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dawieon Ask HN: How do you report your progress or status to your Manager/Boss?

So you have to submit them daily? Would you mind posting it here or sending it to me at davidsmit at google's email service?

dawieon Show HN: SideProjects.com - 37 Bootstrapped Profitable Projects

Anyone know who the author of the book is? I can't seem to find his name on the website.

dawieon Make your website super fast with Asset Pipeline, Sprites & Cloudfront

Won't Cloudflare help by caching static stuff and providing the CDN?

dawieon Can you build a startup on .Net?

Plenty of Fish runs on .NET. Marcus says it's more scalable than most of it's Open Source counterparts...

dawieon Google's self driving cars can navigate drive-through restaurants.

The car does a pretty average parking job in the dude's driveway at the end of the video..

dawieon Show HN: Native Analytics (work in progress)

Are you aware of this project: http://www.openwebanalytics.com/

dawieon Show HN: Native Analytics (work in progress)

I am really interested in your project. I am working on an service where I think analytics will have a big benefit to my customers. I am struggling with rolling my own or using a 3rd party service. Both have pros and cons. I think in the end rolling my own will be the way to go, since I want to show users how many people visited their site ( and how many people contacted them) in a very simple way. Basically just show them the two numbers.

PS: I am in Calgary (go flames go) :-)

dawieon Steve Blank's new book - The Startup Owner's Manual

I second the eBook Version. It'e pretty frustrating that Steve doesn't want to create/ship one. I offered to pay MORE for an ebook than the paper book...

dawieon The best thing Tim Cook didn't announce

Free with a contract. The 3rd World can't afford contracts. 95% of people in India and Africa are on "Pay as you go"

5% market share is not mainstream in mind. I guess I was referring to huge market share...

dawieon The best thing Tim Cook didn't announce

I think they still need to release an iPhone Nano for the masses. The iPod was big, but the moment Apple brought out the iPod Mini, the iPod went mainstream, because it became affordable.

Apple needs to do the same for the iPhone...

dawieon I'm almost homeless: Why you should not go outside Airbnb's payment system

What are you working on?

dawieon G+ invite open again

I pinged you. Would love an invite.

dawieon Hacker News Search

Any reason for the search to be at the bottom?

PG: Can we please have it at the top, after submit?

dawieon Ask HN: HTTPS Where can I get a cheap certificate?

I went with Dreamhost, because I use their Panel. It's cheap and works well for now...

dawieon New platform for deploying, managing, and scaling PHP apps

I really need something like this!

dawieon Nano Watch Kit Near $1M on Kickstarter

Depends on what you pledged. You basically paying for the opportunity to pre-order at the price they want...

dawieon Ask HN: Best book you read in 2010 and briefly why

Delivering Happiness

It made me think of what makes me happy and how I can help make the people around me happy, while still being entrepreneurial (which makes me happy).

dawieon Ask HN: What Technology does Optimizely use?

I am more interested in getting an existing website to display inside my own, than doing screenshots. There are services and APIs out there that does screenshots quite well.

dawieon Ask HN: What Technology does Optimizely use?

How can I contact you? You can also drop me an email at tabtrickapp at google's email service

dawieon Ask HN: What Technology does Optimizely use?

Clickable Link: https://optimizely.appspot.com/edit#url=http://tabtrick.com

dawieon Ask HN: Analytics: Hosted or Custom for my publishing platform

Has anyone used something like this: http://piwik.org/docs/javascript-tracking/

dawieon Ask HN: Review my Plugin - Landing Pages for WordPress

To me it looks like you are just selling a template.

You should consider setting people up with a test account or demo area, so they can see how it actually works. The screenshots doesn't really help me understand what the plugin does.

dawieon Let's Do Lunch

I would like to remotely bid on this item too. I would fly in for the lunch.

dawieon Offer HN: Reply to Will Work For Karma

Thanks for the TabTrick review.

dawieon Y Combinator W2011 application (my rejection email)

Pagerduty told me that they applied 4 times. They eventually got in and also got funding after Demo Day.

There is always next time, and then 2 more times after that. :-)

dawieon If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile

Fixed. Thanks for spotting it and mentioning it.

dawieon If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile

I didn't apply this year. Looking for a co-founder and just become a partner at my day job.

dawieon If you applied to YC this cycle, please put your email in your profile

I got a very nice rejection email last year. Here it is:

We're sorry to say we couldn't accept your proposal for funding.Please don't take it personally. The quality of the applications continues to increase with each cycle, and since there's a limit on the number of interviews we can do, we had to turn away a lot of genuinely promising groups.

Another reason you shouldn't take this personally is that we know we make lots of mistakes. It's alarming how often the last group to make it over the threshold for interviews ends up being one that we fund. That means there are surely other good groups that fall just below the threshold and that we miss even interviewing.

We're trying to get better at this, but it's practically certain that groups we rejected will go on to create successful startups.If you do, we'd appreciate it if you'd send us an email telling us about it; we want to learn from our mistakes.

Y Combinator Staff

dawieon Offer HN: I can review your web app usability and UI

http://tabtrick.com

Much Appreciated :-)

dawieon Offer HN: SEO Help

Url:http://tabtrick.com/

Keywords: Custom Facebook Page, Facebook Business Page, Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Template, Welcome Tab

Description of my site: I have Facebook Page creator that allows user to easily customize their Facebook Page.