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by pud 15y ago
One of the best ways to cut down on inbound email, is to send less outbound email.
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by pud 15y ago
I'm not full time at Blippy but can say (a) compete.com isn't accurate, and (b) Blippy has various other goings on that aren't reflected there. But that's a different blog post for a different day.
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by pud 15y ago
I go for the cushy chairs.
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by pud 15y ago
From what I understand, MySpace got its initial group of users from (1) having a contest for parent company Euniverse.com employees to invite as many people as they could, and (2) spamming Friendster users, telling them about a faster alter
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by pud 15y ago
An earlier version of the blog post (that danzheng likely saw) didn't include the section about offline events, though it did include something about Evite in the "Get creative" section.
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by pud 15y ago
Pretty girls can be a good design element to draw the users' eye toward something on your site. But this post is more about bringing in new traffic; web design is another topic. To answer your ROI question, the girls modeled for free and I
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by pud 15y ago
I usually figure they're not interested if I haven't heard back in 2 or 3 days. Sometimes I wait a bit longer if the writer is very well known, and therefore more deluged.
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by pud 15y ago
I wasn't sure whether to put the Hacker News reference in there, for fear that people might come out of the wordwork trying to game HN after reading this. That's why I also put in the line about not spamming. I can get rid of the HN link if
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by pud 15y ago
I significantly edited the blog post & submitted it again. I hope this doesn't make me look like a spammer. The option to delete ones submissions seems to be gone.. ? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521763
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Getting Users For Your New Startup(blog.pud.com)
286 points by pud 15y ago|59 comments
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by pud 15y ago
I haven't spent much on advertising (which is sort of ironic as my biggest company is an ad exchange). Advertising works great when you're selling something at a fixed cost (like an e-commerce site or Groupon site), but isn't great when it
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by pud 15y ago
Ask me anything.
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Getting Users(blog.pud.com)
2 points by pud 15y ago|4 comments
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by pud 16y ago
This is a great post. Though, as someone who has produced a fair number of hits (and flops), I think hits are almost impossible to reverse engineer & duplicate. My first (and crappiest) iPhone app was released a few weeks ago and contin
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Pixar’s Up Movie House Re-created in Real Life(home-designing.com)
1 points by pud 16y ago|0 comments
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When is an animated GIF better than a video?(gigaom.com)
3 points by pud 16y ago|1 comments
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by pud 16y ago
Go to Blippy and click "contact" in the footer. We'll get it.
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Show HN: My new personal website(pud.com)
16 points by pud 16y ago|12 comments
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See what happens when you start charging for your free iPhone app(img.skitch.com)
5 points by pud 16y ago|1 comments
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by pud 16y ago
On one hand the UI doesn't seem remarkable. On the other hand, neither does Craigslist, Amazon, eBay, Zappos, Facebook....
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by pud 16y ago
Even if you manually change the date range to today? Most people don't realize that Google Analytics defaults to "yesterday" but can be manually changed to today. (sorry if you already know this & answered it in your previous comment. I
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by pud 16y ago
hah. awesome. thx.
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Ask HN: How do you read Hacker News?
8 points by pud 16y ago|3 comments
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by pud 16y ago
Thanks for the kind words about FC... those were fun days...at least for me :-) Regarding TinyLetter, I suppose it automates that process were you might collect addresses with Google and sending with Outlook. Do this to see what they look l
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by pud 16y ago
I really want to get back into blogging (for many years starting in 2000 I ran a somewhat popular blog called Fuckedcompany.com around (google it if you're in your 20's)) and it was fun but a full-time job. Unless you're planning on making