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DaveWAlbert

11 karma · joined August 18, 2010

iOS,PHP Developer/Clinical application analyst/report writer.

Latest side projects: http://www.moodocity.com http://apps.moodocity.com

twitter: @dave_albert gmail: dave.albert [at] gmail [dot] com

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DaveWAlbert··on Google admits profiting from illegal Olympic ticket ads
How is that different than any company selling a product and someone using it for something illegal?

As in "Wal-mart profits from illegal baseball bats." Bats used for vandalism or assault.

DaveWAlbert··on "Any time you have worked long hours, it is a sign of a broken process."
Which is why I don't like the 9-5 nonsense either. Also programming isn't just done at the computer. When I am working on a problem, I am working on it at lunch, on the bus, on my cycle, sitting out side starring into space, etc. Left to my own devices I would "work" infront of my work pc 60 hours one week 5-10 the next 40 the next two. Being forced to be in the office a set time is no good for anyone in my position.
DaveWAlbert··on Ask HN: Getting traffic to an MVP
I definitely will be using facebook ads, but at the moment facebook isn't really a great fit. I am specifically thinking about product MVP pages where I can see who makes it all the way to the checkout stage.

I could be mistaken about facebook ads at this point, but it seems better suited when users would actually share your page. They will just get the out of stock message at the moment.

Thanks for your feedback.

DaveWAlbert··on Google Docs adds Pivot Table support
Just in case you didn't know there is an open source version: http://openproj.org/
DaveWAlbert··on Ask HN: what is our startup missing? | moodocity.com
Thanks so much for the feed back! This is about the 5th or 6th iteration (2nd live web site)

> when I visit your site as a new user, what do you want me to do?

I knew this but lost track of it along the way, and have added a prominent prompt to login. I am aware of elance, but I had not thought of using it for this.

Thanks!

DaveWAlbert··on Ask HN: what is our startup missing? | moodocity.com
Thanks for the feedback. We are definitely planning to connect an app of some sort to the site.

I think/hope that as any social site the community will be somewhat organic. I do notice now however that the users private mood journal (an aspect that is one of the direct benefits to the end user) is not prominent from the main page and I will be correcting that shortly.

Thanks again!

DaveWAlbert··on Ask HN: what is our startup missing? | moodocity.com
Thanks for that, we will definitely look in to those two options.