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hajrice··on Make. Publish. Share. - 3 Minute Screencasts
Love it. Is there any way the recording time could be longer than 3m?
hajrice··on Streak Brings Mail Merge to Gmail
Honestly, this looks very complex. I don't see why someone would use this over a tool like Toutapp.com ?
hajrice··on 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia
Thanks, Amir. Glad to be able to know someone like you :-)
hajrice··on 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia
Happy to have awesome people like you that I can call users, Chris. I don't know what we'd do without folks like you.
hajrice··on 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia
Hi! Thanks for the comment, very happy to hear that.

I'll be in Austin in 2 weeks. There's no way I'm letting you buy a first round of coffee. Rakija's on me.

Would you mind emailing me at emil@helpjuice.com ? I'd love to connect with you.

hajrice··on 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia
Yep -- absolutely, right, Cody! Thanks for the comment; Hope you're doing well!
hajrice··on 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia
Thanks for the awesome comment. It's very thoughtful and I completely agree with you there.

Nick is one of the youngest people (if not the youngest) to ever raise venture capital, perhaps to also sell a company for that range aswell.

He's definitely someone we should look up to. I actually find it pretty amazing, what he did. :-)

hajrice··on 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia
Thanks for the comment, Mladen! I hope you found the article somewhat interesting...
hajrice··on 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia
Thanks for the comment, it's very helpful for anyone looking to do business in Bosnia.

Doing business in Bosnia might not be as good as you mentioned.

However, the company is based in US, and I'm also a US citizen.

hajrice··on 19 Year Old Flees America and Skips College to Bootstrap a Startup in Bosnia
Hey Steve,

I do remember those days...and I'm very sorry about the cold call. I figured it was worth at least a shot

Really sorry if I creeped you out there. I'm just a 20 year old kid, that's trying the best he can.

hajrice··on Show HN: Sales Tracker for Stripe
love it. any plans to release it for android?
hajrice··on Lunr.js - Simple full-text search in your browser
Any stats on the limitations ?

I'm wondering how efficient this would be given that indexing a lot of data via javascript might really not be a good idea..

hajrice··on Ask HN: Any "FAQ as a service" services out there?
Thanks for the question, nanch;

I noticed Dan Grossman posted a link to Helpjuice.com

I'm the founder of Helpjuice.com, if all you are looking for is ONLY a faq/knowledgebase, then I'd suggest you dive into Helpjuice.com deeper.

However, if you're also looking for ticketing, fb+twitter support, phone support and all that other good stuff, some of ou competitors might be a better fit.

hajrice··on Why you shouldn't do what Aaron did
I'd also suggest anyone that has ever faced depression or currently is facing it checks out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGp25fn25Cs
hajrice··on Features of Solr vs. ElasticSearch
Yep, but hosting it is a pain.

It's actually heavily tweaked (this is what the IndexTank team has told me), and apparently contains components of Solr

hajrice··on Features of Solr vs. ElasticSearch
Having played with both, I personally find http://www.searchify.com/ much better than bost Solr And ElasticSearch. At least based off the search results.
hajrice··on Redactor - WYSIWYG editor on jQuery
We're a happy paying customer of Redactor. Can't tell you how much we love it. It's literary the PERFECT WYSIWYG editor. Highly recommend you try it if you're looking for a fast & beautiful editor.
hajrice··on Startup idea list
I'd pay for this. In fact, I end up paying friends to do that for me, while I'm outside the US & have to send docs (such as tax forms, etc.)
hajrice··on Show HN: Voice feedback widget to hear from your users
Cool service! Just left some feedback :)
hajrice··on [dead]
I'd consider sending a blast email to your users. After all, they're the ones who are passionate about it.

Maybe there's someone that would love to run the project.

hajrice··on Ask HN: How profitable has News.YCombinator.com been for you?
- Learned a lot about enterpreneurship, startups & hacking (would have otherwise taken me 3-4+ years)

- Started blogging because of HN

- Started and made money on MVPFor1k thanks to HN & it's members ($5-10k)

- Got some freelance work while I was in high-school

....

- Met a good friend a couple years ago on HN that later on became my first customer, and a powerful testimonial.

- Acquired some customers because of it ($10-20k value)

- Got into a seed incubator because of it ($20k+ value)

hajrice··on Tell, don't ask
I completely agree with you. I actually find the 'cleaner version' much much harder to read.

Every time I look at the code I have to 'recompile' it in my brain, just because it's doing such a simple thing in such a darn complex way.

hajrice··on Ask HN: If there was no internet, what business would you have started?
Would have started a nightclub or something like that
hajrice··on Ask HN: Why is there no good business dashboard creation tool?
Mostly from the database, created by the application. Other than that, Mixpanel and perhaps Stripe, Google Analytics.
hajrice··on On Starting a Startup
This article should be renamed to "On Starting a Project". You built something using some cool technology, bought some Facebook ads because some of your friends had some luck, now you have to get paying customers.

Until then, it's all just a (side) project, not a startup.

hajrice··on What is good customer service?
Wow. That's amazing. You guys should blog about this. I can imagine the results on the return of doing this must be astonishing :)
hajrice··on What is good customer service?
Sometimes we get too carried way by acquiring new customers that we don't sit back and think whether our customers are really satisfied.

And the problem is, we can never satisfy everyone as we're all different.

hajrice··on What is good customer service?
Great quote. I also really like Jeff Bezos one that goes like this;

“If you make customers unhappy in the physical world, they might each tell 6 friends.If you make customers unhappy on the Internet, they can each tell 6,000 friends.” – Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com

hajrice··on What is good customer service?
[crossposted from FaceBook]

I can't stress how much I agree with you, Tom. We should really highlight this on the blog, wish you posted it as a comment.

I can't help but ask...do you think that's because the industry their in is high-margin, or ?

hajrice··on What is good customer service?
I think one of the reasons for that, can be derived from "How to Win friends and influence people"

People like to feel important. Now, that's not to say your customers are arrogant, or self-centered, but, people really like it when you make them feel important by complying wit their ideas, and responding to them, in the most sincere way possible.

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