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   by natgordon 14y ago

   Tog+Porter (togandporter.com) - San Francisco or REMOTE CTO (Generalist) Tog+Porter is a fashion start-up that pairs clients with stylists over video-chat. Clients receive a box of curated fashions and keep what they love and send back the
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   by natgordon 14y ago

   I'm living in SF in an old Victorian with a toddler as are many of my friends. We would all love to move into a new unit to avoid the lead paint that lingers in older units. It's a serious issue for families with young kids. There is a prem
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   Gaming Pinterest Search - A Look at the Pinterest Search Algorith(natgordon.com)

   2 points by natgordon 14y ago|0 comments
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   Pregnant Rock Stars - My Approach to Customer Service(natgordon.posterous.com)

   33 points by natgordon 14y ago|5 comments
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   by natgordon 15y ago

   This is really great. I like the "exploding" treasuries a lot. What was your motivation? If you're looking for more exposure you can write a blog post for the Etsy blog. I did that for my app and it drove a lot of traffic ( http://www.etsy.
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   by natgordon 15y ago

   The difference with tv and radio is that you can still play with your child with the radio on.
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   by natgordon 15y ago

   Resources: For myself, Hacker News and Mixergy podcasts have been hugely influential. I can't believe how long it took me to find these resources. Lesson: Market matters more than product. Even if something seems like a cool product it does
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   Ask HN: If you could go back, what advice would you give yourself?

   2 points by natgordon 15y ago|2 comments
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   by natgordon 15y ago

   From the article you posted from by Svpply blog: "It’s going to be very difficult for them to grow beyond puppies and photos of Ryan Gosling." Wow. What a complete disregard for women as a desirable demographic. When companies act like this
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    by natgordon 15y ago

    People want to give gifts, not gift cards. :) Make sure that it's a stand-alone product (eg. a 6-month subscription) that can then be extended or upgraded, not $50 towards a membership.
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    by natgordon 15y ago

    I think this is a killer idea. I have a 6-month old and the only picture we have of him on the fridge is an ultrasound picture. I would recommend making this as easy to gift as possible. A subscription like this might be more popular as a s
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    How I'm getting real, actionable feedback from my first 500 users(natgordon.posterous.com)

    4 points by natgordon 15y ago|0 comments
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    by natgordon 15y ago

    Here's my personal experience. In my opinion internships are a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity because you get to try out companies and they get to try out you before committing to either full-time. I went to University of Waterloo which has
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    by natgordon 15y ago

    Here's a great interview with the founder of JackThreads - http://mixergy.com/jason-ross-jackthreads-interview/ He goes into sourcing product etc.
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    I launched a site using Community Engine which is a Ruby on Rails plugin - http://communityengine.org/ I've looked at launching a community site on Ning. It sounds like your team has coding chops. I was frustrated with Ning because if you
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    I was a #1 story on HN this week too. I wrote up a postmortem here - http://natgordon.posterous.com/hackernews-post-mortem
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    I'm kind of worried about the logos. But a cease and desist would happen before a lawsuit.
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    Could you send me more details about your system? I don't see any issue with the works with icons on my Chrome. (natalie@babyli.st)
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    Thanks for the advice. I've thought the same thing about the bookmarklet. I'll probably create chrome and ff plugins before scraping web-pages server-side.
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    Hosted at slicehost. It's Ruby on Rails with Passenger. Product images are stored in S3.
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    Obviously you've thought a lot about this. Once I've had users actually use the site as their baby registry (fingers-crossed) I'll see what the actual percentages of the problems you've described are. 1 - when you reserve you enter your nam
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    Thanks :) I was aware of a lot of that at the beginning and I have no regrets. I would use BabyList for my own registry and for various reasons wouldn't use the others. We'll see how it goes.
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    pre-HN :) (which was a small number)
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    From my POV, I waited until I was sure that the designs were what I was going to go forward with (this took about 4-5 weeks, maybe 2-3 iterations of different pages and colors). Then I proposed a % of revenue for x amount of time and it was
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    Thanks for both pieces of advice. :)
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    Thanks for letting me know. I see the error in the logs and I'll be able to fix the root cause.
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    Thanks. That's how I'm doing all the branding on the site now. I'm not appearing in google yet, but I'm paying for ads with one of their $100 off coupons.
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    That's awful. Babylist has a settings tab with a big delete button for that reason.
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    Yeah, it doesn't support that. I think the next step would be that when you add a product to the registry there's a checkbox like "let people buy this from other stores" which is default checked on amazon/babys-r-us and default unchecked on
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    by natgordon 16y ago

    I just tried to buy babylist.net and it's taken :) So there are 2 groups of people. 1. registrants (people having babies) - branding here is important and the name could bite me. Let me know if you have any suggestions for other names. 2. p