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by simonk 17y ago
Doesn't really help new users though. And searchyc.com can do a lot more than Google search.
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Vancouver HN Meetup Tuesday(groups.google.com)
16 points by simonk 17y ago|0 comments
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by simonk 17y ago
Arrington's a member of the press that was sent a email saying "thought techcrunch might find this interesting" what do you think he was going to do with it?
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by simonk 17y ago
Its just like if you get a restaurant franchise. A portion of your income goes back to the manufacturer for national sales, and you have to spend at least so much of your income on local advertising.
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by simonk 18y ago
Uh, 37signals use to be a design firm while they were building their startup. They design inhouse, only some sort of companion app for 37signals was designed by that graphic designer.
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by simonk 18y ago
Besides it running on Linux not a whole lot. But its $200 that was the whole point.
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by simonk 18y ago
* loopt * xobni * zecter * heroku * wundrbar * http://www.picwing.com/frame
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by simonk 18y ago
Most places like Uservoice only the site owner can sign-up.
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by simonk 18y ago
There's quite a few of us, we have about 10 people show up to each meetup and we just started up a couple months ago. Although I have no idea what Seattle is doing.
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Vancouver HN April Meetup(doodle.com)
19 points by simonk 18y ago|9 comments
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by simonk 18y ago
Is that really how it works? If you have CDN like Facebook you have things on other domains.
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by simonk 18y ago
That's what the article is saying if your storing it on "small mom and pop biz mysql DBs" they won't let you get a account. You may buy through Paypal; but, most buyers don't.
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by simonk 18y ago
The last 9/10 blog posts on FreshBooks are about FreshBooks?
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by simonk 18y ago
I understand and other people do it to. Just having a few karma points and comments elsewhere make people feel your here for more than to promote your business. Also 3 pop-ups before I even get to the site?
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by simonk 18y ago
People aren't even reading the article anymore. They tried charging for it, didn't make as much as ads.
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by simonk 18y ago
Opening the site automatically brings up a box to login or signup. Annoying as I didn't even know what the site did at all. Maybe just push everyone into a demo mode and put a sign-up link on there. Also try and contribute more to a commu
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by simonk 18y ago
You just spent three days of a teams time over what the designer already knew.
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by simonk 18y ago
$0 my newspaper isn't going anywhere. It's just going to bring 3 major papers in my area down to 2 and get rid of some of the smaller papers.
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by simonk 18y ago
Your url is still blog.yourname.com you should be paying the $10 a year to have it on you own domain.
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by simonk 18y ago
Yes in BC, theirs actually quite a few of us.
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Vancouver HN March Meetup next Tuesday(groups.google.com)
17 points by simonk 18y ago|6 comments
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by simonk 18y ago
Join the Google group http://groups.google.com/group/vancouver-startup-meetup
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by simonk 18y ago
Check with your a university advisor. In Vancouver we have someone from the local university that helps places students at startups.
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by simonk 18y ago
Can't even spam properly. Wonder if this is a bot or a real person.
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by simonk 18y ago
Start one then! That's what I did, posted it on HN and got 10 people out for a lunch.
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by simonk 18y ago
Doesn't matter would great to have you come out.
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Vancouver HN February Meetup(groups.google.com)
18 points by simonk 18y ago|4 comments
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by simonk 18y ago
Not his name; but, his profile makes it easy enough to find his name. So not a anonymous comment.
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by simonk 18y ago
No, you have to be nice to your customers and if your promoting it to us then that's what your looking for. Freshbooks just did a blog post ( http://www.freshbooks.com/blog/2009/01/28/techcrunch-is-not-... ) "You need to be out in the wor
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by simonk 18y ago
Oh come on! Very few of his posts are negative and mostly those are when the company closes up shop. Paid to do so, you have any poof of that?

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