Hey, thanks for submitting this. I subscribed to the Wanderplayer mailing list a couple weeks back and have been meaning to ask you something: do you really live in the apartments at 220 E 24th? I only ask because that is where I used to live when Todd and I started working on Joypad. Apparently there is something in the air there that makes people think "iphone game controller" :)
This could be a direct response to the concerns you voiced in the Pow thread a couple days back. And your input is on word choice? Jeesh, someone's hard to please :)
How about a service with js commenting that alerts a trusted server of the comment? Server grabs the static html, appends the comment, pushes the new html to s3, bada-bing-bada-boom.
This product is almost a year old now. I never submitted it here because I felt weird asking for feedback on a product that you had to buy. Now there's a free version, so give it a shot. I would love to hear feedback and suggestions. Sales have not been stellar, but the conversion rate is good. This site has seen a grand total of 36,000 unique visitors, and I've sold over 5k copies of the paid version. To me that means I need to get it in front of a lot more people. Marketing is not my forte, so lay any ideas you have on me!
Mark, congratulations on the sale and good luck with your future businesses. In the video linked above, you say that you don't know for sure what caused threewords.me to go big after a few days of little activity. Do you have any theories?
> mussels, beef stroganoff, garlic whipped potatoes, green beans, steamed broccoli and a pineapple and blueberry salad
Hm, that sure beats the spinach and cottage cheese I just mixed together and called a "salad". But hey, dinner took 40 seconds. Now a quick check of HN, and back to work I go...
:) right I forgot to mention they specifically asked for an apartment. I imagine because 1 week in a Manhattan hotel for 6 would cost a fortune. Not that an apartment will be cheap...
That's part of what makes it exciting! I was a hardware engineer before switching to software. At that time, we used to say to the software guys "if you guys screw up your design, you recompile; if we screw up, we have to update the schematic, update the cad drawings, order new pcb boards, wait a few weeks, and hope it works next time". The pressure made it fun. Not to mention playing with oscilloscopes and function generators. If it was a minor glitch you could get by by chopping some pins or doing some soldering. Man, that was a good first job out of college. Oh and I'm definitely ordering one of these, even though I haven't used Windows in a few years either. I've got a box with xp somewhere...
A little off topic, but say I want to experiment with algorithm trading, what kind of APIs are available for trading? I assume they are pretty expensive for access, correct?
Well you can color me skeptical. This is the way I see something like this coming into being:
1. Someone thinks of the clever idea of overwriting non-affiliate urls with an affiliate url of their account.
2. In realizing that no one would ever install this, they think "how can I convince people to add this to their browser and take a cut of the profit?"
3. Charity!
I hope I am way wrong.
And man, the news in here is really becoming a TechCrunch aggregator.
Allows you to donate affiliate fees to charity?! Bullshit. Should read: Forces businesses to donate part of their profit margin to charity and browsarity.