apowell

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by apowell 15y ago
I'll throw in my endorsement for the Steelcase Leap. I've had mine for three years and I'm very happy with it. Well worth the price.
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by apowell 15y ago
Do you have a particular chair you recommend? I've been looking for a lounge chair for exactly this purpose. Something comfortable, attractive, well-built, and under $1200.
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by apowell 15y ago
Definitely. In Twilio, you assign each phone number a URL that handles inbound calls. Create the Twimlet forwarding URL and paste it into Twilio as the "Voice Request URL". Once you do that, your calls will be forwarded. You can provision a
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by apowell 15y ago
Twilio with calls routed to the free call forwarding Twimlet. $1/number/month, plus $0.03/min. The free $30 credit will keep you going for a long time. http://www.twilio.com/ http://labs.twilio.com/twimlets/forward
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by apowell 15y ago
Microformats are still supported, but they've been replaced by HTML5 microdata. If you're developing a new website, microdata is the way to go. The microdata schemas supported by the three major search engines are documented at http://www
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by apowell 15y ago
Shameless self-promotion - CallRail ( http://www.callrail.com ) provides call tracking numbers that are perfect for these tests. Give it a try, and feel free to contact me directly if I can help (andy at callrail dot com).
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by apowell 15y ago
I believe you can do this via the eNom reseller API. http://www.enom.com/download/DomainsQuickStartENom.pdf
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by apowell 15y ago
It's a bit noisier than pure SERP position, but tracking actual weekly traffic from transactional keywords should naturally normalize the value of SERP gains across keywords of differing popularity and rank.
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by apowell 15y ago
MSN.com will often include direct links to Bing searches relevant to articles or news items. If you rank well for the linked term, then you'll see a traffic spike. For me, the pattern has been a massive traffic spike for a single keyword
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by apowell 15y ago
I hope the following is helpful. If you want rainbows and butterflies, avert your eyes now... I don't see anything about this site that makes me want to type in my personal info, and the "schtick" is a turn-off. Are you, or have you previ
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by apowell 15y ago
I agree with this. Our daughter is 10 months old now. Originally I had a separate home office, but even that wasn't separate enough for me. I felt compelled to help -- it's tough to be at home, knowing that you can get up and help, and n
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by apowell 15y ago
I love this concept, and I can see my business using it. We have three team members, so I'm surprised you consider us an Enterprise. I'd be more comfortable if you called us a "Business" or an "Agency". And should a true enterprise be ca
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by apowell 16y ago
I'm in your target market, though I'm not as serious as many. My thoughts: 1. Figuring out how to register without Facebook was way too tough. I had to find two links that were indistinguishable from the rest of the text. 2. What is "Brand
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by apowell 16y ago
I use Quickbooks as well. I entered everything by hand until we started exceeding a couple hundred transactions per month. Now I import transactions from the bank and reconcile against the paper statements each month. I was anti-bookkeepi
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by apowell 16y ago
By suggesting several possibilities, you're saying "these times really do work for me, so if you pick one, we're set, you can put it on your calendar". When you say "let me know when works for you", you're still leaving open the possibilit
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by apowell 16y ago
While your fear of hidden code is probably well-founded, I don't think it's piracy to redistribute the WooThemes. They have been released under the GPL. ( http://www.woothemes.com/2009/06/woothemes-gpled/ and http://www.woothemes.com/ter
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by apowell 16y ago
1) I clicked a ton of shirts; does it ever end? Where are the suggestions? 2) I clicked "help" and got nothing. Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, all on a Mac. 3) Could you preload the next comparison so the site is snappier? If the next comp
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by apowell 16y ago
Will a backup created in 1.0.28 still be de-duplicated against backups created in previous versions of Tarsnap?
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by apowell 16y ago
Perhaps those are good ideas, but they don't sound right for you right now. Building a network-effect business that requires buy-in from Paypal and/or national brands? I can't think of much that's tougher or more speculative. You should c
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by apowell 16y ago
Don't be wrapped up in creating the next Paypal. A very small business can be a big thing for you and your family. Once you've created a healthy income from full-time self-employment, then you can start changing the world. I've known from
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by apowell 16y ago
Very true. And with the Amazon iPhone app, you don't even have to leave to finish your purchase. Just scan the barcode, purchase, and continue enjoying your coffee.
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by apowell 16y ago
It'll be tough to avoid supporting the hardware. If it's provided by you and used to run your application, then you're going to get the support calls. You can push the client to call the hardware vendor ("we don't support hardware, read yo
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by apowell 16y ago
Yeah, it's probably a bit late for that with current customers that have given you an explicit denial.
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by apowell 16y ago
I've never done it, but I suspect the easiest way to get "permission" (and I use the term loosely) is to add a section to your standard T&Cs, which customers agree to when they sign up, that allows you to identify current customers in y
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by apowell 16y ago
I work at home with my wife and six-month old daughter, and that list describes our Amazon buying habits very accurately.
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by apowell 16y ago
If it isn't too late to select a payment gateway that supports a secure vault, perhaps Recurly.com would fit your needs? Personally, I don't know of any services that provide only the vault without the gateway or billing logic attached. Pl
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by apowell 16y ago
I checked out SEOmoz, but I didn't know they offered an ad-hoc rank checker until you pointed it out. PRO members can check 100 ad-hoc rankings per day, which isn't quite enough for us on a busy day (a 3,000/mo quota would likely be plenty
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by apowell 16y ago
Returning things in a different order is a total deal-breaker, and the mere possibility of that happening makes me wonder if screen-scraping is the only way to get reliable data. All the factors you mention do influence ranking (local, pref
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by apowell 16y ago
How are you going to handle gathering model releases for the individuals in the photos? For example, iStockPhoto has detailed requirements on which photos require a model release ( http://www.istockphoto.com/tutorial_9.0_modelrelease.php )
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Ask HN: Search Engine Rank Checking API?
9 points by apowell 16y ago|10 comments

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