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by thirdstation 16y ago
'"Some of these companies want to go public because they want to beat Facebook and others out," said one of the sources.' What's the value for being first with an IPO? Who does this matter to? Honest question. '"If Facebook went public befo
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"3. Selling bottled water for more than you paid on a hot day accomplishes this, and you could make decent coin doing it…" I took the most exception at this comment for some reason. I guess because it seems like a serious suggestion instea
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by thirdstation 16y ago
You could add an "about us" page describing the point of this web app. What is the problem you're trying to solve? Or, is this a "just because" app you coded for fun? Maybe change the copyright year to 2011. I'm pretty it's 2011 everywhe
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"So yeah, personally I think this is a great market to be getting into." Why do you think it's a great market to get into? Is it the size of the opportunity? Your first three paras outline why it's a difficult market. BTW: Your descriptio
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What is their differentiator from Yahoo! Web Hosting and similar ilk? IMHO, any technological advantage will eventually be copied (by companies who care to stay in the business). Are they hoping to just take over as the new Geocities until
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by thirdstation 16y ago
Licensing is where you make your money. Check out this NYT article from 1987 about upheaval in the comic syndication business. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE0DF1738F... (sorry for the long link) Reads like many of t
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by thirdstation 16y ago
Was it a Commodore 64? That's what I had. I attribute my code reading abilities to navigating my own GOTO spaghetti while trying to recreate ZORK.
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It's also important to note that editing is not just making sure your copy is grammatically correct -- that's called copyediting, and you can pay for that by the page. It's pretty easy to find a copyeditor. A good editor is someone who kno
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by thirdstation 16y ago
"You are out of your mind. Their site flat out does not work with the default behavior of most modern browsers" I think you are missing the fleitz's point. From his post: "It ok for Tazo to have a crappy landing page" They are omnipresent i
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by thirdstation 16y ago
You don't have to tell them it's your idea. Or just say you're looking for negative feedback. People like telling you why something won't work too. Even if you lie and say it's your brother's idea, how many strangers will believe you? It's
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by thirdstation 16y ago
"I hope you'll forgive me for having a devious side to me, but I intended for nothing but good to come out of this ..." People don't like being duped, even if it's for their own good. You're likely to get more "f--k you's" than "thank you'
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by thirdstation 16y ago
One approach to this problem is called the Handle System. http://www.handle.net/ It's like DNS except individual identifiers can be managed independently (imagine if example.com/foo and example.com/bar were managed by two different compan
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by thirdstation 16y ago
"Does the process of building a startup not put us squarely in the side of the employer?" I guess that depends on your motivation. Being your own boss is one reason to launch a startup. But, being a boss doesn't give you the right to impos
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by thirdstation 16y ago
Would it be fair to say a 90% answer at a company like Google would be considered a 10% answer everywhere else?
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by thirdstation 16y ago
It's unlikely the article's author has ever worked at a scale close to Google's. Without exposure to that world, and the problems you encounter, it would be difficult to give a satisfactory answer. After discovering rsync wouldn't work I w
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by thirdstation 16y ago
clutterbin.com Think about what you're doing for people and maybe you'll get more ideas. You're helping people by making it easy to clean up their unwanted clutter and then magically, they get money and peace of mind because they're not sur
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by thirdstation 16y ago
Ask your school to help you find an internship. You'll probably hear this a lot but, you should build something to show potential employers. It will also raise your confidence so you consider yourself better than mildly capable. Network a l
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by thirdstation 16y ago
I did a similar thing when I was your your age. Try to get a programming job in the industry you worked in. Domain experience matters. Don't correlate your age with where you think you should be in life. When I finished grad school I subtr
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by thirdstation 16y ago
I do the same with minor exception. If the busiest time is during working hours you maybe want to avoid it if you are taking in money during that time. Another good reason for doing maintenance during working hours is that's when your netwo
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by thirdstation 16y ago
I'd argue the author didn't really sneak in. I think graduating high school seniors are held to a different standard than working adults - which the author technically was. But, the strategy is good. I did almost the same thing. I took gra
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by thirdstation 16y ago
I think the web is too young to know what is worth saving. What would historians say about my several neglected webapp domains? "Here's a web site for an idea someone had but never executed. So sad." Zeitgeist of the times maybe? Of course,
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by thirdstation 16y ago
wha??? wish i could mark as off-topic spam. come on karma!
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by thirdstation 16y ago
I've met this robot in-person :-) Aside from some minor technical difficulties it worked great. One observation though. While I was talking to the creator, via the robot, the people around me were talking really loud, like there wasn't an
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by thirdstation 16y ago
I love the quote from Ban Ki-Moon. It's generic to the extreme: "On this first World Statistics Day I encourage the international community to work with the United Nations to enable all countries to meet their statistical needs." Could also
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by thirdstation 16y ago
"Take that, NoSQL guys! I’m NoEverything!" I actually LOL'd when I read that. Which is kind of embarrassing since it's really quiet in the office today :-) Great post. I get analysis paralysis all the time when I think of new web apps. The
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by thirdstation 16y ago
It will be interesting to see how this office changes the culture of 37signals. Will a rift occur between the in-office personnel, who have lots of face-time, and the remote employees? 37signals has been a great example of how you can be su
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Violent agreement. Focusing on one thing dramatically increases your chance of success, and makes it easier for folks looking for that specific thing to identify you. Mr. Horner's site seems even more reverse than a reverse application - d
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by thirdstation 16y ago
"Sometimes professionalism goes a long way. " I didn't see anything I'd call unprofessional in his application. People with jobs often feel overly entitled to define what constitutes professionalism. (NB, I'm not addressing you personally,
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To me, it seems like he's looking more for personal fit than a specific job. On his personal site he says he wants to be a jack-of-all-trades. As one myself, I know he'll have a tough time finding a job using the traditional approach. It
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by thirdstation 16y ago
Appreciated! And on-topic IMHO. An entrepreneurial effort on the site owner's behalf.

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