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fawydon Ask HN: Where do Marketing Guys hang out?

drop me a line - email is in the bio ;-)

fawydon Ask HN: Have your parents done anything to make you interested in Science or IT?

Yes, they told me to join business school - at this age the best to infect a teen with the tech-topic, because you will do the converse of what your parents tell you :-)

fawydon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)

I'm working on a event/what to do discovery site that does not sucks :)

fawydon Ask HN: What kind of side projects are you working on?

A social "Things-to-do site" - never miss a cool event again

fawydon Ask HN: what do you think about this idea ...

The target is not to buy or sell side projects, it's to show your work to the world. A sort of "Show HN" but searchable and only dedicated to side projects. So it's a kind of a directory ;-) There should also be an option to let the readers know if someone searching for help. Use-case: Someone is a good developer and has programmed an nice app. Because he/she is not a designer the app has a poorly UX. Then he can tells inside the post on Kilaluu that he is searching a designer - someone who is passionated and want to join this side project.

I like the idea of focusing on one use-case, one niche.

Thx for your help :-)

fawydon Ask HN: what do you think about this idea ...

thank you ;-)

fawydon Ask HN: How to use garb gem (Google Analytics with Ruby on Rails)?

The other descriptions I have found on the internet are also not for beginners:

- http://viget.com/extend/introducing-garb-access-the-google-a...

- http://geekospace.com/working-with-garb-a-rails-gem-for-goog...

fawydon How we got our 1,000 first subscribers with no budget

Hi Nico

very nice idea - the sort of thing I'm searching for so long time. Some background: I am a online marketing pro who's learning RoR in the freetime because a weekend project wants to be turned to live (a special cooking app), lol. If you ever need some professional advices (non-paid, lol) in online marketing (SEO, SEA, SMM etc.) drop me a line.

btw: there could be a startup scene in Switzerland - but most people are not well connected (devs, marketing guys, sales person etc.) - I'm from Berne

fawydon Anyone Can Ride Rails - should I write this book?

I'm a RoR beginner with a little know-how from other languages like PHP and think you should also include some other interesting parts like Stackoverflow, GitHub, Heroku etc. There is plenty of stuff out there with no real description for a programming-beginner. In my early days I have search for a long time a good description for what a gem is. And this is only one example, lol.

fawydon [Ask HN] Feedback on an app I have been developing

Hi abhimir

I find the design looks pretty :-) But what is confusing to me is, that you don't link your Social Media accounts - this should be possible prelaunch.

KR, Fabian

fawydon Connex.io will stop its service on September 15

Hey Marcus & Ata

Ich finde es persönlich sehr schade, dass connex.io eingestellt wird - war es doch einmal eines dieser vielversprechenden & breitergestreuten Schweizer-Startups. Für die Zukunft wünsche ich euch beiden viel Erfolg mit hoffentlich anderen Projekten - lasst die HN-Community doch wissen, was so bei euch als nächstes ansteht.

Grüsse aus Bern Fabian

fawydon Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (July 2012)

Bern (Flamatt) - Switzerland | Full Time | Scout24

Scout24 (http://www.scout24.ch) owns the biggest classified sites for cars, jobs and real estates in Switzerland. We are looking for an online marketing manager to join our marketing-team. Experience with Google AdWords, Google Analytics and a strong internet affinity is a plus. Check out http://www.jobscout24.ch/de/job/online-marketing-manager/230... for more information.