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Philantro (https://www.philantro.com) - working with nonprofits and in the so called "Civiltech" sphere has humbled and made me a more gifted programmer. It's the sort of transformation that can only come with coding for the heart vs the pocket. We're launching in a few weeks.

Linked version: http://pri.org/stories/2013-12-12/ethiopian-village-has-gain...

Me and my friends get together and play Streets of Rage, Shinobi, old school Madden and Charles Barkley Shut and Jam!

I stopped relying on my cellphone so often. It feels good not to be a slave to every "Ding!" or "Beep!" that I hear.

I also got back in my old SEGA games and cooking food my mom used to make when I was a kid.

I grew up in church but slacked because life got hectic. Now I'm attending when I can, I'll read the Bible in off time and I've made myself more available to help others.

This might sound stupid, but it's something about the times where all I could do is go outside and play football in the park with my friends that I miss. Now with my younger siblings, I see them so attached to technology, it makes me sad that they're so trapped and in tuned with news and post from people they'll probably never meet instead of the people they're in front of every day...

GILT originally had the same approach but changed it as curiosity grew. By locking out purchasing to registered users only - my wording was vague. Allow users to see what you have, even if it's faded out with a box above showing users how to gain access to what they see behind the "Registration Wall." GILT did this best.

3. I didn't see it. Using lazy registration is better viewed through the lens of "What information can I use to grow." With Google+ , Twitter - what information does it give you to help you grow?

Facebook gives you a large amount of information about the user, their connections and more - but the network isn't as hip as it once was - therefore, make both forms of registration equally accessible. - Promote connecting with Facebook after registration for those who chose not to in the beginning. Show the benefits such as connecting with friends, showing what's popular etc to help. Also, beware of relying on facebook data as email address are now "@facebook.com" by default and others have unreachable college email address. Give them the option to change their email address while keeping their Facebook UserID intact.

I'm a designer/developer. My email is in my bio, if you need help just hit me up.

Pro User Interface Designer/Hacker Here: If you want to increase engagement, ditch the viewing of your catalog by way of sign up. There's tons of techniques to allow your users to browse what you offer and limit purchasing to members only.

1. Having to sign up to see what you all had turned me off from the jump. Just skipped it. If your product isn't a necessity - don't make registering to use it one.

2. Kill unnecessary fade ins and outs like on the menu structure at the top. Give me a solid look that's as short and fast as a typical user's attention span.

3. As many others have stated, kill the facebook only registration. It's there for a convenience, but making that mandatory is a buzz kill. Facebook isn't for everyone.

When those 3 things are addressed, I'll happily create an account and survey the rest :)

I can't comment on the usefulness because GILT and Fab and the flash sale craze has finally killed itself, but if you market yourself to the right hipsters, I don't see why this venture wouldn't grow in those locations. Think Hyperbeast.

"Browse and Follow the Social Media of Countless Nonprofits - All in One Place." - that's what Philantro provides. The issues we've accounted for are connected to this core.

Livestrong has Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube and Flickr. They publicize all these networks because they want to raise awareness and grow followers. The core of Philantro stems from bringing these networks together so users can follow, contribute and interact with their favorite nonprofits in one place.

Now Livestrong on Philantro: https://www.philantro.com/livestrong

While viewing Livestrong - you see other nonprofits related to Cancer so you can browse. You can also view public followers to see what nonprofits they follow.

Here's Cancer Nonprofits on Philantro: http://bit.ly/1c31de0 In this view you see what all Cancer Related organizations are talking about on all their social networks in near real-time.

Here's Cancer Orgs in Texas Only: http://bit.ly/1ausPpP

Hey bwh2, interested in connecting via email? Are you're in the nonprofit industry?

Yes. Work during the day. Code and building marketing agendas all night.

With Philantro, we've addressed close to 27 issues. We'll be glad to write a post on our Medium account to go into more detail but here's a few. We've also addressed one with detail. We didn't want to turn readers off with a huge post detailing everything.

User Data Portability, Cost Effective Means of Donation Processing, Privacy, Social Collaboration, Data validation and Retention, Content Cross Pollination and more.

Issue/Cause Discovery: Issues around the world are being reported in near real-time yet we don't know about it until it makes the front page. On Philantro there's trending topics. By aggregating all the content from these nonprofits across all their social networks, we see what issues are trending through repetition and commonality to help guide users.

Imagine a stock ticker but with issues from all the nonprofits in America who are on social networks. You're able to keep a pulse on issues instead of waiting for a tragedy.

We're grateful, thanks!

Sorry, here's the link: https://www.philantro.com

We all literally sleep in the "Office" but because the servers aren't on our premises, it's never been anything more than a server reset.

The system is set up to send us an email if the servers get buggy and we consult a configuration document we created when we configured the server as a checklist.

We then try to recreate the issue on our own to see if we can fix the problem and prevent it in the future.

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Glad someone mentioned JQuery. Say what you will, but the flexibility of JQuery and the community behind it makes this one of the strongest, compatible and more stable JS frameworks to-date.

...Too long to read.

On HN, karma is a commodity. You've put the time and effort into growing your karma legitimately and if you don't have a problem - why would anyone else.

Think about it, how do we know this isn't the person who bough it having doubts about the purchase?

Also, this is where Microsoft's kinect patent to see how many people are in a room could come in handy to ensure the subscription model isn't abused in case profit sharing is a prerequisite by the production companies.

I believe it will change audio/visual applications.

HDMI will be a thing of the past because you will be able to transfer the highest quality audio and video over the Cat5/6 cable including internet data.

Movie Theaters could be democratized if you could view movies over the cable allowing those wanting to start a theater to have direct access to new movies via a subscription model.

Audio/Visual is where it will be - I can see it as clear as I can see this laptop in front of me.

Exactly, when you're at rage cry stage - it's pretty bad. Next step is rage farts and that's the worst type of people to be around.

I hate this happened, it's a black eye to those who hold this country to a high standard and love it. However, if you know you have to travel through various allies of your enemy - don't let your plans be known if it undermines their agenda. You WILL be a target.

There's a line you have to draw between keeping it real and getting it done. What's going on a gross misuse of power - but President Evo knew who he was going against when he publicly made note that he would consider Edwards asylum application.

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I don't own an iphone, but from your explanation, it seems like a great product! From looking at the screenshots on iTunes, I would tweak the design to make it your own. It's very "Pinterest" looking.

However, If that's what you're going for - great job.

Mindjet Manager before it converted to the SAAS model.

Good work, this reminds me of the concept for something I'm building :)

.... Awesome hahahaha.

Just to be clear, I'm talking about the web - not OS. In OS there is VERY high consequences due to limited competition but in web - a medium available to ALL, the risk is understood.

Good design is good design. Focus on the product and if your product requires a news feed - use it. This mentality of "They will sue" keeps many great ideas in the closet.

Also, no one will sue for User Interface - they will sue for code if that. It's harder in court and not worth much because the same companies looking to improve their UI on a regular basis doesn't want to start a "This is my UI idea" war.

Sorry you all - but on HN your email has to be in bio section for users to see it.

Look out for a link! Thanks.

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