vaksel

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   by vaksel 16y ago

   well I can think of a number of things why that didn't work: 1-you have to consider how effective your mailing list is. Out of those 18,000 emails...normally, how many would get opened in the past? how many would follow the links in the ema
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   by vaksel 16y ago

   not worth the time and if you have to get a lawyer...you'll end up paying more than what you can recover.
3. 633.▲
   by vaksel 16y ago

   if you've ever launched a website...you know building is a very insignificant portion of the equation...the value of digg isn't the website or the technology, it's the users...and getting those is a lot harder than most people think
4. 634.▲
   by vaksel 16y ago

   and for every one of those, there are hundreds, if not thousands, who piss their money away
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   by vaksel 16y ago

   btw, chances are, that buying a house will actually be more of a time sink and hassle, compared to an apartment.
6. 636.▲
   by vaksel 16y ago

   Chances are you are going to get sued for having mcdonalds in your domain name. switch that to sowhatcouldiget.com, add in taco bell, dominos etc...and it might make you a few hundred bucks a month
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   by vaksel 16y ago

   i think at this point we need someone to build a site that aggregates all these cofounder finding sites.
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   by vaksel 16y ago

   I wonder if they'll manage to go to the moon within 20 years.
9. 639.▲
   by vaksel 16y ago

   I think he was talking more about all the feel good reddit stories...i.e. all the money they raised for all the different charities, having that girl who got bullied get a all you can buy day at a toy store etc.
10. 640.▲
    by vaksel 16y ago

    well the hiring thing, they only had like what 4 employees?
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    angry birds shows the importance of branding. essentially it's a crash the castle type of game which are a dime a dozen...but by branding themselves they managed to get the success they've got
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    i would imagine that applies more to the entertainment content. A game released on Thursday, will get played and told to the friends about Friday thru Sunday
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    i think the reddit system of featuring one new story on the front page would be good. Show a story to a 100 users...if it doesn't get an upvote...retire it, if it does show it to another 100...if a story doesn't get 5 upvotes...retire it.
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    I think it's good to do a free trial if you have a polished product, and do the money back guarantee if you are still in the minimum viable product phase.
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    to be honest that page feels way too similar to those spam pages thrown up by domain squatters.
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    did you send the email to tips@techcrunch or directly to mike?
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    for some reason chartly gets blocked by adblock. based on that chart, it looks like you have something like 12,000 subscribers around April. btw your mouseover logo doesn't render smoothly especially Y and P letters
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    would be interesting to see what sort of traction you got with each service. i.e. did you quit when they only had 100 users, or was it more like 100,000
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    account # is way too long, I meant something that is tied to an email address
20. 650.▲
    by vaksel 16y ago

    personally I feel like the whole threat of terrorism is overblown. If they were a real threat we'd see more attacks on U.S. soil. There are a ton of soft targets like malls, subways, schools that aren't protected. Instead the only attacks o
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    you know what I don't get...is why with all the paypal stuff like this happening...why don't the banks themselves create their own paypal type service you can use your ATM card at any bank...so banks can work together...they should just cre
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    it does seem like moderators are taking a heavy handed approach. But then again, take a look at the new page and see how much crap they have to deal with. personally I think, HN needs to put some filters in place to stop newly registered sp
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    my fault...I meant it more as in if you didn't know either...which would you go with I know it's a bad comparison, but that seems to be what most people pick from...since ruby almost always is picked with RoR
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    not really, since that will put a lot of emphasis on comments, so downvoting someone would hurt them even more
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    I'm surprised you allowed blog.ww.com, since that one seems too official
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    not really, just submit like 5 techcrunch posts, and you are pretty much guaranteed 200 points, just from the people who also submit techcrunch stuff hoping to be the first. And since these end up in upvotes, you are pretty much guaranteed
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    by vaksel 16y ago

    Python
28. 658.▲
    by vaksel 16y ago

    RoR
29. 659.▲
    by vaksel 16y ago

    yes but a karma threshhold can be reached in a few weeks if not days. So it's not long enough for someone to get used to the idea that this isn't reddit
30. 660.▲
    by vaksel 16y ago

    it's probably better to just block all new users from downvoting. This way you teach the new users for 3-4 months, and they get ingrained not to go look for the downvote button every time they read a comment they disagree with.