start one on my site. The idea behind this community is to bring together people who were accepted into the MOO
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Unofficial Startup School community(metalmanac.com)
2 points by metalmanac 9y ago|2 comments
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by metalmanac 10y ago
The campaign is against all encrypted apps and they just happen to use WhatsApp as a scape goat since it has the largest user base. Targeting Signal or some other obscure encrypted messaging app wouldn't be as effective.
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by metalmanac 10y ago
There's Algolia https://www.algolia.com/ This is what HN uses for search.
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by metalmanac 10y ago
Hey guys, I put together this guide to help anyone getting started with machine learning and deep learning. It's a work in progress, so you can send edit requests (like pull requests) by clicking on the "Edit this page" butto
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Best Resources to Learn Machine Learning and Deep Learning(metalmanac.com)
4 points by metalmanac 10y ago|1 comments
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by metalmanac 10y ago
There is no point in speculating whether it will scale or not, take a data driven approach and load test your setup to find out.