iamscanner

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by iamscanner 14y ago
I'm also a terrible designer. In order to get up and running quickly, I buy themes off of http://themeforest.net - they barely cost anything, and usually have enough for you to get up and running with in the stage where you just want a la
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by iamscanner 15y ago
That automagical download and convenience you're talking about is one of the things you pay that 30% for. It's your call whether you want to go through that channel or not - no one's forcing you.
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I experimented with Gondor and Epio( http://ep.io ) at one point when I wanted to get out of hosting Django projects on my own servers - I can't speak to what it's like on Heroku, but Epio was significantly easier to get up and running wi
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I've had pretty good success picking them up in digital formats - not sure if you prefer the paperback version, but if you're okay reading it on a screen you can get all of them digital.
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by iamscanner 15y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier here - but I actually prefer physical photos. It's too easy for someone to just spray digital photos everywhere - when they're physical, you have constraints that mean I'm seeing the photos you decided were worthy of be
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I live in a city in Canada that has a bit of a lacklustre tech scene. Unfortunately, I bought a condo 2 years ago. Because of the size of the down payment I made (small), and the condo market right now (not awesome), I can't sell without ta
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by iamscanner 15y ago
Just because you don't like the way someone does business doesn't mean you have any right to steal from them.
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I actually waited in line at a bank for about 15 minutes once, and when I got to the teller the manager said "hey - want a coffee?", and handed me a Tim's card (reloadable gift cards for Tim Hortons). I had no idea what the value was - but
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by iamscanner 15y ago
Are you building a business, or a hobby?
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by iamscanner 15y ago
So, wait - does getting married suddenly make you 'old'? =P According to your description I count as young, and not being able to remember things bothers me a lot sometimes. I remember back before cell phones were commonplace, I could remem
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by iamscanner 15y ago
Here at The Day Job we're using Scout( http://scoutapp.com ) to monitor about 10 servers - it's pretty easy to set up, and grows well as your cluster does. You also get to write plugins in Ruby, which is pretty fun.
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by iamscanner 15y ago
Right - but pretty colors and interfaces go a long way towards someone saying "you know what? I will read the about page" vs. "woah, this is gross - they expect people to use this?". For $15, you probably won't get the most absolutely-c
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by iamscanner 15y ago
Maybe I'm an outlier, but I actually really enjoy cleaning up huge legacy codebases. Maybe there's also someone out there who likes building internal apps for performance reviews.
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I do - but having my email embedded into a part of the file that I'm not going to see while I'm regularly using the file isn't a problem. I'm not distributing, and I don't mind that the file's identified to me. Having my email on every sing
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by iamscanner 15y ago
This actually pisses me off, a lot. I don't put my ebooks up on torrenting sites or distribute them - but seeing my own email address show up on every page of my ebook means that I'm not going to buy from you again, ever.
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by iamscanner 15y ago
This sounds a lot like Geckoboard with some plugins: http://www.geckoboard.com/
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by iamscanner 15y ago
This is not-super-secure, but in a lot of situations I just use a rule like "third character of first word + second character of third word + first character of fourth word", and so on. You end up with gibberish most of the time, but at lea
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I took a week's vacation, got myself a week in a coworking space, and turned off every single work notification possible. As far as work was concerned, I was off on a beach somewhere sipping mai-tai's - when in reality I was getting up at 9
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I wouldn't say that one or the other is more valuable when it comes to blogging. You want to show process, because that shows that you know your shit - but you also want to show end results, because that shows that you ship your shit (whi
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by iamscanner 15y ago
Do you have any problems that aren't solved yet? Write yourself something to do that - and if you're worried about your employer/coworkers finding out, do it under a pseudonym, Chrome's Incognito mode (so that you're always aware when you'r
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by iamscanner 15y ago
A lot of this depends on what you're selling, and your conversion rate (which will depend on exactly how you got those subscriptions). Is the newsletter geared towards database administrators, who gave you their email address because they w
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by iamscanner 15y ago
Why do you need someone to only use yours? I know a lot of folks who use Facebook and Twitter and Google+ right now.
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by iamscanner 15y ago
It's much clearer, but I'm a bit confused - does "Stay in the loop without having to share an email address" explain what your app will do, or is it just your way of saying "hey, follow us on Twitter"? I'm expecting that sentence to be your
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I can't see a button under Safari 5 or Chrome 12: http://d.pr/L7ln
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by iamscanner 15y ago
The grammar on this page is terrible - "I'm Keeping a big Secret" - what's with the inconsistent capitalization? This page leaves me more confused and frustrated than anything - what is your app? Why would I want to follow it on Twitter? If
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by iamscanner 15y ago
Whoops - good point! With all my thesaurus fatigue I forgot to talk about my app! It's basically another customer support application for web apps in the same vein as Tender ( http://tenderapp.com/ ), but (hopefully) geared more towards sup
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Ask HN: How do you come up with names for web apps?
1 points by iamscanner 15y ago|2 comments
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I'm in the same camp on this one.
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by iamscanner 15y ago
No problem! I couldn't find it at the time, but I managed to dig up this link for you too: http://davidcancel.com/true-startup-competition/
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by iamscanner 15y ago
I'm not using Gigwalk, but I'd like to offer some advice: the fact that Gigwalk exists, and released before you did, and got investment capital means...someone else has already done the hard work of proving to an investor that there's maybe

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