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by revorad 15y ago
don't say anything in a comment thread that you wouldn't say in person. This one simple rule should keep comment quality high, but it's so hard to remember and follow. Maybe PG should always display it when someone's typing a comment.
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by revorad 15y ago
I think the crux of the point Smudge was making with the analogy to Reddit and subreddits is that it won't hurt anyone to have a long tail of stackexchange sites, which might still be useful to a small number of people. This is similar to W
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by revorad 15y ago
Please don't dumb down your sense of humour for people who get offended every time someone sneezes in a dream.
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by revorad 15y ago
Focus on your users and customers. Ignore all other distractions.
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by revorad 15y ago
I'm sure once you had the products, that's what drove engagement. You did a great job of curation there. But before you launched the ecommerce side of things, you clearly got lots of signups just using a landing page. You guys have that rar
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by revorad 15y ago
Most startups don't share their numbers for fear of competition, so thanks for sharing yours.
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by revorad 15y ago
If you can predict the correction with good accuracy, why wouldn't you just fix the address on the backend? The only reason I can think of is to avoid spamming someone else in case of a wrong guess. But for popular domain name spelling erro
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Glenn Beck Rallies Troops For Revolution Against TV(webcache.googleusercontent.com)
2 points by revorad 15y ago|0 comments
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by revorad 15y ago
Fab is testament to the fact that those annoying Launchrock type pages can help you launch a startup bigtime. I hate signing up to mysterious new apps with content-less landing pages as much as the next hacker on HN, but they can work somet
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by revorad 15y ago
Congrats on your brilliant execution. I've noticed that from the beginning you've made it a point to share your growth numbers every few weeks (on HN and outside). How much has this helped you in generating buzz and getting more users? Woul
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Why Online Advertising is the Worst Model for Your Startup(entreproducer.com)
1 points by revorad 15y ago|0 comments
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by revorad 15y ago
Did you try switching roles with a cook or server? That would have been fun :-)
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by revorad 15y ago
Honest question: How can Facebook compete with Apple?
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by revorad 15y ago
I didn't mean to use time of publication as an indicator of quality, but instead to find out material which has more chances of being foundational (because it came before).
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by revorad 15y ago
I've thought of making something like this, but can't think of an elegant approach. One starting point might be to show closely related books in chronological order of publication.
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by revorad 15y ago
Sean Ellis's blog has a lot of good material on how to go about this, especially for freemium products - http://startup-marketing.com/
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The Fourth Dimension App(fourthdimensionapp.com)
1 points by revorad 15y ago|0 comments
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What are the underlying data structures used for Redis?(stackoverflow.com)
1 points by revorad 15y ago|0 comments
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by revorad 15y ago
PG, since you publish your "talks" as essays anyway, why don't you use your talks to tell interesting stories (from YC or other times of your life)? As you already pointed out, it's better for the audience too to read your essays and think
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by revorad 15y ago
Does that rule out almost all consumer market startups, because they aren't making anything and don't seem terribly interested in doing so ("We're focusing on growth")?
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by revorad 15y ago
What I've always wanted is HN with a chatroom attached to each submission instead of a comments page. That would be fun.
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by revorad 15y ago
Yeah of course, email's in profile.
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by revorad 15y ago
Unless the optimizer made sure that it didn't inadvertently break any cross-browser compatibility, you would lose one of the biggest benefits of libraries like jQuery.
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by revorad 15y ago
I like interactive, but it seems to work well only if you can simulate the commandline well enough in the browser (like Codecademy does). If you do anything advanced, it has to be done really well. These are couple of good examples: http:/
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by revorad 15y ago
There are only two things that you could do that would help me learn Python: create and curate good learning material. When it comes to education, I think the highest value even today is created by making good new content, not more tools.
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by revorad 15y ago
Did your users tell you the animations or design wizardry are important to them? I find them really distracting, and couldn't find any useful content on iheartpy. I know it's rough, but you seem to have started with too much skeleton and no
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by revorad 15y ago
Boy, [1] is a long document. I scanned through it quickly and noticed some good ideas, but I don't have the patience to do any of it in the way described. There's too much process. Have you shipped any of the ideas in [2]?
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by revorad 15y ago
Sorry, I don't have time to make this short. There are 2 ways: 1. Talk to individuals who you expect to be your users. Ask them how they currently do what your idea makes easier to do. Try to find out if they have any problems with it, but
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by revorad 15y ago
Imdb
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by revorad 15y ago
Sean Ellis is one of the best startup marketing people I've read. This post and other posts on his blog might be useful to you.

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