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Oof good catch, thanks.

I built a thing. Answer 20 quick thought-provoking questions. Chat anonymously with people that answered exactly the same. Game resets at midnight UTC.

New day = New Q's = New Chats.

Always free.

MrMikeon AI Playbook

So true. What's the best reference, guide, or write up you've come across that helps clarify?

MrMikeon Show HN: Play Drug Wars in Slack

Here's a link to bypass the wait list: https://beta.drugwars.online/install?code=ti83

MrMikeon Have a website? Fix these 2 mistakes right now

Good point, however, I'm not sure I can recall a time during which someone intended to collect a URL from me but allowed just "example.com" as a valid input. I'd venture to guess that the validation enforced more often than not actually helps the site owner achieve their intended goal.

MrMikeon A tiny startup is winning the race to power the smart home

Can you go into detail about your setup? Sounds awesome.

MrMikeon Ask HN: How was your experience using parse.com?

Agreed, 100%, about the tone of the "community advocates" parse has answering questions and supporting the forums (their internal + s/o). Huge turn off.

MrMikeon Ask HN: How was your experience using parse.com?

The downtime is extremely frustrating. They are pretty nonchalant about it as well, which is actually more of a concern than the fact that there was an issue.

Beyond that, there are some good use cases for apps to be built upon Parse and bad ones. It turns out that the thing I'm building is one of those bad use cases.

Parse appears to frown upon background processes. They have very tight restrictions on what can be done in the background and how fast it must be done.

If you have a social-esque app, at any kind of scale, fanning things out becomes a problem.

We're in the middle of packing up our toys and heading over to GAE.

MrMikeon We got our first Delaware tax bill: $74,018.74

clerky.com is close

MrMikeon Ask HN: What service do you prefer for incorporating?

Just came across http://www.clerky.com which seems to be a preferred method but lots of startups. Anyone used them?

MrMikeon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

Yea... I went with web-first since that's what I needed. Mobile-happy is on the way.

MrMikeon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

Looking for user feedback to drive the integration priority. Drop me a line - hello@overlook.io

MrMikeon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

Indeed. Thanks for catching this. It's been a race since launching to button things up.

MrMikeon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

I hadn't seen any when I built it.

MrMikeon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

Really appreciate the feedback. This is all very helpful for me to work on.

MrMikeon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

Great feedback, thanks. Will work on a more intuitive demo.

MrMikeon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

Do you have a few min to chat about your needs? Would love to expose the APIs that make sense for you to automate this.

MrMikeon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

I'd always wanted to try ExitMonitor (or equivalent services) from a pure optimization standpoint. So far it hasn't proved out to be worth it, and the annoying factor certainly overpowers the lift it provides.

MrMikeon Show HN: OverLook.io – Get your non-technical friends involved in QA and Testing

Thank you! Will work on these ASAP.

MrMikeon Ask HN: Let's open-source our unused pitch decks

http://www.pitchenvy.com/

Not affiliated, just happened to come across it earlier today.

MrMikeon Missing drawing API: Canvas vs SVG paradox

While I don't have a solution, I'm facing very similar challenges.

MrMikeon Ask HN: Resources for a photoshop expert to become a web design expert?

My news:yc app appears to be chopping off the last sentence. It should read:

What resources, including commercial classes, are available to take an amazing design guru and turn them into a designer that can also turn their beautiful work into HTML/CSS (scss, stylus, etc )?

MrMikeon Faster Progress Bars: Manipulating Perceived Duration [pdf]

Is there a place I can sign up for updates on this?

MrMikeon What happened with iOS7?

Good insight from another skilled designer.

MrMikeon Tell HN: Looking to build my portfolio. Will design for cheap.

Dropped you an email

MrMikeon Show HN: AWS EC2 On-demand vs. Reserved Interactive Price Comparison

glad to see this still helps folks =)

MrMikeon Ask HN: "advisor" or "adviser"

Exactly. And the confusion compounds...

MrMikeon Ask HN: "advisor" or "adviser"

I saw that as well. A quick google search showed a 15x preference toward "advisor" based on the number of results for each.

MrMikeon The US Banking System Is Insecure

FDIC insurance is not there for you if someone takes money out of your account without your permission. It's there in case of Bank failure/collapse.

Relevant: http://www.fdic.gov/deposit/deposits/insured/basics.html