mkull

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by mkull 19y ago
struggling startup? check http://www.revzilla.com
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by mkull 19y ago
http://www.revzilla.com - RevZilla Motorsports - an ecommerce startup While what we are doing probably is not incredibly interesting to the new.yc demographic (selling motorcycle gear online), the technology behind it (rails + pgsql) and
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Help! Need advice on best business credit card to use for expenses to rack up rewards
3 points by mkull 19y ago|0 comments
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by mkull 19y ago
Thats a good point and I actually did look into that a bit ago. Not one of our affiliates at least, but maybe one of the competitor's.
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Competitor Attempts to Steal Product Descriptions.. Gets RickRoll'd
29 points by mkull 19y ago|16 comments
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by mkull 19y ago
Ultima Online was on the right path. Everquest set MMO's back 10 years in my opinion. :(
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by mkull 19y ago
80% of the time is spent in the last 20%. the devil is truly in the details. Honestly, this post itself is a red flag to me. Please take this post for what its worth (I may very well be wrong), but IMHO if you do not already have the reso
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by mkull 19y ago
Source? In my personal experience (working as a mover for four years during college) the drivers made a good yearly take. It really depended on the driver but there were some making 200-300k in a good year
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by mkull 19y ago
Not saying that 15Billion isn't ridiculous, but the formula is n't nearly as simple as value_per_user = valuation / num_users
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by mkull 19y ago
+1 to SEO Best way to get early free traffic is with good SEO. Organic traffic is free, optimize for it! (read semoz!) Submit your site and it contents to every online directory / listing service possible. Submitting our product data to G
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by mkull 19y ago
Absolutely depends on what you are doing.. 3-4k hits (unique visitors) a day for an ecommerce website at a 1-2% conversion rate is 60-80 orders. I with an ecommerce startup. With that volume I'd be driving a lambo.
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by mkull 19y ago
http://del.icio.us/kaine
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by mkull 19y ago
revzilla.com is a rails-based application on several dedicated servers hosted by Rackspace Pricey, but they are good.
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by mkull 19y ago
you have a long way to go.
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by mkull 19y ago
I second edw, find a niche, don't try and compete with Amazon. Plenty of niche markets with relatively high margins. Drop-ship availability will determine whether you can start out of your garage or not. (unless you have a reallly big gara
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by mkull 19y ago
It isn't weighted properly you are correct, however it is a good guideline to cover your bases. I appreciate the tips, but at the moment we have pretty much all of your points covered - We are currently using asset hosts (assets0..assets3.r
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by mkull 19y ago
Yeah there have been many internal debates about this, and much effort has been spent on reducing the number of objects on the page while maintaining the look / feel. Any suggestions are welcome! Currently getting an 81 on yslow which isn't
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by mkull 19y ago
At the moment most items are drop shipped, eventually we will be moving to create our own fulfillment center
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by mkull 19y ago
Hey guys, many long days and many long nights but we have finally launched. RevZilla is a motorsports superstore carrying 10's of thousands of different motorcycle, dirtbike and atv related products. The system it is running off of was bui
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My rails ecommerce startup launched: RevZilla.com(revzilla.com)
7 points by mkull 19y ago|12 comments
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by mkull 19y ago
you failed the puzzle
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by mkull 19y ago
Authorize.NET (gateway) -> Paymentech (processor) Riding the rails for http://www.revzilla.com Yes, I would recommend it. Use the handy ActiveMerchant plugin. Do you have any special requirements? What is your expected transaction
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by mkull 19y ago
Rackspace had a big power outtage today which knocked us offline today for 2 hours. Looks like they were effected by the same problem. --- In a completely unrelated incident to this weekend's power problems in DFW, a traffic accident ca
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by mkull 19y ago
3.5GPA May sound cocky, but did not put forth a whole lot of effort in my classes. I put in enough to get a B (or an A if the class was interesting or easy) but 90% of my time (and learning) was spent working on my own projects.
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by mkull 19y ago
Work on your SEO Bountii! A big source of your traffic is going through your organic search rankings. Theres some very simple things you can do which will give you a big boost. http://www.websitegrader.com/wsgid/361302/default.aspx
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by mkull 19y ago
Just to clarify a bit, he is being conservative, and it's 5 req/sec per mongrel (4 mongrels), which would come out to 20 req/sec for the vps setup.
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by mkull 19y ago
nerds
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by mkull 19y ago
24
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by mkull 19y ago
Thats because Authorize.NET is sold through a network of resellers who pretty much dictate the rates. If you contact Authorize.NET directly though you will be directed to a sales rep who can disclose rates. Heres a ballpark of what you can
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by mkull 19y ago
Yes, they were running coldfusion until about 2 years ago, at which point they switched to a hybrid solution of Blue Dragon (ColdFusion running on .NET) and ASP.NET. http://highscalability.com/myspace-architecture

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