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   by veesahni 14y ago

   not many encodings have a preference of ending with ==
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   by veesahni 14y ago

   I've had great success with honest personal emails to every new customer. It helps build trust, which, at least in my case, has been extremely valuable.
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   by veesahni 14y ago

   If you have the needed skills, it's definitely worth going for. I've been bootstrapping a small startup over the last year and it's been an amazing experience. I think the abundance of cheaply available technology also expands the scope of
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   by veesahni 14y ago

   4% seems underwhelming given regular double digit reductions from amazon
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   by veesahni 14y ago

   When targeting a general corporate audience, .com is the safe bet for no reason other than it's what they naturally expect.. I'm open to .io/.co for products with a tech savvy audience, though
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   by veesahni 14y ago

   Can I point AeroFS at the root of my NAS and have it back up everything (including permissions and userid/groupid metadata) to another physical location?
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   by veesahni 14y ago

   I like that Amazon is sharing the benefits of their massive scale with their customers. Though, by keeping their margins slim, they'll make it increasingly harder for smaller vendors to compete.
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   by veesahni 14y ago

   Take a look at apache benchmark ( http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/programs/ab.html ) which can help get a general idea of what your server can take. Generally speaking, for blog-type content that's typically served to HN, it's best to en
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   by veesahni 14y ago

   I founded SupportFu ( http://www.supportfu.com ), which is a lightweight alternative to Zendesk. We focus on being invisible to the end customer and do email support pretty well.
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    I've spent years with vim but recently started making the migration to Sublime Text
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    For Support / Help Desk, I'd like to mention my startup as a lightweight alternative: SupportFu ( http://www.supportfu.com )
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    I've gone through this dilemma as a solo founder and experimented with both (existing & new market). I ended up choosing an existing market. Some thoughts: Make sure that the market you're going into is growing and not shrinking. In a
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    Trello ( http://trello.com ) - task tracking Clicky ( http://clicky.com ) - lightweight visitor analytics Pingdom ( http://pingdom.com ) - monitoring AWS ( http://aws.amazon.com ) - infrastructure Stripe ( http://stripe.com ) - pa
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    I've been using MongoDB to "start" with for quite a while (and used AppEngine before that). Instead of using the low level mongo libraries, I use a wrapper like Mongoid to provide a high level object mapping. With MongoDB + Mongoid, the sch
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    another approach, which doesn't require modification of the rackup file: https://github.com/padrino/padrino-recipes/blob/master/plugi...
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    http://www.crunchbase.com/product/batch
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    "It's also way cheaper than AWS." 3 AWS Small instances cost under $200 / mo and come with 1.7GB of RAM each. The dotCloud pricing calculator is coming up with $700 / mo for 3 mongodb instances with 1.7GB of RAM. Obviously this isn't an app
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    A tour of the product using the product would be great :)
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    Ask HN: When do you use SQL vs NoSQL?

    1 points by veesahni 14y ago|1 comments
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    I think a $99 tablet could open access to new markets.. for example, those who don't care to replace their laptop with a tablet but wouldn't mind one sitting around in their family room and/or kitchen for quick browsing on a bigger screen t
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    iOS neither has true background apps nor a true history. When clicking a link that opens Safari (for example), the originating app only knows its shutting down and in the future may be restarted. The only decision to be made is "Save state
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    I quit my job 9 months ago with similar goals - I want to build products that people love. I want to build a company that I can be proud of. I went through a short period of excitement to a period of shock. I've since hit my groove and am n
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    Yammer CEO Predicts End of Silicon Valley(facebook.com)

    1 points by veesahni 14y ago|1 comments
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    Kim Dotcom claims to have evidence Joe Biden ordered the shutdown of Megaupload(torrentfreak.com)

    34 points by veesahni 14y ago|16 comments
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    With the feedback we received, we do plan to update the pre-signup pages to include some details on the ease of signup.
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. 1. Your customers 'submit a ticket' by sending you an email, literally. We track threads internally.. A form widget to put on your site is in the works.. 2. didn't think about that... thanks 3. You should try Suppo
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    thanks!
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback...
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    Hey Ross, looking at your video, I believe you missed setting up the forwarding address in gmail after clicking the confirmation link. If that were the case, then the email would never be forwarded by Google (and never make it into your Sup
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    by veesahni 14y ago

    Thanks - mobile support is definitely on our list but there are a "few" things that we need to get done first :)