amarcus

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by amarcus 7y ago
This post title has caused it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341855
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by amarcus 7y ago
My two cents: 1) It should attempt to detect location and display that to the user. 2) You can save locations but, these are lost on refresh. 3) No way to specify Celsius. 4) It's not a very simple service. I should be able to bookmark
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Ask HN: Looking to create a plugin marketplace for my webapp. Any advice
15 points by amarcus 8y ago|4 comments
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by amarcus 8y ago
We do it via a one-line javascript snippet. eg: <script src="//example.com/blah/widget.js?id=xxxxxx"></script> widget.js is a server side script that creates the widget and echo's it out.
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by amarcus 10y ago
Cap Tables aren't usually private. I don't recommend advertising it on your website but, certainly, any new investors will need/want to see it before committing.
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Qbaka to shut down service on Nov First(blog.qbaka.com)
3 points by amarcus 11y ago|0 comments
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by amarcus 11y ago
In my opinion, a Soft Developer is one who mainly just writes code. Whereas, a Soft Engineer is somebody who looks after the project end-to-end (requirements gathering, coming up with a solution and then coding it)
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by amarcus 11y ago
Wouldn't this mean setting up a VPN on the phone and having all traffic routed through mobileadblock.com's servers? In this day and age of NSA, privacy and spying - not sure too many users will be up for that.
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by amarcus 11y ago
Why?
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by amarcus 11y ago
I am unsure if any such pre-built solutions exist but, we have created something similar for our app. A user can setup an unlimited number of different API Keys for their account. For each API Key, we allow them to specify: - Name/Desc
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by amarcus 12y ago
If HN isn't your target demographic, the answers here are going to be really skewed. Social signup is very much preferred (we have a number of iOS & Android apps targeting consumers) and social login makes up around 82%.
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by amarcus 12y ago
Suggestion: Get rid of the Hacker News reference in your header. I think that most people who don't know about HN will run away when they see "Hacker" in the title. You are limiting your audience. If you must, it might be bes
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by amarcus 12y ago
Looks like it's broken. I just randomly entered some information: http://imgur.com/ZWpC6rL $110k yearly salary + $16k income from rent. Own a $500k house with no debt. Potential for a $1m exit and 5% annual increase in
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by amarcus 12y ago
My startup provides email marketing services. This is something we have always wanted to add into our product. We have looked at other services such as Litmus but, have not yet decided on a direction. Some questions for you: 1) Can I white
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by amarcus 12y ago
You can type "help" to see a list of all commands.
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by amarcus 12y ago
Doesn't seem to work on FB Fan Pages. I suspect that majority of your users will be small business owners looking for a social media dashboard. I have been looking for something like this to connect all my startups social accounts into
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by amarcus 12y ago
Would be good to allow you to order by position on the front page as well as total number of votes on the stories. It will allow you to see that even though github is sitting at number one as the most on the front page, they might only be a
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by amarcus 12y ago
It would be good if it faded into the next song rather than have the 1-2 sec delay while it switches to the next video.
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by amarcus 12y ago
Those charts are confusing. They appear dynamic but, it's just images.
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by amarcus 12y ago
First, make sure you have a product with traction and uses cases of it being used. Make a nice slide deck. Make a list of investors you want to target. Look them up on LinkedIn & Angelist. See if you have any shared connections and try
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by amarcus 12y ago
I really like that you start the videos in the middle of the clip rather than at the very beginning.
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by amarcus 12y ago
The Feedback tab on the side of the page looks a lot like it says "Facebook". Why is pricing based on impressions? Wouldn't it make sense for it to be based on actual feedback collected?
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by amarcus 12y ago
To be pedantic - they didn't slash their price. It's still the same. They are now just offering additional space.
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by amarcus 12y ago
Publicly shame them. That seems to send companies into overdrive to correct errors & issues.
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by amarcus 12y ago
The text should be flowing and not just random words next to each other. I should be typing sentences and not individual words.
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by amarcus 12y ago
I understand what you are after but, I don't think it exists. We looked for something very similar for use as an Email Campaign builder for our clients - ability for them use drag-and-drop to build content that would then produce the h
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by amarcus 12y ago
FB's recommendation engine looks at the contacts shared by their users. If they see you in a friends address book, it will recommend them to you. I think it looks at name, location, email, cell etc... to make the connections. As well a
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by amarcus 12y ago
I wouldn't consider this as an example of having lost money. You built something with the intent of acquiring knowledge (Rails). It's also something that you use. I would say that it's a success based on your original goals f
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by amarcus 12y ago
This link has a few examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7122999
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by amarcus 12y ago
This exact thing happened to me last week. I asked for a reference number and then called the bank on their official number. Quoted the reference and they transferred me to the person I was speaking with.

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