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by user24 15y ago
+1 on Rob Walling's book. It contains brilliant advice in an almost formulaic fashion for researching, building and launching a software product for sale online.
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by user24 15y ago
1500-2000 visits per day. http://www.puremango.co.uk . I rank highly for some good terms like "hacking facebook" and "how to hack", but my long tail is also very long.
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by user24 15y ago
Just wait till you find http://edcforums.com - dedicated to the things you carry on your keys, more or less.
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by user24 15y ago
Confirmed. I make $100 per month with this exact formula on my blog, which I update about once every 2 months.
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by user24 15y ago
You've hinted about the difficulties with affiliates before[1], can you elaborate on this? I'm starting an affiliate-supported business as a spare-time project and would love your thoughts. [1] "Don’t look like an affiliate. Google is very
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by user24 15y ago
With certain audiences, forums are still popular and profitable. For example http://candlepowerforums.com is still the place to go for advice on flashlights, and has a thriving marketplace and following.
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by user24 15y ago
I guess it's not related to whether google were wrong to cut off your adwords account or not, but I can't get past the part where you used a free $100 coupon to buy adwords to get referral credit on dropbox instead of paying dropbox for a p
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by user24 15y ago
Nice. Reminds me of a similar project which I've discussed here: http://www.puremango.co.uk/2011/03/genetic-algorithm-example...
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by user24 15y ago
Reminds me of the classic Programmer Competency Matrix: http://www.indiangeek.net/wp-content/uploads/Programmer%20co...
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by user24 15y ago
it happened to myspace.
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by user24 15y ago
The domain was registered 2 days ago, so great job in launching early. You really need a strategy to keep people coming, but all I can say is good luck, have an upvote.
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Flail Fast - turning common startup wisdom on its head(flailfast.com)
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by user24 15y ago
I call BS, if FB turns into a spam-filled promotional wasteland then everyone will leave, and they're too smart not to know this. They'll find an innovative way to monetise users obliquely. I'm betting on search.
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by user24 15y ago
compare: $ telnet www.example.com 80 Trying 192.0.43.10... Connected to www.example.com. Escape character is '^]'. GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: www.example.com HTTP/1.0 302 Found Location: http://www.iana.org/
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by user24 15y ago
Encouraging search will lead to more revenue. Facebook's problem has always been that they are trying to convert passive users into active ones. When you google for "watches", it makes sense to show you ads for watches; you've expressed you
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by user24 15y ago
this is the first time I've seen someone even mention 'karma' on HN. It used to be a complete non-issue. @pg - can we just remove the karma score? People should contribute because they feel they have something to add to the community, not t
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by user24 15y ago
Indeed, this quote scared me: > Abta, which represents travel companies in the UK, said holidaymakers need to learn to be ultra-cautious when it comes to talking about forthcoming trips no, we shouldn't 'need to learn to be ultra-cautio
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by user24 15y ago
My strategy is to ignore what the domain is worth and name a figure out of the blue, then imagine selling it for that. If I feel resentful then it's too low, if I'm super excited about selling it, then it's too high. Basically, price it at
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by user24 15y ago
can a moderator remove the "coding horror" prefix from the headline? It adds nothing but brand.
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by user24 15y ago
yes they do. It's true that, if you want a list of "what to do next" they are not good. But if you want a list of "what I have to do", unprioritised, subject to change, there's little can beat just writing it down with a checkbox next to it
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by user24 15y ago
> The headline is a bit sensational, over simplified, and speculative and the YC article header is in desperate need of a question mark on the end. edit: thanks mods :)
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by user24 15y ago
well done on launching, If you've not launched anything before, be warned that your traffic is going to drop like a stone now. What are your plans to keep the traffic going?
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by user24 15y ago
You're right. I thought that was the LED but it's not. Well now, what am I going to do with this tin foil hat I just made?
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by user24 15y ago
I'll tell you what else seems to always be listening - the camera on the MacBook Pro, even when the little green light is off. Cover the camera with your finger or shine a flashlight/mobile phone screen into it, watch the keyboard lights re
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by user24 15y ago
but that's obviously an edge case rather than something you'd optimise for in the system.
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by user24 15y ago
I found workcaptcha's profile[1], and I found them on GetAFreelancer.com [GAF] quotes page[2]: "This company help many poor company. I am received big position for gaf help so pls maintain gaf term & condition. I am really Love gaf &#38
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by user24 15y ago
I can no longer edit my post, but here's an interesting source: "Spammers Pay Others to Answer Security Tests"[1] choice quotes: "spammers are paying people in India, Bangladesh, China and other developing countries to tackle ... captchas"
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by user24 15y ago
When I wrote a captcha script years ago, I included in the image the text: "Please only enter the text if you're on foobar.com", to deter people from relaying the image to a free porn site and getting horny teenagers to enter the captcha in
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by user24 15y ago
But the captcha is randomly distorted afresh each time, so each captcha image will never have been seen before. You'll never get an exact hash match unless you're looking at an extremely naive implementation.
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by user24 15y ago
> I'd be surprised if every image submitted isn't going through an automated solver first with only the < 95% confidence ones being sent to a human. Yes, that's how I'd do it too, but I don't know if they're that sophisticated yet (

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