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by olegp 14y ago
Why jump out of the frying pan into the fire? At StartHQ ( https://starthq.com ) we are trying to build a directory of high quality business web apps from smaller companies such as the ones run by many of us here. Perhaps there's something
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by olegp 14y ago
With StartHQ ( http://starthq.com ) I've been posting comments on HN, as well as relevant Facebook groups like local JS meetups, startup incubator & meetup groups etc. Those seem to work much better than e.g. LinkedIn or Google Plus. On
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by olegp 14y ago
Nice! Are you based in Norway? We are practically neighbors then. Would be great to chat to see if we can do something together.
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by olegp 14y ago
Great advice! We started out with "the launcher" which is what you see when you sign up, but few people found it useful. The response to the directory though, which I agree has been done to death, has been very positive, so maybe there's so
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by olegp 14y ago
B2B
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by olegp 14y ago
See my comments below. The way to add web apps at the moment is by signing up and adding the URL to the launcher. I'll add a proper app submission page soon though. PS. MakePlans added: https://starthq.com/apps/makeplans
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Node 0.10 review on DailyJS(dailyjs.com)
1 points by olegp 14y ago|0 comments
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by olegp 14y ago
Already on it! Should be live later this week.
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by olegp 14y ago
A bit of an inside joke. The rest of the reviews and categorizations are serious, honest! ;)
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by olegp 14y ago
Good point about the WOT ratings, will fix that! When it comes to PageSpeed, 81 is pretty low as most other apps are 95+ and the rating is calculated relative to other entries in the directory. It should be easy enough to fix by following t
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by olegp 14y ago
Will add that later this week, see my other comments below. I intentionally want to keep reviews out for now though, since from talking to people it's become apparent that most people find reviews by strangers somewhat useless and would pre
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by olegp 14y ago
No problem! Actually apps get added automatically to my verification queue if you sign up and add it to your launcher as a link. If the link hasn't been seen before, I verify whether it's an app or not. People have already added a bunch new
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by olegp 14y ago
Done! https://starthq.com/apps/staff-squared
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by olegp 14y ago
On one level I want people to browse around a bit and discover new, niche apps that they wouldn't find otherwise. What actually happened though is that we have a bug in our ranking code at the moment. The search results should be sorted by
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by olegp 14y ago
Direct link: https://starthq.com
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by olegp 14y ago
If you click through, there's more info on the app. A popularity rating made up of the site's Compete.com rank and number of likes+tweets on StartHQ will be added this week. I'll also need to merge some categories and create new ones, e.g.
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Show HN: StartHQ - a web app directory(arcticstartup.com)
42 points by olegp 14y ago|30 comments
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by olegp 14y ago
From what I understand with Apple you need to specify the country in which you're searching and you may get different results for the same query based on that. There isn't a way to get back a single link to which you could redirect all user
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by olegp 14y ago
This will be handy for https://starthq.com - a web app directory I launched the other week. One piece of feedback I've received is that people prefer to use a native mobile app if one is available, so the plan is to include links to app s
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by olegp 14y ago
By the way, you can vote for your favorite apps on StartHQ by liking or tweeting the app profile page and that will count towards its popularity score and ranking.
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by olegp 14y ago
I launched StartHQ, a web app directory, this week. You can see a list of todo apps here: https://starthq.com/apps/?category=productivity I will also add all the ones mentioned here. My personal favorite is https://starthq.com/apps/wunde
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by olegp 14y ago
This StackOverflow answer, "Numbers everyone should know", seems relevant here: http://serverfault.com/a/238534
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by olegp 14y ago
I've spent a fair amount of time (over) optimizing https://starthq.com and would say that network latency needs to be at the top of the list of things to look at. The solution has been to serve static HTML, i.e. the index page of the sing
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by olegp 14y ago
I would argue that the greatest benefit that client side MVC frameworks bring is that they enforce a clean RESTful API on the server. At a panel on MV* frameworks at HelsinkiJS last week somebody even said that they had to dramatically impr
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by olegp 14y ago
I've gone a step further and converted the JSON definition into JavaScript method calls: https://github.com/olegp/restwrapper RPC FTW ;)
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by olegp 14y ago
Yes, we used it for http://www.akshell.com . Here's a blog post about the experience (in Russian but Google Translate should do a good job): http://habrahabr.ru/post/114749/ . I started translating it to English for http://dailyjs.com b
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by olegp 14y ago
You could run the existing Narwhal code on Node.js using Common Node: http://olegp.github.com/common-node/ The library implements most CommonJS proposals on top of Node.js using node-fibers making it possible to run RingoJS and Narwhal co
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by olegp 14y ago
I'm actually working on a web app directory as part of https://starthq.com - sign up to receive a reminder when it launches next week.
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by olegp 14y ago
I received my invite from somebody else using the service.
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by olegp 14y ago
getsentry.com - error logging clicky.com - real time analytics irccloud.com - IRC in the browser sendgrid.com - API for sending e-mail

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