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borat4prezon Ask HN: When was the last time you lived 24 hours without the Internet?

Vacation up north a few summers ago. Brought my laptop, but there was no connection unless I went to a coffee shop in town.

borat4prezon Ask HN: First Startup Launch Checklist?

Thanks. Do you think Google Analytics would suffice or should I use additional sources?

borat4prezon Show HN: Send any webpage as a gift

My gift URL isn't loading.

borat4prezon Techstars to open up shop in Detroit

The music scene is pretty good down there. Been to some great shows over the past few years.

borat4prezon Techstars to open up shop in Detroit

How do I apply my Detroit area startup? The application on the website is only for Austin.

borat4prezon RoR, Django or both?

Why?

borat4prezon Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January

Interesting, haven't heard of them surprisingly. Although it looks as they're a PayPal company.

borat4prezon Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January

It's called PayStand and don't have any issues so far. Not sure if you're familiar. It works for what we need, a little higher of a rate we were looking to pay (we don't push the transaction fees to our customers which is an option of theirs), but had to implement something in time for the holidays.

borat4prezon Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January

I was e-mailing sales@stripe so maybe that is a different department than their regular customer service. Sorry I did not clarify. I'm sure they're doing a lot of things right, I just had a bad personal experience.

borat4prezon Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January

Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, it's a seasonal business so the bulk of our sales comes in November and December and needed to get something besides PayPal checkout implemented before the Thanksgiving rush. It was just dumbfounding how long it took sales@stripe.com to reply to my e-mails.

The last e-mail we sent was November 25th at 5:50pm and didn't get a reply until November 30th at 5:03pm with "Thanks for clarifying, and I apologize for a delayed response on my end." ..by that time we already found an alternative, got it set up and installed in less than an hour.

borat4prezon Stripe raises $70M at $3.5B valuation, double that of January

In my experience Stripe has very poor customer service. Hopefully they spend some of this money in that department.

Trying to talk back and forth through e-mail because they won't give me a number to call about sales trying to get a lower rate because my volume of sales is greater than $80k+ monthly, waiting 24+ hours on average for a reply and even 72+ hours on one occasion, finally gave up on them and went with another payment processing company. This happened over the past month. Kind of disappointed.

borat4prezon Twitter Is Considering a Deal to Buy SoundCloud

For what? :)

borat4prezon Google is Breaking the Internet

Matt, I am the webmaster of http://TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles.com -- before I took the site over, the forum was hacked (~2010) and we were hit with a ton of bad links (posted on our forum and lots of underage adult websites linking to us).

I've been working the past two years, from contacting all the webmasters via WhoIs information, creating unique content on a weekly basis, having a good social media following, and still for the life of us, we cannot get ranked well organically on Google.

Could you personally look into this or give me any advice on resolving this issue because I feel like I've done everything possible and we put a lot of work into the website over the years. I would really appreciate it.

borat4prezon Show HN: I'm writing a book to teach beginner Django web app programming

This looks great! I've been a WordPress dev the past 2-3 years and started my first Django project a few months ago. I know html/css well and can do jQuery plugins, but I'm not too knowledgable past that. I know programming concepts, I just have a hard time putting methods and classes together and all that good stuff. My brain thinks more creatively instead of logically. Hopefully this book can help me out, I'm currently paying a developer $50/hr to build the app (50+ hours deep so far), I'm just doing the HTML/CSS because I'm pretty good at that. Would love to take control of the whole thing!

Maybe this book can help?

Also it'd be neat if you took a look at my project so far and let me know your thoughts! I have a private repo on github and the app is up on Heroku right now. companyhen<at>gmail.com if you wanna chat and take a look :)

p.s. Backed $25 :)

borat4prezon Ask HN: Developer disappeared after his first payment..?

Yes! What's your e-mail?

borat4prezon Ask HN: AdSense alternatives?

I recently split my ads (50% AdSense | 50% Media.Net) on one of the blogs I maintain and they both earn very close to the same amount every day. I like the service.

borat4prezon An Update on HN Comments

Can I use the new HN comments algorithm on my new website? :)

borat4prezon Wanelo: The First Million Users

A little luck and a little experience. Plus 4 years of community growth.

I prefer not to say the site if you understand.

borat4prezon Wanelo: The First Million Users

The original title was linkbait.

borat4prezon Wanelo: The First Million Users

Very interesting, although someone claims the history to be bogus.

I currently have a website that gets over 500k Uniques per month and over 5m pageviews a month, so it's interesting to see what the future could hold!