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Interesting article, I am just stunned to see the design/UX of the landing page (http://www.stormpulse.com/ ) and the product page (https://secure.www.stormpulse.com/products) !

I am really impressed by your courage and your determination but you worked 3years on your product and never tought that a slight redesign/optimization by a professional can be beneficial to your business ?

Your website is dark and not very beautiful, it feels creepy. To access to StormPulse Pro from the landing page, I have to click on "More" and select "Stormpulse pro" on the menu. No direct access, no button.

Great story, nice ending hopefully but seriously! I know that on HN marketing/business/design guys have bad reputation but sometimes YOU HAVE TO ask some help...

Thank you for sharing this story. This is of course only my POV, I'm ready to be downvote if needed :)

link to their website: http://elive.pro

The war seems ON between "Super Angels" and VC.

Fred Wilson's post is passive-aggressive.

I can understand that he enjoys the opportunity to show that "Super Angels" aren't actually...you know...real angels!

30Mo maybe?

"Given Johnny's dozen tattoos, given his weakness for skank, I made a leap -- and assumed he was on MySpace"

I dont understand you are complaining that your EMPLOYEE isnt doing 100hours weeks when at the same time you, the CO-FOUNDER, were in "honeymoon for most of May" [1] ???? WTF!

[1]http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=45&aid=185999

Do you know if I can find the video somewhere? the recorded version on Justin.tv is very bad :/

Perfect thx you! I'm gonna send you screenshot of course!

I use HN mostly on my iPad even if the website isnt perfect for a touch device..

Btw does somebody know a website to read HN on the iPad? (something like iCombinator for iPhone but for iPad)

Everybody is trying to figure out how to optimize SEO for Google Instant Search. We tought it would be cool to have a little tool to split keywords. @Clmntlxndr hacked that in less than an hour with Sinatra (his first app with that framework)

What do you think of it?

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1608851 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1614834 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1656422

Hi, I just connected to your website and the first "bafflebot" submit to me is "what is this character's name" (a yellow bird) I'm from France, I dont know all the US kid cartoons so I cant answer to that captcha.. Whereas 1+2 or "enter the word" is pretty universal.

Second try, I have in front of me a red apple with legs and arms and the question is "what is it?" The question is wayyyyy to broad, what should I answer? is it another cartoon that I'm not aware of? is it an apple? a red apple?...

A captcha must be VERY simple and universal.

I read a few months ago a good captcha idea, a picture of a human and the challenge is to say if it's a man or a female. A bot cant read the picture well enough, but the human eye/brain is trained to identify a man or a female in less than a second!

My 2cents, good luck with your project. I agree captcha generally sucks

So much irony during that interview!

Am I the only one who think that it's not really "how to launch" but it's more "how to be ready to pitch your idea"?

(but the points are interesting)

"If you choose to go digital only as an e-book, this is where profit rules and amazing numbers can be achieved. How amazing? I know one man who nets between $5,000,000 and $10,000,000 per month with a single e-book and affiliate cross-selling to his customer lists. I’m not kidding."

Any idea of what ebook is he talking about?

are you sure? I can access the website without any problem

this article is only made to promote Pressdoc by Pressdoc: OP= Keesj http://www.flickr.com/photos/keesj/ = Marc Köhlbrugge http://twitter.com/marckohlbrugge = Co-Founder of Pressdoc

1) london for the ecosystem 2) berlin for the quality/cost of living and a pretty booming ecosystem

Jailbreakme.com is overloaded, you can connect to that mirror throught your iPhone: http://jailbreakme.modmyi.com

I'm the cofounder of SubMate ( http://Www.submate.com ) and we want to introduce you cool new people in your areas based on your commute. For the moment , the website is pretty new but we plan to improve that algorithm quickly to allow you to make new friends !

I use http://playlistnow.fm (if you ask for an invite you should receive it pretty quickly)

The site suggest you playlist depending what you are doing !

Please do an AMA somewhere, I'm sure you have tons of stuff to say and that should be pretty interesting imho

Hi, can you explain your PoV ? How OAuth diminishes the value ?

Great idea !

Paris (France) - Submate ( http://submate.com ) is looking for a RoR developer in Paris. Submate is a young startup, and we plan to close our seed round of financing during before the end of the summer.

If you want more infos you can reach me by e-mail : jonathan(at)submate.com

being n°2 can be a huge advantage ! if you keep track of what n°1 is doing you can avoid lots of mistakes, cut cost on marketing (no need to evangelize the market), implement features that users of n°1 are beging for but that n°1 couldnt implement first, ...

Every n°1 have a good n°2 (except maybe Ebay)

Define how the shares are split at the beginning. If you gonna track each week what each of you have done, it's gonna create lots of useless tensions.

nice name !

well, in a second times yes

great love it !

but I didnt saw the "Show the details" before reading the comments. Maybe you can put it in red or underline..