sagacity

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   by sagacity 15y ago

   Typo realised after 3 days !!!! :) Meant: In all probability, your projections will start......
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   by sagacity 15y ago

   Apologies if it sounds like a 'me too' post, but we faced/may still be facing the same issue at http://www.RapiDefs.com Please give it a quick try and let me know if you find the response time acceptable or not. Thanks.
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   by sagacity 15y ago

   Make a page for your site/product on FB and put a simple Facebook Like box or full social plugin, preferably on the first screen-fold of your home page (and other important/entry/exit pages). Keep posting to the page periodically.
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   by sagacity 15y ago

   Clickables: http://www.ikeepm.com and http://lifehacker.com/5874115/ikeepm-is-a-simple-free-invent...
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   by sagacity 15y ago

   I second all who recommend not going the hard-tech way. Instead, (if the business is web-based,) I'd suggest SEO.
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   by sagacity 15y ago

   Clickey :) https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hacker-News/321008654600119
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   by sagacity 15y ago

   Thanks. We're still hard at work stabilising/optimising the back-end to handle the constantly growing (organic) load/traffic efficiently. With almost 65 million headlines archived so far, and about 250k fresh ones getting added daily, all t
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   by sagacity 15y ago

   Thanks. The home page already has IP to geolocation to suggest country/city, using a free open db (so the city-level accuracy is not very high).
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   by sagacity 15y ago

   .es can provide some great plural possibilities too. Even .info (that was considered to be spammy some years ago, don't know now) can offer some great ones. A throw-away reg fee of $1 to $2 (first year) makes it all the more attractive. :)
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    > How much of a financial cushion would you recommend taking? I'd say as much as you can get, and then some. :) In all probability, your projects will start turning out to be inaccurate as you progress. If and when that happens (I do ho
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    > if the largest portion of your growth will come from search, social links, and web advertising then I think they are fine. Bingo. Such novelty domains can be a dog to promote via any non-clickable medium. On my whim in March last year
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    Quite an interesting point, thanks for bringing it up. I'd say most domain extensions other than .com, .net, .org (and .edu, .mil, .gov) would fall under either ccTLD (country-code TLDs) or vanity domain categories. If memory serves me righ
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    uStew.com - 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. What gives?
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    Clickable: http://www.twentypeople.com/site/page?view=employer
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    Two that I like the most (although not exactly side projects): http://getlocalne.ws (Global News Aggregator) and http://www.RapiDefs.com (Web 2.0 English Dictionary)
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    AFIK, there's no way to do that.
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    I've always been a big fan of demonstrating practical utility/applications when trying to explain a (new) concept. From this perspective, the article shines via the Google-flu-prediction-capability sub-story. I'd say more such citations wou
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    Clickable: http://informationweek.com/news/global-cio/interviews/232301...
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    Ask HN: Good places to find startup announcements?

    2 points by sagacity 15y ago|6 comments
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    Clickable: http://www.mykraigslist.com
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    Point #2 - truly well-said. >If you do 2, be ready to question your own assumptions; you'll likely get "fresh" questions that will teach you just as much as him. Bingo, again. Spot on. Having lived on both sides of the equation (hand-co
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    > The point of an MVP, generally, is to determine whether or not there's a market for your application, and whether it actually fills a need. I've seen people use MVPs as a fund-raising tool too, while making their pitch to potential in
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    vikivu.com appears to have been taken about a month ago.
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    Yes, taken since 2004 it seems.
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    by sagacity 15y ago

    babylum.com - already gone, as of an hour ago or so.
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    by sagacity 16y ago

    Clickable link: http://www.AllMediaPeople.com
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    Ask HN: Launching a niche community - coding choices

    8 points by sagacity 16y ago|3 comments
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    by sagacity 16y ago

    Great work! While I don't know what sort of traffic and/or other benefits it'll yield, I'll be happy to place your banner at the site below, let me know if you're interested: http://www.TheDrinkMaker.com
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    by sagacity 16y ago

    >look at the icons, .....I don't know what most of them mean Same here too. I guess showing a tooltip on each icon (e.g. happy, sad, surprised etc.) should fix this in short order.
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    by sagacity 16y ago

    Why not ask around your marketing/market research departments? If you must DIY, here are some suggestions: * Find the (estimated) number of users of the general product category (I'm sure googling will lead you to authentic sources publishi