dustyreagan

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by dustyreagan 7y ago
I'm building a math practice site covering topics from simple arithmetic to second order differential equations. The idea is that to get better at (or intuit) math you have to practice. I'm trying to incorporate some Skinner Box t
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by dustyreagan 7y ago
A math practice website called https://studycounts.com . I’m trying to combine randomly generated math practice problems with addictive Skinner box-ish gaming elements. Skinner box for self improvement is the idea.
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by dustyreagan 9y ago
I'd hoped to make something for the "lazy developer." I use the service for counts that don't fit in to any of my apps models, because it's easy to create new counts (just change the URL), and because it exposes the
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by dustyreagan 9y ago
The catalyst for this project is my frustration with popular tracking and A/B testing products being overly cumbersome. I'm not sure how many developers share my frustration, but my hope is there is a market for a simple RESTful c
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Show HN: Count.io – A simple counting and A/B testing API(count.io)
11 points by dustyreagan 9y ago|3 comments
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by dustyreagan 10y ago
I hacked this site together to help me purchase gift cards that my friends and family can use easily, and not have to drive out of their way to redeem. I feel like the messaging of what the site does is hard to convey, but I hope you find i
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Show HN: Find gift cards redeemable near your recipient's address(giftcardsnear.com)
4 points by dustyreagan 10y ago|1 comments
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by dustyreagan 11y ago
Why did you choose to broker through feinternational, vs say flippa?
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by dustyreagan 12y ago
This is interesting, but I wonder what the results would be if you compared the dog, and baby, to your best friend. In other words, I wonder if the dog would have closer matching results to the baby, or the friend.
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Should the government pay you to be alive?(bostonglobe.com)
5 points by dustyreagan 13y ago|0 comments
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
Accidental product success, followed by accidental PR success. Half of HN would kill for this kind of luck, and this poor guy doesn't want it... Which makes it even more interesting!
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
I downloaded my raw data and took screenshots of my results just in case they get shut down. :(
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
I think it's a brilliant idea. Popular estimator sites are making real passive income, in that there's not much work to be done after launching. The snag is this market is saturated and there is a low barrier to entry to keep comp
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
All Twitter API methods require authentication now-a-days. https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
Got a source?
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
That's it! Thanks! :)
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Ask HN: What was the cool flipping credit card form posted recently?
1 points by dustyreagan 13y ago|4 comments
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
Not even kidding, people have suggested I add a "shoot your friends to unfollow them" feature to Friend or Follow as a joke. There's nothing new under the sun. Great implementation. Maybe default the music to off.
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
Skewing the data! ;)
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
Yeah, see I'm kind of torn, because GET just makes it so dang simple. POST requests, though semantically correct, add a small amount of overhead to implementing the counter. I'm not really concerned with spiders, as the URLs are i
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
Thanks! I appreciate that! :)
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
I added an IncrementBy and DecrementBy variable you can pass in your POST request, and update the documentation. How's that work for ya'?
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
I think that's the way to go for the public URLs. I'm going to leave it up to the user to come up with a unique group name though.
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
Agreed. I updated the site and docs. Thanks! :)
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
Yeah, ok. I agree with that. I changed incrementing and decrementing operations to POST requests only, and updated the documentation. Thanks for the feedback!
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
The idea was to make something easier than booting up a database. Personally, I just needed a semi-persistent count that I could discard later. This fit the bill for me, and being able to retrieve the counts via JSON, I can easily add them
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
The idea was to launch the proof of concept with public URLs, then if I discovered people were interested, create private URLs. Thing is private URLs require an authentication system, which is fine, but I didn't want to overdevelop the
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
I was doing some usability testing in one of my webapps and needed a simple way to count conversions. There are lots of A/B testing solutions out there, but I just wanted a persistent count I could increment on specific user actions. S
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Show HN: I made a simple persistent counting API(arbitrarycounter.com)
54 points by dustyreagan 13y ago|41 comments
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by dustyreagan 13y ago
I wonder if services like this will become more popular?

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