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devcomon Ask HN: Cheap Internet marketing for bootstrapped Shopify app startup

I've only tried the Shopify forums, creating posts, replying to people. Was thinking about starting a facebook ad campaign but I don't know how effective that would be.

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

Truer word were never spoken. I will adjust the site. Thanks.

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

Hey thanks! I haven't got any experience with reddit but I have heard that you can upset them easily. I will look at some of the other posts to get an idea of what is suitable.

StumbleUpon is a great idea! I used to use that all the time. Didn't cross my mind to use it. Thanks

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

good point. I guess none of the items are really themed. But we could possibly add some themed artwork on the picture?

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

Yeah we have purchased it. Hasn't come though yet apparently. I will chase that up. Thanks

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

Not a lot! Struggling with marketing at the moment. We are running multiple facebook ads and we are about to approach our local newspaper. Not sure what else to do. Google Ads?

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

Just facebook at the moment. Any other ideas?

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

Yeah the 14 offers sold is just to make the website not look like a ghost town. Put some activity on it.

That's great feedback on the sidebar thanks.

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

We wanted to make ours more fun for the buyer and have a 'theme'. All our marketing has been aviation themed, such as "fly in for a great deal".

At this stage we kind of went broad, having a bit of everything to see which products sold more. We are a little limited to what our suppliers have at this stage. But the prices are still cheap

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

Ok guest checkout is a good idea, totally overlooked that. Thanks.

With the homepage do you mean just have the single deal. And remove the deals on the side?

devcomon Show HN: My new side business

If you wouldn't mind I would love some feedback on this. I haven't made a sale yet and I am not sure why.

ANY feedback is appreciated!

devcomon Ask HN: Market to ebay sellers

quote - "(can you target by people who have posted a link to an ebay item?)" That's a great idea.

Your first two points are slowly dawning on me, I removed the people who liked ebay filter, and I seem to be getting more clicks now, however still no signups (but that is another issue!).

I posted on the eBay forum. It was really, really effective!!.. until I received a warning from ebay to stop and the post was removed. However, as you say, there must be other forums where sellers hang out. I will get my google on. Thanks for the advice.

devcomon Ask HN: Market to ebay sellers

Hi Scott,

Thanks for the great advice and examples. It all seems to make perfect sense when someone spells it out for you. I spoke to one of my friends on the weekend and they said the same thing about facebook, "they are there for entertainment". But thanks for taking it one further with the ad words keywords like "ebay fee calc", I think I can start to get the hang of it!

devcomon Ask HN: Market to ebay sellers

I'll go first. I've updated the ad here are the words.

Title: Always sell the hot items

Content: The most current list of best selling products on auction sites. Selling hot products easy

and you can see the updated ad here: http://devcomsystems.com.au/fb_ad2.png

I struggle to think "would I click on this?" because I never click on any ads!

Again, any help would be MOST appreciated!

devcomon Web Scraping with Modern Perl (Part 2 - Speed Edition)

Shamless on topic plug here. Some readers might be more familiar with ruby.

Multi-threaded webscraping with the tor network with ruby -

http://devcomsystems.com.au/2013/01/multi-thread-mechanize-u...

devcomon Ask HN: What's your blog?

Subscribed. Thanks this is just what I need!

devcomon How to eat an elephant: Planning software development

Whoops! Thanks for the link labpdx.

devcomon Ask HN: What is your startup?

Review Mailer (http://reviewmailer.com/) is a tool for iphone developers. You tell it which apps to watch and every time there is a new customer review for that app (on any app store in the world), it will translate it and email it to you. Simple and useful.

Roger That (http://rogerthat.com.au/) is an Australian catch of the day type eCommerce site that is launching soon. Thought we would try for a niche that is not tech!

I have also started a blog that is going to outline how to build a web app that generates $5000/month. First post is here: http://devcomsystems.com.au/2013/01/the-web-app-challenge-ac... I am happy to do some cross promotion of your website if you are interested. Let me know.