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by sheriff 18y ago
don't talk about whats. talk about why's. it's good practice for your marketing. you need to talk to your market in terms of how you're going to help them kick more ass. if you talk to your relatives in terms of whom you help kick more a
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by sheriff 18y ago
One sure-fire way to keep getting projects you don't like is to accept them, let them wear you down, and do nothing to improve your situation.
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by sheriff 18y ago
I worked with a few awesome folks in Providence, RI to produce http://twalala.com - Twitter with a mute button. All four of us are avid Twitter users, and had frequently run into situations where we wanted to put a muzzle on some of the f
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by sheriff 18y ago
would you prefer they use floats?
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by sheriff 18y ago
In other words, there's at least factor beyond your control in having an actually interesting idea: You can't control what's ultimately considered interesting for its time.
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by sheriff 18y ago
If you're efficient about coming up with interesting ideas, you'll come up with a lot that are just outside the bounds of what's obvious, given your current knowledgebase. When you're younger, not only is your knowledgebase relatively smal
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by sheriff 18y ago
Shriram is one of the best professors I've had.
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Adventures in Shitty Marketing at SxSW(blog.fusecal.com)
1 points by sheriff 19y ago|0 comments
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by sheriff 19y ago
What I mean to suggest is: try exposing some ideas earlier than you're comfortable with now, and see if you weren't being a little over-protective.
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by sheriff 19y ago
I've found that there's typically more benefit to be had from sharing an idea, than there is from hoarding it and believing you can perfect it on your own. When I've done the former, it's been way less painful than I imagined, and when I've
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by sheriff 19y ago
My startup, http://www.FuseCal.com (previously discussed at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=146134 ), scrapes calendar events out of web pages and into your personal calendar. In the general case, we don't know anything about the la
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by sheriff 19y ago
What if that were actually the (unfortunate) name of their startup? =P
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by sheriff 19y ago
hey! great minds think alike! our latest mockups have had them reversed like you're suggesting. it was a little weird for us at first, because we'd gotten used to the way it currently is, but it's definitely better with the source viewer o
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by sheriff 19y ago
weird... i'll put this into our bug db. if it happens again, can you send me feedback via the form in the app (so we can followup via email)?
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by sheriff 19y ago
did you get a chance to try the UI for registered, logged-in users? we're thinking about making the workflow for guest users more similar to that.... do you think it would help the perception of latency?
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by sheriff 19y ago
What you can currently do to get MySpace events is click the "view all" link next to Upcoming Shows on the profile page. The URL of the events-only page will harvest correctly. You might be onto something with the idea of a rule system to
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by sheriff 19y ago
Thanks so much, folks... this has already been way more helpful than I was expecting! I'm planning to get back to each of you very soon, but in the meanwhile, let's keep these awesome suggestions coming!
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Please critique my startup: FuseCal.com
31 points by sheriff 19y ago|35 comments
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by sheriff 19y ago
YAY! (Yet Another YAML)
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by sheriff 19y ago
Not quite the same thing, but possibly achieving the same end goal: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=5... Amazon users can create a wish list, and then others can buy things on the list, which Amazon will send to