So HN, what's bothering you? What do you want to get solved for you? For what product/service would you pay if it existed today?
1) Pose the financial assistance as a loan or other arrangement that has reasonable terms.
2) Claim you're investing money with them or trust them (if they are savvy) to invest it for you. My sister did this for my parents a while back - she claimed that she was giving money for my father to invest, and I'm sure she's never expecting the money back.
There are numerous ways in which you can "ask them to help you" while in reality you are helping them. This can also bring you closer, but it requires a good deal of time and energy to set up (not to mention the money).
Keep in mind, this kind of arrangement is fraught with downsides too - there is a reason most folks recommend against loaning to, or going in business with your family.
Web processes cannot afford to work on optimizing results for you in the background, they are focused on getting your answer quick and then moving on to the next customer. On the other hand, right now I've probably got 98% idle CPU on the 8 cores of this machine which could be figuring out when and how to deal with my email by looking at the terabytes of local data I've collected over the past few years.
It's a shrink wrapped product, not a service. Given how well Google and Facebook can serve individually targeted ads over the web based on a handful of CPU cycles, odds are that a dedicated local service could handle email if utilizing idle CPU cycles.
> It's hard to tell which email is important, and it's hard to tell which important emails haven't been dealt with.
Does it mean that you get way more unimportant emails than important ones? Can't you just filter them away to tags/trash?
And a lot of the unimportant stuff I want to at least glance at, if I have a spare minute.
Whenever others submit "Show HN" stories they get upvoted to the front page and I give them feedback, sometimes spending 30 minutes on helping them fix some of their design problems. But when I submit my "Show HN" site, which I've tried 3 times now, it never makes it anywhere and I don't get feedback. So I give and I don't get anything back.
I put in more than I get out. When this happens I leave the community permanently and never look back. I'm thinking of leaving HN. This will be the 4th time I'm leaving a community because I'm putting in more than what I'm getting out of it. HN has turned into TechCrunch, a place for nothing but tech news so wanna be entrepreneurs that don't do anything but dick around on the internet can read about other people's tech success and live in someone else's glory.
How the hell does the "Facebook Acquires Instagram" story help any of us? How has that information enriched your life or helped you create something? We're suppose to be a community that helps each other out, because startups and websites are hard, and occasionally talk about some tech news. Now it's just tech news 24/7.
I've got a few more Show HN submitions, if those don't go anywhere I'm out.
Edit: Here's what I wanted to show. Thanks for your guy's support. http://www.timeforzen.com
What are the links? I'll be happy to give feedback.Shoot me a mail if you like!
It's quite tempting to think - "I spent a lot of time on this, it speaks for itself" where as you need to pique the interest of the crowd.
Even go as so far to give a run down of how and why you built it and what you learned! We're suckers for a great backstory and a few data points.
It takes a lot for me NOT to upvote a "Show HN" post. If it's a genuine/not spammy I'll upvote it even if I'm not interested it the project itself just so it will get seen by people who are.
I'll be glad to take a look at any of your projects. Post links here or email me.
Meanwhile, I'd be disappointed if HN didn't provide good discussion/insight on the FB acquisition. This is the only community where I could tolerate the discussion. Elsewhere it's just soundbites repeated from news clips. Most often, I click the comments link before the story link. That's why I like HN and won't be going anywhere.
After this I was a little hesitant to click on a link that read "enable-javascript.com", thinking it was another mistake. You should replace those links via JavaScript if it is enabled to avoid misleading your visitors. I did click though, and as I said, playback functioned fine.
The pictures are beautiful and well-presented. The names are evocative and well-matched to the pictures. Well done on the design. Good idea, have some doubts about conversion rate but that's your deal to figure out.
Not everything needs to be with DOM windows - I wouldn't mind clicking though to another page to see the "About."
I don't care if someone comes and picks it up, or if I go somewhere to drop it off. I don't care if it's done by a professional service or by a 12 year old neighbor kid. I would pay you, and the whoever does my laundry, if you could connect me with someone.
If your primary focus was laundry, have her come by, throw a load into the wash, maybe clean a bit, or dust, then swap the load to the dryer while taking out the trash or something, then fold it.
It's a couple hours at best, and maid services tend to fall closer to minimum wage than not, and since most of the time doing laundry is waiting, you can have her fill the time with some miscellaneous cleaning.
Overall? I hate crowded subways. Why so many useless people who exist?
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