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Where do startup founders go for health/dental coverage? | jacquesm: It would really help to know more about where you are located, without that information it is difficult to tell you what your options are.For the US and Canada the easiest thing is to let an insurance professional work out the details for you, get several quotes that give you the kind of coverage that you need and then sign up with one of them.It may significantly change the picture if you incorporate first, then get a corporate health package for your startup and register yourself as an employee.Remember about special circumstances such as business travel if you are going to spend a lot of time en-route.Another big factor for self-employed people is insurance that covers you in case you become incapable of working, but personally I've never been able to justify the expense of that kind of insurance.If you can, save up. I know that's weird advice to someone starting out because you'll need every penny you can get to make it go, but even so, if there is any chance of it, create a little nest egg, you never know what's around the corner. |
Anyone know of a service like usertesting.com but for iPhone apps? | wallflower: iBetaTest.comhttp://ibetatest.com/iphone/controllers/welcome/New community to link beta testers with iPhone developers. I have not checked it out yet but bookmarked it."You can easily download an ADC import file of all of your approved testers - so you do not have to enter them one by one into the Provisioning System."Via: http://www.mobileorchard.com/iphone-app-beta-testing-communi... |
If you're an independent contractor, how do you charge clients? | turtle3: $X to make website match a given layout/image in FF and IE, where X is based on your approximation of difficulty after reviewing the provided material. $Y/hour for each modification after the initial layout is complete, where $Y is 2 or 3 times what seems a reasonable rate to you.This will do a few things:
1) Cause the customer to get their act together up front, because they would rather only pay $X.
2) Minimize your annoyance at the back and forth, because you are making what you feel like is a lot.Mostly you want to avoid getting into the $Y/hour area, because it just sucks, mostly. Don't be afraid to set $Y to $50 or $75. You -want- it to be a deterent as much as a way of making money. Also, if you don't set that rate high, they won't value your work. If you are willing to do it for $10/hour, you are barely a step above a fast food worker, and will be treated as such. By setting a high rate, you say:
1) You know you have skills that not everyone does.
2) You value your time, which implies you will value theirs.
3) They better take requests seriously, or they will pay for it.If you really want to work for $10 an hour, go ahead, but you are undervaluing your work, and it won't be maintainable.(Note: My comment takes into account the current $10-$30 range the poster mentions in a comment below.) |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | nadim: How does this compare to snippetsEmu.vim? |
Good books on machine learning? | pmbouman: Try "The Elements of Statistical Learning" by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman. Lots of math but an outstanding introduction. |
Good books on machine learning? | mstoehr: There really isn't very much available on the practical side. So if you are looking to implement algorithms I suggest that you make use of the machine learning at ocw.mit.eduAlternatively, if you want a good dose of a theoretical explanation of algorithms currently in use I highly recommend "Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning" by Christopher Bishop. It is definitely the best machine learning (and statistics) textbook that I have ever come across. |
Good books on machine learning? | martian: A very readable introduction to machine learning and recommendation systems is Programming Collective Intelligence, by Toby Seagram (O'Reilly). Worth looking at if you're just getting your feet wet. |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | mileszs: Unfortunately, it seems to clash loudly with one of the Ruby or Rails plugins I use (most likely rails.vim, and its RAbbrevs). Being admittedly fairly ignorant when it comes to vimscript, as well as being impatient, I removed snipMate for now. If you have a quick solution for such woes, I'd love to try it.I'd be willing to maintain a fork on GitHub that avoids clashing with rails.vim (or whatever the issue is), if we can figure it out. Maybe I'll actually properly learn vimscript as a result. |
Full-text search of Unix files? | timf: See if Beagle fits for you (it can do stemming, for example).http://beagle-project.org/Searching_DataThere's a commandline interface to it. I'm not a beagle user myself, but it looks like something you should at least check out. |
Full-text search of Unix files? | gtani: edit(I'm assuming, since i'm always wallowing in python or rails, that google desktop, regain, don't have the control over stemming and tokenization that you want...)here's regainhttp://regain.sourceforge.net/to my knowledge, Aksyonoff's sphinx only hits mysql and postgres.The ferret lib for ruby lists this funcitonality, i haven't tried ithttp://datanoise.com/articles/2006/9/5/fun-with-ferret |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | aditya: I'm sorry, how is this different from just having an abbreviation using iab? |
Good books on machine learning? | earl: Here are a set of links:http://www.vetta.org/recommended-reading/I'd second the recommendation of Bishop if you can hack the math, and also Elements of Statistical Learning, though I wouldn't attempt to learn techniques from the latter so much as look at a very interesting mathematical take on them.gl |
How would you format a Linux skill sharing session? | stonemetal: The main problem is finding that useful subset that is A) useful to everyone and B) at a level that most find the distribution of information useful.Personally I find there are two ways to handle it. The first is to focus on work flows. As in how to do something a person on your team does regularly really efficiently.The second is to take a common tool and go in depth on it. Yes you end up talking about ls switches for 20 min but it should also focus on how this tool integrates in to the larger unix system.The last thing to pay attention to is documenting your sessions. I use find about once a year, I never remember how to use it and spend a good 20 min looking at the man page. If I had in depth training on grep and find then I would be annoyed that I was back at the man page the next time I needed it because I didn't have a useful reference. |
Full-text search of Unix files? | lazyant: A few years ago I wrote a little script for what you're describing or similar (but very simple, no indexing) using a Perl module for fuzzy/approximate matching; I think it was this one: http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/String-Approx-3.26/Approx.pm |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | jonasb: I've given it a spin, and must say that I like it a lot. Thanks a lot meese_! |
Is there a RSS feed for new links? | nreece: shameless plugCreate one with Feedity - http://feedity.com |
How do you stay healthy? | cat56: hey im bored!i lifted weights dont listen too me you sack of losers |
Rate my Vim Script: snipMate.vim | tdavis: Other than being unable to get the html snippets to work, I like it and will be trying it as a SnippetsEMU replacement (if I can get html files working). |
When do I impose caps? | inerte: If you can't find where to draw the line now, you can put the cap later but don't charge the existing free users.Example: I have a very old cellphone plan. It's not available for new carrier costumers. But the carrier never asked me to change to one of their new plans. I'm just using the old one.So you can tweak the caps anytime you want. Start with free and very, very generous plan but also very, very expensive. Then take some statistics. If a lot of the free people are using 50% of their way into the expensive plan, create a middle-tier one, where you charge 60% of the price but it offers 50% of the features.I know I haven't answered your question ;) Just wanted to say that you don't have to be perfect from the start. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | marram: Sponty has been in closed beta since the fall. We were at the MIT TechFair last week. Here are some of the pitches we used at the Sponty table (we also had chocolates!):"Hi, we're Sponty and we want you to be hangoutable. You should see your friends more"."Unlike other social networks that want you to sit in front of the computer to look at photos and comment on rants, we're trying to use the internets to get you off the internets so that you can see your friends more. You know, the old fashioned way where you sit with them and gossip over dinner. That way you'll actually be in those photos""We're different. Social networks want you to sit in front of the computer all day. We think that's wrong. You should be spending face time with friends.""We sure are all busy. But we all have to eat at some point. It is more fun to eat dinner with friends".Your feedback is greatly appreciated. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | lionhearted: Toss a small (TM) on either Sponty, "be hangoutable", or both. TM means trademark - but anyone can use it whenever they're using new descriptive language that doesn't infringe on someone else's mark. You don't need to register anything - the (R) in a circle means Registered Trademark, and you need to register that.Kellogg's has a registered trademark, they paid the USPTO (United States Patent and Trademark Office), and had a search done to make sure it didn't infringe on anyone. They have a very strong legal standing if anyone comes after them:http://www2.kelloggs.com/But look at Google - they just use (TM)!https://mail.google.comTM adds a bit of credibility. Split test it if you're not convinced, but it shouldn't hurt, and makes you feel like a real company. I'd definitely throw the TM onto "be hangoutable", because that's a cool phrase, and I'd want to own that after coining it. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | joshsharp: Very similar to http://www.mixin.com/. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | lionhearted: On the design: I love the clean aesthetic and color scheme. I would try to to make the page vertically a bit more compact, so the entire "Login using Google" is above the fold. I have a relatively large monitor, and yet only the top of "Login using Google" shows on my screen.Then I'd test some descriptive instruction above "Login using Google" to explain why they should - the value to them. "Take a test drive and see how your social life improves - all you need is a Google account to get closer to your friends" - something like that, just make it shorter. Test different variations that answer the question, "why should I go to the next step?" It might seem obvious to you, but you're intimately familiar with your site. Me, why should I log in? The site looks nice, but what's the value here? What's the learning curve? Will this be a pain in the ass to get running? Mention how easy and fast they can do something cool, and then deliver on that promise once people log in.Cheers mate, and best wishes. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | bemmu: Difficult to say if this will catch on, all I can offer is my own reasons why I would not use this. I wouldn't play Mob Wars either, but that hasn't stopped it from being a success.- I'm not in USA.- My friends are really reluctant to start using new services. It took ages for them to start using Facebook.- My friends probably do not have Google accounts. In fact they would probably be more likely to use this if this was a Facebook app.- As you say everyone needs to eat, so it is safe to assume that each of my friends will have dinner anyway. So if I want to have dinner with a particular friend, can't I just SMS them? I think they would find this more natural than me trying to talk them into signing up for something. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | staunch: 1) The front page has screenshots of HTML components. They look like you can interact with them, but you can't. This is almost always a bad design choice.2) I don't want to use my Google account. I always use a site-specific email address when registering for a new site. I'll never give one of my actual gmail addresses. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | inerte: As a non-english speaker, I actually Googled for "hangoutable" because I didn't know what it means and mentions of Sponty came on top :pOn the site itself:- I have no idea how you're eco-friendly (sorry, the leaf conjures this emotion)- Underlined blue words are links: I thought I could click on the main page "Katie" and "Dave"- The logo on http://www.thesponty.com/about is different than on the main page (the beta word)- About page "Got it." on the question list. Got what? None asks "Got it. So how..."- "Speak your mind" is a poor choice of words indicating where I can send you feedback for a service that lets me type anything. It looked like I could click there and some page would come up that would let me do something.But anyway, let's login!- Can't you put your logo on the Google Account login page? (I honestly don't know). Like, "<logo> Sponty uses Google..."- Can't you redirect to the main page instead of the /hn doorway? I logged in and had to go somewhere else to use the site. One extra step is bad :(- I had to delete "Your name here...". onclick delete the input contents. (Firefox 3.0.6)- My timezone is -3 gmt! Nowhere before it said the site is for USA people :( But let's fake and say I am Eastern;- Network, same as above.- Clicked Save, reloaded profile edit. I guess I have to click again to go to the home page?...- Make your friends hangoutable: http://www.thesponty.com/Inerte_82 But I am not Inerte_82.- Cliked on Post, form came up: You should put something like a datepicker on "When". It's 02:15 AM here, and 12:00 AM appeared on default. Clicking too much arrows...- When I submitted the form, a spinning circle appeared on "12 - 3 am" box, but my entry appeared on "3 - 6 am". Spin the cirle on the time I've selected.- The calendar opacity is too high, showing elements behindOverall I liked the concept! But I am grumpy tonight I guess :p |
Two-Dimensional Comments | inerte: Horizontal scrolling bars are a no-no. None expects them. Mouse wheels and page-down and space bar doesn't work. It breaks how users expect the page to behave. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | amr: When you click to add an item on the calendar, the set of icons appear without any indication to what they stand for until you click on one and see the description in the "what" field. I know some of them are obvious, but you should think about clearing the ambiguity by having the "what" field populated appropriately as you hover over the icons. |
Two-Dimensional Comments | timf: An alternative would be to collapse 2nd level comments and below. You choose which thread to get involved with by clicking in. There's probably a greasemonkey script that does this.That's how I read the site without any help from the UI, I don't find it to be that big of a deal. If there are more than ~5 comments on a topic, I will scan all the top level comments first to get a feel for the conversations and then dive into what I want to read. |
Two-Dimensional Comments | run4yourlives: Why wouldn't you just hide them and put a link up to expand the thread like Slashdot does? |
Anyone else get these from their clients? | tokenadult: Are you asking if anyone else gets feature requests? Sure. And I'm not a programmer, but I get them all the time. A client isn't a client until the client starts coming up with "By the way, could you . . . ?" |
Anyone else get these from their clients? | cubicle67: I'm still learning to say no. Here's the reply I just sent:> From my simple understanding of programming I thought it shouldn't be too difficult.It's not difficult, but it does take time. I think it's a good idea, but I would rather concentrate on getting the core of the programme done initially. I think once we have all the core functionality done and working well (and correctly, of course) we can then look at the available budget and think about where best to spend it. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | tlrobinson: A few little things:- don't capitalize by username in my URL (i.e. http://www.thesponty.com/Tlrobinson_94). Also, do you really need the "_94", can't it just be the username?- clear the placeholder text from textfield when it's clicked |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | marketer: Very confusing. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | natch: This is cool. Sorry don't have time to do a detailed test drive now, but I see others have done that, and I just wanted to add that YES this is a great concept and something I have been wishing for. Dodgeball was close, Twitter is OK for this but too noisy and not always followed closely enough, but this gets right down to a core use case that is near and dear. One nice thing is that since the use case is narrow, getting updated via SMS would work, at least for people with good SMS quota plans.Also both the name and the subtitle are great, and I won't be surprised to see them inspire other -able and -onty names shortly.A money maker? I don't understand how, but you have thought about it way more than me, so maybe you have a way. |
Browser specific CSS Or X-browser compliant design? | satyajit: Browser stats link:
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp |
How do you manage new feature requests for your application? | jfornear: Be careful leaving the future of your app open to user feedback, especially when it comes to feature requests.A good talk on this topic (by 37signals' Jason Fried):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H8RB24ZfRo |
How do you manage new feature requests for your application? | cperciva: So i was wondering what would be a good way to collect users' reactions and requests?Check your email.No, I don't mean right now. Well, sure, actually. Check your email right now. And every 5 minutes while you're awake for the rest of the year.When you get an email from a user, reply to it. Get into a conversation with your users. Find out who they are. Tell them what features you're thinking about adding next, and ask for their opinions.The biggest problem you'll ever have with collecting feature requests is the people who have great ideas but are too polite to bother you with them. If you can get those people to see you as a friendly human rather than as a faceless business, they'll be far more likely to send you their ideas. |
Anyone else get these from their clients? | kaens: Yes.I currently am working on a web-app using cherrypy for my client, who has some small knowledge of PHP.He's a great guy, and I love working with him; however, he likes to make suggestions, normally involving some way he could implement something in PHP to help out, and the suggestions invariably would add a lot of unnecessary complexity when a simpler solution is already available.Not that his ideas are bad; they're almost always good ideas on a high level, but just really bad fits as far as implementation details go - normally of the "Yes, we can just kinda glue all this different stuff together" type, which is fine sometimes, but since we're using python there tends to be readily available solutions that don't involve all the overhead of gluing stuff together. |
Browser specific CSS Or X-browser compliant design? | CalmQuiet: You might also want to consider whether today's "browser specific" will be tomorrow's browser-specific. For example: there was no Google Chrome a year ago. Nor Safari for Windows.But be ready to add style sheets for mobile devices. ...or whatever evolves next. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | Tichy: This may sound paranoid, but I don't want to enter my Google passwort on a site that I have been forwarded to from another site.I tried logging in to Google and then to login via your site, too, but Google still asked for my password. |
Please review my app - LoveLogger.com: World's First Pair-Blogging Platform | satyajit: Hey, I never got an activation email ... I checked my spam box too. Not there. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | sgentle: Interesting idea, but you're gambling on a huge network effect there. I'd need to get a whole group of my friends using this for it to be worth it, and I can't be bothered to do that. Even if I could, each one of them would need to remember to update it before they went anywhere... what a hassle.An idea: why not exploit an existing framework that people use for frequent updates? Add a facebook app (150m users), add twitter integration (another 800k users or so), and you're off to the races. I'd be much more easily convinced if instead of having to update your service I could just update my twitter with "eating at joe's diner tonight 6pm, hangoutable".Also, do you have Google Calendar integration yet? If not, what are you doing? That's where I keep my calendar. I even have it set up to send me reminders and everything.I like your hangoutable branding - there's not currently a good word for an ad-hoc social event, and you've picked a descriptive one that's also pretty catchy. Sponty is halfway between silly and awkward. Maybe you should consider rebranding?Lastly, while I commend your Google account integration, I'd make it an "...or log in with your Google account" and get your own logins. Much as it pains me, the world's not ready to have all their services nestled in Google's ever-expanding bosom just yet.Anyway, best of luck. |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | truebosko: Very cool. As someone who is about to move into a new city (Montreal) I really like things like this because it makes it easier to get to know people.I really have nothing to add that hasn't been said (damn!) but I figure a bit more kudos isn't going to hurt. |
Is there a way to know if someone has commented on any of your (old) posts? | jpd: They aren't notified about it, but they can see if anyone has replied by going to their past comments list (linked from their profile) and looking for any changes. |
Do You Twitter? | yan: me: http://twitter.com/yan_i |
Do You Twitter? | jwb119: http://www.twitter.com/jboehmig |
Do You Twitter? | vincentpants: me: twitter.com/vincentpants |
Do You Twitter? | ObieJazz: mtinkerhess |
Do You Twitter? | mattmcknight: mattmcknight how's that for branding? however, my twittering is not very interesting. |
Do You Twitter? | rickharrison: ive been addicted to twitter for a while
me: twitter.com/rickharrison |
Do You Twitter? | poppinphresh: http://twitter.com/poppinphresh |
Please provide feedback on Sponty | be hangoutable. | minalecs: well most my friends and i already use google calendar for this type of thing. If we really want to schedule a day out or something. But I can see how this might be popular with like college kids. Try making it a facebook app instead, might be much more useful |
Do You Twitter? | Zev: I'm more interested in knowing if anyone doesn't have a twitter (and if so, why not)also, http://twitter.com/zadr is mine if anyone's remotely interested. |
Do You Twitter? | joshuarr: Joshuarr - I'm still trying to decide if it's a sink hole or not though. |
Do You Twitter? | evanjacobs: http://twitter.com/evanjacobs |
Do You Twitter? | IsaacSchlueter: Can't we just put our twitter URLs in our profiles? |
Do You Twitter? | azharcs: http://twitter.com/azharcs
I mostly used to tweet content i liked from HN, maybe with more HN users following, i will have to stop doing that :) |
Do You Twitter? | abstractbill: I think I do. Honestly can't remember! I believe I set up an account and had something else push some kind of status update to it... perhaps even comments like these... through FriendFeed maybe?So, uh, who is working on an online service to keep track of all the online services I use? ;-)Edit: Found it - http://twitter.com/billmoorier |
Do You Twitter? | mikecuesta: http://twitter.com/mikecuesta |
Do You Twitter? | okeumeni: I just started twitter as well, though I’m not very active I created one for one of our products http://twitter.com/errorkey. |
Do You Twitter? | wesley: http://twitter.com/improvingtheweb |
Do You Twitter? | sspencer: http://twitter.com/sm_spencerGenerally pretty profane and/or nonsensical, but I let the occasional nugget of wisdom slip out. |
Do You Twitter? | adityakothadiya: Of course I do - http://twitter.com/adityakothadiya |
Do You Twitter? | enra: Still trying, but with Twirssi, I found myself using twitter more frequently. me: http://twitter.com/karrisaarinen |
Do You Twitter? | AndrewHampton: http://twitter.com/andrewhampton |
Do You Twitter? | pskomoroch: http://twitter.com/peteskomoroch mostly tweets on python, machine learning, general data crunching topics. |
Do You Twitter? | davidw: At first twitter just seemed useless, but then I figured out what it's good for: "spamming" people. I signed up for rss feeds of various search terms I'm interested in, and when something goes by, zing, off goes an URL. I don't think this makes for very interesting reading, but in any case, I'm here:http://twitter.com/davidnwelton |
Do You Twitter? | maximumwage: I'm not on Twitter, but I enjoy following the feeds of top entrepreneurs and investors. Here are a few good lists and rankings:
http://www.bigwinner.org/twitter-leaders/
http://buzzmarketingfortech.blogspot.com/2008/12/c-level-twe...
http://twittercounter.com/pages/100
http://twitterholic.com/ |
Do You Twitter? | dylanz: I refuse. It's one of those things that comes along that I know I don't need (time sink), and stick to my guns and ignore it.Didn't have a Facebook profile for the longest time... then started working with a client who wanted to build a Facebook application. Created a profile, and it snowballed from there :/ |
Do You Twitter? | newy: http://twitter.com/euwyngive me a shout (or an @, whatever the cool kids call it these days) if you're in nyc. |
Do You Twitter? | jeffbarr: I am http://twitter.com/jeffbarr - a combination of news about the Amazon Web Services (70%) and my own stuff (30%). |
Do You Twitter? | ucdaz: www.twitter.com/nickleung
www.twitter.com/feedbackjar |
Do You Twitter? | swombat: http://www.twitter.com/swombat (duh) |
Do You Twitter? | BinaryPie: http://twitter.com/binarypie |
Do You Twitter? | danw: http://twitter.com/iamdanw/ |
Do You Twitter? | flexterra: english / español / "spanglish": http://twitter.com/gcollazo |
Do You Twitter? | entelarust: http://twitter.com/entelarust |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | RiderOfGiraffes: As you've said, why pay, when you can use the free version on-line? You have to give them something for their money. You have to differentiate between the free version and the one they pay for.Graphing is one option, but you'll need to think of more. There's also the problem of people paying, downloading, and then giving it away to others. Do you not worry about this? Or do you somehow "lock" the download to that user. Be very, very careful about preventing someone for using something they paid for. If their machine breaks and they get a new one, with the program still work? How can they move it?And so on.The real point is that people will only pay if they get something in return. Think carefully about what that might be. |
Do You Twitter? | pyroman: http://twitter.com/greg_allard I mostly do @ replies, links to my blog posts, or what beer I'm drinking (microbrews, nothing boring) |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | vaksel: can try going for affiliate links for graphic calculators, but I don't think it'll monetize that well |
Do You Twitter? | immad: http://twitter.com/immad |
Do You Twitter? | geuis: I'm http://twitter.com/geuis |
does raising convertible debt preclude applying to YC? | frisco: You should have terms in your convertible note agreements describing a "qualified financing," which should be the condition on which investors can convert to equity. Usually this gives investments in series A range, much much more than YC would invest. |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | run4yourlives: Before understanding the best option, you should examine your user base a little more.10K a day sure, but what's the breakdown? Do you have 2K that visit the site 5 times a day, every day? That lends itself well to the subscription model. Are most of your visitors in and outs from google, with no recurring vistis? Ads might be the better option here. Are most of your visits coming from .edu domains? There may be an opportunity for school sponsorship here. Etc, etc.You need to fit your monetization model to your particular user base. |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | awt: There are already graphing sites out there, but they're more data oriented than calculation oriented (not sure if that makes sense). But basically if you could hook the calc up to a graph and make them really easy to create and share you would be able to get some virality. If you had a ton of graphs out on the web with ads on them you (like millions of them) you could make some money. |
does raising convertible debt preclude applying to YC? | pg: No; on several occasions we've invested in startups that had already raised money.Technically it depends on what size financing triggers conversion. In practice investors tend to be willing to waive converting regardless, because of the advantages to the startup of doing YC. |
Do You Twitter? | jfornear: Twittering makes me a better person, duh. http://twitter.com/smujesse |
What's your favorite HTML Web presentation tool? | yan: http://280slides.com |
Do You Twitter? | brandonkm: http://twitter.com/keithkay |
Do You Twitter? | brk: I've been using Twitter in bursts.http://twitter.com/NotoriousBRK |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | inerte: - Analyze what calculations your users are doing and serve related ads. Example, for someone doing compounding interest 12 times, you show books related to investments. Or someone using some mathematician work, a link to his biography book;- Contact a company and ask if they want to sponsor a contest. The first 5 users to complete some math problems will earn whatever the company is offering (essentially that's an advertising campaign for the company);- Run a contest between your users. They pay 5 bucks to enter, and the winner gets the money (after your share ;). A tournament perhaps?; |
Do You Twitter? | billroberts: The problem I find with it is that if you follow more than a handful of active tweeters, then there are too many tweets to read in a reasonable amount of time. That said, I find I get useful information from people with similar (work-related) interests to mine, and a way to 'get to know' people, which can lead to more in-depth conversations when you have something you want to converse about. (twitter.com/billroberts) |
Do You Twitter? | shergill: Yup.. i twitter; @shergill if you want to follow my exciting life. :) |
Do You Twitter? | ghostz00: http://twitter.com/greghos |
Do You Twitter? | dhess: I'm using Twitter to keep a record of interesting URLs, along with a couple of hashtags and a brief description. I've been trying this with Delicious for the first time, too, but so far I prefer Twitter, probably because more people use it, and it's easier for my friends to peruse.It's just links, mostly to technical-, math- or education-related things. I try to keep the off-topic stuff to a minimum (I think there are maybe 4 or 5 tweets total out of a few hundred that don't follow the formula.)http://twitter.com/dhessI do have a couple of concerns about using Twitter for this purpose:* according to the Twitter API docs, they only keep 3200 tweets "online" at a time for any given account.* the dependency on the TinyURL service.* Twitter has historically spotty reliability.So I'm working on an archiving solution, which I hope to make available soon. If you're the hacker type, it might appeal to you, too. I'll give a pointer to it on my Twitter feed when it's ready for testing. |
Do You Twitter? | tomh-: http://twitter.com/intellicode |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | rdrimmie: Maybe throttle the number of advanced functins or calculations unregistered users are allowed to do per day (or session, or other time period) and have a countdown/tracker displaying the number they have remaining along with a link to register.Buy the desktop version, get unlimited access to the web version.Put an identifier cookie on their machine and display the number of calculations performed over all time along with a link to the purchase. You know, guilt.Maybe have a few of the more esoteric but ridiculously useful functions disabled and only enabled either in the pro or just by viewing a nag screen - click sin and get a popup (the first time this session only) that says "We're glad you like this, hey there's a free version). Only nag them a very small percentage of the time, but every now and then nudge them a bit. |
Do You Twitter? | darreld: http://www.twitter.com/darreld |
Do You Twitter? | jaxn: http://twitter.com/jaxn |
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