Weird stance from someone who lists themselves as the "creator" of a Custom Google Search box in their HN profile... http://techielifeissues.blogspot.com
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Secondly, a link on a TechCrunch post is by no means a high PR link for any decent length of time. You MIGHT get your link on their front page for a few hours before it rolls off into the archival abyss. Maybe if you're lucky, over time and with enough inbounds link to that post, you'll get some juice out of it.
I guess my point, which was lost because I didn't clarify well, is that a link from TC (in terms of traffic or SEO purposes) is probably overrated.
I don't have a link to provide as proof but I'm pretty sure based off of my memory and anecdotal evidence I've read on the web that links from the big Nerdy Tech Blogs actually drive little to no converting traffic.
So in that case, I would much rather take the million links in the hope that the people who come along that chain will convert better than the half-literate TechCrunch commentators would.
I wasn't a total jackass when I did it. I was very polite and suggested they find someone else to meet their needs but I was clear in stressing that I was no longer interested in going forward with them.
There weren't any hard feelings on their end and I got a lot of peace of mind when it was over and done with. I wish I had done it, quite literally, years ago.
Most of the users here should appreciate that a person's time and effort are not free. If you don't feel Mr. Warner's time and effort is worth what he's charging then go somewhere else and find a similar resource. To come here and pout like upset children that your free toy might be taking away from you is sad. To threaten to go out of your way to circumvent his system as some of you have is even worse.
For those of you who have products or services you actively charge for, I hope you have had the common sense not to chime in against this decision as if it was an attack on your very being. And if you haven't, imagine how you would feel if someone so callously ripped your decision to try to earn a living on your work.
The Android's market share is garbage in comparison to the iPhone. The Android phones are surely fine pieces of hardware but they just don't have the saturation yet to be used in examples like this. I obviously can't prove this but I would be willing to bet that if the Android Marketplace had as many apps as the App Store it would be full of trash blocking out the good stuff. There's plenty of low quality stuff on the App Store even with the review process but high quality applications still float to the top.
Further down someone makes the twist on his predictions by comparing it to the Internet. Sorry folks, but the Internet is full of junk. More of you should be aware of this now that the front page has had several "make money fast" posts recently. It's not all rainbows and butterflies out there; people will do anything to make a dollar and they don't particular care about changing the world with their new Ruby on Rails driven to-do list web application.
It's made it impossible to get anything done over there, at least for the time being, as more and more of DP's user base is located in India.
One of my larger clients is a factory setting using a custom built web app for, among many things, inventory control. When it comes time to do physical hard counts we've been stuck using crappy Dell laptops and pads of legal paper. The 16 gig iPad is perfectly priced and seems more than capable of handling our web app. I'm pretty excited about the possibilities for the iPad in industrial/factory settings.
"Popular" web designers, I feel, have a certain arrogant air about them that outside of their fields and in everyday life they could never get away with.
Having said that, no matter how dirty GoDaddy makes you feel it won't be nearly as bad as any interaction you'll have with Network Solutions. Stay away from that at all costs.
It's been a few years since I got into a backorder struggle but at the time it was incredibly difficult and ended up dragging out for months and months.
I was/am a big fan of the site but this new UI has kind of sucked the wind out of it for me. I feel like thesixtyone is now an extremely unintuitive web-based version of iTunes that I have absolutely no control over. Or, even worse, a weird music centered web screensaver.
The interface is definitely slick and would have made a great alternate means of using the site but as the sole method of getting around it might be a bit too cumbersome. I suppose, as with all things, people will get used to this and simmer down... at least I hope so for the sake of the folks behind the site.
In that time, I've received four donations for a grand total of $45. That's a little more than what I see for one affiliate sale using banner ads on the site.
It can't hurt to ask but I wouldn't expect much in the way of financial returns from donations.
The downside to Gowalla is that there is a lot of cruft since anyone can basically add a location. For example, in my neighborhood, amidst the restaurants and stores is a location called "My Sister's" which I'm pretty sure isn't the name of the newest diner in town...
People use the term startup, around here especially, a whole bunch but it feels to me like there should be some kind of clear distinction between a company founded as a startup and a single website.
I have a handful of websites that make some money but I would never call any of them a startup on an individual basis. I might call the all encompassing enterprise of building and maintaining those sites a startup but I think calling each individual site that is a bit of a stretch.