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by percept 17y ago
I'm guessing it's because you want to be the first to respond, e.g., if someone's looking for a project management app you want to suggest your product before a hundred other people suggest theirs. ;)
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Ask HN: Who's Hiring?
11 points by percept 17y ago|7 comments
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by percept 17y ago
In addition to the risk of disease, arrest, and robbery, something like that could also jeopardize your chances if you later want to work in a job requiring a clearance, background investigation, or polygraph. Can you try to find some new a
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by percept 17y ago
What he said ^^. What's the next trend going to be? I'd guess something mobile (though Twitter already has short messaging covered).
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by percept 17y ago
Have you used those successfully? I got a good client off Guru in 2000 but that was a long time ago and I think I just got lucky.
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by percept 17y ago
Good for us that they never got too big and complacent. It reminds me of the Avis motto: "We Try Harder."
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by percept 17y ago
Sounds familiar. I've been working on an app for a couple of months but am putting it on hold because my blog posts and tweets haven't generated any preliminary interest, AdWords rates in the category are too high and the development life c
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by percept 17y ago
Useless x 2, reminds me of: http://www.hulu.com/watch/2330/saturday-night-live-the-herli...
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by percept 17y ago
Thanks, I probably should have said "Web apps." This reminds me, there's an easy way to add hexadecimal color codes to the standard OS X color picker (not the same idea as yours, just reminded me): http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/
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by percept 17y ago
Thanks, that's a good point. The idea was for groups with custom questionnaires, such as smaller companies, but I was concerned that canned tests wouldn't be offered and it's possible that potential users would prefer to have them. What I'd
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by percept 17y ago
I see he had a nice write-up here: http://www.chicagobusiness.com/cgi-bin/article.pl?article_id... It's a couple of years old but describes his strategy, which seems to be: get a loan to buy a business, add value, sell and move on to grad
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by percept 17y ago
I know franchisers typically want personal assets in the low-to-mid six figures to get started. A former co-worker had a friend who became a burrito chain franchisee. Last I heard it was running like a machine and he had already stepped bac
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Ask HN: Ideas for small apps
5 points by percept 17y ago|9 comments
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Uptick in IPO filings 'move back to better times'(washington.bizjournals.com)
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Twitter CEO: 'Irresponsible' to focus on business plan now(computerworld.com)
1 points by percept 17y ago|1 comments
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by percept 17y ago
I wish there were some way to find new comments (is there?), because it takes a lot of re-reading to find them in the 100+ comment threads. Sorting would get us partway there (but not completely because the comments are nested).
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by percept 17y ago
Thanks, and congratulations on your successful launch.
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by percept 17y ago
If you don't mind, how did your beta testers and first customers find you? Such a crowded market makes SEO difficult, and I think the AdWords rates in that area run $10+ CPC.
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by percept 17y ago
From the outside it appears that many of the YC companies try to stake out a territory, amass a user base with a free service, and then sell or find some other way to make money. It seems like we don't hear much from those guys--they must h
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by percept 17y ago
Here's a good summary of options for fighting form spam: http://www.texelate.co.uk/blog/how-to-prevent-spam-form-subm... I prefer #2 for its unobtrusiveness (as the article suggests).
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Ask HN: How's business?
1 points by percept 17y ago|0 comments
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by percept 17y ago
I had a subscription for a while but was really surprised by how slanted many of the stories seemed. That doesn't mean their bias didn't match some pet bias of my own, it's just that I was expecting more factual analysis and less opinion th
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by percept 17y ago
Is it really for single-digit dollar values, or is that just an example? I ask because you could do like $19 or $24 or whatever, which is sort of a compromise between straight-up and psychological pricing. I suppose the single-digit equival
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by percept 17y ago
Sounds like a job for "crowdsourcing." If you can't reach original sources, perhaps you can get responses from people who know people, work in the same field, etc. Like a Science HN. I guess there's a Science Reddit now ("I'm a stem cell re
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by percept 17y ago
I was reading this, posted by Snaptalent (YC Winter '08), last night: http://snaptalent.com/ They talk about choices they made and the end result. It would be great to hear more from YC people about their experiences (a number from the li
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by percept 17y ago
You mean while it's recharging? ;) My grandparents had this old rotary dial phone, it was black (available in one color!), metal and heavy, really built like a tank. The dial itself was metal and hard to move, and the finger holes weren't b
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by percept 17y ago
Me too, especially on Amazon. However you might discount the 1-star reviews for the same reason as the 5-star ones. Give me a good 2-star rating any day--1s and 5s are easy but it takes thought to come up with a 2. ;) Incidentally, I was th
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by percept 17y ago
I agree with the other comments. Here it is with a different (no) background and different (no) logo: http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/392/ucompete.jpg
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by percept 17y ago
Thanks--I've been curious about that. Are there more performance comparisons posted? I saw this: http://bit.ly/4GzJdc FWIW in that test a Slicehost setup performed better, but only by a small margin over Heroku's free plan.
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by percept 17y ago
It's basically groupware: document sharing, content management and messaging, ideal for those already working in a MS environment. I was just mentioning to someone that over the last couple of years a lot of the government sector jobs that

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