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What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project? | aschobel: 11"x14" artist sketchbook and a pencil to play with the idealong walks / showers to help focusdead simple |
Making a free site pay-for-only | noodle: i don't have specific experience, but i think your best bet would be to leave what is now free as free, and offer more features for $. convert to a freemium model. that way, you won't drive off the people who are using it for free, as they're going to be your best sales leads. |
ASK HN: How many books do you read per month? And what kind? | allenbrunson: for me it would have to be books per year: maybe two or three. i know it's kind of a cliche, but the internet killed my need for them. |
Making a free site pay-for-only | yummyfajitas: I believe meetup.com did this. They started free, but now charge $18/year (or something like that).I believe the result is that now people consider it more reputable, since for any given group, someone somewhere is willing to spend $18/year for it. On the other hand, they probably lost many users. |
Making a free site pay-for-only | abrahamvegh: Converting to a freemium model is the best way to do it.Users don't pay for something after they've already been receiving it for free. |
Review my startup, Devver.net: Accelerated Ruby testing | timmaah: Looks very useful.How about some real world stats, showing that a particular app on a local machine takes X secs to run tests, while with devver it now only takes XI've just started a new project and am really digging into test for the first time. Tests do seem overly slow, but I'm never sure if its something ... |
What is With The Glorified Footer? | noodle: they are also usability improvements. when you're done reading an article, you're at the bottom of the page. for the average user, having a nice set of options right in front of your face is more convenient than having to click a "to the top" button, or scroll back up, or whatever. |
Review my startup, Devver.net: Accelerated Ruby testing | lloyddobbler: Hey, Ben -I'm no developer (actually an interactive copywriter), but I know enough about Ruby to hold a decent conversation.I agree with timmah - you adequately convey what Devver does, but you're not really giving enough of a value proposition. It just needs a little more "sizzle" to show them why they r... |
What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project? | imp: A lot of blank sheets of paper and a sharpie. I keep them in a manila folder to look at later, but usually there's only one or two important pages that are worth keeping because the ideas change a lot as I write.Use what comes natural and helps get your thoughts out as fast as possible. |
What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project? | s-phi-nl: A common theme here (which I agree with) is to use paper (whiteboard, sketch book). Paper allows two-dimensional organization of text, whereas computers force text to be one-dimensional. This linearity, which allows only two branches on a single idea, is too constraining for my creative thinking, during whi... |
Review my startup, Devver.net: Accelerated Ruby testing | BrettFromTibet: I'm not a Ruby developer so I can't say how well it speaks to that market... but in terms of communicating the idea quickly/clearly and seeming credible - it scores very well. The design is good, not exceptional or super Web styling. |
Review my startup, Devver.net: Accelerated Ruby testing | csbartus: I'm a Ruby developer and guessing Devver is for large codebase only, for small code tests are running pretty fast on local machine.A good point would be on the first screen to specify what kind of tests you are supporting: unit tests, rspec, features etc. |
Review my startup, Devver.net: Accelerated Ruby testing | akronim: Maybe it's just me, but "4 times faster" sounds better than "in 25% of the time". |
What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project? | jayarmstrong: +1 for xmind > freemind. Evernote may also be a good choice if you need to collaborate online more securely/privately |
Review my startup, Devver.net: Accelerated Ruby testing | delano: You may want to consider supporting .gems files for specifying additional gem dependencies since that's what Heroku uses. Their customers would potentially be interested in your product also and I couldn't imagine they'd want to maintain two dependencies files.Is there a way to specify how the tests are split a... |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | dsplittgerber: I am not sure if this is ok to post - I checked the guidelines but found nothing against this. If there is some kind of policy against for feedback like this, I will delete my post.
This is definitely not meant to be some kind of ad, just an honest wish for feedback on my conceptual idea. I hope that's o... |
What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project? | TrevorJ: Paper, pen, napkins, the voice recorder on my phone, Google docs, my friend's listening ears, long walks and taking a shower.Point being, don't fall into the trap of trying to get your info to live in one, unified, perfect system right from the start. Chaos is ok, just work in whatever format your brain needs... |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | ErrantX: Well, there are plenty of social dating apps on Facebook at the moment. :) so I guess the model works.Making one cross network might not work so well: I wouldnt really see it working for, say, linkedin (too business oriented), Twitter (lack of info), Myspace (too young a crowd). Facebook would probably tend to... |
Review my startup, Devver.net: Accelerated Ruby testing | cl3m: You should really try to buy devver.com (godaddy parked site), it will give you more credibility... |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | sosuke: Take a look at Zoosk for an example of your idea in action. It may not be a one for one to what you envisioned but they are using social networking applications to add users to a central dating site and seems to work fairly well. |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | bored: Don't people do this already? Search through Facebook or Myspace pages for compatible mates? |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | sayrer: "How it certainly doesn’t work is by going into a predefined building - sometimes even with an access fee - and only finding potential partners in there."Actually, certain kinds of dating work exactly like this, and translate well to the online model. It's just that most people don't want to live that way. |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | menloparkbum: Your idea is pretty good. I signed up for OK Cupid a while back and repurposed the photos and certain other information from my FB profile. It would have been nice to just auto-import.I would take a look at OK Cupid, if you haven't. The other dating sites like Match or eHarmony seem very "find your future... |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | kingkongrevenge: Online dating is a way to scam gullible lonely people. It works perfectly. No need for improvement. |
What are the iPhone 3G S hardware improvements? | rickharrison: 256mb ram and a 600 MHz processor. Also, improved battery.
Old one had 128mb ram and 412MHz processor. |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | radu_floricica: I always thought a good online dating site should have you _do_ stuff with somebody else. Like playing a game and chatting at the same time, or talking on a certain topic - stuff that would make initial interaction easier. I think this is more important then selecting your best partner, and then just gi... |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | revicon: ... The big thing the article seems to skip over is the fact that people on an online dating site are actually LOOKING to date someone. While people on your friends of friends social network may or may not be. And approaching someone online without that context established is considered creepy, and especiall... |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | dusklight: fta:"How it[real life] certainly doesn’t work is by going into a predefined building - sometimes even with an access fee - and only finding potential partners in there."Sounds like the writer has never gone clubbing before ...In other news, the writer has never used MySpace either (before it got hijacked by ... |
Windows Notepad Replacement? | ddemchuk: Hey everyone, thanks for the replies. After digging for what was probably longer than necessary, I think I've found the perfect solution:http://www.sgssoft.com/winpad/winpad.asphopefully that app will help someone else who is in the same boat as me... |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | iloveyouocean: So I don't mean to spam this thread (I already posted as a response to another comment), but I do want to encourage people to check out our disruptive online dating startup: http://flowmingle.comNo profiles, no matchmaking tests. We built the site to be inherently social and group oriented. We make no ... |
What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project? | AaronJ: I've been playing with EverNote now (first project) and it seems to be working pretty well - scan in (or photograph) sketches, type out notes, whatever, and it keeps everything together, organized by category, searchable, etc. |
Swoopo like auction for musical bands? | pedalpete: it's a decent idea, the problem i see is that i think the service only really applies to bigger bands. for indies, how many people would you really have bidding up the value of these items?i also think as a complete service, it might not work. would i go to your site to go and find memorabilia? i would expec... |
What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project? | dannielo: If you would like a tool to manage your small business activities and Projects, you can use this web aplication:http://www.Gtdagenda.comYou can use it to manage and prioritize your Goals (for business but also in other areas of your life), Projects and Tasks. It has a Checklists section, for the routines and ... |
What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project? | chops: My bread and butter is a legal pad and pen. I'll mock-up designs, doodle possible logos (I know, superficial, but it's fun), write pseudocode, and tinker with the database schema.Most pages get forgotten, but the act of working through the problems on paper helps to solidify the thoughts and designs in my mind ... |
Swoopo like auction for musical bands? | SwellJoe: I strongly suspect the Swoopo model will be deemed to be illegal in the not distant future, at least in the US. It is either gambling in the form of a raffle, or a ponzy scheme, or some combination of the two, which are heavily regulated or illegal, respectively. Of course, Swoopo also does other things tha... |
Who has gotten a job with absolutely no connections? | fsniper: A linux System Administration job. I was a new kid in the block and in the city. I had minor previous experience. And I was still an undergrad student. Knew no one. But made a good interview. Also the company was in need for an administrator quickly ;). The other one was leaving for conscription. |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | marvin: I don't think "online dating" will ever work. Sexual attraction isn't about the kind of rational things you can communicate over our current, low-bandwidth digital connections. It is well and good to describe your personality with words and pictures, but in most cases it isn't enough. It might even be counterpr... |
Experience with Zuora, billing system? | timf: There's been some, not much, talk about it: http://searchyc.com/zuora |
Why is difficulty for difficulty's sake highly valued? | quoderat: Many -- if not most -- human intellectual pursuits are a form of stotting. (See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting )In fact, competing with other minds, not meeting direct challenges in the environment, is probably what led to most of humanity's advanced intellectual development.Sure, it can be couched in... |
Why is difficulty for difficulty's sake highly valued? | menloparkbum: Perhaps this all stems from an education system that glorifies difficulty above all else.Weren't you also the guy who was talking about being ostracized by your teachers and peers because you weren't math olympiad material? From your comments you have had the most atypical educational experience I've ever... |
What is With The Glorified Footer? | justinchen: It's something you can pretty easily test by tracking the clicks from the footer links or by using one of the services that tracks user mouse behavior. Some people's reasons for not hitting the bottom: http://pickfu.com/PGDFOA |
Why is difficulty for difficulty's sake highly valued? | ram1024: difficult things narrow the spectrum of individuals capable of accomplishing them. when you hear a guitar jam that is merely simple and easy are you impressed? are you interested? no it does not strike us because it is a commonplace accomplishment.it is simply a form of elitism, and i don't mean that as a dero... |
What are the iPhone 3G S hardware improvements? | frankus: Also a 3-axis magnetometer. |
Why is difficulty for difficulty's sake highly valued? | bmm6o: Can't it be because they are proud of accomplishing something difficult? The harder the challenge, the greater the pride.Also, you're looking for a specific answer to a very abstract question. You can't ask why something is highly-valued without specifying by whom. Is there a particular instance of this behav... |
Disrupting online dating - valid thoughts? | steveeq1: Yeah, funny, I was thinking of a similar principle. However, mine is slightly different. You match people using collaborative filtering techniques based on your social network profile (bayesian filtering, for example. . .). Then you via gps on your cell phone. IE, if two likely matches happen to be geographic... |
Student laundry? | brk: I see laundromats in my area (NH) that offer this service for $0.79-$0.99/lb typically.I would find such a cleaners in your area, and strike a deal to funnel business to them for a discount rate.Structure it such that pickup/dropoff is $2.00 or so, and service is $0.99/lb and try to negotiate a rate for yourself i... |
Student laundry? | sdt: http://www.collegebellhop.com/College Bellhop does this, but with long-term pricing: you pay for a term, not for a load of laundry. There were a few people that used it where I went to school.It always seemed overpriced to me. I realized early on that the card-based laundry systems tended to have very simple contr... |
logging in with openid - clickpass | johnnybgoode: Unfortunately for you, I don't think many people here use Clickpass to log in. In fact, I'd be surprised if more than 1% of HNers used it. |
How to proceed if you have a mind blowing idea | johnnybgoode: The answer to this question depends almost completely on the specifics. |
How to proceed if you have a mind blowing idea | timf: Hire a lawyer. |
logging in with openid - clickpass | bostondjango: I am having the same issue and its EXTREMELY frustrating. Using an old account to post. It's definitely not my openid provider, as I'm using it to authenticate to Stackoverflow no problem.This is particularly distressful as I was right about to use clickpass and django for a site I'm launching. Here's h... |
logging in with openid - clickpass | pg: I fixed a bug Arc server code a few days ago and the fix broke something in Clickpass's code. I'll get someone to fix it. |
Why is difficulty for difficulty's sake highly valued? | lionhearted: I don't think it's normal in mainstream education - mainstream education seems to reward obedience and fact-memorization above all else. Critical thinking and creativity tend to be tolerated at best, punished at worst.But difficult for difficult? Maybe it's because challenges can stimulate you to find new ... |
What do you use to organize your thoughts for a new website or project? | IoanLucian: For simple things I use Efigio Organizer:
http://www.efigioorganizer.com
But for a project like yours I would suggest that you use a project management software. One recommendation is RationalPlan:
http://www.rationalplan.com |
How to proceed if you have a mind blowing idea | CyberFonic: As a small startup you are not going to win against the big boyz. They can drop millions in the lawyers' pockets to win. And they will. Have you seen the lengths that Google went to appeal a $761 case > http://www.huffingtonpost.com/aaron-greenspan/why-google-bot...Erin Brockovich style success is very ra... |
Is putting my app and data on hosting/cloud secure? | nreece: Why not run a VPS to start with? Slicehost and Linode are pretty good. |
Please review my app | anigbrowl: Looks pretty good, seems fast and responsive (not bad considering I'm in the USA). The PDF idea is very good, I'd make the 'download catalog' a bit more prominent for customers.Dashboard tools and floating menus worked great. One thing I couldn't easily see how to do was change the skin of the page, ie the c... |
How to proceed if you have a mind blowing idea | michael_dorfman: Unfortunately, without more specifics, it's really hard to give specific advice (besides the obvious, and necessary: get a lawyer).What do you mean when you say "I want to make sure that whatever I have done [...] remains mine"? Are you writing code? If so, it is difficult to imagine a scenario where... |
Review my startup, Devver.net: Accelerated Ruby testing | wlievens: Aren't people concerned about sending their code off to your servers? I know that would be a huge issue with many companies.You're basically competing with LSF, which is well-supported but quite expensive. Maybe you should consider broadening to more languages? |
Please review my app | csbartus: I was using osCommerce and ZenCart and did not like them. Then using a hacked Wordpress for webshop, and it is a delight to work with.Your store seems to be very nice, though I don't really understand the admin interface -- I thought it is a stunning WYSIWG editor but could not handle it.Still I'm thinking th... |
Losing potential customers | peterhi: Did you see that article on microcopy yesterday. It mentioned that adding that you didn't need to have a paypal account to pay by paypal improved the conversion rate. Maybe worth look => http://bokardo.com/archives/writing-microcopy/ |
Swoopo like auction for musical bands? | yargrin: Swoopo is a scam - a scam which is relying on the law taking long enough to catch up that they can make a killing in the meantime. If you want to give fans a chance regardless of their wealth, run a suitably licensed lottery limited to one chance per person. If you want to give bands more money, sell more tick... |
Word tips? | ajm: Keeping the original document in RTF seems to help Word play nice. Unfortunately not all of Word's features are part of RTF so YMMV. |
How and when to pitch an angel? | demosthenes: There aren't any hard and fast rules here.It's rarely too early to get in touch with angels and get on the radar if you expect that you'll need funding.Meanwhile, keep in mind that the longer you wait, the more traction you get, the better your bargaining position and the higher the valuation. |
Please review my app | robryan: Decent idea, in the same way that there is something special about a book over an eBook there is something special about handwritten notes on a big birthday or farewell card which may impact usage of something like this.Looks well done though and the handwriting like fonts may combat this. |
Is putting my app and data on hosting/cloud secure? | eatenbyagrue: If you are worried about it and don't know the answer, then the answer is yes, you'll be at risk. It is very possible to setup secure hosting using cloud computing services, where you and only you can access the data, however it requires a certain minimum level of technical expertise.If security is major ... |
How and when to pitch an angel? | htsh: When I did it back in 1999, we raised angel money right after we had a team & a short business plan with a powerpoint but not even an alpha product yet. Our idea required enough development work that we couldn't really manage while keeping our full time jobs. (http://web.archive.org/web/20001019030551/http://emf... |
Who wants to help build a home inventory tracker? | michael_dorfman: Ouch, no thanks. I can't think of anything more mind-numbingly boring than trying to catalog all of my possessions for insurance purposes. I'd much rather just walk around slowly with a videocamera, and leave it at that. I can't think of anything on the design-side that would make this a winning pro... |
How and when to pitch an angel? | pg: When (a) you're ready for the distraction of fund-raising, and (b) you think an intelligent person would be convinced by what you have so far.You don't usually need a formal deck. Ask the investor. |
How and when to pitch an angel? | paulsingh: I recently closed some money with angels and your results will surely vary (so take all of this this with a grain of salt):* It's never too early to pitch an angel. IMHO, angels are generally comfortable investing before you have real traction - smart angels have told me that they invest in people, not ideas... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | stevejalim: I'll go first, hoping that karma is more than an int next to my name:lancelist.com / lancelist.net / lancelist.co.ukbookafreelance.com / bookafreelance.co.ukflatplan.netzeditorial.com / zeditorial.co.uk |
Please review my app | thorax: I do like this. Might even try it as a gift for a friend of mine, too. |
Please review my app | there: on your tour screen, create proper thumbnails of the screenshots, don't make the browser download the huge files and scale them itself. it's painfully slow and the scaled versions aren't readable. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | synnik: Good idea.Although I've also had luck just emailing the contact for a domain, and finding they were willing to give it up. Worst case scenario is some squatter overvalues it and won't sell for a reasonable price. But it is always worth asking.I even had one person randomly email me offering $500 for one of my d... |
Who wants to help build a home inventory tracker? | tirrellp: I am not interested, but I know of another hacker that you might want to be introduced to that made an app with a similar purpose for the iphone. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | knightinblue: why not try portmanteus like tradomains.com? (trade + domains)its availableEDIT: I could have bought it, but I figured steve could use it, so what say everyone give it at least an hour for steve to buy it before someone snaps it up? |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | there: 8t.orglowerca.se |
where to learn best practices beyond algorithms? | TallGuyShort: I think the best place to learn is cold-hard experience. It doesn't have to be your own experience, of course. Look for open-source projects that utilize similar concepts, and see what they did. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | mikecuesta: awesomeopossum.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | htsh: obamanutpunch.compoofilter.comlawgician.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | eli: govevents.orgmobpoint.com & mobpt.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | kyro: groopvine.comphreshy.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | jonursenbach: baddeveloper.orgcoderepo.netmanphp.comtweetbkp.com
- was going to be a twitter backup mechanism, but then i started working with the twitter api and quickly gave up that idea. |
Please review my app | mnemonik: Quick run through and my thoughts:* First off, the front page took an incredibly long time to load. According to firebug's net console there were 23 requests totalling over 2 mb and took 32.35 seconds to load. Maybe I'm an outlier here, but there has got to be a way to cut down on that. Just about everything ... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | jwb119: falsifi.commktpost.comlidly.comride-radar.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | Brushfire: I know what you mean. I have dozens and dozens of these names, all really good names that I like for startup or related projects. I dont want to give them up becuase, like you, I HATE trying to find new names. I also hate domain squatters, so they arent filled with BS Ad's either, just a brief message saying... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | imp: quicklibs.comdatafeel.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | k0mplex: adstreet.netalwayscontact.comballerscholar.combccmark.combetterword.netcardcurrent.commbawall.compicturethenews.com/.net/.orgrecofriend.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | baseonmars: what3va.co.uk (i don't know what i was thinking, but someone might have a use). |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | Keyframe: dcrowd.com - I had the idea to make a portal type of site for D programming language, maybe even expand it from the start to Development Crowd - hence d crowd being ambiguous. I even made a logo that I am satisfied with http://www.dcrowd.com/t_logo/dcrowd_logo_table.pnghmm maybe I'll make it, who knows. I hav... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | abrown28: I have xpcom.org
I can't remember what I was going to do with it. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | nopassrecover: I've seen some decent ones come up on pool.com actually. For instance "digitalclassroom.com" was listed recently (no idea how much, would have looked more if I wasn't concerned with blackboard suing me if I used it). |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | scumola: 0spy.comamerican-idol-online.com ( has gone through multiple ideas, but none have taken )cheaptightwad.com ( was a product sales site based on the pronto.com api )everythingmicrosoft.comgconq.com ( was going to be an online game )hddvdtech.com ( ha ha - gonna let that one expire. )hotwaterinteractive.com ( mea... |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | adrianwaj: b a c k s c a m . c o m |
Who wants to help build a home inventory tracker? | eric-85255: Yes, inventory tracking and amortization is simple |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | uggedal: redflavor.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | flooha: foreverlist.com
nuncatarde.comI have plans for both domains, but they're on the back-burner. |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | ivankirigin: seedsea.com
millipaid.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | agotterer: mixit.fmvidcharts.comkirbygamereview.comnewsrotica.com |
what unwanted domain names are you sitting on? | sandis: tweetby.commabify.comnakedfile.comstormset.com |
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