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DanielOceanon Should startups bother having original ideas if big companies can clone them?

You need a better idea. Too many companies are starting companies that can really just be a feature of a big company.

ie. Just because Facebook hasn't implemented a feature, doesn't mean you should start a company over said feature. You may pickup a quick paycheck, but many won't survive the long run.

DanielOceanon Ask HN: Where to see the Vegas Tech scene

Vegas Jelly on Thursday nights at the Beat Coffeehouse

DanielOceanon Introducing New LaunchRock: A Complete Re-Build

LaunchRock needs better compliance with CAN SPAM, perhaps double opt-in integration with a email marketing platform like MailChimp, AWeber, et. al. It should also have an option for unsubscribing, even with the automatically generated email. And at least a basic privacy policy integration that complies with Google AdWords.. because traffic doesn't just magically appear on your launch page.

DanielOceanon Show HN: P2P Marketplace for renting stuff

Great idea, but without venture funding this is a tough operation to scale. With such low barriers to entry for this market, other local markets can easily replicate this model if it is indeed successful.

DanielOceanon Microsoft’s cloud service SkyDrive is great, and no one has noticed

Um, perhaps because they're a little overly strict on what you can keep in there.

This photographer got his account banned and deleted after they found 4 partial nudes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/07/19/is-microsof...

Which apparently is against it's long list of prohibited uses listed here:

http://wmpoweruser.com/watch-what-you-store-on-skydriveyou-m...

DanielOceanon TechCrunch is a bully

I think it's good journalism. That's their job, to get to the bottom of things and I think he did a great job.

DanielOceanon Why Facebook comments is a bad idea for your site

I think it's just the vocal minority here voicing their opinion. Franze you mention all great points with data to back it up (I've noticed the same fwiw).

WRT to SEO, anonymity, posting on your feed and notifications.. FB comments are crawlable, You can still remain anonymous with FB comments (sign-in with a yahoo account, etc.) and you can skip posting it on your feed and I've been notified everytime someone has liked/replied to a comment I've made using Facebook comments. More so than Wordpress, who wants to subscribe to a popular author and constantly get notifications throughout the day whenever anyone makes a comment??

DanielOceanon Hack a Standing Desk from IKEA

For those who sometimes work super long hours, checkout the sitting + standing desk on Ikea Hackers:

http://www.ikeahackers.net/2011/09/sitting-standing-desk-com...

Just moved into Vegas so there's no Ikea around me :-(, but plan to make the trip to CA just for this

DanielOceanon We (unexpectedly) got 60K users in 60 hours - What we learned

Awesome piece. It's rare that a startup dives this deep into the details. You deserve the 1000+ signups you'll score from a HackerNews front page ;-)

DanielOceanon Would anyone even notice if search engines only indexed the top million sites?

I just Googled for, "How to do funny looking e on Mac" and got the answer I'm looking for.. like @recursive mentioned, a "significant proportion of useful search results come from the long tail."

Oh btw, é!

DanielOceanon Penny Arcade Sells Out

I guess the people funding this project haven't heard of a free browser extension called AdBlock Plus?

DanielOceanon The Emotional Story of Reddit's Start & Sale

I have a newfound respect for Reddit.

DanielOceanon CSS3PS: Convert Photoshop layers to CSS3

I noticed that csshat isn't very usable. It generates a lot of code that is hard to edit and further customize.. anyone notice anything different for css3ps?