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by sw007 14y ago
If it's uninteresting, why come to this post and comment?
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by sw007 14y ago
Awesome! Thanks so much, it's really appreciated.
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Thanks. I would edit the title but I now can't seem to for some reason. Sorry for the confusion...
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by sw007 14y ago
Yes it was overground as you can't literally run underground (on the tracks) as you'd kill yourself on the wires. Therefore, I ran from station to station - worked out the routes before each run and ran with my iPhone and Google Maps and ra
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by sw007 14y ago
Let me help you out.. The charity's website is www.hhho.co.uk - here you can find out all about Harry's campaign. The charity JustGiving link is www.justgiving.com/steven-whyley There was never a dedicated twitter account set up (there shou
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I have finally run the entire London Underground(harrystuberunners.blogspot.co.uk)
70 points by sw007 14y ago|27 comments
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by sw007 14y ago
So it is a giftlist creator - but done in a neat way (I think). We make money by using skimlinks and turning links into affiliate links. It's a way of finding neat gift ideas and also bookmarking gifts on the web and saving them to a giftli
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by sw007 14y ago
Sure sorry, I didn't want to spam HN but here it is - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4864978 - the site is called http://www.ultimategiftlists.com and it is a cool way to create a giftlist, but is now also, in my opinion, a real ne
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Ask HN: Launched a new site, what do I do now?
6 points by sw007 14y ago|7 comments
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by sw007 14y ago
Great blog. Exactly how I feel. My question is how do I get traffic? I feel quite lost - we got covered by Mashable and other places and like you didn't get an amazing number of signups - a good number but nothing major. Now I am at a bit o
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by sw007 14y ago
We struggled deciding whether to go to the Prezi page or straight to the homepage. We opted for the Prezi because we thought it was a bit different and gave us a chance to tell our story in a neat way. But I think you are probably right, it
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by sw007 14y ago
That figure is based on those who are 15-24 who want to work but can't. I.E. Who don't have the luxury of going to school or college. Who at the age of 15 have no alternative but to go to work but who can't because there simply aren't enoug
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by sw007 14y ago
That's brilliant, thanks so much. I will send something over soon. Thanks again.
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by sw007 14y ago
Thanks. And yes agreed - we need to articulate how we will provide decent advice. We'll look to add that. And take your point about the image. We originally got covered by Mashable before the 11K Club purpose was known. Once we unveiled wha
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Why we think bloggers should blog about us (but we're not having much luck)(whyyoushouldblogaboutus.com)
6 points by sw007 14y ago|12 comments
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by sw007 14y ago
I just don't see how that comment can possibly be worthwhile. If you don't like it, if you think it is rubbish, then fair enough. But we have spent a lot of time building a product we are proud of, building a community of great people and h
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by sw007 14y ago
Thanks, and thanks for signing up. I appreciate it. I can see how that may be confusing. And yes you are right - but we are hoping that as much as you want to get in, you will also want to join the club with your wife/husband/brother/sister
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by sw007 14y ago
Thanks for the constructive feedback...
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by sw007 14y ago
Sorry about this - we'll take a look. Can I ask What browser you are using?
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Thanks :) They were right I guess in that maybe we were not honest enough but at least our intentions have proved to be good. As I say, it was a good lesson. A sad night - we felt like the experiment was over a little bit - but ultimately i
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by sw007 14y ago
I can share that with you (co-founder) - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4323459 - as I say, we wanted to create the illusion that we'd stumbled across it so that we got genuine sign up's. Alas, people found out who we were so we apol
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by sw007 14y ago
I hadn't heard of this story. Just looking at it now and will get back to you. At a first glance it seems we place more emphasis on bartering and exclusivity but looks like she's done a great thing. Thanks for sharing this - look forward to
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The lure of exclusivity(11kclub.com)
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by sw007 14y ago
This was a Mashable article written before we revealed what we are/who we are - http://mashable.com/2012/09/20/website-exclusive-11k/ may give you a better idea behind why we used the word 'stunt' in our HN post. Once we got all the appli
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by sw007 14y ago
Hi, co-founder here. Thanks for the feedback. We take your points about the volume of text. But this isn't the marketing stunt - the stunt has already taken place. We got 13,300 people to sign up to a site that they knew nothing about. We a
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by sw007 14y ago
Slightly off topic but I bank with Natwest.com and I have gone to their homepage today and am AMAZED as to what I saw. If you navigate to their homepage - in prime view you'll see a section that says: "Great ideas come from great conversati
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11K Club dares us to take a risk(inquisitr.com)
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Would You Sign Up for a Website Just Because It’s Exclusive?(mashable.com)
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Classic case of someone who just can't win whatever he does. People have been crying out for PayPal to change - he notices this, he emails the guy with a first class email but still gets criticised. Criticise him if he doesn't act, don't cr
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Ask HN: How can your bank be better?
1 points by sw007 14y ago|0 comments

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