webstartupper

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   by webstartupper 12y ago

   Thanks for the feedback, Matt. Makes a lot of sense. About your last point, could you give me a little more information on this? I already stated that I noticed X problem from running my other business. Anything else I could put in there to
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   by webstartupper 12y ago

   Clickable - https://www.saasymetrics.com
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   Ask HN: Interested in SaaS Metrics for PayPal?

   21 points by webstartupper 12y ago|16 comments
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   by webstartupper 12y ago

   Ideally get a co-founder who is interested in marketing your product. However, if you are single founder like me then technically you could outsource marketing if you have already achieved a product-market fit. These are the steps I would f
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   by webstartupper 12y ago

   Hmm. What you say makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the link to the book. It looks pretty interesting.
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   by webstartupper 12y ago

   Thank you. Switched to the default twenty wordpress fourteen theme. Murhpy's law strikes again!
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   by webstartupper 12y ago

   haha. That's embarrassing. That is the default 2014 wordpress theme. Did not think of testing that.
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   Lessons learnt making our web app responsive(domcop.com)

   26 points by webstartupper 12y ago|20 comments
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   by webstartupper 12y ago

   One thing you could do is ask for marketing help at various forums. For e.g. you could post it here as another Ask HN - "Ask HN: Help me market xyz.com". Apart from getting plenty of good marketing ideas, you might find your busin
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    by webstartupper 12y ago

    Could you give us some more information on your saas project? That might help figure out where to look.
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    by webstartupper 12y ago

    I have no experience with video transcoding. But I do run a single founder online business. So hopefully I can help. We (technical single founders) have a bad habit of spending time developing code while we should be spending time understan
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    by webstartupper 12y ago

    The ones I've used - Pencil - Free - http://pencil.evolus.vn/ Balsamiq - Paid - http://balsamiq.com/
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    by webstartupper 12y ago

    Hang out where your audience hangs out. As an example, if they hang out at a forum, participate there, offer value and thereby build your brand. Best advice ever - Be your own customer!
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    My apologies if I came across as if I was shooting down the opinions here.
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    Your assumption is that all fields are not required in the default search query. In our case, joining 6 tables with 14 fields each is going to be much slower than running the query of just the table.
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    I presume the reason it was slow was because the domains table was write heavy. There are multiple crons running in the background selecting data from the domains table, accessing external APIs and updating individual records. Selects per h
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    We had tried this before switching to the memory table. I cannot remember exact details, but the resulting innodb table was still too large - maybe around 1 GB and we did not want to add additional RAM. Another issue with using a second Inn
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    The domains table currently has 84 fields. We collect metrics from various sources, so reducing the number of fields is not feasible. All the field types are the smallest that we could use - e.g. tinyint(4) instead of an int etc. Since ther
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    The Innodb table right now has about 9 million records and is 8GB in size (4GB index size). The memory table has a subset of the same data - 1.2 million records and is 276MB in size.
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, since there are 30 different columns that can be searched on, there are many indexes and the index size for the domains table itself is 4GB. I run this off a 2GB linode, so unless I add a lot more RAM, In
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    Thanks for the info. I haven't previously come across Elastisearch or Solr. Will definitely check these out.
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    "MEMORY tables use a fixed-length row-storage format. Variable-length types such as VARCHAR are stored using a fixed length." From - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/memory-storage-engine.
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    How MySQL memory table saved the day(domcop.com)

    45 points by webstartupper 13y ago|50 comments
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    Register at the top 5 forex forums and start contributing there. Put your website in the signature (Most forums allow this only when you have been there a while and have a large number of posts). Initially, this might just lead to a trickle
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    Thanks. Will look at adding sorting to the tabs.
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    Some of the domains are being auctioned by GoDaddy (TDNAM). They can only be bought through GoDaddy. There are others that can be bought through Sedo, SnapNames, Namejet and Dynadot. Unfortunately, there is nothing I can do about that.
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    If you are looking for a domain name for your startup, why not pick one that already has existing page rank? If you can, why not piggy back on SEO done by someone else. This is a list of existing domains with high page rank that can be boug
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    Want a domain with existing page rank for your startup?(domainsafrica.com)

    3 points by webstartupper 13y ago|5 comments
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    Ask HN: Why are Ask HN posts coming back from the dead (repeatedly)?

    1 points by webstartupper 13y ago|0 comments
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    by webstartupper 13y ago

    DomainsAfrica uses the DomCop API - so the data is the same. However the value add comes from the cleaner and simpler user interface. DomCop tends to be very complex for the casual domain searcher.