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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Hi guys, I'm the founder of Geckoboard. Thanks for your interest (and thanks for the mention lachyg). We currently have a a backlog of > 1000 invites. It's still early days and the product is a little raw but if you're interested in c
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
It launched yesterday I think http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833027
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
I'm impressed too. What gets me most is the clarity of thought that's so evident in the analysis. Like a lot of things in life; seeing someone who truly has mastery over their craft makes difficult things look so easy.
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Sounds like an interesting service. If you could snapshot their pricing/plans page too, where possible, it could get very interesting.
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
$10-$15K + % ... wow! That's way outside of my price range and an order of magnitude higher than I was expecting. Thanks for the Claude Hopkins tip.
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
I've ordered the book, even if it's not current it might help put me in the frame of mind I need to approach this. Thanks for the Groupon link.
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Thanks for the tip, amazon has my order. Does he delve much into online copy writing techniques? I'd imagine it's quite a different beast to traditional print/display advertising.
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Ask HN: Tips for writing compelling web copy.
71 points by pmjoyce 16y ago|28 comments
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
There are 2 types of feed we accept. The first is a standard connection to one of a variety of web services such as Google Analytics where you authenticate (in this case via OAuth) then choose what you want to display. The second type is
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
That depends on what you mean, for the custom data uploads you can feed it anything. For Google Analytics you can view the stats (e.g. pageviews) for today (partial), yesterday, past 7 days & past 30 days and compare them to the previo
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Excuse the blatant plug, but my startup http://geckoboard.com might be a reasonable fit for the visualise side of your requirement. We pull data from a bunch of different sources (e.g. Google Analytics, Chartbeat, Zendesk, Freshbooks etc
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Geckoboard launches custom charts(blog.geckoboard.com)
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Point taken; he was quoting an unnamed VC who said that and he believes there's a kernel of truth in it. He's also been characterised as supporting that point of view; on stage yesterday Chris Sacca straight out placed "his" words feet and
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Would a sale in that region make Techcrunch a "dipshit company" in Arrington's parlance? http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/07/lead-investors-dipshit-compa...
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
You mention that anyone who deals with computers "ends up training themselves to spot minute details that are incorrect or out of place" . I agree, but would also come at it from the other direction; people who are inclined to spot minute
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
I was really in two minds about opening up the details about my startup although I couldn't put my finger on exactly why. In the end I decided to go for it and the decision was down in no small part to seeing the impact of your openness ov
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Great idea re the case studies. The aim is to make the dashboard as easy to use as possible and use standard connectors to many services (authenticated via OAuth where that option exists) and have a "reverse API" to allow you to upload you
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Just to be clear, I haven't shut down invites due to technical issues. I want to implement a couple of changes before the next cohort arrives as I've had some user retention issues (the subject of my next post). These are being worked on
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How I Got My First 2000 Beta Users(startupbynumbers.posterous.com)
31 points by pmjoyce 16y ago|5 comments
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Startup by Numbers: An Experiment in Extreme Openness Begins(startupbynumbers.posterous.com)
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Maybe in the future - right now it's quite enough for my tiny brain to wrap my head around the process of applying for one of these accounts.
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Yeah, getting a merchant account is a royal PITA in the UK. I first applied over six weeks ago now and I won't get one for another 2 week minimum. This was mainly due to my ignorance of the process and the glacial pace at which some of th
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
OK, this makes sense to me, thanks. The original link looks innocuous and so is not marked as spam. After a period the URL redirect is changed to point at a spam site but because the bl.inc.gs URL was flagged as OK it's now more likely f
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Seems like an inefficient way of framing me - going to one user at a time with an obviously spammy account, so I doubt it's that.
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Ask HN: Twitter spam: what's the purpose?
2 points by pmjoyce 16y ago|5 comments
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Hi Ben, I was one of the ones you demoed this to at the HN meetup last night. You're right, having to shout to try to explain some of the subtleties of your product isn't great and this tool was quite effective at communicating a lot of th
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
As a BI tool QlikView is a different animal to what's being proposed here. QlikView is a fully interactive BI tool designed for use on the desktop. Dashboards like Leftronic are designed to show key metrics from all over the business to a
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Welcome to the space guys, it looks like a great product, I've signed up for the beta and I'm really looking forward to checking it out. What follows is by no means meant as a slight on the creators of the product, it looks like they've do
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by pmjoyce 16y ago
Seriously? This is 2010 and you still think like this? Seems almost Victorian in attitude. Girls, and especially your girlfriend, are not interested in how things work, but in how you feel. They are not interested in solving problems, bu
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The Rise and Rise of the Digital Dashboard(blog.webdistortion.com)
1 points by pmjoyce 16y ago|0 comments

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