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   by terryjsmith 16y ago

   I totally disagree, this tells me that they're not afraid to make/poke fun at their own expense and would make me want to work there. It may be polarizing, but it can also be worthwhile. We recently released an Awesomesauce edition of a W
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   by terryjsmith 16y ago

   It's clear that the popular thing to do is rag on the first launched concept, and yet everyone still seems to be ignoring the team. I doubt Sequoia, bubble times or not, is likely to back a buzzword friendly concept if they didn't believe
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   by terryjsmith 16y ago

   We're working on this: http://www.jaxified.com/ . Right now we're focused on blogs since it's easy to see new content, but we're working on adding support for static sites as well.
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   by terryjsmith 16y ago

   If you want a second set of eyes or want to talk about optimizing, plugins, etc. shoot me an e-mail. I know enough WordPress to have a solid love/hate/don't ever want to have to dig into the way certain things work ever again relationship:
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   by terryjsmith 16y ago

   We're definitely hopeful that will be a big part of it. We look to be a value-add to services like Sysomos or Radian6 who offer much more comprehensive brand management solutions at $500+/month. We're also targeting bloggers who want to ag
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   by terryjsmith 16y ago

   Wow, thanks for the full review! Since we do offer the 14-day free trial on all plans, I could probably delay choosing a plan until you want to upgrade. Then it would just be a one-step sign-up. We do only track new data; unfortunately the
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   by terryjsmith 16y ago

   Thanks for your input! I'm loving what you're doing with The Startup Foundry and have had your profile page open in Firefox for a week so I would remember to reach out. I was planning to send you an e-mail on Monday; I'll fill out the form
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   by terryjsmith 16y ago

   Sure; while we haven't launched them yet, our Firm accounts won't actually billed by the blog, they will be billed by campaign. So a campaign might include a Twitter account, a Facebook page, a landing page and a group of blogs who you hav
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   by terryjsmith 16y ago

   Thanks! We've thought about offering a free plan and might still do so in the future, but for now we're laser focused on making it as easy to try it out yourself and possible. No verification, no e-mail confirmation, etc. As you noted, yo
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. I've been constantly tweaking the black/blue and will obviously need to keep tweaking to find a better fit. And I will definitely add some hover states! I have definitely struggled with the product's core value pr
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Thanks for taking a look! I'll be posting a post on Monday on our blog about how it went from a weekend project to 7 months of work, but I'm really excited to show this off. I'm here to answer any questions or concerns you might have.
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    Ask HN: Review my startup - Jaxified(jaxified.com)

    30 points by terryjsmith 16y ago|19 comments
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Yup, that sounds consistent with what I've heard, but I think he's taking the wrong strategy. He's playing RIM's game and they can crush him in legal fees and process; he needs to make this a PR issue and he's in a good position to do that
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Agreed. The guy running Kik seems to be quite timid from what I've heard from friends and doesn't want to burn any bridges at RIM since he interned/worked there. What he needs to do now is get some hard evidence of this and start screamin
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    This. HN often has discussions about an article here because of the community and the calibre (as opposed to HN members on the site itself), while Techmeme relies on the inherent "conversational" properties of blogs themselves.
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Hear, hear! I'd love to hear from and bounce ideas off other HNers on chat. Skype: ternaryworks GTalk: tj.hackin.smith
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    The term "web scale" needs to go away; it just doesn't make sense. No one site will ever need to be "web scale" by its definition since it's highly unlikely one site will get all of the web's traffic. The term could only apply to a crawle
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Sure, the question is how you differentiate those actions. Some one typed in [x] and then clicked [y] could certainly be generic, but that would be a massive amount of data to crunch and would require a significant amount of congruency to
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Obviously this depends highly on your definition of "copy". They presumably do not scrape Google's answers, but using user behavior patterns targeting search sites (or tracking all user data but analyzing the search segment) and what peopl
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    I think they just mean that it's a whole site/domain action; that you can't change crawl rate for a sub-directory based site ala Wordpress MU/Multisite with directories.
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Speaking from experience, this is why robots.txt files don't work; they've become anti-competitive in nature. If you actually build code to obey them you get locked out of actual sites, while the real scrapers you don't want don't listen t
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Finally, they're gonna be huge! [1] [1] http://www.justin.tv/startupschool/b/272180383
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    They have to have a user to reward with extra storage for each step, though admittedly they could've offered a "challenge" track with the ability to sign up once you're engaged.
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    The single post page looks much better/more thought out than the front page. The front page lacks flow; there's no differentiation between the sidebar and the content and I'm not quite sure where to look first, next, etc.
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    If the MLA says one space then it has changed since I was in school (~10 years ago). We were always told to use a double space at the end of a sentence and while he links to the Chicago MLA, the actual MLA website also eludes to the fact
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    These questions seem to be levelled directly at students; I would be curious if they asked the same questions to someone with more experience. These seemingly have very little to do with the day-to-day development of the site. I would much
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Awesome. If you do some long tail SEO and set up a blog, capturing any of the current interest in the "Four Hour Body" craze going on right now could be a boon; you could potentially capitalize on people who haven't even read the book by m
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    My first thought on entering the site was "What is PAGG?" I'm not sure if you're just targeting people who have read the book specifically, but even renaming your "What does the PAGG stack consist of?" to "What is the PAGG stack?"/"What is
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    Mark stated at Startup School that Facebook hasn't posted huge profits (if any) because they continue to invest almost everything back in for as long as they can [1]. Whether that's true or not remains to be seen, but I think it's fair to
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    by terryjsmith 16y ago

    http://www.thumbomatic.com/ An API based website thumbnail service with Amazon like pricing and without random or account based size restrictions.