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by timjahn 14y ago
I can't stand this either. People constantly blame the medium (TV) but in reality, it's (some of) the content that's bad, not the medium. There is plenty of good television out there. I enjoy watching certain TV more than others, for vario
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Why Jason Fried gave his company a month off(inc.com)
117 points by timjahn 14y ago|46 comments
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by timjahn 14y ago
And this is exactly why not having a ".com" domain is a big problem (in my opinion). We (Hacker news/tech/hacker/etc. folks) understand what a ".ly" domain is. Nobody in the real world does. Get a ".com" domain. Always.
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by timjahn 14y ago
I've noticed this happening to myself, too. There's something about the Amazon brand that has built up trust for me. 100% of the time, I'd rather buy a product sold and fulfilled by Amazon (BIG bonus if it's prime) then some random third p
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by timjahn 14y ago
I tested it out for the Chicagoland area to see how much saturation they have here, and did a search for a trip from the city to a NW suburb for tomorrow. 1 result came up, so I clicked, and it brought up a Craigslist page within an iFrame.
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by timjahn 14y ago
When I look at companies like SpotHero, who are trying to help people have a better (and cheaper) parking experience, I'm happy they're trying to help real people by solving real problems. When I look at companies like Makr, I simply just w
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by timjahn 14y ago
" - Starbucks will invest $25 million in Square as part of the company’s Series D financing round;" Wait, what? Is this Starbucks buying a slice of the decision making process to ensure things are generally in their favor?
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by timjahn 14y ago
If you have kids, they're fantastic (annual) gifts for mothers, grandmothers, aunts, etc.
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by timjahn 14y ago
When I was an AT&T customer (Sprint now), this is something I genuinely never understood. I constantly found myself chuckling at the AT&T commercials (which were actually funny) but always wondering why they were so good at marketi
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by timjahn 14y ago
Exactly! The way they're targeting business related processes with their business specific channels enables all sorts of possibilities in terms of automating tasks and such. LOVE it.
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by timjahn 14y ago
I think AppFog needs to figure out their branding, with regards to how AppFog and PHPfog are perceived. Is AppFog the parent company and PHPfog is a product of that company? Are they two separate brands/companies? We're using PHPfog for ou
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GiveForward Raises $2 Million For Crowd-sourced Donation Service(techcrunch.com)
1 points by timjahn 14y ago|0 comments
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by timjahn 14y ago
This is really sweet! We switched our Entrepreneurs Unpluggd hosting to WP Engine 4 months ago and haven't had a single issue since. Our previous host was atrocious with insecure support, consistent downtime, and an overall unprofessional
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by timjahn 14y ago
I definitely ran into clients like this more than few times when I did freelance development. I even once had a small restaurant owner ask for $750 back (after work had been performed) because his refrigerator broke and he needed money for
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by timjahn 14y ago
It's very meta. Guy lies to various media outlets and feeds them bogus stories to prove that various media outlets will publish anything that will get them more pageviews/readers/circulation/whatever, regardless of the quality of the story.
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by timjahn 14y ago
The reviews at the bottom are priceless.
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by timjahn 14y ago
There are plenty of family and/or medical related reasons to spend a large amount of time doing work for somebody else. Because you don't doesn't mean it's wrong, stupid, or pointless.
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HuffPost Prepares for Video Network Launch(google.com)
1 points by timjahn 14y ago|0 comments
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by timjahn 14y ago
Amen. (I'm in this position.)
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by timjahn 14y ago
What type of clients are you looking for? Are you looking for more 6-month contracts with agencies, or one-time projects helping entrepreneurs build beta versions of their ideas? I ask because we're working on matchist.com (launching at th
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by timjahn 14y ago
"but the real acceleration will usually be found by networking with your customers and users instead". Amen. Regardless of whether or not your startup is participating in an accelerator/incubator, you need to be networking constantly and a
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by timjahn 14y ago
This is timely for me as we get ready to launch matchist.com in the next few months. Gonna bookmark this. Thanks for the great tips!
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by timjahn 14y ago
"Next, you start bidding for work" Other than FreelanceSwitch and Craigslist, which sites do you use? I'm genuinely curious, as when we launch matchist.com at the end of the summer, I'm hoping it's on the list of places you can find qualit
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by timjahn 14y ago
An example of how I still have to do the work is Facebook. In your example, you need the Facebook ID to get the avatar. You can do that already using a simple URL from Facebook, just plugging in the ID in the appropriate spot (which is ho
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by timjahn 14y ago
"I think if your app is based solely on email addresses now, Gravatar will serve you well." Not necessarily. We're using emails as the identifier for matchist.com but based on some initial research (you can easily determine if an email has
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by timjahn 14y ago
This hits home for me, as I just recently built a super simple avatar system for our MVP of matchist.com. I wish there was a simple "plug it in" library that handled my user avatar functionality, letting users choose between Gravatar, Face
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by timjahn 14y ago
Always amazes me when I read an article online that's 100% about a website and there's no link to said website found in the article.
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How do you vet for quality?
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by timjahn 14y ago
This was submitted on another thread, but this one seems to be getting more traction, so I'm reposting my comment here to add to this discussion: "The app is set up so you can easily cross-post your item on Craigslist, too." I find that sta
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by timjahn 14y ago
"The app is set up so you can easily cross-post your item on Craigslist, too." I find that statement extremely interesting. The problem with apps like this is they're only as good the volume of people that use them. YardSale sounds to me

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