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by paulsingh 16y ago
Now that I think about it, I think you planted the seed about that idea through one of your blog posts last year. Thanks! :)
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by paulsingh 16y ago
http://notarycrm.com and http://mailfinch.com are doing pretty well for me. Still side projects but they're both profitable and steadily growing. My rule of thumb: if you see a business using spreadsheets to manage something, there migh
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Actually, I have to design for my mom -- I built my latest niche product for notary publics. :) The funny thing is that I knew she was doing notary stuff on the side for a long time now. I simply didn't realize she was using spreadsheets
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by paulsingh 16y ago
http://notarycrm.com - simple CRM for notaries (and an online directory for SEO-goodness) http://www.mailfinch.com - on demand direct mail Built by me and profitable.
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by paulsingh 16y ago
In general, stick to a service like odesk or elance -- they both have built-in NDA/IP stuff that assigns everything to you.
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by paulsingh 16y ago
One of the downsides to billing $12/year is that you have to really start thinking about unearned revenue and all that fun stuff. This might be a way to avoid that mess and give him the ability to reprice in three months if that becomes n
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by paulsingh 16y ago
I'm using ContemporaryVa and am very happy with it.
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Vesting: Absolutely, no questions about it. Everyone should vest -- this keeps someone from getting equity and immediately quitting (for example). You'll want to talk to a lawyer about anti-dilution provisions but I suspect that you'll want
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by paulsingh 16y ago
LLC: easy to setup, vesting/equity can be tricky, pass through taxes. C-Corp: harder (more expensive) to setup, vesting/equity relatively easy, double-taxation. If you can swing it, I think the "right" way would be to setup a C-Corp so you'
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by paulsingh 16y ago
I run a similar setup on the Rackspace Cloud (1 DB + 1 Web) for multiple sites. I use iptables to lock down all non-essential ports, I setup MySQL to accept connections over the private IP and, frankly, that's it. (FWIW, I use Moonshine o
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Don't let these guys get to you. Focus on being the best candidate and they'll naturally want you to move (and you'll have the leverage to ask them to pay). An alternative is that you pay for yourself to move out there prior to the job hunt
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by paulsingh 16y ago
I grew up in the DC area and moved to SF for a couple of years when a company hired me out there. They ended up paying for the move, the airfare for the interview, etc. My advice: don't worry about the move, worry about finding a company yo
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by paulsingh 16y ago
I'd love to write a blog post about this, but you don't have any contact info on your profile or site. You can contact via me email (it's on my profile) if you're interested.
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by paulsingh 16y ago
You could make money off of ads but you'll need some serious traffic (ideally, within a niche) to command decent CPMs. A better strategy (and one that I'm using on NotaryCRM.com) is to sell the audience something else that's useful. In my c
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by paulsingh 16y ago
This title is misleading... "I’m not saying that angels don’t wish that valuations are lower (I certainly do). But there simply is no way that such a conspiracy could be effective, given the economics of the market."
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Actually, I've been trying to write a little bit about this here: http://www.resultsjunkies.com/blog/category/back-office-expo... HTH!
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Agreed, 100% There are tons of APIs now available for email delivery, billing, etc. Great job with this!
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Love the fact that the email alert contained a "X people have received this alert" -- people's paranoia (or vanity) is a wonderful thing to exploit. :)
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Time to split test the call to action on the widget to see how you can improve the CTR? :)
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Could you add a link on the bottom of the widget to get people to click through to your ad-driven site?
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by paulsingh 16y ago
I use it to track the names of friends (so I can send the occasional "Hey, congrats on XXX") and competitors for a few niche products I've been building. More lately, I've been using it to keep track of companies I'm advising -- I'll run al
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Ask HN: What "infrastructure" do you use at your startup/company?
29 points by paulsingh 16y ago|21 comments
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Totally agreed. I started a niche site (a directory for notary publics that funnels visitors into a paid app that helps notaries manage their businesses) as a lightweight SEO experiment. It's only been ~6 weeks but, even if I can't get many
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by paulsingh 16y ago
>> $50k, issued in tranches based on milestones Tranches generally aren't very entrepreneur friendly, I wonder how much pushback they'll get about that that.
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Heroku's definitely easier to setup and use - it's usually the right choice when you're first starting out and/or you don't have any advanced needs. I don't use it much anymore - I stick to Moonshine and the Rackspace Cloud. The setup and m
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Any recommended tools for monitoring keyword positions?
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Ok, so I've got ~15K pages on my site now (it's a directory for mobile notary publics) - how long would you wait in between page-level tweaks? (I notice that Google crawls about 500 pages per day... So, should I be waiting at least 30 days
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by paulsingh 16y ago
So, from what I understand, it's a period of months... rather than weeks or days? If so, what do you do in the meantime?
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Ask HN: How long to wait between SEO tweaks?
1 points by paulsingh 16y ago|11 comments
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by paulsingh 16y ago
Not yet. I think it needs to be comparable to Clicky, Chartbeat, etc but I'm still working the numbers on costs, internal processes, etc.

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