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+1 to this! Amazing book!

My boss used to have a poster that read "Good, cheap, fast. Pick two."

For all these fast projects, I wonder what the resulting costs and quality were!

Thanks - I was suprised my submission didn't just add a vote to an existing one!

You may qualify for pro-bono advice: check if any local universities offer free legal advice clinics.

Neat idea. I love that the repayments are going back in to funding Zidisha itself - a unique way to raise ~$100k! Congrats on the funding round Julia :)

Great little screencast - thanks for that!

I'd love to hear any suggestions for how a publication like this could contribute. We've got a few ideas of our own but are very open to suggestions.

I'm pretty excited about this! What are your current favourite UK/EU tech blogs?

Same here

Congratulations! Just ordered my first one :)

How about a basic API (make comments/votes/users available as JSON objects) so people can build different filters and see what works?

Looks like Wave :)

I've just worked out that the sprites represent recent tweets! Click the sprite to see the tweet. Tweets containing ":)" become white sprites.

I made this into an easy-to-follow Twitter list: http://twitter.com/DHS/telegraph-top-investors

Awesome story - well played! :)

The model has been around for a while - you should give it a go! Your execution will be different and could be more successful. You'll learn a ton in the process too.

I remember an email version of this app about 10 years ago - I loved it for a bit surreptitious flirting at school!

The app looks really great and the signup process is straightforward with clear CTAs. Alas the FB integration makes it rather slow (maybe I have too many friends? ;). It seems to loads friends each time I open the page - could this not be cached? It took me a moment to realise the grey box was a friend selector; it might help to make it white and give it focus on page load. It couldn't seem to grab my girlfriend's email address and asked me to type it in (making me wonder why integrate with FB at all).

There's no way for me to share content on either FB or Twitter. I'd be happy to post to my wall (and tweet) that "I just adored someone with adore.ly".

If you're trying to build up UGC then I'd happily rate a few anonymous adores and I'd be interested to see the wittiest/cutest ones.

For user retention, consider email updates: 1. thank you for signing up, 2. thank you for sending your first adore, 3. it's been a few days, time to send another adore? And for the receiver: sending a second (and third) email a week or two later if they haven't clicked through to the site. The option to opt-out of emails is important but the granularity of notifications settings looks good. I also hope you have a Valentine's day promotion lined up!

I'd forget about making money until you have say ten thousand users and I'd remove the limit of three adores until then too. Then I'd limit adores (to 5) and users could unlock more adores using a platform like SuperRewards or FB credits.

If my girlfriend 'adores' me back then I'll get back with what happens...

Great to hear! :)

Congratulations on the funding too! I remember trying this out when you floated it on HN a while ago. Nice one!

Looks familiar!

It's a trap!

Wall Street!

This is four months old:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1479761

Facebook's NEW groups feature solves this (the old one didn't):

http://facebook.com/groups/

Selling it is more important than creating it.

Kudos for launching - nice one!

How would that work?

I think this will go down in history as one of the great working relationships in the technology industry along with Larry & Sergey and Jobs & Woz.

Coolest Dad ever!

The song on the video is rather wonderful! It's a cover of Radiohead's Creep by Scala:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=evG2DDmSdxM