whyleyc

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   by whyleyc 18y ago

   Just out of interest why did you decide not to push the account details change ?
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   by whyleyc 18y ago

   Especially if it was personal stuff ...
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   by whyleyc 18y ago

   I think it's a shot across the bows of any other companies thinking of doing likewise (which would be a direct hit on FT revenue).
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   by whyleyc 18y ago

   I'm interested to know if HN can think of a technical solution to this problem ? (one that must be common to many sites). It seems you could filter access based on IP address but that could be problematic if users were all coming out of the
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   FT.com sues company for sharing single subscription account(guardian.co.uk)

   13 points by whyleyc 18y ago|29 comments
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   by whyleyc 18y ago

   You can bypass the registration and view the article directly here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29whitehouse.h...
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   by whyleyc 18y ago

   I wonder if Chad and Steve from YouTube had a business plan, or Craig Newmark, or Steve Jobs ? Don't write a business plan. Instead spend the time you would have spent on the plan putting together a kickass demo, or working on the product.
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   by whyleyc 18y ago

   Looks like they had an admin update panel that was "secured" through obfuscation: http://img.skitch.com/20090106-p2dughwb2yujxdutfh55ixxajn.pn...
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   by whyleyc 18y ago

   One thing we did on launch to put some traffic through the system was to setup a small budget on Google Adwords and drive some targetted traffic to the site. This was very helpful in: (a) Working bugs out of the system (b) Giving us an idea
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    Outrageous success - genius or hard work ? Malcolm Gladwell analyses.(guardian.co.uk)

    12 points by whyleyc 18y ago|7 comments
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    Hacking the London Underground(news.bbc.co.uk)

    3 points by whyleyc 18y ago|0 comments
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    UK "hacker" to be extradited for biggest military hack ever(news.bbc.co.uk)

    1 points by whyleyc 18y ago|0 comments
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    by whyleyc 18y ago

    Arc Angel ?
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    by whyleyc 18y ago

    Actually IBM has "Blue Cloud" (it even made Techcrunch ! see http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/11/15/ibms-blue-cloud-is-web-... ) But you're right it's a very high-end offering, so you're not gonna' see it mentioned much in the bootstrapped s
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    by whyleyc 18y ago

    +1 for PayPal and IPN, it's relatively easy to setup - no waiting around to get a merchant account etc. However we do have some reservations about abandonment rate through PayPal - a lot of users are put off by having to signup for an accou
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    Ask HN: What hardware do you use to run your load balancer ?

    2 points by whyleyc 18y ago|2 comments
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    by whyleyc 18y ago

    Offer a compelling free service that reels users in and then sell added-extras in the subscription account that they can't live without - aka the "freemium" model. This is what 37Signals do so well, we operate a similar model at Zamzar and
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    by whyleyc 18y ago

    Thanks - I got a basic Nginx config up and running on EC2 within a couple of hours. I'm intrigued by the idea of using it in combination with HAProxy though, so wondered if you didn't mind a few follow-up questions ? Essentially: - Do you r
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    by whyleyc 18y ago

    http only - we're using Apache at the backend.
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    Ask HN: What load balancing software do you use ?

    47 points by whyleyc 18y ago|37 comments
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    by whyleyc 19y ago

    I'll be there with my co-founder (and brother) Mike representing Zamzar. We're flying out on Thursday, staying until Sunday - looking foward to it. Come say hi if you see us at startup school (we're keen to network with more Brits). We look
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    by whyleyc 19y ago

    Nice site. One question - How do you handle the auto-creation of user-specified subdomains ? (I ask as I'd like to do something similar) Do you run your own DNS or do you update records at your DNS provider ? (If the latter how do you autom
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    by whyleyc 19y ago

    I really like the colour scheme of the new homepage/site, but have a few observations: (1) It's not immediately obvious to me what Fuzzwich is and why I should use it - I really think you could benefit from a prominently positioned tagline
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    by whyleyc 19y ago

    Yes - SPOF on some hardware means I'd like to be able to make DNS edits on the fly to redirect users to a status page in the event of a problem.
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    Ask YC: What DNS provider do you use ?

    10 points by whyleyc 19y ago|22 comments
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    by whyleyc 19y ago

    Actually you can. See: https://www.paypalobjects.com/WEBSCR-500-20080214-1/en_US/pd... <snip>"You can let your subscribers change the name, number, regular terms, or currency of an existing subscription without canceling it and re
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    by whyleyc 19y ago

    I'm one of the co-founder's of Zamzar which has been live for about a year now. ( http://www.zamzar.com ) I'm based in Southampton and interested in the meetup that the Songkick guys are mooting - you could always post the details on Hacker
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    by whyleyc 19y ago

    Yep - a real world example of what pg was talking about at http://paulgraham.com/die.html . If you have the idea the trick is to hang in there long enough with it to monetize. I think having a good co-founder can help during the crisis poi
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    Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm(news.bbc.co.uk)

    18 points by whyleyc 19y ago|7 comments
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    by whyleyc 19y ago

    Looks like the jobs page is not picking up your stylesheet ? I see borders round the logo and the major links have default HTML formatting.