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Why I Can't Use PayPal To Buy Your Product(pud.com)
97 points by pud 14y ago|70 comments
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by pud 15y ago
Cool concept -- I remember your original post on HN. I definitely think a site where musicians could ask for donations would be cool and I'd put my music there. I'm apprehensive to do this on Fandalism though. If I promise money to my use
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by pud 15y ago
Heh. Though the link goes to a Tumblr page. Fandalism is running fine. ;-D
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by pud 15y ago
Fandalism runs on Railo, which is an open source ColdFusion interpreter built on Java. http://www.getrailo.org/
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by pud 15y ago
The good news is when you get a site with traffic numbers like this, investors (angel and otherwise) come out of the woodwork. So you'd have nothing to worry about. In other words, I chose to self-fund. But if that's an option for you, you
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by pud 15y ago
I hear you regarding user engagement. However when I first built the site, I envisioned more of a LinkedIn-type thing where engagement is relatively low but the value is in the database. In other words, I don't use LinkedIn very often. But
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by pud 15y ago
That's a good idea. There are people on Fandalism who are unbelievably good musicians, better than pros. I should ask them to do online lessons or whatnot. (of course, just because they're a good musician doesn't mean they're a good teache
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by pud 15y ago
Around 40,000 uniques per day. So 10% log in daily? That seems reasonable for a site like this. I guess Facebook is at 50% but that's super insane rare. Otoh Fandalism is kind of like LinkedIn in that I'm not overly concerned with user eng
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by pud 15y ago
This is probably the correct answer (focus 100% on improving the product). The product is at a state where people like the idea of it so they sign up en masse -- but I'm not sure the site lives up to the expectation yet.
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by pud 15y ago
Interesting thanks. I hadn't seen that site before. Do you happen to know what their pricing is? I don't see it on that page.
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by pud 15y ago
For more about ColdFusion and my ridiculous stack, see: http://pud.com/post/9582597828/why-must-you-laugh-at-my-back...
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by pud 15y ago
You mentioned music distribution tools. Currently it's a huge pain in ass getting your music on iTunes or Amazon. There are services that help with this but it's still a pain in the ass (you need to register for an RIAA permit, get a barc
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by pud 15y ago
That's an interesting idea. Kind of like how you can pay Ebay to give your posting a yellow background, making it more noticeable. There's something slightly icky about charging my users for visibility though. Who I consider "starving artis
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by pud 15y ago
I think the supply/demand is backwards here. Most amateur musicians gig for free. Many actually pay to perform (by pre-paying the venue for x number of tickets, then hoping to recoup costs by selling those tickets on their own directly to
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by pud 15y ago
I love the idea of American Idol for guitarists/drummers/etc. I really could find the best musicians in the world. That would be fun. From a business perspective, if I wanted to make money doing that, I could imagine sponsors like guitar c
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by pud 15y ago
You mentioned Etsy. I don't think selling music would work (for reasons I've outlined in another HN comment here) but oddly there are several people on Fandalism who make their own instruments and have contacted me about helping them sell t
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by pud 15y ago
This is an interesting idea. On one hand, I think my users like the Fandalism brand so I'd want to launch new stuff on Fandalism.com. On the other hand, you have a good point. Maybe I should keep Fandalism.com (the site) pure and launch e
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by pud 15y ago
Three thoughts about selling music on Fandalism: 1) The site is setup for individual musicians, not bands or acts. I'm really targeting the high school kid who sits on his bed and plays lightening-fast guitar solos. He doesn't have anythin
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by pud 15y ago
I like all these ideas and want to do all of them in one form or another. Most of them I'd want to make free (like the learning stuff). But.. events ... that could be a fun one. Specifically, I envision a huge trade show like CES but for
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I have 404,772 users. Now what?(pud.com)
345 points by pud 15y ago|189 comments
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by pud 15y ago
I started mobile photo sharing site Mobog.com in 2003. Instagram was executed about 10,000% better. http://mobog.com
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by pud 15y ago
I'm on a slow-ish Wifi connection at the airport. It's fast enough for YouTube streaming but not for your site. So far on your site I'm looking at an ad with two things that say "Loading..." underneath. Using Chrome on MacBook.
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by pud 15y ago
they just got lucky That's what unsuccessful people say when someone becomes successful. I think there are two reasons for the typical "he just got lucky" insult. 1) When you tear down a successful person, you get to transfer a little of
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Accused celebrity hacker to plead guilty(cnn.com)
2 points by pud 15y ago|0 comments
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by pud 15y ago
To play devil's advocate, the Dropbox homepage is nothing but a big play button w/ video. But I agree not every product needs a video. I agree that using subtitles everywhere is a good thing.
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by pud 15y ago
At risk of being downvoted, I have to say how amusing (wonderful?) it is on Hacker News, when someone asks "Browser and OS?" in response to javascript/css bug, the answer is "firefox nightly on debian."
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The Pirate Bay, Now Without Torrents(torrentfreak.com)
4 points by pud 15y ago|0 comments
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by pud 15y ago
Every entrepreneur has heard "that already exists" a million times. Next time someone says that to me I'll try the smart-ass-ish retort described in this post.
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by pud 15y ago
Neat tool. If anyone wants to see what a broken SSL certificate looks like, here's one of my expired ones (I really gotta renew it one of these days...) https://www.ssllabs.com/ssldb/analyze.html?d=https://secure....
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by pud 15y ago
I remember in the 90's having a conversation with my friend. We were discussing Linux vs Windows for web hosting. My friend said "tell me if you can find a single porn site that's hosted on Windows." He was right, I couldn't find any.

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