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by sagacity 16y ago
Check my thread announcing free geolocation API in case you need it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2255089
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by sagacity 16y ago
Thanks for the reply. Although it is a bit wasted on me, I'm sure it'll help many upcoming hackers who read this thread in times to come. Speaking for myself, I'm new to this forum, but not to hacker-culture per se , that I started acqui
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by sagacity 16y ago
> so the envelope could only establish a priority date. As I understand, this is exactly what the OP is after. :-) If OP has a provable priority date, a future patent holder can't sue the OP. Or can he still? I guess only a patent a
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Offer HN: Announcing free geolocation web API
12 points by sagacity 16y ago|5 comments
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by sagacity 16y ago
I too am not a lawyer but another possible way to do this, to the best of my knowledge: File a provisional patent application (with maximum disclosure) with the USPTO - this will give you a priority date on official, government record. Make
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Ask HN: Writing Title of a thread
2 points by sagacity 16y ago|3 comments
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by sagacity 16y ago
> it's not a decision that's under my control, is not going to change Kind of guessing here, but this leads me to believe you have investors. If so, have you asked them about this? Seasoned tech investors usually have contacts to facili
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by sagacity 16y ago
You know what? Since the time I looked at your site (~ 2 hours ago) it has been kind of growing on me. Although I'm kind of reluctant to admit this, I messaged the URL to a whole lot of my contacts. :-) The more I think about it, the more
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by sagacity 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.fasterplan.com
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by sagacity 16y ago
Yes, a cool idea, indeed. Congrats :-) A quick suggestions: Make the (logo and) tag line image (much) more readable.
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by sagacity 16y ago
By showing it to people, and asking for feedback, I guess? ;-) More seriously, if you already have it on a URL, post it here. If not, put it on a URL and post. I'm sure in addition to getting answers to your question, you'll get direct feed
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by sagacity 16y ago
> ...it's worth looking at your HTML/CSS and simplifying it to minimize the bandwidth needed. Very sound advice. Doing this has produced amazing results for us more than once in the past. As an added advantage, it'll speed things up
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by sagacity 16y ago
Great! A provisional patent application is a quick (and relatively inexpensive) way of obtaining a priority date of filing - to sort of 'stake your claim', giving you a one year window to convert to a full application, as I'm sure the attor
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by sagacity 16y ago
For the record, never heard back from you.
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by sagacity 16y ago
I just completed running one full scenario (destination South America) and everything (including the results) went perfectly for me. Now, some observations/suggestions, mainly related to SEO (Based on the current site, I'm nearly sure you a
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by sagacity 16y ago
One quick suggestion, for Step 1 - use IP to geolocation and show visitor's country by default. Can improve the UX just a bit. :-) I'd call it extremely well thought-out (even if not fully implemented yet) and way too cool ! (I noticed s
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by sagacity 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.tripzard.com
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by sagacity 16y ago
> Go build some value. You'll make the connections you need as you go Yes! (but move fast , always keeping future competition in mind.)
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by sagacity 16y ago
What about the IPRs? Is it patentable? I'd strongly recommend investigating this asap. You can conduct preliminary research on this at USPTO site (I'm assuming you're in the US): http://search.usa.gov/search?affiliate=web-sdmg-uspto.gov&#3
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by sagacity 16y ago
If you do go the middleman/finder's fee route, consider structuring his reward on a 'sliding scale', possibly with a cap. Also check the Lehman Formula: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Formula HTH
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by sagacity 16y ago
> I was not influenced by code so much as clearly written, well-reasoned documents that boil a problem's solution down to a very clean abstraction. Hear hear. Even back in the days when the availability of coding talent was not so plent
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by sagacity 16y ago
Attended a 2-month COBOL programming course while doing my graduation back in '81. Used to get (small) weekly time slots on an IBM mainframe for trials of code (written on coding sheets, punch cards and all). Then, taught myself FORTRAN, BA
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by sagacity 16y ago
Sent, same subject line.
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by sagacity 16y ago
> But it's just a desktop app, just a one-time payment. In which case, consider building a feature or time limited freeware version initially, without support, offering users to buy/upgrade, and submit it to all the shareware/freeware j
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by sagacity 16y ago
One possible course of action: email these 100 people explaining to them that while you have a good number of 'intent to buy', you can't launch the app in absence of more buyer interest. Next, ask/request their help in terms of getting more
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by sagacity 16y ago
Nice work there on UpOut.com, congrats. To increase conversions, you might want to consider pulling an IP to geolocation thingie on the home page and say something (subtly) like Hi, welcome from <City>, <Country>. -HTH
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by sagacity 16y ago
That would work. You'll have many things straightened out by the time you finish creating the snake . :-)
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by sagacity 16y ago
email sent, with Sub: HN Forums : Geolocation
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by sagacity 16y ago
Sorry, no API, but I can get my people to build one for you - give me a day to get back to you on this. If you have the option to host everything (including geo DB) on your own server, we can make a self-contained sub-system (PHP + MySQL) a
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by sagacity 16y ago
FB is not really my thing but I (too) think you guys are doing some cool and fun stuff. Keep at it and let's see the next killer startup come out of your dorm! BTW, if you all need some help with doing the whole geolocation stuff locally on

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