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Review my web app, a cli script repository | RiderOfGiraffes: How is this related to commandlinefu?http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browsehttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=469656http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=467692 |
Which company do you wish had a developer API? | herval: My Bank. Actually any bank outside USA at all!! |
Review my Startup, MotoListr.com | eli_s: Looks good to me - from what I can tell bike riders seem to be pretty tight bunch so if you get a few on board they'll probably recommend you to their friends.On this page: http://motolistr.com/listing/316The 'Email Seller' box is after the fold. This is the most important part of your page it needs to be right at the top next to the image of the bike.Your design would probably work well with a fluid layout too. It takes a lot more work but if you do it right then you will get a better experience for small and large screen sizes. |
What version of BlackBerry JDE to use? | rdrimmie: 4.2 is the oldest worth developing for at this point, the vast majority of devices support it. My impression is that most developers currently use 4.5 (because the IDE tools are improved), then go back and compile for previous versions.The JDE is on its last legs, even internally RIM is switching to the Eclipse plug-ins they make available.RIM does have the numbers you need, but they're only available to Alliance developer partners, who are under NDA. From what I've heard (which is guaranteed to be somewhat inaccurate) more than 85% of devices are on 4.2 or greater, with the majority being on 4.5, which finally includes facilities for updating the OS over the air. |
Good all-round CS book | pclark: The Computer and the Brain, by John von NeumannIntroduction to Algorithms, by Thomas H. CormenThe Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth [naturally!]Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines, by Marvin L. MinskyGodel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter |
Good all-round CS book | seshagiric: "Code" by Charles Petzold |
Good all-round CS book | tsetse-fly: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=297289http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=392889http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=315040http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348019http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=290128http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=135185http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45082http://searchyc.comhttp://www.google.com/search?q=sicp |
Which company do you wish had a developer API? | al_: Gas stations, supermakets |
How do you find work? | ejs: I often think it would be beneficial if HN had some directory that people could list their skills if they are willing to freelance.Often times I would like to work with someone more skilled in UI and design and would rather work with someone who posted on here regularly. Seems like it would be less risky then say any of the elance/ rent a coder type deals.I have thought it would be nice if there was a site devoted more to building a business relationship then just low-ball pricing to get projects done. Maybe I should just build one, but getting enough people to make it worthwhile would be the difficult part. |
Good all-round CS book | petercooper: Wikipedia is an amazing resource for computer science stuff, I've found. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm .. you can get lost in there for ages. Just make sure you take notes and try to apply what you learn.Also: http://delicious.com/popular/compsciAlso: http://academicearth.org/subjects/computer-science (this one is a goldmine) |
Which company do you wish had a developer API? | bemmu: Ad networks should have a standard way for me to query what my CPM was for yesterday, so that I can make an intelligent decision about which ads to show tomorrow. Of course that might not be wise for them to provide... |
How do you find work? | edw519: Your existing customers are your most easily converted prospects. Surely, there's something else they need, right? |
How do you find work? | subbu: Create a profile on LinkedIn (if you don't have one already) and subscribe to 'Ruby on Rails' and other specific groups. I have seen quite a few contracts (both full-time and part-time) on 'Ruby on Rails' group. May you will find some luck there. Good luck. |
How do you find work? | known: I suggest you publish a really useful and re-usable .Net/J2EE/Android/FLOSS (for e.g. memcached) code on your website. |
Which company do you wish had a developer API? | kubrick: Paypal could use one. |
How do you find work? | albertcardona: I made a website for a tiny open source project of mine, that addressed image segmentation and 3D visualization of meshes.I added a link to that web page: "Hire me". And I got hired at a very nice research institute for an intership. Later I became group leader there.Bottom line: have something to show, and don't be shy about it. |
Review my web app, a cli script repository | karim: I think the design could be better. Right now, it looks like one of those typosquatting website. |
Good all-round CS book | mjgoins: To get the most useful info for the fewest number of pages/words, I recommend 'The Little Schemer' by Friedman and Felleisen.Although it's not recommended if you don't have a flexible sense of humor. |
Which company do you wish had a developer API? | Stubbs: The UK government. There's so much information held in their records that would be great to get at through an API.Can I include all the bodies funded by the government, like the Royal Mail (for their postcode db), Ordnance Survey (for their map data) to name a couple. They're funded by our taxes, so why not allow free access to it? |
Easiest video embedding service (besides YouTube) | aneesh: Can't you make your video private on YouTube (http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en...), then embed it on your site? |
Easiest video embedding service (besides YouTube) | timf: Some of the options are 'delve', 'flowplayer' and 'brightcove'. But you're going to have to pay I think.cf. here about licensing fees on the codecshttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=451264I've seen this free one recommended but it's not for commercial use:http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/jw-flv-player/ |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | aristus: I would not pay, as a matter of pride and taste. I have a strong dislike for influence peddlers.Instead, ask your friends to review it on Apple's site. Promote it yourself. Advertise on Google and set the ads to show on the same sites you are talking about. |
Easiest video embedding service (besides YouTube) | menloparkbum: Flowplayer is good. It's $95. If you don't want to pay and host your own player, Vimeo is nicer looking than Youtube.http://flowplayer.org/index.html |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | bprater: There is no standard anything anymore -- everyone is playing with business models left-and-right. As long as they clearly tell end-users how reviews are done, they could be using monkeys to write the reviews on papyrus.Can you ask them what kind of traffic they are bringing in -- and how much of the traffic leaves the site on the way to iTunes? If they can answer that question for you (and providing proof would be a bonus!), it would be an easier question to answer.(I'd apply a formula like: 50 visitors on average go thru to iTunes after reading a link. 10% buy. That's 5 buyers. If your app is $10, you end up breaking even.) |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | jonknee: You should pull a Dreamhost and out this site. They are dishonest and should be called out.http://blog.dreamhost.com/2006/05/04/web-hostings-dirty-laun... |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | jasonlbaptiste: a) is it disclosed? If it's disclosed as a sort of paid advertisement, then it's okay. It's more of an ad, than a review.
b) what's their traffic? See if there really is a "backlog of apps to review".
c) Be concerned that they will only publish it if it's a positive review. That means they're only doing this if it's favorable.
d) What other apps are there? If it's third rate apps that look like they can only get a positive review if paid, then id abandon it.Everyone is going to have their own opinion on this. No one is right or wrong, this is just my point of view. I hope it helps. |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | tptacek: You appear to lack the business sense to point us to your iPhone app with this question. ;) |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | brandnewlow: Hell no don't pay. That's crap, for all the reasons you mentioned.How many blogs have you sent your info to? 10? You should be sending it to 100.I publish a tech blog. We're small but publish on Google News. Hit us up. Can't guarantee we'll review it. If we do and it stinks we'll say so. If we do and it's awesome, we'll say so. |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | silencio: don't do it. we (colloquy, the irc client) submitted promo codes and requests to review to multiple people and review sites, and there was only one website who did exactly what you state. none of the rest wanted payment of any sort (ars technica, tuaw, daring fireball, etc.) and were all too happy to mention and review the app.We've gotten more money from iTunes affiliate links to the application on our page (http://mobile.colloquy.info) than in sales from most of the iPhone-specific review sites that we could see. We've also probably made more sales promoting ourselves and providing support on Twitter.(Also, for what it's worth this site in question seems to be super slow if you don't pay up $50 or pay for advertising, it's been a little over two weeks with nothing whatsoever. the promo code we sent will probably expire before they review, heh.) |
Review my web app, a cli script repository | pclark: disable this: A password will be e-mailed to you.make the domain not look like a typosquatting site. Eg, graphics.add ruby syntax ;) |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | vaksel: Throw up a quick blog post talking about this trend for apps. In the post make sure to talk about your app. Then promote the post on reddit/digg and let other blogs know about it.You'll get more exposure for your app than a mere blog post on a 3rd rate blog(gotta be 3rd rate if they only want $50 for a positive post). And who knows, you might get some of those big name blogs to cover your story as an example of how their particular blog is so much better than others that charge money for good stories. |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | gscott: ReviewMe.com specializes in this, they do not promise positive reviews just a review. |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | bisi: There is no right way or wrong way in business . There is only one way - The way that makes money ..If I told that I paid $50 to a review site and it brought me $5000 . Will you ask anybody if you should pay $50 to bring in $5000 ?Big Corporation pay celebrities money to give favourable reviews and endorsments all the time . Nike will only pay Tiger Woods Millions to give a good endorsement . They would be fools to give Tiger Millions to give his honest opinion . Its business .. The only way you will make money from your products or service is to get good reviews . If you are asking people for reviews and they are giving you bad reviews you will never make money .. This is part of marketing ..
Your number one goal in buisness should be to make money .. If you will lose the $50 then its not a good investment but if you will make money then thats pretty much all that matters .. THERE IS NO CRIME BEING COMMITED.
Its just business .. |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | ErrantX: If you can get more the $50 of sales from it then pay.So long as your not paying for them to give you a positive review (it's a leap of faith I guess) then it's hardly a huge misdemeanor. |
Where should I buy an SSL certificate for my site? | robertss: You can find reviews and ratings of SSL vendors at http://www.sslshopper.com/certificate-authority-reviews.html |
Would you choose Cocoa or Qt for a desktop application, and why? | jacquesm: I'm assuming you are writing your desktop application for the Mac because you are considering Cocoa, if you're starting from scratch that's an excellent reason to pick a platform independent library.That choice is one you usually make only once in the lifetime of an application, you'd better make the right one. And I'd widen the field a bit to include other options not limited to Cocoa and Qt. If you have a success on your hands you'll really regret not being able to easily support other platforms.Let's turn it around, what compelling reasons would you have for choosing Cocoa over a platform independent solution ? |
Would you choose Cocoa or Qt for a desktop application, and why? | makecheck: Maybe Apple's implementation of Cocoa is Mac-only, but if you use something like GNUstep you can have the Cocoa APIs on other platforms. |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | ja2ke: If that site makes a practice out of bribing developers out of money for positive ad scores, they will eventually get outed, and (I imagine) will eventually die.Joe consumer probably doesn't give a crap if some iPhone app site charges $50, but other tech journalists, and hardcore/cutting-edge users definitely care, and those are the people who drive that site's pagerank and reputability through linking to and discussing it. |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | GHFigs: I don't want to do business with a site that is dishonest to its readersThen don't give them an incentive to be. |
Would you choose Cocoa or Qt for a desktop application, and why? | st3fan: I would choose Cocoa because it is awesome. You will have so much more fun. It is also the only way to create great Mac apps that have a correct native feel.Personally I think C++ is a big wart compared to the beautiful simplicity of Objective-C. |
Hacker Listing? | Zarathu: This would be great, but when Hacker News gets filled with all of the retards from Digg and 4chan, it'll turn into the "casual encounters" page on Craigslist.Not that I would know what that's like, of course. |
Hacker Listing? | pg: I've thought of letting profiles be more detailed, e.g. letting people post their resumes, and having them be searchable. Would people like something like that? |
Hacker Listing? | mickt: So as an hacker looking for a job I can ask a question about job hunting and get a job? Oh, boy sounds like we're going to get a bunch of those types postings and that PG is going to have his work cut for him modding down a lot of postings! :)Now I'm going to be like Yosser and say:
"Gissa job"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosser_Hughes |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | bbalfour: Not worth it. My company, Viximo, has created numerous applications including our most popular TrueFlirt. We've had a number of reviews on the top application review sites (unpaid and unsolicited) and the resulting downloads is very minimal. Most consumers of applications don't really read those sites. |
RateMyProfessors replacement? | RobGR: Without anonymity, will people post ? If they have to use a school email to post, will they be anonymous ? If you send an "account confirmation" email to the student's address, won't some idiot at the institution read it and try to use it to deduce who is giving certain reviews ?Maybe one way to get an edge and get started, is to also allow rating of a lot of other stuff besides professors. Rate administrations, lab conditions, dorms, frats, etc. You could even have a way for Professors to rate their students, and for students to rate students.Maybe to keep it at least slightly positive, make it so there is some kind of reward for posting positive reviews ? |
RateMyProfessors replacement? | harpastum: I think that this is an extremely difficult market to break in to, as any advantage your site provides would have to outweigh the large base of reviews that RateMyProfessors already has.There are already several other sites attempting to do this, with varying levels of success. My school (Marquette University) is currently affiliated with PickAProf.com |
RateMyProfessors replacement? | paulgb: Yeah, why not. As a student, the hotornot-like criteria is a big turn-off from me rating or reading ratings of teachers. Typically the teachers with high ratings are the easy markers, not necessarily the best professors. A lot of the ratings appear to be the result of personal grudges as well.So yeah, there's lots of room for improvement here. |
RateMyProfessors replacement? | rickharrison: We need to talk. I have been working on a competitor to ratemyprofessor for the past few weeks and I am going to be launching it soon. Email me at the address in my profile. |
How profitable are most iphone apps? | andhapp: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/indie-developer.html |
How profitable are most iphone apps? | andhapp: Some of them are making a lot of money as is evident from that news article... |
Would you choose Cocoa or Qt for a desktop application, and why? | yan: It depends. If I were to write an app that I was sure was only for macs, I'd write Cocoa only. I find it a joy to develop for.If platform independence is important, I'd still choose Cocoa but try to wrap the main functionality in platform-agnostic C/C++ or the like. |
Should I pay $50 for a positive App review? | lallysingh: I had this situation (astroturfing for sale, which is what this really is) back when I was a Palm Developer.Does anyone read their reviews? Do you look at their reviews when thinking about buying an app?I usually find the answer to be no to both these questions. |
Would you choose Cocoa or Qt for a desktop application, and why? | trevelyan: I've been critical of QT's somewhat restrictive license in the past, but the only reason not to use it with their coming shift to LGPL is the lack of iPhone support. |
Hacker Listing? | known: http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/venturetalent/?cp=all#... |
Uptime monitoring services | mikeyur: There are a lot. I've used JustUptime before and had a good experience. A few friends swear by Pingdom. |
Hacker Listing? | giles_bowkett: Yes it's wonderful to leverage community but the way to get hired is A) find people who are hiring; B) develop skills which are in demand, and/or advertize that you have them; or C) do something interesting that makes hiring people find you.Looking for work by putting an asterisk next to your name when you post on Hacker News is like saying that your job search consists of watching television.If you read Hacker News and you have free time, why on earth are you not building some kind of business? Pick some tiny problem and build a tiny, awesome solution. Do some consulting. I gotta tell you, if I were coming here looking for people to hire, it wouldn't be the people who have no hustle and expect jobs to fall out of the sky and land in their lap. |
MicroISV ideas? | numair: Your competition doesn't matter. What matters is if you have a quality product which is able to attract a large enough set of discriminating buyers to provide you with a decent profit. For example, if you are one guy living in a developing country, selling 2000 copies of a $15 application is good enough for your yearly income. Modify as necessary.Focus on your customers, not on your competitors. That's one of the beautiful things that becomes possible when you're charging for your product instead of merely competing to become the biggest service provider capable of attracting the largest advertisers. |
Anyone want to work through SICP together? | KunQian: add me please kunqian at live dot ca |
How do you explain a social news site to computer noobs? | murrayh: Maybe try for a more blatant voting queue, like "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" (you can just ignore any thumbs down votes if you so choose, but make the button tactile - choosing to either vote something up or not vote at all is rare outside of social news sites AFAIK).I'm not so much as suggesting thumbs up and thumbs down specifically, more that the up arrow means nothing to me and I know what a social news site is. |
How do you explain a social news site to computer noobs? | pclark: "you thumbs up stuff you do like, thumbs down stuff you don't"?Do you think if you're struggling to explain your concept to your potential users, isn't that a rather large problem?The layout isn't very cute. Where are the cute images/colours? Clicking the header "cuute.com" should take you back to the homepage. |
first few things you notice in a web site | pclark: bad colour schemes, poor form elements, misaligned divs, poor choice of colour for links, slow images, ugly confirmation boxes ... |
why not an API? | pclark: whats the question? |
Uptime monitoring services | pclark: what are you monitoring? |
why not an API? | compay: I love the simplicity of HN but yeah, I would love to be able to tweak. There's definitely something strange about the concept of a website for hackers these days being... well... not hackable. |
why not an API? | thomaspaine: I think this was suggested somewhere else, but why not just have a HN script repository where people could upload and rate HN Greasemonkey scripts? It seems simpler than creating your own HN client via an API. |
why not an API? | Raphael: Use the RSS feeds. Hack away. |
Would you trust a .me domain? | tsetse-fly: It didn't stop del.icio.us. If you build it, they will come. |
Would you trust a .me domain? | jacquesm: I think it would depend greatly on the kind of service you are going to offer.If you mean 'trust' to stand for 'comercially trust' then I think the answer is no, simply because it is different. We started out as a .nl but within days it was clear that if we were to have any sales at all it had better be a .com, or people simply aren't going to pull their credit cards.If you mean 'trust' to stand for 'are they going to put their data in to your site' then I think that that effect will be a lot less, and once you've built up a user base it will fade. del.icio.us is a nice example (even if it does still have the .us in there, and they eventually changed over to delicious.com).Personally, for any commercial website I'd use nothing but a .com, unless it was targeted to a specific geographic location, then I'd use the domain for that country instead. |
Would you trust a .me domain? | Tichy: I wouldn't worry about trust, but I think people will definitely forget about the .me and just try .com instead.For del.icio.us they also bought delicious.com eventually... |
Would you trust a .me domain? | mdasen: I think you'll be fine. The issue usually isn't trust. The issue is more often that people will go to your-name.com and not see the site and give up - no matter how much you tell them to go to your-name.me. Make sure you have both your-name.com and your-nameme.com so that you can redirect those to your-name.me if you're going to go this route.I don't think trust is as big a factor (unless you're asking for credit card numbers) as them typing the address correctly. |
Would you trust a .me domain? | Jem: I've not had problems getting (and keeping) users on a .me; but I'm not selling anything. I also have a fairly young audience (14-18 primarily). I'm sure both of these things have an effect. |
Would you trust a .me domain? | matwiemann: If you have a service for the tech-savy audience this shouldn't be a dealbreaker - actually it may be more exotic/interesting to some.If you want to cater to a broader audience - a .com may be better. |
How do you explain a social news site to computer noobs? | stern: I run http://cherrypeel.com and we are redesigning to solve a lot of the problems we had with people not understanding the site.You need to have a tag line right at the top saying: "my website does X". Check out http://99designs.com as they do a great job of this.Often people don't view the arrows as a voting button, so either change the icon to a heart or cute bunny etc or have some explanatory text describing how to vote or both. I've got feedback from people saying they thought the voting arrows were rising/falling icons, such as on the top 40 chart when they say; "this song moved up 6 spots".People don't understand why they should vote. Explain that the more then vote, the better the site becomes for everyone. You might need to give people incentives to vote, such as karma, a level system or special names based on involvement.Make the site look cute. The design doesn't say "this site serves up cute animals". I also wouldn't forward it on to my girlfriend as I don't think the cutness jumps out at you fast enough, which brings me to my next point.What about having a preview function? There are lots of sites that have lots of cute pictures so why would I want to visit one that each picture is behind a click?Have you check out the cute sub-reddit?I got off topic but I hope this helps. |
Would you trust a .me domain? | vaksel: I would try to avoid it. Top level domains are better performers |
Would you trust a .me domain? | olifante: Domains are becoming less relevant as more and more users just google the name instead of typing in the address. Choose any non-obscure domain name with one of the common TLDs (.com, .org, .net, .me, .eu) and you should be fine. |
RateMyProfessors replacement? | NoBSWebDesign: I would be seriously interested in helping you take on this project. I have spent the last year and a half developing RateMyStudentRental.com for reviewing on- and off-campus rental housing and dorms.We have developed solutions to many of the problems you're contemplating (school email confirmation, conditional anonymity, etc.), so I think there might be a good opportunity to collaborate here.Just as we've developed a way to involve landlords and school administrators in the site without compromising the students' anonymity, I've thought of how much opportunity ratemyprofessors is missing out on. Their business model is horribly outdated, and there are so many other ways they could be leveraging their information. Imagine if the site partnered with education specialists to help the poorly-rated professors improve their lessons and teaching. And a comment I had often heard from my professors was that until the site gave them a chance to respond (much like we've done with landlords), they would never take it seriously.Not to mention the fact that there'd be an excellent opportunity to partner with schools (much like our School Partnership Program) and allow them to incorporate the ratings and website into their online registration process (or offer them an online registration process entirely).I could go on indefinitely, so I'll just stop here. You get the idea. Please let me know if you're interested and serious about pursuing this venture. |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | thorax: We're finishing up the last few key bugs that we've uncovered over the weekend and wanted to get your input before we start publicizing it. What do you think? Like/dislike?Thanks, as always. |
Would you trust a .me domain? | streety: If:
1) You can secure the domain <yoursite>me.com and
2) It helps with your marketingI would say go for it. |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | Jasber: Matching people based on looks alone is pretty superficial. I think you're going to have a tough time getting people to adopt this model.One cool way you could spin this idea is by letting people play match maker. Imagine a Facebook application where a person could set-up two of their friends on a blind date. I think something like this could spread fairly quickly; not to mention people are more willing to accept a friends suggestion rather than a complete strangers. |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | falsestprophet: I think this a pretty interesting concept. But, I think your branding needs work.Forgive me for being so blunt, but the name yumbunny is way to creepy and awkward for a dating website. I think it a catchy name that could definitely work for something else.But the second I loaded the page and saw that guy looking down lasciviously at that way to eager girl, the name became way too much.yum...bunny. Bunnies are an awful lot like cats (you follow). I just showed this to my roommate's girlfriend; she said, "ew".A dating website's biggest challenge branding. I am pretty impressed with the branding on downtoearth.com. I think you will be much more successful if you can tone down the creepiness to a basal level like match.com or better achieve negative creepiness like downtoearth.com.I'm sorry I am not offering other suggestions. If I think of any today, I will post them. |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | jakewolf: How are you going to prevent rampant abuse from rapid clicking? I was able to click no constantly. Liked how fast new couples load up.What about a point system for popular accuracy of a users choices? |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | falsestprophet: How does your matching algorithm work? This seems like a very exciting problem. |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | Angostura: It's interesting, particularly the crowd-source matchmaking approach.I suspect the "people who would look great together" meme will put quite a few people off simply because it seems superficial and they won't want to be seen to be overly influenced by looks alone.You do already expose other information about likes and dislikes, so maybe you could replace "look" with "be"?On the other hand, I'm not the target demographic. It could be that you will appeal to a rich vein of people who are interested in looks alone, and are happy to be thought of in that way.Personally, I would be tempted to do some multivariate testing, one with the "be" messaging and one with the "look" messaging and see how results compare. |
RateMyProfessors replacement? | mrihani: I am one of the co-founders of Koofers.com (one of the LaunchBox08 portfolio companies) and we have a VERY in depth professor rating system.Check out our page and video over at CrunchBase for more info:
http://www.crunchbase.com/company/koofers-comFeel free to E-mail me at michael@koofers.com with any of your thoughts, comments, or suggestions. |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | auston: Personally, I think your widget thing will go over really well with teens and some early 20's.I found it fun - good luck.As far as feedback goes - maybe ask people for there myspace/facebook profile as well - and think about creating a facebook/myspace app that recommends people
(after a threshold of votes) to other people that are single. |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | psyklic: I love dating sites!In general: Very nice UI! You bill this as a "dating site," but it seems more like Hot-or-Not. If you want it to be a dating site, you'll need to add location, and try to match closer people first. I also think that you should add things like age and only match people similarly.+ I'm not sure whether your business model will work well ($2.99 for unlimited chatting with someone). I've tried a number of sites, and the chances of a particular person working out is not good -- plus, a lot of people just won't reply after I contact them. More importantly, I'll need to know if someone is CLOSE to me to determine if I'll pay you. Also, your site falls into one of those that I'm distasteful of -- I sign up for the site, and then LATER, I find out there are hidden fees when they aren't initially mentioned.+ I also feel like there's nothing to "do" on your site. You should have a page where I can see how many people have seen my picture, how many voted yes/no, maybe even to whom they voted yes/no on -- that would be interesting yet not too invasive.+ Make it clear that the more I vote, the more my picture will be seen -- in other words, if I rate x people, I need to see a noticable increase in the number of people seeing MY picture. This works very well for Facebook apps like Compare People.+ You may want to approve pictures before they're published. I already saw one in the queue that is non-human, and you could also get pornographic ones.+ This would be a cool facebook app. Although apps are less prominent nowadays, here's how some current successful ones work -- periodically send me an email about x people voting me as a match or not. Provide a link to your facebook app page in the email that immediately asks me to rate people (more ratings, more views), and a side link to see my stats. This works on me at least!+ When I first open the page, the larger upper box looked to me like a popup flash ad, and i totally didn't realize that the items on the right were clickable until i accidentally ran my cursor over them.+ When entering my profile, if I sporadically decide to change my pic midway through, the form forgets everything I entered so far. And maybe the tab order should be both things I like, then things I dislike.+ I'm not sure what "Loading...please vote to enable this user's queue" means. You should provide a countdown if it matters whether I vote.+ I also agree with other posters -- "yumbunny" doesn't sound like a dating site haha |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | sam_in_nyc: What incentive do I have, as a user, to vote on matches? You'd better have some sort of system set up where I cannot view my matches until I rank 10 other matches "accurately," where accurately means I've voted on the most common answer. This is to prevent hitting "Yes!" on 10 really quick so I can continue with what I was doing.It's a great idea that you crowd source the matchmaking... but I just don't see the users actively making matches unless there is some incentive... probably even points would do. |
first few things you notice in a web site | pasbesoin: The rare site that does a good job with its typography is well worth study/emulation. Not just font, typeface, but leading (interline spacing) and column width for example.Also, editorial composition. All the design in the world won't hold me in place if I have to scale a "wall of text" (particularly enormous paragraphs without any visual landmarks).I see site design as a means to an end. If you focus primarily on the means, you're doing it wrong. Well, it may be fine for you, and I don't begrudge you that. But you are doing it wrong for me.If enough people feel that way, you won't have much traffic. If traffic is a goal, well then, there you go. |
Is there a flat fee, web based ad serving service? | jacquesm: Use a content delivery network and track the clicks yourself ?Instant nearly unlimited capacity and no percentage taken, other than what it costs you to serve the ads. |
How to bring back the subscription business model for news? | vaksel: You can't.In this day and age people are too used to free, especially for information. "Why should I pay you $$$ if I can get more or less the same thing for free from Google search"And RSS is just as "sensationalist" since blogs etc use that to drive traffic to their actual pages |
How to bring back the subscription business model for news? | jacquesm: I must have missed the advertising on HN somehow that caused you to include the site in that list up there.RSS is going to be mostly machine to machine, much to my regret because I was an angel investor in a startup that was focusing on RSS 'smarts'. Quite possibly their tech can be adopted to the new world order, I doubt it will ever see very large adoption by end users.So, as I said in some other thread here somewhere, the one who manages to 'crack' the business case for an online website that can send out real reporters to do real reporting and that is not too beholden to advertisers will make it big.They'll do to news what google has done for search, and one day they might buy up a network or two for old times sake.But right now I don't think anybody even has an inkling of how to go about that. In Europe newspapers are merging in order to be able to survive, that can only go on so long. |
What is the best forum to ask beginner coding questions? | timf: You could try http://stackoverflow.comSee: http://stackoverflow.com/faq |
What is the best forum to ask beginner coding questions? | spydez: Google?If it's a popular language, someone will have written about what you want to know. That's how I stumbled through my first lil' Ruby program a few weeks ago - read through a few intros I found on Google + judicious Google-fu for specifics when I got stuck. |
Please provide feedback on our soon-to-launch dating site and widget | okeumeni: At first I went wow another dating site, then I looked at the concept: Original even though it is closer to hot or not. I think the challenge is now to sell your brand and a bit of luck. Congratulation on a lot of hard work and good luck! |
why not an API? | giles_bowkett: ok, you know how all my posts about Hacker News being doomed rocket to the top spot on the site?and this question isn't even on the front page?THAT is why Hacker News is doomed.if the people reading Hacker News WERE ACTUALLY HACKERS they would have already demanded an API, and this would be the number one topic of discussion. real hackers are more interested in getting an API than discussing why or why not their site is or is not doomed.my blog posts on blah blah blah Hacker News is doomed SHOULD NOT be less interesting to hackers than a question about getting an API.doomed, doomed, doomed. |
How to bring back the subscription business model for news? | pclark: weird, you literally explained my startup.I dont want to give too much away too much, but here are too examples of stuff we hope to make possible:* link your Dopplr account, so you get news based on where you're going a few days before your trip* fun stuff, comics and games will be brought up to the web era. xkcd and various other syndicated comics will be displayed (assuming they match your interests)What do you think? |
Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup | vaksel: Personally I'm on the side of quitting everything and focusing entirely on your startup. If you don't, you'll find yourself 8 months from now and some other startup will come out with pretty much the same thing you've been working on.And if you can't quit because of work...take a vacation. 2 weeks of working non-stop should be plenty of time to get most things up and running. |
Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup | FredSource: It takes focus .. and longer than you expect .. to get going under a full head of steam.The real question is what do you want to startup? -- a full scale business with lots of employees or a one man shop? |
What videoconferencing / telepresence / screensharing services or apps do you use? | ninjastar99: It's hard to compete with just a simple iChat / iSight setup, especially when all new Mac's come with one built-in. The quality is pretty spot-on, with little delay, echo, or distortion. And the cost... free. |
Tips for engineer who wants to seed his own startup | rantfoil: Just start working on it, and don't worry too much about tips, etc. It's easy to get paralyzed on doing it the best. The best is the enemy of the good.Always work on the most important thing. If it's not going to move the needle or if its a tangential/pet feature, recognize it and don't do it now. Your most precious resource is time. |
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