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How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | iuguy: We used a non-ideal domain name for about 3 years before buying our domain from a domain squatter. It cost us 3 times what it would've cost if we'd have bought it up front, but the money was needed for other things earlier on.Our domain cost about US$1000 in the end, versus $370 if we'd have bought it at the start. |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | bgnm2000: Yea I mean, give it a shot, but don't stop looking for alternative names for now. Can't forget, it used to be "TheFacebook.com" |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | bensummers: You should also check some of the listing sites. We got the .com version of our domain via GoDaddy's "premium domains" rather than the squatting company directly. You can usually find the one you're really interested in by searching for a close match, and letting their suggestion engines select the real one for you without seeming keen.(We got the domain out of GoDaddy as soon as we could. They're a nightmare, they couldn't even manage to send an email and required phoning them to sort out various problems. But at least we got it in the end.) |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | fgcc: BuyDomains is pretty good to deal with. They are a buy and sell domain company, not buy and hold.Just make an offer on the low side of reasonable. (recent sales: http://dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm).If I was prepared to pay $2K for a domain, I would start with an offer in the $800-$1.2 range.If they have a fixed price, don't be afraid to offer 50% of their asking price. |
Review my mockup tool: WireframeSketcher | newobj: My $0.02 - the mock up on the front page looks like someone trying to design a clunky looking desktop app from the 90's (what's more, designing something that looks like it is at least partially subverting the standard OS File Save dialog) Maybe a more 'relevant' mockup would help (e.g. something suggestive of a webapp, or something abiding by more modern Windows/OSX interface guidelines). Even some of the some of the screenshots on the feature tour page I though were a little more relevant. Or perhaps a rotating carousel or video. A/B test it :) Other than that I think the product is good, I even have a vague recollection of downloading this a while ago when I was looking for wireframers for our team to use. (We ended up not using any tool, fwiw.) |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | cl3m: Here is some interesing read about how to snatch an expiring domain :
http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-sn... |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | slig: I'd set a backorder on my registrar and wait till that date. You could have the domain for as low as 100 bucks this way. |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | marknutter: You gotta remember that the name of your site really doesn't matter that much. Just make sure whatever it is, it's spelled how it sounds (most people can spell it right on the first try). |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | proee: I've bought two domains from a squatter company. They were asking $14k and $10k each. We placed two low-ball offers and ended up settling at $2k and $1k. This was from a major domain seller so you might find you can get them for 1/10 the asking price. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | a-priori: Your BMI is lower than 100% of people who submitted this surveyIs this your way of saying I'm a wimpy nerd? :) |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | ErrantX: Another Kohana user I see :DI caused an error :(http://obesitynearme.com/city/Sleaford/H7/GB/ |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | lilasdj1: Email Justin Murgo jmurgo at buydomains dot com - he's a reasonable sales rep of theirs (I've purchased 3-4 domains from him at far below their list). I agree with the post stating that you can sometimes get a domain for 1/10 what they have it listed. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | ottbot: Do you plan on only having data for the US? If not, have you considered adding the ability to enter data in metric? |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | r00k: Getting the captcha wrong clears all the fields. That's pretty cruel, usability-wise. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | mrduncan: Nifty. One suggestion: let me click on states in the image of the US instead of having to click on the image and then find the state in the list. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | maxdemarzi: "Your BMI is lower than 0% of people from IL"I'm a fat bastard!I'm showing up as Windows 2003, but I'm on Windows XP 64-bit. |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | froo: If you can't get your ideal name, think about adding words onto it and coming up with some variation.Many web properties started with less than ideal domain names, ending up with what they wanted in the end.Facebook - thefacebook.com
Dropbox - getdropbox.com
Delicious - del.icio.us
Twitter - twittr.comI'd suggest a tool like http://www.bustaname.com would help you out getting what you want.I recently did this very same thing with a domain and got something incredibly close to what I originally wanted. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | SapphireSun: This is pretty cool. However, I recommend not ranking people in a weight class that equals their weight (IE You are % of people who weigh x lbs) because here will not be enough samples at a specific weight. Try using intervals of 5 lbs. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | nbrochu: Got a little bug with location... For some reason, it thinks "Montreal, Canada" is located in Ontario, so I kind of warped your results without knowing.Also, and I know this is probably not intentional, but most people outside the United States will cringe when they see "and the rest of the world" with only a map of the states on the page.Other than that, I liked the results page and all the statistics it provided! |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | glymor: It's true, Chrome is the lightest browser: http://obesitynearme.com/browser/And Vista is indeed significantly heavier: http://obesitynearme.com/os/Also people from reddit are apparently fat: http://obesitynearme.com/referrer/(All results correct at time of publication) |
Review my mockup tool: WireframeSketcher | wallflower: The Eclipse Update system is horrid (especially when your copy of 3.3 is ancient). Nice work - it is one of the better Eclipse plug-ins I have used.Some points - since you are hosting this in Eclipse, it seems that you are focusing on developers. Most graphic designers won't touch Eclipse. Also most developers once they experience another IDE (IntelliJ, for example) find it harder to return.Maybe nitpicky but when I drag an object like a container or button into the screen canvas, it messes with my flow when I get an immediate edit box for the text attribute. I'd rather double-click to edit.Comparing with Balsamiq, one thing that I don't like about Balsamiq is you can't yet have named groups of items (e.g. all the navigation elements). Being able to have a reusable user-defined library of custom groups - e.g. new "Edit screen for editing Foo in module X" would differentiate mockup tools from the spawn of Visio.Grouping logically would be the difference between bitmap type editing and Illustrator-type editing. It would be nice to be able to have an outline tree view of elements organized in a hierarchy by UX intent. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | brown9-2: These datapoints are a little scary:- Your BMI is 26, which means you are Overweight- Your BMI is lower than 42% of people who submitted this survey- Your BMI is lower than 63% of 27 year olds- Your BMI is lower than 39% of people from news.ycombinator.com
Sounds as if the people sampled skew young and overweight.Tangentially, is there a better metric for something like this besides BMI? I recall some people having issue with BMI as a measurement, since it doesn't account for what your weight is composed of (fat vs muscle content).edit: for anyone else interested in the shortcomings of BMI, wikipedia seems to have a good summary: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_mass_index#Limitations_and... |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | SMrF: If this is to raise awareness, you might want to reword the stats. I found them slightly hard to parse."Your BMI is lower than 37% of people who submitted this survey."This might be better written as, "You are fatter than 60% of people who submitted this survey." Ouch.Also, if obesity is an epidemic then over time won't these results normalize? So I'm fatter than I should be but so is everyone else, so I don't look so bad in these results. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | jules: > Your BMI is lower than 97% of people who submitted this surveyAnd I'm much bigger than a few years ago... |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | heyitsnick: I can't seem to select any location from England, UK. Typing "England" gives me various options in the US and europe. Typing "London" gives me options in south africa and US. "london, england" returns no results. Similar issues trying my small town or county. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | thrdOriginal: My location was auto-populated as "Middletown, RI, US" - I manually changed it to be correct (Chicago, IL, US), but when I submitted the results page showed my % in terms of Middletown and in terms of RI. I was confused as to whether it was comparing me to RI for a reason, or if my Chicago input didn't stick. |
What personal metrics do you track? | urlwolf: only three things. I draw a line on a calendar and try not to break the line.
1- what I eat. Have I eaten at least 1 meal raw?
2- writing. Have I written for at least 2 hrs?
3- additional item. Last month it was learning colemak (done). Doing 2hrs of company promotion was another month's goal. This month, it's learning scipy well (2hr day) |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | glymor: On an individual basis waist-hip ratio http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist-hip_ratio is a better metric. BMI is a tool for populations as a whole. |
(Yet Another) HN Comment Quality Going Down? | adrianwaj: It'd be fairly straightforward for a browser plugin to hide according to a threshold (+ some rules). eg 1 point comments have to be more than 1 hour old to hit the threshold. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | arthurk: "Division by zero" error at http://obesitynearme.com/country/DE/ |
Founders from Non-IT/Programming Backgrounds | eliot_sykes: Many coders start out self-taught like you. I did, and then studied for an IT degree and got professional work.Here's a few things that I wasn't exposed to until I studied /turned professional - maybe some of these are the practices you are talking about?- Version Control (Git, CVS, Subversion, etc.)- Database design- Performance optimization- Caching- Design Patterns- Object oriented design- Unit testingMaybe you know these things already, but not knowing these things isn't going to stop you, none of those are worth losing sleep over, you'll pick up what you need on the way.However, if I had to pick one thing out of that list that I wish I'd encountered sooner it would be version control. |
help me think of a domain name | adrianwaj: I've got: c l e a n z a p . |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | sounddust: I don't know if you're interested in statistics from outside the US, but if so, you should offer the ability to enter height in meters (or cm) and weight in kg.Also, the A8 in "Paris, A8, FR" makes no sense, and it reminds me of those auto-geolocation ads that nonsensically say "Meet women in Paris, A8 now!" You should probably just drop the region altogether for most countries.Finally, I don't think you should show any aggregate data until you get at least 4-5 responses, as you're leaking individual info. For example, just from what I've posted in this comment, anyone can deduct my height and weight from the "stats" on the site, which is not what I expected from filling out a survey (in this case I don't really care, but I'm sure others would). |
Founders from Non-IT/Programming Backgrounds | hga: My advice is to read the literature; that's what I did when I quickly realized the limitations of my initial high school programming class (punched card FORTRAN IV on an IBM 1130 in 1977).That plus mentoring by the more experienced for a few years got me to at journeyman level in less than a decade. More reading, thinking and developing got me to master about two decades after I started. |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | eliot_sykes: Don't keep visiting the domain and make sure others who are involved don't visit it - the company is likely to monitor traffic and think there's more interest than there is which might push the price up a few $. |
Who's looking for employment? | empire29: ncarlson - have you checked out wsod.com in Boulder, CO? -- I have two friends that work there and they seem to be "always hiring" .. I believe theyre a .NET shop, but from the sounds of it as long as youre a decent dev you should have a fairly good shot. |
help me think of a domain name | eliot_sykes: Recommend you don't mention available domain names here to prevent sniping, private message Raj if you've got a good one. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | robin_reala: Can you get rid of the global letter-spacing? It’s OK for some titles, but it kills the browser’s built-in font kerning and makes everything harder to read. |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | ahi: first person to name a price loses.You can usually low ball a domain squatter because they only make money if their inventory sells. The domain isn't usually a revenue producing asset that would demand a high price on its own. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | rezrovs: I typed in my location as London, England but on the 'Your Results' page my location had been changed to Ilford K8, GB. It's very difficult to get it to show me the option for London, United Kingdom. |
Please seed my survey to raise awareness about obesity | rezrovs: And what use is the graph 'Obesity by Operating System'? |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | thinkbohemian: You can also use services such as http://www.sitevaluecalculator.com and http://www.rapidsitecheck.com to get a good feel of how much a domain is worth. It can give you some additional ammo in a domain name fight. |
Do you find this useful? | nudge: Link: http://x.minutes.at/ |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | jsatok: I bought a domain name for a project from BuyDomains. I offered 25% of what they had it listed at, and ultimately got it for that price.I had inquired a few times to purchase the domain, but never got very far with the negotiation.They sent me an email last summer advertising their "No Serious Offer Refused" sale. I responded with my offer, and was patient. Close to the end of the month, a sales rep called me back, and I found he was much more willing to a negotiate (probably to meet sales targets at the end of the month).The big take aways for me were to 1) be patient when dealing with them, 2) don't sound over eager to get the domain, and 3) commit to an amount you're willing to spend before going into the negotiation. |
Do you find this useful? | newobj: I think it's a pretty much perfect implementation of a service of this nature. Esp. like that I can use bookmarklets. How robust is your frame buster buster? I do get a slightly weird interaction when loading nytimes, at least in chrome. A killer feature would be pausing if you tab away, but I'm pretty sure there's no way to do this. Having said that, I don't really see myself using something to limit my time on a page. |
Do you find this useful? | mrphoebs: Great design, I don't see myself using it though, maybe a firefox plugin??? |
Do you find this useful? | chegra84: Brillant. It is simple and intuitive. I love it :D A lil work needed on the implementation though; when I clicked on a link in the same site, it disappeared, the timer that is. |
Do you find this useful? | Zev: Love the simplicity of the idea (and the implementation too, for that matter). The cancel button, however, doesn't cancel. |
Do you find this useful? | keefe: It's certainly an interesting idea. I'd get rid of the dialog boxes and just do a form, jquery makes that extremely easy. I'd honestly never use it. I clicked the link because I am very interested in making myself more aware of time, but I don't care to have my activities limited. Here's an example: I want to take a 5min break and read HN. I read HN mostly because occasionally, something new and useful shows up. This happens very rarely but when it does, I'll be there for 20min instead of 5. |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | gyardley: This advice worked for me when buying a domain recently:http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/02/27/how-to-buy-d... |
Specific feedback on GoDaddy / Rackspace | pedalpete: I've had Godaddy, Server Beach and The Planet. I wasn't that happy with the Godaddy because I found the management interface a real pain to figure out. Same with the reporting tools.I just bought an SSL cert yesterday from GoDaddy to use on my Server Beach server, and that brought back the memories of how difficult it is to get around inside godaddy's products.I really like the reporting features from The Planet, and the pricing was good. I just figured I'd try something else, and I've been pretty happy with Server Beach, but find I just run mpstat/ps to get server stats, rather than looking through a management console.As far as php mail(), my understanding is that it isn't the server that is necessarily the issue, but rather domain, and spam filtering.
I'm using http://swiftmailer.org for mail from php, and I've been quite happy with it (although I haven't actually launched the service yet, so I'll have to see how it goes).I can't comment on Rackspace because I haven't tried it yet, though I'm thinking of going Cloud if the project I'm currently working on gets traction. |
Specific feedback on GoDaddy / Rackspace | Rust: GoDaddy is great for domains and SSL certs. I don't deal with them for anything else, and I hate fighting my way through their upselling checkout process.I can't comment on Rackspace, but Layered Tech is in a similar space and I've dealt with them for years - great, great and more great :) |
Specific feedback on GoDaddy / Rackspace | aaroneous: Rackspace is NOT a good place for bootstrapped startups. They are relatively quite expensive and the services they provide towards their low-end clients are nothing like what their reputation is commonly based on (higher end sites).If you're not comfortable being a sysadmin and your webapp doesn't require a dedicated host, then go with a shared host that can easily scale your allocated resources. If you really need something more demanding, look elsewhere for managed hosting. |
How do you keep your energy? | scorpioxy: What works for me is the following:
- Exercise. I work out 3-4 times a week weight lifting and cardio. But any rigorous exercise would do.- Break down tasks into small chunks. Write them down or put them on your todo list. Work on one at a time.- Cross off one of your tasks a day. Even if it is very small, the point is making progress.- Rest. If you're tired and can't work, then there's no point in trying. Take a break, take a walk, go out, or get a good night's sleep. Try again the day after.- Take vacations. Muscles adapt to increasing amount of effort if you give them enough rest. Your mind doesn't shut down so take much longer to recuperate. Do something fun every once in a while. |
Specific feedback on GoDaddy / Rackspace | scorpioxy: I was hosting with GoDaddy but now only use them for domain registration. I'd say their managed service is for people who have a simple website to host. If you're looking for something specific from your environment, then any kind of shared hosting wouldn't be appropriate.I don't have any experience about Rackspace.Having said that, I now host on webfaction which is still a shared host but they're developer friendly and usually accommodate requests(libraries or apps on server) if it's reasonable enough. As a customer, I recommend them. |
Do you find this useful? | mailarchis: Its unlikely that people will visit sites with a timer on but they might be interested in knowing how much time they have spent on a site. So, instead of reverse timer a simple timer will probably do the work. Also it will be great to have it as a browser plugin |
iPad File Sync? | darkxanthos: Apple syncs music and movies without giving other apps an opportunity to do the same. I don't see this happening either, sorry. :( |
Specific feedback on GoDaddy / Rackspace | Travis: For SSL, you generally need a dedicated IP address, not a dedicated host. Newer versions of the protocol allow for multiple SSL certs on a single IP, but most places don't do that. If you have only 1 SSL cert, you probably are fine.Godaddy's servers are highly variable in performance. So you may have periods where your site is unusable.As a bootstrapped startup, you presumably have SOME money. I wouldn't use Godaddy just because they're cheapest, though -- spend your money on hosting before anything, as your website is your product. And as google reminds us, your website's performance is also part of your product. |
Specific feedback on GoDaddy / Rackspace | eapen: I would recommend Rackspace over GoDaddy anyday. But if you dont want to spend as much at Rackspace, a cheaper option (unless you require significant amount of resources) would be to go with Dreamhost.For a brief period, I hosted a site with SSL (about $4 additional per month for the SSL) with them and was happy. They did all the set-up or maybe they explained how to do it but it was enough that I forgot. You can also SSH into the server which can be quite helpful and they have options to use a whole instance with full administrative access and their support is remarkable.PS. I do not work for dreamhost - I just have had my best experience among webhosts with them for almost an year. |
help me think of a domain name | amac: I might have a proposition, email's in my profile. |
Founders from Non-IT/Programming Backgrounds | apowell: I'm self-taught -- bought Frontpage in 1998 and a PHP/MySQL book from Sitepoint a couple years later and did all the examples. Building a successful web business has very little to do with how well you know the newest languages, fanciest design patterns, or fastest algorithms. Those considerations are way, way far behind 1) does it work 2) is it usable and 3) did I ship it?Things that were non-obvious to me in the beginning: version control, database normalization, query optimization, and the importance of reliable infrastructure and testing your backups. |
Is anyone doing any significant work with the play framework? | dabeeeenster: We're building an app that will be going into production in the next few weeks. It's not a huge application, probably around 300 hours of work.Coming from a framework stack of WebWork/Struts2, Spring and Hibernate, it's a total breath of fresh air. Everything is there that you ask for, even nice little helper methods like encrypting strings, resizing images or serving byte arrays as documents.We keep expecting to find some big shortcoming that brings about loads of painful refactoring, but it hasn't happened yet!The templating engine is simple, clean and gets out of your way. The hot reloading really does work. The fact that there is NO XML configuration in our app is blissful and a real wake up call to how absurd Spring and Hibernate configuration used to be. The error messages are almost always enough to show you straight away where the problem is.The only downside is that it completely shuns the entire Servlet API (although I appreciate that this is where a lot of the simplicity comes from). As a result you cant leverage any servlet-based components. But maybe that's a good thing.I'm seriously impressed. I thought my company was going to have to make a jump to python or ruby to get such a clean, simple well thought through full-stack framework, but we dont. |
Do you find this useful? | wdewind: You need to lower/change the barrier to entry. I could see myself using it if it limited itself everytime I went somewhere (ie: 2 minutes for hacker news, since I check it too damn much), but there is simply no way I'm going to go to your site first and then enter it. The bookmarklet is a good attempt at a fix, but it really needs to be seamless and automatic. For me deciding how much time I need on a site each time I go to it requires a fair amount of thought and consideration, whereas I could get used to getting everything I need out of HN in 2 minutes unless I was there for a lengthy stay.Focus on an FF plugin maybe? |
How do I get the word out on my data mining report | kalendae: link to the data mining report: http://wiki.elograde.com/full:data-findings |
Ask IE users to install Google Chrome Frame: good or bad? | earnubs: Depends on the version of IE. For IE versions that a far out of date it would be reasonable to ask a user to upgrade. For current versions of IE it might only be reasonable in certain circumstances (security considerations maybe).Installing software is often impossible or very difficult in corporate environments though. |
Second-Best City to move for startups | brk: Boston meets all your criteria, except for cost of living.If you live in New Hampshire (like I do) you can commute to pretty much any place other than Boston proper, and reduce your COL significantly. And even that, I worked in Cambridge for a while and it was manageable if I avoided peak rush hour times.The majority of the startup activity isn't IN Boston anyway, it's in the general beltway between 495 and 128. |
Second-Best City to move for startups | Mz: Some years back, I knew someone with a hacker career who bought one of those "Best Places" books and used the CD that came with it to do some custom searches for someplace low cost, high tech. Much to their frustration and chagrin, no matter how they tweaked it, the results showing low cost places with good opportunities for high tech jobs strongly favored Texas.Obviously, the data is old. But I would think Texas is still your best bet for family-friendly prices and access to the tech scene. The state is quite large, so there are several large cities you could look at. All you would need to do would be to confirm this general trend, then check out which of the larger cities had the other factors you are looking for. (I personally would avoid Houston. It's horribly polluted. But that's just me.) So I don't think Austin is a bad idea at all.Good luck with this.EDIT: You can do some city comparisons here for free: http://www.bestplaces.net/ |
Second-Best City to move for startups | oakenshield: Atlanta. It's a huge metro with a fairly low cost of living. Fair winter weather (no snow) and the summers are alright too. Lots of smart kids from Georgia Tech, plenty of security-related startups, lots of finance companies, etc. I also recently learned of an early stage tech statup seed funding firm based here (Shotput ventures). |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | vorobei: Also check out http://domai.nr -- might get some good suggestions for alternatives. |
Second-Best City to move for startups | Scott_MacGregor: We moved to Austin to benifit from the much better tax structure and lack of red tape when operating compared to California. Texas is very business freindly on purpose. They focus on it, and so far seem to be doing a pretty good job of it.Austin is a nice place and the people are very nice, but in the summer the humidity and heat gets pretty bad. Too bad its not right on the ocean like California or Seattle. |
Internet timer for specific website? Urgent | ahmedaly: Thank you very much for the response.
I found another good software.Rescue time looks very good for me, for time management. :) |
What are the essential skills for a web developer? | jokull: You don't have to do everything. If you try to you will be overwhelmed and unless you're a genius it will become demotivating if you think you have to learn all of it.Do you want to work on large or small jobs?For large jobs you will need to know a lot about reliability, scalability and sometimes performance. PHP or whatever language you work with is only a small part of the puzzle.For small jobs you will have to know the browser quite well (CSS, JavaScript/JQuery). |
Second-Best City to move for startups | bradleyjoyce: Dallas!!! Our startup community has grown like crazy over the past year and just keeps getting better! We have cool stuff going on like ShopSavvy, Traxo, Swingly, Woopra and more! Check out http://launchdfw.com as well. feel free to ping me directly if you want to chat about it. |
What are the essential skills for a web developer? | taitems: Even as we move further away from the original JavaScript language with libraries built upon it, I think a good understanding of how JavaScript works allows you to work efficiently within them.While it's possible to "learn" jQuery, it's a much less arduous process if you already understand how JavaScript works on a core level. |
Second-Best City to move for startups | davidedicillo: Austin and Boulder are definitely active cities as far as Startups. NY and Boston are great too but living costs are pretty expensive. |
What are the essential skills for a web developer? | seasoup: What does be a web developer for open source mean?To be a web developer you should have knowledge of html, css, javascript, and ajax.You should understand table-based vs. css-based coding patterns. Cross browser issues, gzipping, js minification (yui, jsmin, closure), css minification, js and css file concatenation and why, learn a js library or two or three. Also learn sprites, and how forms work.You need to really, really learn javascript. Prototypical Object Oriented development, after you know and understand it, then feel free to insult it (or love it).Know which is quicker innerHTML or node creation and insertion (trick question!). Learn javascript development patterns. contribute to a javascript library.json, json is very important.There's a scattershot off the top of my head. |
What are good analytics numbers? | bradleyjoyce: you should look at everything... my personal order of importance:(1) Unique visitors
(2) Aggregate Visitors & Pageviews
(3) Stickyness (this is avg TOS, bounces, %new vs %returning etc)numbers are all relative as well.. ie, who cares about a 99% returning user rate if there are only 10 visitors per day. |
What are good analytics numbers? | nreece: Have you tried the Google Analytics Benchmarking feature: http://analytics.blogspot.com/2008/03/benchmarking-now-avail... It's pretty neat. It will give you a fair idea of where your website stands comparatively. |
What's with all the articles about scoring with women? | wgj: I think some people here view it as another system for hacking. |
What's with all the articles about scoring with women? | waterlesscloud: How many is "all"? There's been like 2 in 2 days, right? And the Ebert one came from the other one.This site has a lot of topics that generate 3-4 posts back and forth, then it dies out. No big deal. |
What are good analytics numbers? | _delirium: I guess it depends on your goals; I'm not sure there are really "normal" numbers. Some stuff explodes overnight, some grows over years. Some sites have relatively few, very profitable visitors; others a ton of less-profitable visitors. Some sites get all their traffic from word of mouth, others from Google, others from direct links.One first cut would be, is your main motivation profit or influence? Optimizing for readers who read your articles and then apply or disseminate what they read isn't quite the same as optimizing for ad revenue. Another one would be: do you intend to build a community around the site or not? |
Cheap Or Free Mass Text Message Services | nreece: Twilio comes to my mind - http://www.twilio.com |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | nreece: I've had good experience with SnapNames - http://www.snapnames.com I'll suggest you to try grab the domain yourself first, and if it fails then you can make an offer to the owner. |
Rate My StartUp's Latest Application - Yunno.com | keltecp11: Please note - I also am applying to DreamIt Ventures but I feel like the video demonstrates the product pretty well... looking forward to your feedback! |
What do you think of my site 40hr Monkeys | nfnaaron: Guilty pleasure. |
Second-Best City to move for startups | credo: I think Seattle is one of the top 3-4 cities for startups (in the US).As far as your criteria go, cost-of-housing etc. is going to be much lesser than SV, but much more than Austin. No state income tax, just a sales tax. Traffic congestion is pretty bad. Business pay 1.5% of total revenue (not profit) as B&O taxes to the state.Like the other top cities for tech-startups, heavily liberal in terms of politics. I vaguely remember reading some report that said that Seattle had a higher percentage of college-grads than every other major city in America. evergreen forests nearby, "you can ski in the morning and sail in the evening" is how my Microsoft recruiter described Seattle to me in the 90s :) |
What are the essential skills for a web developer? | vida: It's an interesting question. Here's my (admittedly incomplete) laundry list:* You should know (really really know) one language - preferably one conducive to writing web applications. PHP, Python, Ruby, Java and .NET seem to be the ones in vogue today. Perl, Haskell, Scheme, Smalltalk, as well as several others, will absolutely work too, but tooling seem to be somewhat a step behind, at least when compared w/ the ones in the first group. You should know Javascript. Not jQuery, Prototype, or MooTools. You should know web_developer.prototype.javascript.* You should have great communication skills. Arguably, the ability to clearly and eloquently express yourself is sine qua non for (being successful at) doing pretty much anything that involves other people but, given that the bar seems to be considerably lower for us folks in traditionally left-brain professions, I feel obliged to mention it.* You should have a knack for aesthetics, and be familiar w/ interface design and usability. You don't necessarily need to be able to produce aesthetically pleasing, usable anything, but you should be able to _know it when you see it_. And this is a lot less subjective than conventional wisdom would have you believe.* You should have an understanding of how to store and retrieve data, what sort of operations are expensive when querying, and be able to model at least simple schemas.* You should be able to write concise, uniform looking markup and css (or (and?) be familiar w/ the myriad use tools that can make this considerably easier for you).* You should enjoy it.Also Helpful:* A background in Comp Sci will presumably give you some knowledge of design patterns (more helpful than algorithms for most web development work out there today, in my experience), a familiarity w/ different languages and general approaches, and the ability to write somewhat decoupled, modular, testable code amongst a few others.* Being naturally curious, as well as enjoying it, will help you keep up with a fairly fast-evolving landscape of different standards, platforms and approaches. |
Rate My StartUp's Latest Application - Yunno.com | vegashacker: Seemed pretty solid. I'm not sure I believe there's a market, but there certainly could be. Has definitely viral potential as you demonstrated. I think you took way too long choosing a picture of pleading (that's not a comment on your app, just your demo video). |
How should I approach buying my ideal domain name? | wjr: Bidding at 25-35% of the original offer is something that worked for me in the past. Also a thing I found very useful is doing your initial offer from a alternative e-mail that doesn't have anything to do with you or your company, especially if you already have a established brand. Some reps research clients before proposing the price thus if you`re a "nobody" there`s a higher chance of getting a lower offer. |
When will PS3 be available again? | dzlobin: http://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-3-120-GB/dp/B002I0J4VQ/ref...first google result.
34 for sale just on that page |
When will PS3 be available again? | jac_no_k: I think a new version of Final Fantasy was released. It was probably a tipping point for many people to go out and buy a PS3. I'm still waiting for my killer app, GT5, to come out. |
What's with all the articles about scoring with women? | scorpioxy: I don't know about you, but I actually find them interesting. I like to have meaningful and deep discussions about "facts-of-life" and these kind of articles bring on such discussions. |
Rate My StartUp's Latest Application - Yunno.com | NZ_Matt: I like it. Many companies currently use facebook for competitions and giveaways without an easy way to manage them. This looks like a great solution to the problem as well as a nice way for them to increase brand exposure. |
Cheap Or Free Mass Text Message Services | rick_2047: In India we have carriers (like BSNL) who provide 5500 (ya that is five thousand five hundred) messages for Rs 55 (roughly $1.09965).That is relatively cheap. I am sure that there would be such carriers in your locality. Take help from a hardware hacker and setup an arduino to send your messages for you. |
a extra Starcraft beta key for a fellow HN'er? | coryl: Ooooh I love my starcraft 2 beta :DSorry, I've been playing on my younger brother's account, I have no idea how he got one. I think you just sign up and they send invites out in waves. Have you tried that yet? |
Review my app: BlogRadio | paraschopra: Fantastic design, fantastic intro. Well done.One minor comment: make 'Install now' a bit more prominent. Couldn't find it easily on the page.EDIT: On more point, your punchline "cloud based, streaming media for RSS" can probably be made more human-friendly. |
Review my app: BlogRadio | roundsquare: One point: I clicked install now and then hit cancel. It didn't cancel properly. I had to close the tab.The idea seems very cool though. |
What's with all the articles about scoring with women? | soyelmango: Hacker News is about more than just hacking code and computers. Social skills need to be learnt too, and learning other ways to do things, especially from those who've more experience, is surely a good thing.You might laugh at the idea of learning to be social from articles on the internet, but it's little different than learning from the internet about raising capital or good coding practices.And no, we didn't just hit puberty. However, it is spring, and the mating season has started for the animals, including humans. |
Review my app: BlogRadio | passthesalt: Another suggestion: Have a "try me now" button that plays a audio sample for ppl like me who are on the fence.I'm not too sure I like listening to blog posts instead of reading them. But great idea though! |
What's with all the articles about scoring with women? | lsc: this is part of the general 'frat boy club' feeling that I think YC might have. Hell, even PG says he prefers to go with athletes.I think this is driving off some people we probably don't want to drive off.I went to one of the YC presentations a while back, and I took my girl (She's an embedded systems programmer who is actually a /whole lot/ nerdier than I am; both in the sense that she is more skilled than I am with technology, and in the sense that she is less socially skilled than I am.) Anyhow, one of the founders was impressed by her, and wanted to recruit her. She ended up meeting the guy the next day, and my girl was really irritated, because the guy trying to recruit her kept going on about how they needed a woman to help make things move more smoothly on a social level, to add feminine energy to the startup, and other bullshit like that, rather than respecting her (rather impressive) credentials as a technical person.I mean, the guy ended up losing out on what would have been an excellent employee because he couldn't turn off his preconceived notions after meeting and talking to a person.That's the thing about stereotypes. We're all a little bit racist, and we're all a little bit sexist, but if you can't turn that off after someone proves that they understand what they are talking about, you have a problem that will cost you money. |
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