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by murtza 13y ago
Another way to identify users is by the speed and rhythm they type their username and password. For example, let's think about a hypothetical company that sells a per-seat license to a database, that wants to determine if multiple peo
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The best advice I can give you is to ignore everything in this thread, and talk to a financial advisor that you trust who understands your goals and risk profile. To answer your question: Besides the stock market, some other asset classes t
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by murtza 13y ago
Here is a good HN post on the topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=341288
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by murtza 13y ago
A good strategy for getting hired at a big company is to find an internal advocate. It is easy for the Google HR/recruiter to ignore individual candidates, but it is harder for them to ignore you if they get an email from another Googl
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by murtza 13y ago
My favorite part of Hacker News is Show HN. When I see all the awesome projects and startups people are building, I get inspired to work on my own projects. I launched r/SideProject because there are a lot of great projects and startup
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by murtza 13y ago
Interesting idea. It also would be worthwhile to explore the potential of a marketplace where you can buy and sell retainers or monthly maintenance contracts. For example, let's say you built a website for a client and included a month
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by murtza 13y ago
I run a similar website called WikiCancel. http://wikicancel.org/
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by murtza 13y ago
Submit the link to your project in r/SideProject. It is definitely not bad form, since it is a subreddit for sharing side projects.
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by murtza 13y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/sideproject Note: I moderate r/SideProject. This subreddit has similar content to "Show HN," but each link spends more time on the front page. It is also a good place to test subm
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by murtza 13y ago
If you are interested in exploring this topic more, the fiction book Contact by Carl Sagan is based on the premise of detecting a radio signal from intelligent life. It is a great book that you will make you wonder what effects contact fr
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by murtza 13y ago
Your first challenge is selling your platform to companies and organizations. It does not matter if you are selling to the Gates foundation or Netflix. Once the company/organization buys into the platform, they will do a lot of the mar
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by murtza 13y ago
I think it would be interesting to shift the focus of OpenHacker to platform where companies can post challenges and offer prizes. For example, Netflix hosted a competition for a $1M prize for the "best collaborative filtering algorith
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by murtza 13y ago
Good point that is sometimes overlooked. Optimize your design for higher conversion rates. A/B test everything. If everything else is equal, then go with the pretty design. Optimizely's landing page is a good example. The call-to-
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by murtza 13y ago
This project reminds me of the Public Light Bus in Hong Kong. It is a van with 16 seats, and they operate point to point on popular routes like Mong Kok to Sai Kung. They usually only leave when they are full or close to full. So you could
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by murtza 13y ago
I created a subreddit to share side projects. http://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/
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by murtza 13y ago
Exactly. Many "Show HNs" never make it to the homepage, so I launched this subreddit to focus just on sharing and receiving feedback on those type of projects. If you subscribe to r/SideProject, you will be able to keep track
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by murtza 13y ago
I created r/SideProject. A few minutes ago I realized many of the submitted links were being caught in Reddit's auto spam filter. I manually approved them, so now they are appearing on r/SideProject. My apologies if this happ
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by murtza 13y ago
My Kickstarter campaign failed but here is what I learned. Start contacting people before your campaign about backing you. Also contact local newspapers and blogs in your niche. Send them a short email about why this is relevant to their au
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r/SideProject: A subreddit for sharing your side project(reddit.com)
76 points by murtza 13y ago|9 comments
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WikiSubculture.org TestTroop.com
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by murtza 13y ago
Here are some ideas to consider: 1. When I see a domain name with the keywords you are targeting, I associate it with spam. My advice is to come up with a memorable name that is less than 10 letters. Think along the lines of Kayak, Hipmunk,
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by murtza 14y ago
Good idea. I will put a small banner ad about the auction on the site. In case anybody is wondering, the site for sale is http://WikiCancel.org/
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Ask HN: How to promote a Flippa auction?
3 points by murtza 14y ago|3 comments
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1) MadeInNY, http://nytm.org/made-in-nyc , has a great list of companies who are hiring in NYC. 2) Smashing Magazine, http://jobs.smashingmagazine.com/ , has a good job board for front-end developer and web design jobs. 3) Python job boar
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I just launched this site because I see a growing number of people around me engrossed with their phones and ignoring the world and other people around them. Please let me know if you have any feedback on how to improve the site and the mes
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PSA: Please Put Your Phone Away(ppypa.com)
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by murtza 14y ago
Ok. I took it down.
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How about a mug? http://www.cafepress.com/+misconceptions_tech_startups_mug,8...
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Ron Conway is the most active angel investor in the Bay Area by number of deals. To give you a better answer, tell us what metric you are evaluating angel investors on?
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Derek Sivers has a good post on outsourcing development: http://sivers.org/how2hire Here are the steps Derek suggests: 1. Reduce your big idea to “Version 1.0” 2. Write a simple overview of what it does 3. Write a detailed walk-through of

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