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dalerus

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designer & developer
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dalerus··on Show HN: The Grid engine, a beautifully designed 2D game engine
Site doesn't load in Safari on iPad 1.
dalerus··on Point of Sale Register Outage at Starbucks Stores in U.S. and Canada
I was wondering this too. I'm curious if starbucks will release any additional details other than, we've fixed it.
dalerus··on Show HN: FoundersKit – pre-launch
I know you're in pre-launch, but if you can provide some examples of what deals I am going to be getting I might be more inclined to provide you my email.
dalerus··on Giveffect (YC W15) Has Built a Shopify-Meets-Salesforce for Non-Profits
Sure, shoot me an email: jesse at glean.net
dalerus··on Giveffect (YC W15) Has Built a Shopify-Meets-Salesforce for Non-Profits
Actually one more thing, are there plans for affiliate or parter programs? We get asked to advise on this stuff all the time.
dalerus··on Giveffect (YC W15) Has Built a Shopify-Meets-Salesforce for Non-Profits
Nice. It's an interesting product!

Best of luck!

dalerus··on Giveffect (YC W15) Has Built a Shopify-Meets-Salesforce for Non-Profits
Thanks for the response.

I would still be interested to understand the CRM part more. I agree that it makes sense to have the front-end talk to their CRM, but is it a full fledge CRM? The fundraising page leads are not the only relationships NGOs need to track.

We find it fairly easy to automate everything for leads to CRM via Zapier. And the NGO can scale and add in pieces as needed.

Also, I find that finance/donor relations teams are usually in a different location/country than the comms teams. All with different budgets and money to spend on a system. It's a complicated mess. :)

I guess I am curious, from your view, what is the target size of the NGO your system benefits? It looks like you are giving it away to anyone with less than 250k a year in donations, which is great, those small NGOs need a solution like this. But is it the $1-3 million a year? $3m+ a year?

I'm not asking these questions to pick apart your offering. I am all for systems that help NGOs. If this is a fit for our clients, it would be a nice place to point them to.

dalerus··on Giveffect (YC W15) Has Built a Shopify-Meets-Salesforce for Non-Profits
I run an agency that works exclusively with NGOs (marketing, design, development). This is an interesting solution, but I am curious about if you offer an API? The link in the site footer doesn't go anywhere.

The problem I see, is that all-in-one solutions do a lot of things but are really masters of none. Does the CRM allow integration from the NGOs website automatically? Does your email marketing support list segmentations? Is PayPal the only payment option? Most NGOs have long standing contracts with merchant service accounts.

I like the idea, but I am not sure I could recommend it to our clients based on the information from your website. Lots of potential for this type of system.

Right now we usually setup clients on Salesforce, super great discounts for nonprofits, and lots of out of the box integration already available.

dalerus··on Ask HN: Remote Jobs. How to get started?
I think this is very true. Go work, spend as much time as you can learning in person. After a few years, you can work out an arrangement to work remotely.
dalerus··on Ask HN: Freelance/contract developers – who are your clients? (BigCo, SMB, etc.)
NGOs
dalerus··on What are the most lucrative specialties for freelance software development?
Sorry, but what is C2C? Client to Client? I tried to search for the term but came up with nothing. I've been doing this awhile, but that's not a term I am familiar with.
dalerus··on Kicked out of uni – internships, jobs?
12 years ago I was kicked out of college due to a low GPA. I just listed the college on my CV as attended, but never indicated any type of degree.

For me, having a portfolio of work was more important than the college I attended. If you don't have a portfolio, do some free work for a local business in exchange for a testimonial.

Don't go for internships, look for Jr. positions, find something that pays.

dalerus··on Ask HN: What tasks do you regularly automate or use digital assistance for?
I use Zapier a lot for automation.

Auto sync my business contacts to Insightly, GitHub issues for an open source project to a Trello board,Gumroad contacts to my MailChimp list, to name a few

dalerus··on Ask HN: How to bring on co-founder almost two years later?
Wow your site has some great resources, thanks!

He's not really a sales guy, most of our sales are high touch, and very technical. So I am the guy that handles all of that.

I would put him more on the marketing/strategy side of things.

dalerus··on Ask HN: How to bring on co-founder almost two years later?
"As a friend of mine once put it, is he a creator of wealth or a taker of wealth? Most people are takers."

Great point. My worry is he is looking at this at a take opportunity.

dalerus··on Ask HN: How to bring on co-founder almost two years later?
Thank you for the advice.

You've hit my major concern, which is trying to figure out if he is the kind of person that can do the co-founding thing, or if he just wants equity without the risk.

dalerus··on Ask HN: How to bring on co-founder almost two years later?
Thanks for the reply!

You're right, sunk costs are sunk costs. I guess I am try to also figure out if I want a "co-founder" or just another early hire.

dalerus··on Ask HN: How to bring on co-founder almost two years later?
I wish I could, but we don't have enough cash on hand to commit to that level of employee.
dalerus··on Tinder in Meteor
You misspelled "matches".
dalerus··on Ask HN: How do you handle your personal photo library?
My wife is way better at cataloging our images than I am, but we use Dropbox for everything.

All images get put into a folder by event and year. We have IFTTT save all Facebook images and Instargram images into Dropbox as well.

For viewing, we use iPhoto mostly.

dalerus··on Show HN: Build your own Kickstarter-like funding landing page with Stripe
Very cool. As far as Stamplay goes, can we use whatever frontend technologies we want? You used angular.js for your example, but it's not something we use.
dalerus··on Show HN: Don't waste hours on Google Analytics again
Looks nice! I don't know about the don't waste hours issue. I am more concerned about generating reports that my clients can understand easily.

Looking forward to trying it out.

dalerus··on Show HN: Run Your Business Better, Using the Bible – Bible Business Tips
Your site is obviously a email gathering template, which isn't necessarily a problem, but you have no sample of what I am actually signing up for.

- How often are you going to email me? - Are these tips from pastors? Theologians? Just some guy? Why should I trust your interpretation of the bible? - Is this going to help me grow my business? Retain employees? What's the value? - Give me some testimonials of people who currently get value out of it.

I had all these questions, got to the bottom of your page, then clicked to your personal site. This didn't boost my confidence since your a passive income expert. Once again, not necessarily a bad thing, but without those questions being answered all I can assume is that you want my email so you can spam me with referral links, ebooks, and other passive income stuff.

dalerus··on Show HN: Run Your Business Better, Using the Bible – Bible Business Tips
I would sign up, but your landing page screams spammy marketer.
dalerus··on Ask HN: I'm writing a design book for programmers, what would you like to see?
Sure! Thanks!
dalerus··on Ask HN: I'm writing a design book for programmers, what would you like to see?
Thanks! Color theory seems like a never ending study, but I can put together a topic on this.
dalerus··on Show HN: Grav, an Open Source Flat-File CMS
Why are all these flat, or NoDB CMS systems coming out? I feel like there has been a recent uptick in the amount of these systems being released.

Personally, I like Kirby 2.

dalerus··on Show HN: TouchingBase.io – Automated Follow Ups
Looks like a great idea. My only feedback is on the sales page. Every button is pushing me to try the demo, but nothing is sending me to sign up. I had to scroll to the bottom to find the pricing information, only then could I sign up for a paid account.
dalerus··on Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in
Battambang is a great place, one my favorite places to spend time in Cambodia.
dalerus··on Show HN: NomadList – The best cities to live and work remotely in
This is a great starting index for remote workers! Thanks for this.
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