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by nudge 16y ago
MAAS (marriage as a service). Everything's better as a service. Monthly payment (nobody likes to pay upfront when they're not sure about whether the product is any good, and especially when it doesn't seem to work out for many people). Be s
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by nudge 16y ago
Just so you know (competitor analysis?) there already exists something like this: http://www.mathway.com/ is one. I think there are others too (search for 'math solver'). I think it's an interesting idea but I don't know about how good a
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by nudge 16y ago
This is perfectly normal (or, at least, common). Okay, I have no idea if it's either of those things, but I know I get a very similar thing. A few good ways to keep motivated are: 1. Know why you are doing this. If you have a clear goal i
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by nudge 16y ago
You're right. I didn't express it very well, but my point was really about where you choose to cut people out of your premium offering. As it stands, you're doing it 'on the way in', as it were, i.e. while people are entering data. I was su
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by nudge 16y ago
One last thought - I see the 'Gantt Chart' box on your front page. This is possibly one of those subsets-of-users-more-willing-to-pay I mentioned: workers or teams in need of a quick gantt chart to plan their work. Last time I looked for a
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by nudge 16y ago
Nice infographic! In answer to your questions (just my opinions, mind): 1) The industry average (at least from sources talking about it) is around 1-2% of all signups upgrading, so you're at par there. I think, however, that this is not ver
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by nudge 16y ago
A very large market share isn't the same as a monopoly. People are very free to buy android phones or windows mobile or whatever they like.
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by nudge 16y ago
I have no experience with either, but you could also take a look at Flask ( http://flask.pocoo.org/ ) or the underlying Werkzeug ( http://werkzeug.pocoo.org/ )
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by nudge 16y ago
That's a very nice visualisation. And a pretty effective indictment of our (the UK's) ridiculous electoral system.
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by nudge 16y ago
I love amichail's posts. A few more gems: "There's quite a lot of pressure to excel in high school and university. I wonder if getting an education is more dangerous than say smoking. What do you think?" "Should games get upset when not pla
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by nudge 16y ago
Seriously, what would you have preferred? "AOL, a web portal which was recently spun off from Time Warner, a media giant, but which a decade ago actually bought Time Warner." Is that better? Does it make any difference?
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by nudge 16y ago
Find some college students and offer $100 to anyone who can drink an entire bottle. Film it. Put it on youtube with a link to your homepage at the end of the video. If it works, run a whole series of hot-sauce-abuse videos. Just make sure y
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by nudge 16y ago
I'm aware of the history, and I'm sure the writer of that Economist article is as well. The quote isn't misleading: AOL was spun out of the conglomerate, not Time Warner. It's not really necessary for an article only tangentially about eith
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by nudge 16y ago
The quote is entirely accurate. AOL was spun off on December 9, 2009.
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by nudge 16y ago
My point isn't that you can't undercut the shipping companies. It's that if you do so, no-one will offer to deliver things for you, because they won't earn very much. I mean, they might. It depends on many factors. I just thought you should
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by nudge 16y ago
Before you get carried away with how to build the site, I think you need to think a bit about the economics of this business. 1. What would you charge someone for postage? It would have to be less than UPS etc., otherwise there's no point n
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by nudge 16y ago
Ah, nostalgia-hit. I still remember sitting in class and watching the teacher arrive at that equation step by step, and when it was there it was just about the most mind-blowing thing I'd ever seen. "You mean all that messy junk we've been
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by nudge 16y ago
I'm not avoiding your argument. I'm telling you it's fallacious. Technologies don't come and go according to whether they're better or worse than other technologies. They really don't. They come and go according to whether enough people dec
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by nudge 16y ago
You're not understanding me. You say A is better than B, objectively. I'm telling you that B suffices for my purposes. Given that, the fact that A is objectively better than B doesn't really matter. That fact's importance is subjective. You
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by nudge 16y ago
Following the conventions of a project in order to take advantage of its strengths is not 'drinking the kool-aid'. If you need custom components and find it hard to integrate them, use something else. Nobody's forcing you to use Django. You
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by nudge 16y ago
Not sure I could disagree much more with this. Firstly, I think the power of Django's inbuilt functionality more than makes up for whatever aesthetic problems there might be (I haven't checked) with the underlying code. That's a trade-off I
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by nudge 16y ago
Very nice design. A few thoughts: 1. Your testimonials would be better with names, I think. 2. I would like to see some data-export options, just so I know that I wouldn't have to start again entirely if I stopped liking your product. 3. Yo
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by nudge 16y ago
It doesn't really have any connotations for me in this context. Obviously, if it were to do with investments, 'bubble' would be an odd choice. In the context of invoices I don't think it really means anything.
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by nudge 16y ago
The "It's not just you!" on http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/shamusyoung.com tells me he might have taken his advice a little too far.
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by nudge 16y ago
http://web.archive.org/web/20071024143608/http://www.moviefo... is what it looked like, for anyone interested.
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by nudge 16y ago
So from archive.org it looks like it was a site that linked to other sites where people could watch movies for free. And that eventually you got shut down due to legal threats. So my question is, how did you make money from it? Advertising?
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by nudge 16y ago
Distrustful, perhaps, because I've seen a bunch of other people try to pretend on HN to be something they're not, and because your site offers little evidence to support its claims. If I see some proof that I am wrong, that you have indeed
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by nudge 16y ago
I never knew arrogant meant precisely that. Thanks. Although what he wrote certainly is gauche, I think what I was going for was actually closer to ... goes through thesaurus ... 'vainglorious'. Or just 'boastful'.
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by nudge 16y ago
I would actually. I honestly would. I'd evaluate what they have to say according to my own sense of what seems sensible and reasonable, but I'd listen to them. I'd listen to anyone. Maybe that's just me. I treat everybody as someone I can l
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by nudge 16y ago
"I’ve founded many websites that went on to be wildly successful. When I say wildly successful, I mean millions of dollars." People who actually have been that successful tend not to be so bluntly, hideously arrogant about it. Tip to the au

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