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by ctek 13y ago
PageBlox ( https://www.pageblox.com/ ) earns about $300 a month and is growing steadily... The hardest part has been SEO and marketing, something I am still quite new at.
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by ctek 13y ago
I created a simple SaaS app, https://www.pageblox.com/ that makes $300 dollars a month. I think that in a year or slightly more it could break a thousand a month if I market aggressively. I think I was able to pull it off b
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How niche is too niche?(pageblox.com)
1 points by ctek 13y ago|0 comments
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In a world without CSS...(pageblox.com)
2 points by ctek 13y ago|0 comments
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by ctek 13y ago
Google in Poland does work on interesting work from what I've read... search and gmail for example.
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by ctek 14y ago
It is more difficult to forge a stamped receipt, true. As to whether it proves that you purchased the item is debatable because both a receipt and a stamped receipt can be easily forged. The question is: is it necessary? Tally up all the ma
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by ctek 14y ago
Can anyone explain European rubber stamp-fetishism? Has there ever been a study done showing that rubber stamping practically everything (20 euro purchase at an electronics store) is effective in preventing forging of documents? To an outsi
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by ctek 14y ago
I was working on my niche web app, http://www.pageblox.com for many months and was at times (when feeling overly optimistic) extremely delusional about how much I would make when I turned on payments. The truth is, you have _no idea_ what
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JS Bin - Collaborative JavaScript Debugging(jsbin.com)
2 points by ctek 14y ago|0 comments
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by ctek 14y ago
We have an extensive JavaScript codebase at the large corporation I work at and by simply enforcing the use of ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode and verifying with JSLint we are able to catch most potential issues but then again, nobody there is wri
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by ctek 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_the_Roman_Empire#Lea...
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by ctek 14y ago
Great niche idea however why isn't the site targeting specific keywords to drive traffic?
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by ctek 14y ago
Seems like an attempt to drive traffic to the Jelastic site through content farming (blog posts targeting keywords, etc.). As least they could use authors who know what they are writing about. Doesn't cast Jelastic in a good light...
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by ctek 14y ago
Impressive, but be very careful going up against established players such as Balsamiq because you will have a difficult time competing. I am not sure if you want to one day make this a paid app, but if you do, think about developing and mar
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by ctek 14y ago
Interesting. How many unique views a month does your site get now and what kind of conversion rates are you seeing? I am planning to launch a paid version of my app, http://www.pageblox.com and my potential customers are also developers/d
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by ctek 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback, PageBlox is not meant to be a tool for professional or even novice web developers. It allows someone who has no experience with html/css to create a functioning cross-browser compatible layout and build on top of th
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Show HN: my weekend project, PageBlox (pageblox.com) (pageblox.com)
42 points by ctek 14y ago|10 comments
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by ctek 14y ago
I created https://www.pageblox.com , a layout tool for web designers. I've been getting between 1500-2000 uniques a month, so when I turn on the paid version, I should be making at least a few hundred a month depending on how the conversio
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by ctek 14y ago
I have to admit that more than anyone else, Amy and Patrick inspired me to create my minimum viable product, https://www.pageblox.com which is currently an html/css layout creator. It may end up turning into a CMS, or evolve into a featur
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by ctek 15y ago
This is one of the oldest tricks in the book. The question to ask is: who doesn't do this?
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by ctek 15y ago
The should seem obvious to most, but the problem with countries that have laws that "protect" workers (as in Poland, where I've been working for the past several years) is that such laws dramatically suppress wages and job creation. You can
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by ctek 15y ago
just added tinymce editor...
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by ctek 15y ago
thanks for the heads up, I just did
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by ctek 15y ago
Thanks for checking out the code. I am aware that JavaScript's "bad parts" are used throughout. This is of course a prototype built rather quickly. In the end all of this will be done using backbone.js (and will be much faster). If I approa
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by ctek 15y ago
yes, this is the next feature I will implement
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by ctek 15y ago
I have considered that but I would like as much of the UI as visible as possible, nothing hidden. I would like to make a decision as to show controls on hover (or not) based on some measurable usability testing.
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by ctek 15y ago
that was tricky to implement so for now I used buttons... it's on my to-do list
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by ctek 15y ago
thanks for the feedback, very helpful. I am thinking about what kind of new features to add and I would like to keep the features to an elegant minimum. HTML5 tags would be nice but I don't want to overwhelm the user with a cluttered UI.
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by ctek 15y ago
...a project that showcases my JavaScript skills. I am looking for consulting work so please contact me if you need a front-end designer/developer
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Show HN: my weekend project, PageBlox(pageblox.com)
134 points by ctek 15y ago|32 comments

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