shawnc

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by shawnc 14y ago
Really good reply. Thank you.
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by shawnc 14y ago
They do not. They simply request a link... and most of the time request it in the middle of your content, written in like it's a natural link you happened to think was appropriate to your audience. Thanks for all the answers guys - a clari
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by shawnc 14y ago
I wanted to say I really like how you summed your thought up. You made a lot of sense, and I completely agree. We created something that was first released as an MVP (and we made sure that was clear for our customers). Now that we know we
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by shawnc 14y ago
I operate a site that I haven't touched in a few years. It gets decent traffic but doesn't earn me anything. When iAquire approached me I accepted - and it's been a decent extra monthly income. I think it'd be near impossible for Google to
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by shawnc 14y ago
It does seem like a low failure rate - and I don't think that KS has anything to do with it, directly. Indirectly there are certainly things that make a KS project go better than say Rockethub or Indiegogo. I think, because of the 'presti
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by shawnc 14y ago
"The most valuable service kickstarter provides is in gauging real-world interest in your product." Kickstarter doesn't exactly provide this - they provide a place to host a site to gauge that interest. The project creator themselves do al
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by shawnc 14y ago
Thanks for the reply! And the link. Good point about booking years of surplus units.
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by shawnc 14y ago
You know, not having a shadow on the Arrow (if arrow is on bottom) kind looks like it's popping off the page then, at a slight angle. I don't mind it - tho obviously not for every use.
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by shawnc 14y ago
To each their own. I enjoy a large assortment of films. The Avengers and Batman Begins - or 12 Monkeys and The Usual Suspects - or The Triplettes of Bellville and The Lives of Others - or 12 Angry Men and The Seventh Seal. Hardly fair to
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by shawnc 14y ago
You're talking as if Apple continues production on the 3GS. Do they really, or do they access old stock? I'm genuinely asking as I don't know - I had assumed they accessed old stock.
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by shawnc 14y ago
First thing i used it for was recipes too! Started to find little blogs, or sites outside of north america, with some great Vegetarian recipes.
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by shawnc 14y ago
As I understood it IndieGoGo launched before Kickstarter. I think the luck lands more in the realm of positive press early on - something IndieGoGo didn't get the same amount of. And honestly - that has to do with (IMO) the polish Kickstar
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by shawnc 14y ago
Could it be, there's less women in programming because it's just starting to rise as someplace they're needed? Or as something just now becoming 'visible' enough to get their attention? It could be something that starts out much earlier in
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by shawnc 14y ago
It's not apparent he would need Kickstarter - he could attempt a crowdfund straight through his own website, thus not giving anyone else a cut except whoever his payment provider is. He'd certainly drive enough traffic there, to not requir
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by shawnc 15y ago
I know thisis a really late reply, but I wanted to say thank you for your reply and input. Really appreciate it!
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by shawnc 15y ago
I agree with your point about face=to-face or direct communication first. Barring that not accomplishing anything however, I'm not so sure I agree with the last part anymore. I used to, fully. However, after years of watching this 'accep
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by shawnc 15y ago
So awesome. Have shown everyone in my family. When I was 11, I made Pinball machines. You would use Popsicle Sticks as the flippers, and I proper Clipboards up on books. Then I designed my pinball machines, with Plastacine, paper, and le
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by shawnc 15y ago
You're exactly right. I should restate I mean '1.0 final' so we can say we are out of beta and anyone that buys it can know they're now getting something that has no problems with it.
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by shawnc 15y ago
http://ignitiondeck.com is what i'm talking about specifically.
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by shawnc 15y ago
We launched early, asked for money right away, and have been doing excellent ever since. Now our problem is defining what makes a 'final, out of beta, stable' version. Defining it, and then meeting it. We're constantly going 'this isn't
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by shawnc 15y ago
I'm only just now learning it's not the case. I never really discussed it with anyone but I pretty much figured it was a common occurance for everyone. Wow.
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by shawnc 15y ago
For myself - I discovered this when I turned ads off because I was now the first two results for a few keyword phrases. And my visitors dropped, and my sales dropped. I did some testing - and my (potentially incorrect) conclusion was that w
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by shawnc 15y ago
This is the absolute wrong way to look at things. This is the sort of reaction that gets Cameras on every street corner, or searches without a warrant, or SOPA passing, or higher gas prices. You see - When something is presented to us, and
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by shawnc 15y ago
Happy to see he gets permission to reprint each first. That's good. This seems like a great idea and I'm happy to see it's working well. I thin curation is something everyone wants in some regard. And the interesting tibit is, Hacker New
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by shawnc 15y ago
I was at this point of thinking 6 years ago - "Hey I know i'll find the content makers and i'll do allt he other work, and we'll split profits. It'll all work out so great because i'll make them so popular, but really I am totally expectin
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by shawnc 15y ago
this is barely an article IMO. Not much is discussed, not much is given thought - it simply rehashes some quotes found elsewhere online and leaves it at that. I'm interested in the conversation that could happen here, but I feel the article
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by shawnc 15y ago
I needed this a few years ago badly. I ended up forwarding all email to my gmail. Then... And this is considered excessive by some... I forwarded all those to a MobileMe account and check it all in Apple Mail. It automatically detects wha
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by shawnc 15y ago
I love the idea, and if you default it to those I agree it will be better. I had the same thoughts of 'i can't focus, nothing looks good to me'.
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by shawnc 15y ago
Great thoughts and very well explained also - and neat to see BoardGameGeek get linked on HN - been a BGGer for many years.
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by shawnc 15y ago
Kind of surprised by the amount of people in this comment thread saying "yes it works for him but no one else". Why operate from this as your default? How sad. Examine this for how it can work for you, or someone else. Examine how it can w

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