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by sendos 17y ago
This strategy is interesting but seems to beg the question: how do you get traffic to your blog? With a myriad blogs out there, I assume it's difficult to get your blog noticed. Is it easier to drive traffic to your blog than to drive it to
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Ask HN: Is a website & blog combo the way to go?
6 points by sendos 17y ago|7 comments
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by sendos 17y ago
Straight Dope message board http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb is pretty good
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by sendos 17y ago
Simply awesome!
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Ask HN: How do you handle battle between self-doubt and hope/persistence?
9 points by sendos 17y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: Startup advisors
1 points by sendos 17y ago|0 comments
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by sendos 17y ago
Are you claiming that Dan Brown and JK Rowling are the best in the world at writing their type of fiction? Maybe they are, but from what I understand, from a literary standpoint these two are not the best writers.
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by sendos 17y ago
"Even Google, often touted as the canonical "idea" company couldn't sell their technology, even though they tried. They only created Google after futile attempts at selling the idea to among others Yahoo." Yes, idea+execution is what matter
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by sendos 17y ago
As I mention below, I don't get why people are so focused on valuing an idea in-and-of-itself. Just because when some Joe says "I have a great idea" we don't attach any monetary value to that, doesn't mean that "ideas are useless". It's the
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by sendos 17y ago
So what if it was plagiarized? The idea is what made the book successful. Whether that idea was Dan Brown's or he stole it from someone else says nothing about the value of the idea behind making "The Da Vinci Code" a huge hit.
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by sendos 17y ago
Regarding "I'm Paul Graham, and I've got a fantastic, knock-your-socks-off idea for a business. How much will you pay me for it?": First off, if you patented it, and I can see a lot of value from licensing the idea, then yes, I will pay a l
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by sendos 17y ago
But that doesn't at all prove that ideas are useless. It just proves that ideas+execution is what matters. After all, the person who ultimately made the product your friend bought, needed the idea for the product before getting off his butt
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by sendos 17y ago
Did the idea behind Twitter, Facebook, Google, Wikipedia, etc change overnight? Yes, startups do often change their idea overnight, and that shows that the original idea wasn't great, but that doesn't mean that there are no great ideas. By
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by sendos 17y ago
The tools and tricks of marketing are well known. They can be applied to any book. But they cannot help every book become a runaway hit. The content of the book matters too. (Yes, great books without good marketing will fail, but that just
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by sendos 17y ago
I agree with your statement "GREAT ideas usually come from some form of execution and iteration". Yes, sitting down and trying to implement something inevitably shows its weaknesses and, if you're smart, helps you improve it. Regarding "Ide
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by sendos 17y ago
Let's take "The Da Vinci Code" as an example. How many people had the idea behind that book? Not that many. Yes, Dan Brown had to sit down and write it, but it's the storyline (the "idea" behind the book) that got millions of people hooked
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Ask HN: The value of ideas
9 points by sendos 17y ago|27 comments
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by sendos 17y ago
Interesting idea. I wonder though, how big is the potential market, money-wise?
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by sendos 17y ago
Yep, I will be adding that. Can you guys recommend the preferred technology to use? I'm new to this field, and I've heard about different ways to go about this, e.g. JSON. Are any of the options superior to the others?
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by sendos 17y ago
As of now, the website supports soundkey.com/key/165pgx I need to figure out how to make soundkey.com/165pgx work, and I will be adding that feature when it's ready (I guess I can use .htaccess to redirect whatever comes after soundkey.com/
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by sendos 17y ago
I think that barring any obscene sounds, all variations on a word will be allowed. So, Bruschetta might have several entries. However, I'm planning on adding user voting (1-5 stars or thumbs up/down), so if there are many variations on a w
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by sendos 17y ago
Yes, adding an API is on my To-Do list
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Ask HN: Review my website soundkey.com
13 points by sendos 17y ago|14 comments
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Ask HN: What are some concrete ways in which VCs help startups?
9 points by sendos 17y ago|1 comments