djhomeless

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by djhomeless 13y ago
Also with you on this. The checkout flow is deliberately misleading. Sorry Mr. VC, you DID do your homework and the fact that you still invested is telling. First off, what is the "happy path" on this checkout page? Right, totals
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by djhomeless 14y ago
No, it's a bonus, which has to be applied for. I take it from the CEO's comments that they were not clear about the T&C's, but my point was that for all of us working for under-funded companies or projects, it takes a lot of nerve to cr
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by djhomeless 14y ago
Seriously, for all of us out there bootstrapping startups or working for companies struggling to raise funding, this all comes across as petty. $10k is a lot of money. I'm glad Josh is donating the money to charity, but the onus was on him
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by djhomeless 15y ago
I did something a bit more extreme for over a year - and I have a family to contend with. But I wasn't coding, mainly product dev a(wireframes, specs, etc) and some hacking. Schedule was: - Hang w/family from the time I got home until their
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by djhomeless 15y ago
Indeed - didn't business.com sell for $1M a few years ago?
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by djhomeless 15y ago
I think what he means is silly is that the post only focuses on the $1/2M spent on the domains vs the amount of expectation the company had pre-launch. With $41M, color has more than enough cash to pivot onto something that will work - but
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by djhomeless 16y ago
Will the password nazis please go home? Sure, your shell account, bank website, ebay/amazon password should be very secure, secure to the point of not needing to be prompted, but does every site on the net, ie your blog, twitter, etc, need
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by djhomeless 16y ago
As pointed out by mbesto, the UK system is pretty slick, and could be refined down to just two fields, however it would require breaking the standard flow of address input forms. With a street number, and a zip/postal code, you can get Stre
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by djhomeless 16y ago
No, I've gotten burned twice by a Paypal transaction, but in both cases while I won the battle (dispute) I lost the war because both account holders took out the money from their accounts. In one case I was able to find the guys new Paypal
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by djhomeless 16y ago
lol, nice try.
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Rate my startup: nsyght.com - archival search/searchable lists for Twitter
2 points by djhomeless 16y ago|0 comments
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by djhomeless 16y ago
Your site seems to be down...
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by djhomeless 16y ago
"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone" Granted FB's first homepage was ugly, but as other have commented solid engineering != good design skills. We've all been there. ;)
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by djhomeless 16y ago
I don't think any one approach is right or wrong, but for me Facebook+Twitter drive 3-4x more traffic to my site than Google. Getting good google "juice" is important, but not as important as it was a few years ago.
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by djhomeless 16y ago
Good lord, I'm an idiot. I was about to close the browser until I saw your comment :)
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by djhomeless 16y ago
You don't need a real location. There are tons of services on the web where you can use a "virtual" location or the address of the service with the Companies House. I think lost in all this is regardless how easy it is to create a company i
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by djhomeless 16y ago
I guess I would question the value in striving for high PR. Modern SEO is far more about engaging with the social scene than hunting down obscure link directories/blogs. If you have a cool service, then find a way to get people to tweet abo
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by djhomeless 16y ago
I've always had a high opinion about Ron despite never meeting the man. After reading this, it makes you want him as an investor that much more...
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by djhomeless 16y ago
Texas? Hehe, London as well, also hail from Texas. :)
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by djhomeless 16y ago
I'm accessing HN from the UK...
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by djhomeless 16y ago
I used them when I bought a minified url for my site using the Haiti TLD. Seriously they have good reach ;)
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by djhomeless 16y ago
Nice resource, thanks! You should also add iwantmyname.com, a good resource with excellent internationalization support...
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by djhomeless 16y ago
If you need your customer to define your product strategy, you're in the wrong business. But listening to your customer to decide whether your product benefits from cup holders instead of cigarette lighters is just refining your strategy.
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by djhomeless 16y ago
I guess I'm kind of in the middle on this one. I love the concept of the ipad, but hate the closed nature of the platform and am wary of Apple pushing yet another device that pimps the appstore. However, I felt the same about the AppleTV an
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by djhomeless 17y ago
I've used homeopathy here in the UK and it does work. However, I seriously doubt any GP here would refer someone to a homeopath unless already suggested by the patient. Different strokes for different folks you know? It's not for everyone.
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by djhomeless 17y ago
Yeah, its one of those names that you think we are idiots, until you make the connection, then you think we are amazing. Well ok, maybe not amazing. Any feedback on the product?
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by djhomeless 17y ago
Huh? oauth hello? It's not exactly rocket science to implement
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Review my startup: nsyght.com - realtime social graph aggregation
4 points by djhomeless 17y ago|3 comments
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by djhomeless 17y ago
I haven't tried any of these options, mainly because we use Nutch and CPU intensive stuff tends to get a bit pricey. Haven't looked @ Mosso though...
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by djhomeless 17y ago
Wow, combining my favorite bookmarklet with my favorite news site. Well done!

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