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StartHQ Capitalizes on Chrome's Change of the New Tab Page(arcticstartup.com)
13 points by olegp 13y ago|3 comments
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by olegp 13y ago
Just being honest here! This is my experience after coding in different contexts for 23 years. Your mileage may vary ;)
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by olegp 13y ago
I used Java for 7 years and got burnt out with programming because of the amount of upfront design effort required. I would never start coding because I knew my architecture wasn't abstract enough and refactoring it later would be hard
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by olegp 13y ago
Glad someone sees and appreciates all the effort we put in :) It is indeed a bit of an iceberg, in that there's a ton of stuff under the hood that users don't initially see. We've done a couple of talks on the tech - you can
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by olegp 13y ago
If you're using Angular, it is possible to patch the error handler service and augment it with additional info like the expression that was the cause, scope erc. That's what we've done at https://starthq.com We al
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by olegp 13y ago
Because most of the images out there are in pixel and not vector format. Converting the latter to the former automatically doesn't always produce the desired results. At https://starthq.com we do use SVG for the logo and al
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by olegp 13y ago
All the "if you're not paying you are not customer, you are the product" talk aside, I find it risky to use free SaaS for work because it most likely doesn't have a viable business model and could go under any moment. Th
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by olegp 13y ago
No, but will do now. Thanks!
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by olegp 13y ago
I crossposted this to the Reddit Chrome subreddit, in case anyone wants to follow the discussion there: http://www.reddit.com/r/chrome/comments/1ncyy2/starthq_chrom... - upvotes appreciated!
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by olegp 13y ago
You can also add it your StartHQ launcher! :)
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by olegp 13y ago
We don't want to go too far down the Windows livze tiles path yet, but it would make sense further down the line. Funnily enough, we made it possible to pin the site on Windows 8, so you can have it as a tile itself: http://
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by olegp 13y ago
If you go to https://starthq.com/ext we redirect you to the right store based on your user agent, or https://starthq.com failing a match, where you can sign up and start using the launcher without the extension.
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by olegp 13y ago
Thanks Jacopo and nice to meet you! Couldn't have gotten even this far without Alex and Gabe though: https://starthq.com/about ... not to mention our awesome early adopter friends like Finn, Jaakko, Jesse and many othe
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by olegp 13y ago
Right, you're welcome to use a throwaway email using the likes of Mailinator. Just verify it using the link we send you so we know you're not a bot.
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by olegp 13y ago
We store your launcher on our server so need an identifier for you to be able to open it up in another browser on another device. Your email's domain will be used in the future to link you up with your colleagues, Yammer style. We also
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by olegp 13y ago
Not yet. What's your use case: do you browse them by folder or just want to search through them by keyword?
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by olegp 13y ago
Thanks for the kind words. Anything that you feel we're missing?
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by olegp 13y ago
We want to open this up. Let's talk. Drop us a line via the feedback dialog in the dropdown menu when you sign up.
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by olegp 13y ago
Awesome suggestions! Adding them to our backlog as we speak. If it's not too much trouble, could you cross post them to http://starthq.uservoice.com so others can vote and comment. Also that way you'll get notified whe
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by olegp 13y ago
Not as such, but you can put that on our roadmap: http://starthq.uservoice.com The launcher being populated automatically effectively does that though, it just doesn't keep it up to date yet.
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by olegp 13y ago
So the backstory is that Google replaced the New Tab page this week with a new one that many users don't like: https://twitter.com/search?q=chrome%20new%20tab Our extension is much like the old new tab page, but with v
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Show HN: StartHQ - Chrome New Tab extension like the old tab page, but better(chrome.google.com)
45 points by olegp 13y ago|41 comments
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by olegp 13y ago
I couldn't find info on these adapters. From what I can tell this is very Backbone specific. Can you point me in the right direction?
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by olegp 13y ago
This is good stuff and I can totally relate to this based on our experience at https://starthq.com so far - we've been alternating between game changers and show stoppers, while trying to keep distractions to a minimum. Ano
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by olegp 13y ago
What I want to know about the future of AngularJS is: what is the state of server side rendering? We have some of our own ideas as to how this could work at https://starthq.com but I am hesitant to start implementing anything so
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by olegp 13y ago
IE8 is a second class citizen in Angular and Angular UI, so some things that should work, don't. We've spent a fair amount of time patching it up and trying to get our patches merged into master. Here's a list of things we fi
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by olegp 13y ago
We've been using it at https://starthq.com for about 6 months and I have to agree. Angular is so hard that even the core committers sometimes struggle to keep it together. I gave a talk recently on our experience with some
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by olegp 13y ago
What do you want your start page to look like? You could replace it with this app launcher we built: https://starthq.com/ext
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by olegp 13y ago
Hate to sound cynical, but this seems like an attempt to solicit responses to identify good engineers to hire or promote some upcoming feature of the web app.
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by olegp 13y ago
We are seeing the same thing at https://starthq.com . We've been getting a disproportionate amount of traffic from IE gallery as a result of being the most recently featured pinned site for the past 6 weeks in the US: http:

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