danielstudds

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Smile first, then market - every day(danielstudds.com)
1 points by danielstudds 13y ago|0 comments
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Sending confirmation emails using Node.js and postmark(traceemailstudio.com)
1 points by danielstudds 13y ago|0 comments
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Intuitive email for your web app(traceemailstudio.com)
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by danielstudds 13y ago
ugh, yeah, newb mistake: forgot any sort of tracking. Probably will do some spend.
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Startup challenge: build an email list of 500 prospects from nothing in 60 days(danielstudds.com)
1 points by danielstudds 13y ago|2 comments
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by danielstudds 13y ago
There's definitely demand, and you should be able to get decent wedge if you're any good at it. The reason why there's a race to the bottom on freelance sites is precisely because there's demand: a large number of people who are just in it
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Ask HN: submitting other people's libraries to npm / bower / jam / etc?
2 points by danielstudds 13y ago|1 comments
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by danielstudds 13y ago
Nice examples of traction! How'd you land the Nike deal? Any money change hands? To make decent suggestions about where you should focus, we'd need to understand your motivations. What are your aims? Which is more likely to get you there? (
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by danielstudds 13y ago
Is this similar to https://github.com/NYTimes/Emphasis ? What's new?
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by danielstudds 13y ago
Really, who cares? It's on pirate bay, it's been downloaded 100,000 times: if you want it, it's out there. "Liberty" has already been achieved! Hooray!
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Ask HN: I can't read code indented with 2 spaces: do I need glasses?
3 points by danielstudds 13y ago|7 comments
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by danielstudds 13y ago
I have a bookmark folder "to read" which would be better named "I don't really care about this". The best system I found was similar, but just suited my habits better: if I find an article I wanted to read but not right then, I send it to m
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by danielstudds 13y ago
"But information overload isn’t the problem. If it was, you’d walk into a library and die." http://www.gtdtimes.com/2010/02/11/the-problem-is-not-inform...
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by danielstudds 13y ago
Wow, that's impressive - often I struggle to recall the details of what I've read - setting a written product of an objective would be useful. This must take a lot of discipline... how long did it take you to establish this habit?
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by danielstudds 13y ago
I've not quite had this experience, but similar, and agree - if you've got what they want, then they'll be happy to receive your call. (As long as you're polite about it!)
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by danielstudds 13y ago
Agree that tech is myopic... or perhaps it's just a segment of tech - there are a lot of tech people working happily for those large PS firms you mention.
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by danielstudds 13y ago
Ah, I wish this were so easy! Perhaps it's a certain lack of kahunas, but I never felt like it would be appropriate to ask the recruitment agent if I can swing by... plus, now in my consulting gig (sub-contractor) I get a call, hop on a pla
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by danielstudds 13y ago
PDF generation is a complex business... you're not going to be all things to all people, you need to choose a particular niche (at least to start with) and make that work. I can see the value prop in report generation on SF. "PDF Generation
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Wrexham call centre staff fly to New Zealand to cover night shifts(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by danielstudds 13y ago|0 comments
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by danielstudds 13y ago
I work in the DOCCM (Document Output for Customer Communications Management) space, which in a certain light is just generating PDFs (well, perhaps a bit more complex than that...). Enterprise deals in this space will have 6 or 7 zeros, so
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by danielstudds 13y ago
Congrats on quitting the job! Now... down to the real work! Find your customers first. If you know who they are, then you've got a chance to validate the idea. If you don't, then you can't.
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by danielstudds 13y ago
Finding the same thing with node.js, I got started OK with passport thanks to the examples for passport-local: https://github.com/jaredhanson/passport-local/tree/master/ex... , especially express3-mongoose-multiple-files. Beyond that thoug
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by danielstudds 14y ago
I'm 9 months in to my startup (consultancy/product combo for enterprise), probably 2 weeks from having the first signed deal. I quit my day job June 2012. Then I wasted 6 months spinning my wheels. What got me back on track? patio11 ( http:
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by danielstudds 14y ago
A standard defined by an RFC will be a win for consumers, not sure if it'll be a win for companies though. If whatsapp can create a monopoly and make money from it, that's a win for them.
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by danielstudds 14y ago
This has been my experience - every organisation I've left has got by irritatingly well without me. The ones without solid metrics to measure success just fudge the metrics anyway; the ones with solid metrics notice quickly what they need t