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by tkiley 18y ago
Good points. Getting a demo video up on the homepage is a priority at this point; for orientation after sign-up, we're thinking about doing a quick overlay/popup that explains how to edit and add content. I don't think it should take more t
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by tkiley 18y ago
Shamiq, We're planning to put up an "about" page (as well as a more extended explanation of features) as soon as our designer can get it all put together visually. Should be sometime later this week. In the meantime, check out the blog: ht
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by tkiley 18y ago
Viviti, our beloved new CMS/sitebuilder, has been under development for several years now. The CMS market is crowded, but we're going for a level of simplicity and flexibility that hasn't been achieved by any of the solutions out there righ
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Announcing Viviti: Build websites with no code and no hassle (we hope!)(viviti.com)
64 points by tkiley 18y ago|58 comments
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by tkiley 19y ago
What about outsourcing graphic design? I can code everything my startup needs, but we don't have a good graphic designer. I suspect that we could go a long way with a few mockups from a great designer. Of course, good designers tend to be e
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by tkiley 19y ago
The main practical benefit of object wrapping (ActiveRecord in particular) is that it gives you a more structured way to lay out the model-related logic for your app. Callbacks, model validations, and associations in particular allow you to
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by tkiley 19y ago
It's great to hear that! Sometimes, it seems like the products that succeed in a free market are not necessarily the products that will make consumers happiest in the long run. For instance: Facebook has a ludicrously high valuation, but is
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Ask news.YC: Is your startup making the world a better place?
23 points by tkiley 19y ago|21 comments
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by tkiley 19y ago
Do you care to offer better? This question isn't really aimed at people who can afford to live in cardboard boxes while working on the Next Big Thing. Some of us need a relatively high baseline level of stability while we pursue chaotic bus
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by tkiley 19y ago
Waiting tables seems like a great one -- not a lot of "job security", but plenty of demand, so it should be fairly easy to match your amount of work to the amount of money you need to get back to work on more interesting things. Firefightin
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by tkiley 19y ago
So far, the best one I've been able to come up with is firefighting. It provides enough money to survive, and requires 10 days of work per month (and my firefighter friend tells me station life is often quiet enough that you can often work
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Ask news.YC: Good "day jobs" for hackers?
14 points by tkiley 19y ago|18 comments
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by tkiley 19y ago
Interesting. I'm starting to see a lot of business-related terms that mean different things to different people in different fields (for instance, "securities" means "bonds" to a tax accountant, but "stocks+bonds+etc" to a financier). I'll
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by tkiley 19y ago
There is a distinction between competitors and alternatives; "do nothing" is the latter. I'm not foolish enough to think there are no alternatives, but I do believe there are no competitors to my service right now.
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by tkiley 19y ago
White label would be much easier, but that's shifting all the marketing effort (and most of the reward) to the hospital, which I'm not ready to do. Building a new unified brand is difficult, but I think it will be best for the company (and
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by tkiley 19y ago
You are 100% correct, the domain name is horrid. ;-) It was chosen at the insistence of the hospital; eventually, we want to promote the service nationally at www.inquicker.com. Is that one any better? :p
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by tkiley 19y ago
Great idea. I've done some limited research, and it seems that this site would appeal very well to people who have some type of infection that has worsened over a period of days. I've spent some dollars on adwords for "fever" and related te
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by tkiley 19y ago
You're right -- the ER staff love the service, because patients are in a noticably better mood when they haven't been cooling their heels in the waiting room for 3 hours. The hospital's web site has a link to us on its front page, but this
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by tkiley 19y ago
Users of this service aren't allowed to "get ahead of" anyone. This service only allows people to wait at home rather than waiting in the ER; the wait time is still the same, it's only a bit more comfortable. Thanks for your input. ;-)
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by tkiley 19y ago
Good point. We've had to do some interesting data gymnastics to satisfy the lawyers at our first hospital, and the bigger hospitals we've talked with seem even more concerned. I think it needs to be a compelling service from a financial per
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by tkiley 19y ago
Good idea, I'll give that a whirl. PG and others tend to talk a lot about how PR firms and offline marketing are irrelevant to online startups -- I think this may be one particular instance where that's not true. In a way, this is a very we
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Ask YC: Profit: $25/user. Customers: satisfied. Competitors: none. Target market: huge. But...
30 points by tkiley 19y ago|56 comments
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Idea: Mechanical Turk for page usability testing?
2 points by tkiley 19y ago|1 comments
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by tkiley 19y ago
Meetro always appeared to be a wannabe business built around a single feature missing in other IM networks -- if they ever gain any traction, the primary networks will just implement Meetro's functionality. Glad to see they're branching out
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by tkiley 19y ago
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from practice. Practice entails making bad decisions. ;-) I've always been hesitant to make decisions when I didn't have all the information. My current approach is to gather a reasonabl