blakeperdue

I'm confused. If Picwing was acquired, why is their site still active? Was something licensed?

UPDATE: from http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/a-woman-a-cupcake-a-bank-an...

PicPlum acquired the assets of a previous Y-Combinator company PicWing, and took over its printer relationship and initial user base. The company currently has $150,000 in funding offered by SV Angel and Yuri Miller to all Y-Combinator startups earlier this year. The founders say they are beginning their fundraising now, and will be looking to hire soon.

More market validation: I also have a 6-month old and am really tired of the crop, upload, select photos, select size, select paper, fill out shipping addresses, enter payment info process I have to do every few months to send photos to family. I will say most of my family wants digital copies and don't care as much about prints -- unless they are amazing photos.

But, I have several family members that don't have computers or are not savvy enough to save photos to their computer. And they love prints. I'm your target market and I have to say this sounds like the perfect service for me.

Off the topic of unclean code, but there are some great Spolsky articles that are more business-oriented on Inc's site: http://www.inc.com/author/joel-spolsky

I have a different view. I hate having to confirm my email address when I signup for a mailing list. It's more annoying to confirm my email address 50 times, versus the 1 time I have to unsubscribe from a list that someone signed me up for by accidentally entering my email address.

Not related to Node, but your homepage is really well designed. Attractive, simple and clean. Nice.

So, you need 10 templates or just 10 HTML pages built from the same template?

Is there a lot of front-end functionality that needs to be built (ajax calls, form validation, etc) or just basic HTML pages?

I agree, I rarely see more than two large CTAs on a page. Usually it's just one large CTA with smaller CTAs sprinkled on various parts of the page.

You are right: to give more prominence to the content as opposed to the callouts (follow us, and give us your email).

Can you share some basic marketing numbers?

What price range is your PPC? What % of clicks convert? What is your customer's total lifetime value?

Thanks!

The response I got from Meetup.com is below. The key bit is "You'll want to 'Edit email settings' for each Meetup group that you've joined."

I'm in like 20+ groups; it makes unsubscribing a huge pain.

9/12/2010 I have a suggestion. I get many emails from meetup. I don't want to get them anymore. I also don't want to have to go login, then go to a manage notifications page and try to figure out how to stop getting email (which, btw I have tried to do unsuccessfully).

Why don't you guys put one link at the bottom that says "Don't want to get this type of notification in the future? click here to unsubscribe."

Boom, one click and I'm done. It make is much easier on your users.

-Blake

I'm sorry for the inconvenience! Currently there's no way to completely eliminate the emails you get from your Meetup groups or your Organizers. However, I took a look at the email you'd forwarded in, and that was an Automated Meetup Reminder, which you can opt out of by going to your Email Setting page for that group, here:

http://www.awdg.org/settings/

In general, if you're only interested in hearing from your Meetup group's Organizer and about the Meetups on the calendar, turning off the email discussion with your entire group will help reduce the amount of messages you're receiving. To change your email settings within each group, go to:

http://www.meetup.com/account/comm/

You'll want to 'Edit email settings' for each Meetup group that you've joined.

Having more control over the emails you receive from your Meetup Group Organizers is a great suggestion. We really appreciate your thoughts on this, and your patience while we make changes and improvements around here. :)

If you've got any other questions, please let us know.

Sincerely,

Tamara Garvey Meetup Community Team Specialist Meetup HQ

After reading this I realized how many Meetup.com emails I receive. I've previously tried to navigate meetup's account preferences to unsubscribe without success. I was so annoyed I took the time to write them to tell them to put a one-click unsub button in their emails.

I got a polite "thanks, but not doing that" response. I find it really annoying that they can't or won't make it easy for their users to one-click opt out of group emails. I'd rather drop the service than take the time to figure out how to stop getting emails. Deleted my account just now.

Links to other solutions?

Good point on accessibility. Anyone have links to making your UI accessible (including buttons)?

Nice catch. Know of an easy workaround to this?

I agree, E2V is a great idea. If you can find a way to simplify the setup, I have about 6 friends who would want to use it.

Could you pick the most popular email app (Gmail? Yahoo?) and find a way to simplify the setup for just that app? Or build a plugin or browser extension to make it super simply to setup? I'm thinking a little phone icon on each row in gmail, you click on it and a box pops up and says "Hey, want to get a call when you receive emails like this?" They click Yes and boom it's setup.

Most designers/developers that I know that are good charge closer to $100 or $150 per hour. What you described seems like it would take closer to 30 or 40 hours, so I would say the cost would be more like $3k to $5k.

Suppose you're bootstrapping and have little cash.

Nearly crashed by browser. Perhaps limit the initial number of map items to load?

Sometimes a small rendering performance hit is worth avoiding the development headache of getting multi-column divs to display properly across browsers.

Tables can still be useful when holding short content that has lots of columns.

With this strategic change, we are going to be figuring out what services we now provide. But, historically, we did a few things:

connections: introductions to board members, investors, customers

consulting: provided strategic, marketing and other consulting services

office space: subsidized office space

programs: educational programs (like how to raise money)

See my comment above. Basically the ATDC is state funded and is here to help Georgia entrepreneurs be successful. We provide services, educational programs and other stuff to help startups.

The Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) strives to be the world’s best technology business incubator. Our mission: to increase the technology business base in Georgia by helping entrepreneurs launch and build successful high-tech companies. For more than 25 years, ATDC has provided strategic business advice and connected member companies to people and resources they need to succeed.

Perhaps it doesn't look good on your screen, but on my laptop and 24 inch monitor it looks fantastic. I love the design, it's very pleasing to look at and relays the information well.

I have to agree with pedalpete. The video gave me too much information to digest. Picking the top 3-4 features would be good, but I would suggest instead, that you create a use-case video. Tell me what problem OneHub solves and then walk through how my company could use OneHub to solve it.

Why do you ask my country? Why do you want to confirm my email? Just trust me... Don't make me go that extra step, it just puts up another wall for me to climb before I get to try your app.

it seems you're doing well, why are you trying to sell?

Good advice. I am looking to build a site similar to Weebly, but for a specific niche audience. I like your idea of static pages. Thanks!

I reviewed your app and also many of the other apps that people mentioned in the comments.

http://blog.blakeperdue.com/2008/09/15/app-reviews-task-mana...

i would say add a publish a group feature would be nice. i currently do this with remember the milk so my boss can keep tabs on what i'm doing.