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by pud 15y ago
We decided not to disclose acquisition price. I don't remember why we decided that. I guess it's like telling people your salary -- just a thing people generally don't do. I think that'll change one day tho as stuff becomes more public.
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by pud 15y ago
No, but I did get a MailChimp cat hat: http://www.flickr.com/photos/freddievonchimp/sets/7215762650...
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by pud 15y ago
I used to run a popular blog in 2000. The thing I didn't like about blogging, was that if I shut down my blog (which I eventually did), I would lose my entire audience. So I started letting people sign up for email newsletters back then, j
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by pud 15y ago
I'm working on something music related, at http://fandalism.com
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MailChimp Acquires TinyLetter (ask me anything)(blog.mailchimp.com)
71 points by pud 15y ago|45 comments
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by pud 15y ago
> How do you decide whether to take your projects from > hobby to company? When I was 22 (I'm 35 now), I decided I wanted to be a freelance programmer. A friend of mine was a web designer and we decided to go into business togethe
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by pud 15y ago
Paraphrased: > Some people write crappy code in CFML. Yes. But people write crappy code in [your preferred language] too. There's nothing inherent in CFML that forces people to write bad or hard-to-understand code. > OMG can you be
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by pud 15y ago
Several of my iPhone apps interact with a web service. As for your situation, my cable company's upstream is so slow that I wouldn't host anything on it. But if yours is fast and you like dealing with your own hardware, go for it. Maybe you
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by pud 15y ago
Coda
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by pud 15y ago
On this stack: TinyLetter.com, FaqMe.com, and many of the other sites listed on pud.com and adhdinc.com. (and more importantly, not-yet-released stuff I'm currently working on). I co-founded both Blippy and AdBrite but did not have technic
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by pud 15y ago
Indeed.
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by pud 15y ago
Well damn, you're right. Looks like they were Hacker News'd. Fortunately Xeround's database servers are still up, but this is a bit disconcerting.
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by pud 15y ago
Several of these: http://adhdinc.com and http://pud.com
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Why must you laugh at my back end?(blog.pud.com)
348 points by pud 15y ago|215 comments
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Electrical Musical Instrument(google.com)
1 points by pud 15y ago|0 comments
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by pud 15y ago
Microsoft bought aQuantive for $6 billion.
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by pud 15y ago
Coke?
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by pud 15y ago
faqme.com
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Hacker News vs TechCrunch (my site is now on the front page of both)(img.skitch.com)
15 points by pud 15y ago|5 comments
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by pud 15y ago
Indeed. Though it seems that these days, regardless of what the stack is, the bulk of one's time is spent writing Javascript.
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by pud 15y ago
It's possible you are right and I will be the only person using FaqMe. It wouldn't be the first time I was my own biggest customer. :-)
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by pud 15y ago
Hey there, this is the developer (and HN mostly-lurker-sometimes-poster). Thanks for checking out FaqMe. I built FaqMe because I wanted a simple content management system to manage all my FAQs for my various projects. Then I decided to go
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by pud 15y ago
Brilliant. Of couse, recruiters withhold company names because they're scared you'll go straight to the company and they won't get paid. Therefore, you should add something to the letter like "I understand you have to make money. So my ple
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Robotic Nerf gun turret(youtube.com)
1 points by pud 15y ago|0 comments
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by pud 15y ago
Constructive criticism: This is an example how how the illusion of a beautifully designed, professional-looking site is easily burst by an amateur how-to video.
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Ebay's painful UI(img.skitch.com)
2 points by pud 15y ago|1 comments
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WebP: A new image format for the Web(code.google.com)
62 points by pud 15y ago|28 comments
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IMDB's ranking for Spinal Tap goes up to 11(imdb.com)
3 points by pud 15y ago|0 comments
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Ash HN: How important is .com vs a domain hack like "compa.ny"?
1 points by pud 15y ago|3 comments
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by pud 15y ago
DMCA.

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