JayNeely

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by JayNeely 9d ago
The article says this isn't an issue for subdomains of established domains, but the issues it describes match what we experienced setting up a game wiki for Cyber Knights: Flashpoint at https://cyberknightswiki.tresebrothers
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by JayNeely 4mo ago
This is a common issue for game communities too. Discord works better for bringing together game communities not only because it's a more active and responsive experience, but because it's a centralized platform where users are al
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by JayNeely 2y ago
I'm working with a game studio that's self-hosting their most recent game (Cyber Knights: Flashpoint)'s wiki for the first time: https://cyberknightswiki.tresebrothers.com/ It's going well content-wise,
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by JayNeely 4y ago
I canceled Soylent a couple of years ago after two silently-failing billing errors within a year and a rude customer service response. Looking for replacements, I ended up going with Huel. It's been fine; I have had a couple of bad bat
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by JayNeely 8y ago
I'd encourage you to expand the book-promoting paragraph to include a bit more info / some interest-generating hooks about what the book offers that the article itself hasn't already provided. If you really want to make this
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by JayNeely 9y ago
Well for one, the trend is hugely toward people consuming media on mobile devices, where resources like processor power and battery life are much more limited and unsuited to effective crypto mining than even a standard PC is.
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by JayNeely 9y ago
Why do you feel it didn't really generate revenue? What would you do differently if you were going to do it again?
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by JayNeely 9y ago
Could you talk a bit about what you've done to promote it? Or has it been a hands-off, 'whatever traffic the marketplace provides organically' kinda thing?
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by JayNeely 9y ago
I'm curious if other assistive software solves this need at the OS level, or if you other similar tools are already known to the community that it would be useful for. Windows has built-in speech control that lets you scroll and click,
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Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
503 points by JayNeely 9y ago|452 comments
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by JayNeely 10y ago
Would you be able to spend four weeks in Boston? We have an EdTech accelerator here, LearnLaunch, with a program specifically for scaling startups that are already growing after achieving product-market fit: http://learnlaunch.co
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by JayNeely 10y ago
The Name of the Wind, and The Wise Man's Fear -- great fantasy books by Patrick Rothfuss.
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by JayNeely 10y ago
Hey team, it'd be nice if the landing page actually explained what the software is, not just the benefits of it. Is it an embeddable video player (and if so what am I being asked to download) or is it a desktop video player (and if so
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by JayNeely 10y ago
I've relied heavily on search traffic / SEO, because it provides ongoing benefit even if I step away from it for a while. It's an easy fit for the information-focused sideprojects I've typically created, providing the co
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by JayNeely 10y ago
"you get the same response rate when you write one-sentence cover letters as you do when you put a lot of effort into them" is faulty thinking. There are many reasons an employer might not be interested in an applicant, and many r
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by JayNeely 10y ago
Did you negotiate royalties with individual content providers at the beginning, or find the content through a marketplace of some kind? I'm wondering how you can find good content cheap enough to be profitable at $2/month.
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by JayNeely 10y ago
https://protonmail.com/
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by JayNeely 10y ago
Because IP addresses are often shared resources. Your ISP gives each customer an IP address (often a temporary one), and then that customer's router system handles assigning private, local-network-only IP addresses to any devices conne
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by JayNeely 10y ago
I was writing about this for some friends recently. A lot of people don't "get" twitter because it's a very multi-purpose tool; it's not built around a central use case. I find there are 5 useful ways to think about
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Publishers fearing Facebook dependency: fight for your future, reinvent RSS(medium.com)
6 points by JayNeely 10y ago|0 comments
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by JayNeely 10y ago
If I spend my grandmother's retirement fund on lottery tickets, maybe I'll win her a lot more money, maybe I won't -- should I try? Of course the likelihood of effectiveness matters. As does the potential harm you're ris
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by JayNeely 10y ago
http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15226/should-a-sentenc...
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by JayNeely 10y ago
So basically, I install a browser extension, do social sign in so you get my friends list, and now any time I go to a page not previously in my browser history, it's anonymously added to the feed of any of my friends who also have the
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by JayNeely 10y ago
With Amazon's Subscribe & Save option available for a lot of the major brands' anti-dandruff shampoos, I think your idea really banks on being able to create a better (and better-known) brand than them. How will you out-compet
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by JayNeely 10y ago
1) What legal risks are you taking on in providing this service, and how will you offset them? Providing the wrong information (two people with the same name, user input error you didn't validate, analytics calculation error, etc.), do
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by JayNeely 10y ago
Are you aware of / how are you different than BevSpot ( https://www.bevspot.com/ )? They seem to be solving this problem from the restaurant management side, which builds the demand-side of the marketplace, making it eas
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by JayNeely 10y ago
1) Love the idea of repurposing residential garages, but are these spaces as available (with all the criteria for your needs, like bathroom access) / convertable as you think they'll be? 2) Is the plan for home owners to clear the
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by JayNeely 10y ago
1) What user inputs do you need, for this to work well, and what's the process for getting them? 2) Let's say I open up Gmail, spend about an hour writing 5 emails to 4 different people about 3 different projects. Could you wal
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by JayNeely 11y ago
Could you talk about how you're promoting on social media? Are you building relationships with influencers and getting promoted to their audiences, or have you found tactics / channels to drive traffic directly that works well for
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by JayNeely 11y ago
1) 99 Designs for Voice Acting. Particularly for videogames / commercial video production, there's a lot of small parts that are strictly scripted, and where I'd imagine it's inefficient to spend a lot of time searching

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