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by tstegart 18y ago
I'm down for that as well. It could be the rotating borough meet-up. The Beer Garden in Queens, a cafe in Manhattan, Brooklyn or the Bronx. Um... whatever is in Staten Island.
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by tstegart 18y ago
Thats true. It was not a comment about this article, it was a joke about many articles appearing in a short time frame all disagreeing with PG in some way or another. All the responses seem to have come out at once. Conversations are good,
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by tstegart 18y ago
Maybe its not all about money, but its definitely more about money. Coming from Wisconsin and working in Manhattan, I find my midwestern frugalness is completely alien to people. Time is money here, there is no doubt about it. Walking three
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by tstegart 18y ago
You know I was cleaning this weekend and apparently I missed the start of "Put the smack-down on PG" week. Any way I can catch up by Friday? Suggestions PG? I have a tentative work entitled "Why PG is wrong about the color of the HN menubar
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by tstegart 18y ago
Yeah, I'm done here. I thought to bring some logic to the table, but with this sentence "Painters, the critic very credibly notes, also get laid more than hackers," its clear that logic will have no part of it. What that sentence has to do
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by tstegart 18y ago
I can see why PG is getting a little out of sorts. You're really missing the point. And so does the critic. Its not about deconstructing the simile to see if its valid. Who really cares if hackers are like painters? That's why the critic ha
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by tstegart 18y ago
Seriously, did you two just spend all this time discussing a simile? Can a simile even be wrong if one thing is right? I'm with PG on this one, if he wants to think hackers are like painters then he can. If someone wants to write that they
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by tstegart 18y ago
It has a nice design. I would suggest two things. One, a way to pause the tour. I couldn't find it. Two, a case study, showing how somebody used your product. Testimonials are also great, and its another way to connect to a potential custom
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by tstegart 18y ago
What's with the hating on ideas? Ideas do matter. Sure, anyone could have had the idea of a photo sharing site, but someone had the idea to do it that way. Someone had the idea to make it look and work the way it does. Ideas are the driver
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by tstegart 18y ago
What would you say changing your links from using underscores to hyphens would be? Is that gaming the system, or making a better website? I mean, from a programming perspective, it doesn't sound like it makes much difference, but from an SE
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by tstegart 18y ago
but there's SEO, and then there's slimy SEO. Too many times people get them confused. There are a lot of smart things to do to earn a higher ranking just by changing the way your site's programming works, and none of them involve link buyin
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by tstegart 18y ago
I think hackers hate SEO because someone can have a crappy site which outranks the hacker's awesome, perfectly programmed site. And thats irritating. But like some people mentioned, there are a lot of SEO tips that people should be aware of
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by tstegart 18y ago
haha, this is great. Not that I'm doing to move my super-secret chocolate smuggling ring over to it or anything, but you know, when I need to send my ATM pin or something to someone it should be ok.
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by tstegart 18y ago
Read "The Game" and then "The Mystery Method." Seriously. And I think its not too much to say that there are side benefits besides becoming less shy after reading them.
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by tstegart 18y ago
I second. If you're going to pay for an MBA, do it in person.
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by tstegart 18y ago
Oh man that thread is a riot! Half of it I don't understand and the other half is like watching a nerd version of Ultimate Fighting Championship, only with pocket protectors. Do we still get threads with over 150 comments anymore? There sho
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by tstegart 18y ago
I don't place much value in web 2.0 marketing strategies. There is a difference between the user who would come to your site and stay and use it and the user who would just come in response to a campaign. You need to make sure your groundwo
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by tstegart 18y ago
The content will definitely be the product. In this case, the content relies on a second (and third and fourth) start-up, so you're right, the work I need to do involves starting another business, which will provide content for the first. I
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by tstegart 18y ago
One reason could be the revenue model, its hard to expand without recurring revenue streams. Many places, like Robert-Half, don't have coders on staff, so there's no capital expenditures when the market is slow. A large firm would still hav
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Ask HN: What do you think of my first start-up?(theopenentrepreneur.com)
1 points by tstegart 18y ago|2 comments
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by tstegart 18y ago
The work is good. The interface isn't very polished, but it sounds like you haven't really worked on it yet, so I assume you'll polish it up later. On the copyright side, there have been issues in the past ( http://news.cnet.com/Lyrics-site
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by tstegart 18y ago
I agree, having the first is valuable, but also getting the last one before they're never made again is also valuable. Maybe the middle ones should be $1, and the ends cost more.
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by tstegart 18y ago
Are we supposed to comment on the coding or the business model? Not bad for four weeks coding. Might have a little trouble making money with the copyright issues involved.
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by tstegart 18y ago
You've done a lot of work, so don't think its worthless just because someone else jumped in. But you need to strategize and think about all the ways this will affect you. What was your monetization strategy in the first place? You may need
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by tstegart 18y ago
If there were no sales, how was he getting paid? I'm assuming there is also a risk management/compensation moral to this story as well. You paid someone a commission before a customer had written a check. If the customer later changes their
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by tstegart 18y ago
Launch tip: if you're posting during work hours with a URL that suggests NSFW, put that its a t-shirt site and its safe for work in your title or post. I bet you lost a ton of people who looked at the URL and moved on because they were unsu
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by tstegart 18y ago
Yeah, while the counter is great, it could use a sentence or two more of description. Keep the counter, add a fun sentence about why its there, not just what it does.
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by tstegart 18y ago
I love the part about the phone call. That's the sort of thing you can look back on and laugh, but at the time it probably seemed like a huge deal. At least its something you can learn from next time, and thats a good thing.
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by tstegart 18y ago
I would look into Amazon Webstore as well, just to see if it meets your needs. It is less customizable in terms of changing the code, but it definitely encourages purchases, which Amazon has down pretty good, and you can also probably get a
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by tstegart 18y ago
Same here. Had no problems with them.

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