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Ask HN: What's Your Experience With Flippa?
23 points by slindstr 16y ago|12 comments
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by slindstr 16y ago
Oh man! I'm so out of the loop! Was traveling yesterday - sorry!
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by slindstr 16y ago
I asked the EXACT same question a little over a month ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1809874 ) and what I did was I told the guy that I wanted some equity and some cash. Long story short, I never heard back from him which is fun
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by slindstr 16y ago
Pretty cool (and now bookmarked) - kinda like The Courage Wolf but in a more serious light. Looks great on my iPhone! Also, I'm not sure if you've got an Apple developer license, but if you do you could submit this to the Apple Web Apps li
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by slindstr 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.ditchit.com.au Congratulations on getting something out there - for me that's always the hardest part! One thing I noticed is that if I remove the value to any of the $_GET variables in your urls I get a mysql error.
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by slindstr 16y ago
Although in hindsight, I guess that's not really a bash trick, just more of a command line trick...
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by slindstr 16y ago
I'm pretty forgetful when it comes time to figure out which files I've modified recently so I'm a big fan of making a timestamp file: touch -t 201011271200 timestamp and then finding the files that are newer than that timestamp: find . -typ
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Ask HN: Which mobile advertising platforms do you use?
11 points by slindstr 16y ago|0 comments
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by slindstr 16y ago
Wow that's a really cool site! How long did it take you to make? Are you making money off of it yet?
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by slindstr 16y ago
I just found this blog posting that has a list of tools that you can use to analyze your competitors when you find them: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/monitor-competitor-traffic
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by slindstr 16y ago
You gotta be able to find 'fm to work for 'em :)
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by slindstr 16y ago
That's a great point and I think if you're making a new implementation of a product like I am and you have a general idea of who your customer could potentially be just asking them could be very helpful, though it may be difficult to get a
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by slindstr 16y ago
Thanks for the insight! I'm already using Google and Twitter in that way and Crunchbase seems pretty sweet but after doing a couple of searches and clicking some companies it looks like there's a lot of entries for tiny/small companies tha
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Ask HN: How do you research your competition?
8 points by slindstr 16y ago|13 comments
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by slindstr 16y ago
Yep! Spot on! I just got a response from him today. Looks bleak though...
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by slindstr 16y ago
Looks like you're right. He did get my e-mail and said they didn't think they were interested in selling it, but he did ask me why I want to buy it. I'm guessing that if I say it's for my business he'll try to gouge me on the price (if he
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by slindstr 16y ago
Thanks for your insight! I'm going to start by looking into DomainTools (never heard of that before, but sounds super helpful). If I had to guess, the person that bought it back in the day bought it for a long period of time because he/sh
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Ask Hn: How can I buy a parked domain if they have private registration?
9 points by slindstr 16y ago|9 comments
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by slindstr 16y ago
I'm going to launch http://achievabl.es/ which is basically going to be a SMART goal ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMART_criteria ) setting community. I find that often I am too ambitious in making my goals and if I can have a bunch of o
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by slindstr 16y ago
Minimum Viable Product :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product
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by slindstr 16y ago
Thanks for the anecdote - sorry to hear things turned out that way! I agree that a split of a discounted daily rate and equity is a good balance, and I do have concrete requirements. Do you know of any good resources for writing contracts
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by slindstr 16y ago
Hmmm, I hadn't considered a combo deal like that. That'd be nice too because then I could continue to put food on the table and claim a stake in the venture. Thanks for your insight!
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by slindstr 16y ago
I've got a list of software requirements and together they do essentially create a MVP. I'm not well versed on the whole intellectual property legalities of this scenario. Do you know of any good resources I could use to learn more about
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by slindstr 16y ago
Yeah that's kind of what really sparked my interest. 24 years old, no debt, no real financial responsibility (except keeping the 'ol cat fed), etc. What would you consider to be a decent cut? That's really where I'm stuck...
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by slindstr 16y ago
This is kind of the way I was looking at it. I think if nothing else it'll be a decent way to get my name out there since this guy seems to know a whole bunch of people in the area. Thanks for the insight!
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Ask HN: How Would You Negotiate This Deal?
14 points by slindstr 16y ago|20 comments
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by slindstr 16y ago
First off, kudos for getting something out there! That seems to be half the battle. One thing I noticed was that I completely missed the "Enter a valid location" label and I tried typing "breakfast" in the text box. I'm not usually an ear
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by slindstr 16y ago
When I REALLY started out (in 2006) I got an internship with a defense contractor and kind of worked my way up from there. The project I was on had a lot of ex-military people with no programming skills testing our software because that's
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by slindstr 16y ago
I think this article is on the right track, but I agree with you that you shouldn't necessarily minimize the number of features you have. I think, like the article said, your app should be known for doing one thing really really well (i.e.
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by slindstr 16y ago
I'm trying to read as much as I can about the topic too so here's what I'm reading: -Books- Lifecycle of a Technology Company by Edwin Miller The Game by Neil Strauss (you laugh but it's basically all about getting more confident) Rich Dad

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