supermanwillfly

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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
I'm in a similar boat. It really depends on how marketable your name is. In my case, I made it up. I'm planning on getting a trademark before a full launch. They key point about trademark law is that it's hard to defend it if you go a lo
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Appreciate the support. Your email isn't the goal -- just wanted you to have a decent experience.
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Thanks for the tips. Always nice when you have two contradictory statements in the same thread. Because your feedback requires me to do no work, you're definitely my hero.
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Cool idea. I checked it out and thought it was a nice site. Yeah, I'm not really going for emails, just thought it was funny to have a talking owl try to coax someone to sign up for something they had no clue about. I think I may enjoy it
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Agree with your sentiment which is why I only allowed an afternoon to put it together and out. My reason for posting was, honestly to see if people actually felt it reflected so poorly that I should replace it with the standard hand-drawn
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
I appreciate the candid feedback. I'm not going to say, "I know," although a lot of what you've been saying was bothering me as I put it together. Re: collecting email - that's not actually the goal. However, I'm collecting WAY more than
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Building a two-sided market it tricky but early on (as I've read) it takes a lot of non-scalable seeding. If you read up on Reddit and AirBnb, both attacked the problem by going out and manually adding content. In Reddit's case, they were
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
What would you do if you wanted to put up a landing page for a company you weren't ready to go public with? My hope was just to have some fun with it and garner a smile. This community is really thoughtful and helpful. Really appreciate it
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Appreciate the honest remarks. Problem with my HN post is that I thought my comment (below) was the description for the link :) Probably gives you a better idea of where I was coming from. Quite a noob I am!
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I wish I could divulge more!
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Hahaha. That's brilliant. I'm questioning whether my business can succeed in such a thrilling competitive market. What a great affiliate play :)
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
I guess that begs the question, what should you put up when your business is stealth! The hope was people would enjoy the experience enough to "trust" us with the email and a follow-up down the road. Thanks for the feedback, I appreciate i
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I'll check those out.
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
thanks for the feedback. fixed the FB link to my fan-filled page. Re: the length, I realize it's a tease. Re: trusting us with your email. I get where you're coming from. If I put a static page I knew I had little to no chance. I've got
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Yes, that's the dilemma. I didn't want to have a blank page, but I'm not ready to chat about it -- well, unless you are liquid and want to share some wealth! Thanks for the feedback.
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
Hi HN. I'm working on a new project, but wanted to have a splash page to send people. I wanted it to be a bit different -- hopefully more engaging. The other key limit was I refused to spend more than an afternoon putting it together and
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Is my splash page lame?(kapuno.com)
3 points by supermanwillfly 16y ago|31 comments
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
I'm curious to know what do you think is a reasonable wage in SF for a "full-stack" developer. Feel free to break it down by years of experience. And by full-stack CEO, you mean someone who understands all the aspects of the business and i
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
I'm hopeful that someone on HN will provide a substitute shortly.
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
The model is interesting but Groupon's margin will drop as more competitors come in and self-service comes in. I don't think that a 50% margin is tenable for many small businesses. I disagree with the statement that Groupon sheds light on
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by supermanwillfly 16y ago
I am really amazed by the irony in the writer's bio: "I’ve held senior positions at large global companies including IBM, Nortel, Siebel Systems (the world’s leading provider of CRM solutions acquired by Oracle), and Sybase..."