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You're good with the name. Don't overthink it now - it sounds business-y alright. If parent's logic were to prevail, no company name would end in 'soft' (since Microsoft) either. Doesn't hold.

I've found https://tradingeconomics.com/ to be a good source for a lot of economic indicators for various countries.

I second this. Via Atlas, SVB does provide accounts for international founders for Delaware C-Corp (incorporated via Atlas only).

Somewhere in the middle, but have you considered a role that combines both non-tech and tech? e.g. Tech Product Management. It requires a lot more though (Design as well), but can provide you with a taste of end-to-end responsibility of launching products or features - which can either lead to more satisfying corporate roles or be a good training ground for startup roles.

Not necessarily a Hackernews alternative, but possibly Stackoverflow work-alike: ResearchGate has multiple forums for Economics.

Behavioural Economics is here: https://www.researchgate.net/topic/Behavioural-Economics

There are more forums here: https://www.researchgate.net/topics

Depends upon what you're hiring for.

If you're hiring someone to find potential clients on LinkedIn and market/spam (read "do business development"), then someone already understanding the nuances of LinkedIn will help.

For everything else, it doesn't give you any hints on how they'll do on the job. I know several talented developers who have not cared to create/build a LinkedIn profile.

Focus on whether they have the skills to do the job and grow/learn fast.

Still a large risk, even though this was authored in 2014.

I would be surprised if extensions that "read and change content on all websites you visit" haven't yet been used in some wide-scale account/identity compromise without making much noise.

Extensions can specify if they want read/change access to only one domain (or more). This extension could have specified medium.com alone.

Congrats on launching!

Why isn't the pricing non-public? Is it customized for each client / use-case? If yes, can you please brief what factors made it infeasible for making it non-public?

It varies according to the requirements & level of enrichment (+ negotiations). Typically, a couple of thousand dollars for entry levels.

Thanks for clearly answering the privacy + security related questions (I specifically went to the site to search for this - way too many software dealing with your code forget to specify this):

"For demo and editor plugins, we store the source content transmitted to the server as a temporary file. Right after the inspection, the file is completely deleted."

The post doesn't mention that the test is / was also active in India. I've used the feature in FB from India.

with no privacy policy link or info on how long the documents are stored on the server.

Stuff like receipts, etc to be converted to PDF will contain customers' information - not to be put on a site with no info on how it's used.

Interesting. There's jsPDF as well which is similar: https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF

What happens to "Backups" with Firestore? (Firestore console doesn't have a Backups tab)

Do you have an audience who is at least aware of the app's problem space, or is it just you who knows about that app?

I haven't clicked on that link, but I get your question.

I've known communities that are paywalled. Instead of thinking it as a "slack channel that costs $$", the value prop is "it's a closed community whose entry is $$". There have been vBulletin forums where if you were a paid subscribers, they got you access to subscriber-only subforums.

Couple of examples currently:

1. Product Management HQ community: $25 to join. Slack channel is there as well. https://www.productmanagerhq.com/join-the-community/

2. Product People Club: [it was paid. don't know current price. entry seems closed right now]. https://productpeople.club/

I clicked on the Get-Started link. It kept loading for a few seconds (half a minute?) and now all I see is a blank page with a colored background.

[EDIT]: I refreshed it did turn up with the Registration screen this time.

When you say "the rate at which you find content is greater than what you can consume daily", can you provide more details? Are you, for example, trying to read all headlines of NYTimes + HN + Reddit Front page daily? What type of content are you trying to filter out / prioritize from?

You may want to:

(1) check how many visitors are scrolling 6 pagefuls to understand the 6 pictures. You can use crazyegg, etc heatmap kind of tool to measure. I personally would've preferred to just be told in a single picture, but that's just me.

(2) I'm not sure how helpful is the "Help us Launch" callout at the top. You may just want to put the e-mail form up there. And instead of using "Help us" phrasing, a blunt "Get notified of our launch timeline", etc. probably would convert better.

I liked the page and the clear explanation.

Does it need to be an Evernote replacement, or can this be a Chrome extension / etc that eventually stores in your Evernote account itself? I did read the text at the bottom of the website, but one thing to do note is that people trust the 'Evernote' brand for their data storage. You can offer this on top of Evernote/Onenote as a separate extension/layer.

> * I started building it without knowing people directly impacted by the problem I was trying to solve*

You can still search for journalists on Twitter / websites and reach out to them for feedback.

> So far no revenue because I focus on building features.

You can possibly reverse the funnel. Reach out to mailing lists / IRC channels / Slack channels to get feedback from developers and then develop features accordingly.

I can visualise this being used - you can have a cute-looking QR code (surrounded by a shape/design of your choice to not make it look "standard") to rsvp. You can even have stickers printed (instead of complete cards) that can be stuck on everybody's physical wedding card.

I liked the simple page. If you can articulate on that page what you saw lacking in the space, it will help convince users who are just starting to start using it.

This general space has a lot of long tail CRMs that companies subscribe to - and they don't have a good mobile support (still in 2017). You may want to see if you can make a "general purpose" interface in the space with minimal common functionality and integrate it with others.

Getting a 502 Gateway error right now, so can't check the site. However, general advice: run the site through Google's Page Speed checker and see if a CDN + gzip compression etc can improve things to some extent before relocating primary servers.

> These guys (Kalanick, McClure) are multi millionaires, and could probably get any number of women to take interest in them on that basis alone.

General psychology pattern: People run after what can't be easily gained. Entrepreneurs, more so.

There's another possibility:

Your friend searched for it or read articles about it @ office. You two share the same geolocation and IP address @ office. Facebook figured out you might be interested in the same topics as what others in your office are searching for. Facebook shows you potentially related articles @ home.

No audio listening required.

I'd be surprised if Facebook Product Managers haven't been doing the above. This is basic.

Take a look at Amazon Redshift (I don't know if you have a higher time budget or a higher dollar budget for what you're building, but Redshift might turn out to be pretty cost-effective when you add in system upkeep as well). It scales well.