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by tworats 16y ago
I'm shocked nobody's recommended Douglas Crockford's ... well ... everything: http://javascript.crockford.com/ Watch the "Javascript: The Good Parts" presentation: http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/06/08/video-crockford-goodstuff... Also che
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by tworats 16y ago
Not to hijack the thread but I also ran across http://www.opengateway.net/ , an installable (as opposed to SaaS) recurring billing solution. Was wondering if anyone had tried it or had feedback.
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by tworats 16y ago
Doesn't mention dunning specifically but does say "automatic emails which are sent during specific events such as a new charge, new recurring charge, expiration, cancellation, upcoming expiration, upcoming charge, etc." .
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by tworats 16y ago
Clickable link: http://www.opengateway.net/
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Ask HN: OpenGateway for recurring billing instead of Chargify/Recurly/Spreedly?
9 points by tworats 16y ago|8 comments
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by tworats 16y ago
Fair enough, but either option is going to be much more than you'd get in a basic VPS.
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by tworats 16y ago
I wouldn't necessarily agree with renting as long as you can. You can buy a very cheap server that's much more capable than a cheap VPS server. Here are some decent servers for about $300; you can often find good servers for $150: http://w
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by tworats 16y ago
> they'll be spending a lot of money on airline tickets to warm and sunny places trying to get merchant accounts from banks The merchants bring their own merchant accounts. Chargify doesn't give you a merchant account; they use the one
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by tworats 16y ago
Here's the feedback I just submitted to Chargify: While I entirely understand the need to charge and make money, I find the sudden and significant change in pricing jarring. Many people just went from 0 to $1200 per year. I'm guessing the c
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by tworats 16y ago
Thanks for the love :-) Xpenser for Business is the commercial version of the product for businesses, and it's bringing in a good bit of revenue. At the moment it's by request/invite only, but will be generally available soon. Anyone intere
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by tworats 16y ago
http://xpenser.com/ - Time and Expense tracking via voice/email/sms/IM/twitter/iPhone/Android/... Made by a small team, doing well.
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by tworats 16y ago
$3 per user per month is expensive. Looking at the price SaaS offerings, they're generally in the $5-$15 per user per month range, so $3/month is a good chunk of change. It's even worse for advertising based services, who generally make far
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by tworats 16y ago
FWIW I've personally dealt with Arrington on a less than pleasant occasion, and despite things not going my way I have to say he acted with integrity and passion, and kept the interests of the entrepreneur in mind the whole time. He won my
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by tworats 16y ago
I don't think they've released the scraper yet, have they? They said they would, but it wasn't part of the release last I checked. One idea might be to have a consortium of startups interested in the topic use and maintain Wesabe's scrapers
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by tworats 16y ago
Companies should not be making offers for positions they cannot afford, regardless of what's going on at the company. If the money is not in the bank they shouldn't be making the offer. This is serious stuff; they're playing with people's l
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by tworats 16y ago
You should absolutely let it be known who this company is. If you're uncomfortable do it anonymously. Rescinding an offer after a candidate has quit an existing job is shameful and anyone doing it should be outed for all potential candidate
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by tworats 16y ago
Crunchbase is quite useful and the APIs are nice (although sometimes flaky), but it only covers a small subset of the companies out there. I was looking for something more general - eg. find all auto-repair shops within 50 miles of location
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Ask HN: APIs for finding company information?
2 points by tworats 16y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Best way to research companies?
1 points by tworats 16y ago|0 comments
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by tworats 16y ago
Sponsorships are a fair bit of work to setup (from a sales perspective) but result in higher revenue. Setup the widget so it gets deeply skinned with the sponsor's branding. Check out pandora.com for a nice implementation - the whole site t
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by tworats 16y ago
Goal is, not surprisingly, largest number of paying customers.
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by tworats 16y ago
Yes, it will be freemium, so easy to signup without a credit card for the free product.
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by tworats 16y ago
Agreed, I'm not too worried about people signing up for trails multiple times. The service becomes more useful with more usage, so multiple signups is probably not an issue.
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Ask HN: Ask for credit card before or after free trial?
9 points by tworats 16y ago|18 comments
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Ask HN: Tool for creating words-follow-vocals style presentation?
1 points by tworats 16y ago|0 comments
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Amazon CTO: Quite a few business running on EC2 are larger than Amazon.com(quora.com)
3 points by tworats 16y ago|0 comments
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by tworats 16y ago
You might want to check out http://xpenser.com/ . It does a great job with capturing and reporting on your expenses, but doesn't do the planning part (how long can I live off my current net worth). It's free, and lets you capture expenses
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by tworats 16y ago
Analysts are like scouts for VC firms - they're assigned or decide on a vertical, then talk to as many companies as they can in that vertical. If the analyst likes what he hears you may get a shot at the partners who actually make decisions
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by tworats 16y ago
I wonder what the real-world failure/corruption rates are on ECC vs. non-ECC RAM. Does anyone know of any studies? I'd like to know if the differences are practical or theoretical.
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by tworats 16y ago
thanks for the detailed response lsc, very helpful. Either there's something different about the cost structure there or the competition is forcing them into offering below cost? I don't know. I remember a couple of years back when 1&1

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