mneumegen

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   by mneumegen 14y ago

   Oh it wasn't Chrome is was my screen size. Make sure it works on lower resolutions. The video overlapped the content.
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   by mneumegen 14y ago

   It's pretty broken in Chrome
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   by mneumegen 14y ago

   I think you need to work on your content a bit. You main title is your best chance of drawing someone in. At the moment it's "Web app platform". Try A/B test it with something a little more exciting and add benefit of the platform i.e. why
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   by mneumegen 14y ago

   I've found http://newrelic.com to be fairly indispensable.
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   Ask HN: Can you build a business on the Mega API?

   1 points by mneumegen 14y ago|1 comments
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   by mneumegen 14y ago

   Get an audience. How do you do that? Provide something of value to your target market. I.e. Video series on bicycle maintenance, list of bike tracks around the area etc.
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   by mneumegen 14y ago

   The first big one that comes to mind is Gmail - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Gmail
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   by mneumegen 14y ago

   So it's a HTML/Javascript library?
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   by mneumegen 14y ago

   Backbone and jQuery do different jobs, they complement each other quite well. For the next year you'd have a much better chance of getting a Django or RoR job than a Meteor job. Meteors still the new kid on the block so it's still in a proc
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    It's not very clear what is actually does. Is it for developers to integrate payments into an app or a shopkeeper to charge credit cards? I'm from New Zealand so I miss out on all the Stripe goodness. Will this work for me?
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    I use www.xero.com ...it's awesome.
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    The focus of the site all seems to be about you making a million dollars. What's in it for the App devs? Maybe you should pivot your branding message towards promoting the apps.
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    Nice, it's like a cut down twitter bootstrap
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    Speed is not the ONLY factor for conversions but it definitely is a factor in the same way that aesthetics affects conversions. If you set up an A/B Test with Test A being "the slowest site on the internet with amazing content" and Test B
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    You can white label clicky...haven't used them personally. http://getclicky.com/whitelabel/
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    I would combine your Adword budget with an investment in a suite of analytic tools to answer assumptions you've made about your customers and discover how you can you can improve your application. My recommendations: KISSmetrics, Google Ana
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    Nice
18. 78.▲
    by mneumegen 14y ago

    I often wondered how he got away with that.
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    Cool tech and I like the decentralized approach but how are you going to monetize it? Or are you doing it for the love?
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    I wonder how he'll backup his footage
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    Ask HN: Mitigating malicious AWS bandwidth usage

    4 points by mneumegen 14y ago|3 comments
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    I think you're right. But what about the perceived value the beta testers have? Surely they won't be happy about paying for something that was free.
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    Agreed that it cheapens it. Surely there's a lot of money to be made in server service/support now that Ubuntu is becoming a major player in the server market.
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    by mneumegen 14y ago

    How about doing some sort of usability testing on the landing page? It might be a bit scary putting infront of a REAL customer.