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by sjs382 10y ago
I agree with that one, and the quality of the alternatives, too. The problems I have with Evernote are subtle but they act like speed bumps on a highway, sometimes.
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by sjs382 10y ago
I pay for lots—some for personal, some for business. For me to switch usually I need to be forced, there needs to be a killer feature, or there needs to be a combination of less important factors AND a total lack of friction to switch.
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by sjs382 10y ago
I answered a similar question here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12008384
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No
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by sjs382 10y ago
I don't get enough people asking for discounts to matter, but I usually give a discount to anyone who asks. I do this a bit as a pay-it-forward thing. When I was in college, Github was offering their lowest plan (which included a few
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by sjs382 10y ago
About 6 years ago, I wrote and sold a dumb little modification for WP-eCommerce that added additional details to admin emails. I think I charged $20 one time fee. I promoted it in forums and Q&A websites that asked specifically for the
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by sjs382 10y ago
The "Show HN" for https://Artpacks.org ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8962810 ) got 111 points, hit #2, and stayed on the front page for most of the day it launched (and part of the following day
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by sjs382 10y ago
If you're a WordPress developer, look at some non-WordPress projects. If you use Angular all the time, check out some React projects. Use Bootstrap as a starting point for websites? Check out Zurb or any of the new CSS frameworks that
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by sjs382 10y ago
This. Just familiarizing yourself with developers of popular/widely-used codebases helps immensely. Make sure to stray outside of your peer group for this, too.
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by sjs382 10y ago
I built https://SendToMyCloud.com with 3 customers in mind: myself (for my wedding guest's photos), a friend (for their wedding guest's photos), and my previous employer (an agency, to collect large files from nontechn
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by sjs382 10y ago
Hah! I used to own this domain, planning to use it as a tool for uptime monitoring and statistics. I'm glad that someone else is making real use of it!
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by sjs382 10y ago
Yeah, I got that email this week or last. I assumed it was related to the LinkedIn break.
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by sjs382 10y ago
I run https://SendToMyCloud.com and https://PrivateForms.com , which are both profitable. SendToMyCloud is an order of magnitude more successful, though. Both were created in 2015.
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by sjs382 10y ago
Zoho Mail is an alternative, though I can't speak much to their spam filtering.
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It asks for your zip code once you call.
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by sjs382 10y ago
This is a really great project! I assume that you run this on Twilio (or a Twilio-like service). I'd be a bit wary about an advocacy organization getting ahold of this and running up your Twilio bill. Do you have any plans to open so
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by sjs382 10y ago
To save someone the click: this is a feature request, not an actual shipping product/feature.
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by sjs382 10y ago
I usually use hashids for this purpose, which has libraries for a lot of languages: http://hashids.org/ It's quick, easily reversible (so you can translate "XmVgp" to "34" without consulting the dat
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by sjs382 10y ago
Neither does whatmoji, though. Taco: http://whatmoji.com/?i=21c542c341eb67e1cb7a4ba4a21052ff Eggplant: http://whatmoji.com/?i=376bf089b6f3e4f4eb7e9e13c4ce1cb2 peach: http://whatmoji.com/?i=1
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by sjs382 10y ago
Semi-related: an archive of the PC ASCII & ANSI art scene: https://artpacks.org
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"What is a girl's name?" "A girl has no name."
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by sjs382 10y ago
Realistically? Not much. But I just installed it and while Chrome is running, it's taking up an additional 57.1MB of memory right now. That said, I've installed it and I think I'm going to keep using it.
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by sjs382 10y ago
Amazon, GetJar, F-Droid... https://www.google.com/search?q=alternative+app+stores+andro...
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Ah yeah, I had totally forgot about that since it disappeared!
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by sjs382 10y ago
That's great! If you need any help in this effort, please don;t hesitate to contact me. My email i sin my profile. Thanks for creating K5 and letting it become what it had become. I also really enjoyed your guest post to the The Awl
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by sjs382 10y ago
So, tl;dr: "I'm breaking YouTube TOS, so my app was rejected by Google (who owns YouTube). I feel like my app should be let through anyways, because others broke the rules and got through." I think you should move on and acc
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by sjs382 10y ago
Michael Crawford is here on HN, in case you were wondering. When I first saw his name, I definitely did a double-take and had flashbacks to his OggFrog posts. https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MichaelCrawford
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by sjs382 10y ago
> How many users had the talent and time to create original content, and then survive the ridiculous Kuro5shin editing process? Not many. There were plenty, and the ones that did were great . If you browsed the Diary section, there we
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by sjs382 11y ago
Not only does it feel dirty, sometimes it is dirty. I've posted my experience on HN before ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10334291 ), but here it is again: I had a terrible experience with a NYT digital-only s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0lLDyknUjw

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