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by pud 15y ago
I hear you but Fandalism (despite its name) isn't designed to help musicians connect with fans or make money. Fandalism won't be good for that. Rather, Fandalism is designed to be a community of musicians showing their chops to each other.
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by pud 15y ago
I know FB Connect is a deal breaker for lots of HN readers. From a product standpoint, I decided that requiring FB Connect (for now, at least) is one of the best things I could do to make sharing more frictionless, which will help the site
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by pud 15y ago
Twitter Boostrap was a godsend for me. My design skills are relatively weak but Boostrap really helps make the site's design passable.
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by pud 15y ago
(i'm not sure if HN etiquette allows me to say "thank you." but i'm worried i'd appear ungrateful if i didn't reply. so - thank you! i am grateful and i hope your musician friends enjoy it.)
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by pud 15y ago
In 2006 I had a different site at the same domain. The old Fandalism ("YouTube for music") was basically exactly what SoundCloud is today. Except that people starting uploading a lot of copyrighted pirated stuff that I didn't want to deal w
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by pud 15y ago
I understand that FB Connect is a turn off for many people (myself included most of the time). But requiring Facebook makes certain viral features (like sharing with your friends, posting to your wall etc) much more frictionless. I think th
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by pud 15y ago
I realize that's a little awkward. Good point. I should write something there about how Fandalism uses FB Connect and promises not to spam etc. The entire site is FB Connect for now, which I know turns off many HN readers. But it made so
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by pud 15y ago
I would compare Fandalism more to Dribbble or DeviantArt, but for musicians.
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Show HN: I made a social network for musicians(fandalism.com)
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by pud 15y ago
This ad is meant to mislead laypeople into thinking that Google employs humans to read your email.
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by pud 15y ago
While it's no Dropbox, TinyLetter's launch was a Show HN. MailChimp bought it a few months ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1829101
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by pud 15y ago
Just FYI - site appears to be down at the moment. Overloaded? Confirmed by http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/trollblock.com
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by pud 15y ago
Okay, having put Bellbot on one of my sites today I can see that the sound I chose can get irritating. So I just changed it. Old sound: http://bellbot.com/sounds/up.mp3 New sound: http://bellbot.com/sounds/bell.mp3
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by pud 15y ago
Good idea about letting users send out a special (obscure) URL for public consumption. Also good idea about an app. As for Win/Lin/Mac resident service -- I just open a browser window, load bellbot, then minimize it.
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by pud 15y ago
I love that. Though I think what the author was trying to say (I read an interview with Bezos somewhere) is that "[amazon orders started pouring in so rapidly that] it got annoying..." Nevertheless, I think I could find a "softer" sound th
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by pud 15y ago
Sorry about that. I put the sound onload because I thought it was kinda funny -- and also as a demonstration in case some potential users were unaware that a website can make noises (thank you HTML5. no thank you to Chrome/Safari supporting
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by pud 15y ago
When you sign up for bellbot.com, it gives you a small Javascript snippet. You embed that snippet in your "thank you!" page (or whatever page your users see after they do stuff on your site). Every time a user hits that page, you'll hear a
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by pud 15y ago
I had to Google that for the reference. I'm still not sure I get it but "Goes dint when there's stuff" would be a brilliant slogan - might have to appropriate it!
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Show HN: I made a site that rings a bell every time you have a new customer(bellbot.com)
85 points by pud 15y ago|50 comments
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All colors on COLOURLovers converted to black to protest SOPA/PIPA(colourlovers.com)
2 points by pud 15y ago|0 comments
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Bill Gates Gives Away More Money Than The Entire US Foreign Aid Budget(holykaw.alltop.com)
288 points by pud 15y ago|103 comments
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Why Google's "Search, plus Your World" Is Doing It Wrong(pud.com)
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Did anyone else not notice that Hostess (Twinkies, etc.) went bankrupt today?(money.cnn.com)
19 points by pud 15y ago|10 comments
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by pud 15y ago
Fortunately Google Maps' geocoding API limits still appear to be based on IP address. So if you do your API requests via client-side AJAX, you should be fine. That's because it's unlikely any individual user will make more than 25,000 r
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Sometimes A Founder Needs To Let Go(informationarbitrage.com)
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by pud 15y ago
I still have the database somewhere. Those days are behind me though so I probably won't put it online. The best ones really are in the book though.
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by pud 15y ago
I wrote a book that describes ~150 venture-backed internet startups that failed in the late 90's. Many of them had significant users and revenue, but were mismanaged and failed. I've often thought many of them could be successful today. "F'
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by pud 15y ago
Good point. I'm often surprised at how many of my tweets are exactly 140 chars (after condensing, to your point).
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by pud 15y ago
This is like 10 HN posts in one. Thanks!
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by pud 15y ago
Interesting how the developers of Windows 3.1 were forced to use relatively low end computers. The hardware & bandwidth of your average HN reader is likely much better than your users' setups. Does anyone here keep low end computers on

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