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by timg 19y ago
I went for a Delaware C-Corp. Costed me $300 to incorporate + 30 in annual fees, so far for the first year. This was a relatively large expense for me so let's hope it was worth it.
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by timg 19y ago
I define useless feedback as people telling me that they want some obscure feature which I then implement and then, predictably, no one, not even the requester ever uses at all.
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by timg 19y ago
No. I didn't say that they don't like it and there have been no noticeable bugs. It was very well received by all of those who I heard from. The problem is that the whole "release as early as possible and get user feedback quickly" strategy
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You launched early and your users' feedback is all useless or wrong. How to get useful feedback?
4 points by timg 19y ago|18 comments
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by timg 19y ago
Wow, something that's legal in the US but not elsewhere. Don't see that too often.
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by timg 19y ago
The ease with which libraries can be used appears to be the only metric that matters in high level languages.
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by timg 20y ago
Simple: The cost of pursuing the idea outweigh the benefit, considering risk. More directly: burn money, cost of leaving present occupation.
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by timg 20y ago
Very complex topic that I don't think the author evaluated thoroughly enough. This advice sounds applicable outside of this example case though.
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by timg 20y ago
Traffic seems to be a very poor metric for comparison in this case.
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by timg 20y ago
Nah, it's just because the lisp guys smell too bad to catch their flight to the interview.
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by timg 20y ago
Hah, some of those other parts were much funnier.
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by timg 20y ago
is anything closer to a layman's pseudo-code than python?
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by timg 20y ago
Agreed for sites like reddit, digg, maybe even closer to 330 or 4am on Sunday. None of the usual, intelligent users are on at that time to be critical of your site or discredit the comments you leave. Everyone is just blindly voting. Of cou
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by timg 20y ago
This story can still be outdone though: How long until someone writes a virus that mass sends takedowns?
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by timg 20y ago
To be fair, if it wasn't social then it would hardly need to be on the net in the first place. Eg: Complex circuit analysis app - no, not on the net. Tool that helps people communicate and share knowledge - yes, on the net.
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by timg 20y ago
Was thinking the same the other day. Someone needs to slap those PR writers back in line.
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by timg 20y ago
The generic nature of the content of this solicitation should have been obvious regardless of whether they included the recipient's name.
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by timg 20y ago
Yes, skype seemed very big when I was in europe. Not so much here in the US, but still huge. Then again, it's not quite web2.0
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by timg 20y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_corporation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Corporation
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by timg 20y ago
summary: Tease investors suck the life out of startups.
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by timg 20y ago
" How can we solve this? " The real question is who would back the development of this. In startups, no one cares about solving a problem if this solution does not bring in tons of money. I was thinking about this the other day. What you ar
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by timg 20y ago
And, as yet another man has said, "there is no bad publicity"...
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by timg 20y ago
This was one of the best features of a nice little site that was called myspace. Let me rephrase this: search by zipcode does this great already.
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by timg 20y ago
timg.is.here at gmail.com
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by timg 20y ago
Don't forget to check the content policy, http://checkout.google.com/seller/content_policies.html Google's looks straight-forward, but sometimes providers have uncommon restrictions in there. eg, the "Travel packages and offers" wouldn't
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by timg 20y ago
Violating what TOS? Who would ban ssh? BTW, all of the static files are still hosted on my original web host and I was using sshfs to transfer them. So the bandwidth was really minimal.
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by timg 20y ago
I started off hosting remotely, but my extremely cheep hosting plan limited my CPU time excessively. Since I was behind a NAT, I had to do some proxying tricks through my provider to serve from my home computer: http://programming.reddit.
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by timg 20y ago
Somewhere within this plan, lies more hidden costs:)
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by timg 20y ago
I agree with Feb/March/April. Summer will give you a lot of users who will use your site more thoroughly. If they're still around by winter then you have a good chance of sustaining the growth. That's my guess.
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by timg 20y ago
Well that's an interesting approach.

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