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iqonikon Leaving the Nest

I was at work the other day when I got a push notification that there was smoke upstairs from Nest protect. I left work immediately and arrived home to the smell of burning, an incense plug had been left in and was melting.

Nest saved me, the ROI for me is priceless. Thanks Tony, good luck in your next venture - learn from your mistakes.

iqonikon Ask HN: What's the best tool you used to use that doesn't exist anymore?

Grooveshark

iqonikon Ask HN: What HN meetups and groups do you know?

Just signed up to London, if anyone fancies a beer instead of waiting for the next meetup just shout (Email in my profile)

iqonikon Ask HN: Why do Tor users have to solve captchas to read HN?

Yes, but why has Hacker News chosen to force this upon Tor users? Given the audience, I think they should whitelist as per these instructions:

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/203306930-D...

iqonikon Ask HN: What was the url to the site with the company icons?

http://fontfamous.com/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11247567

FYI I found it by Googling "site:news.ycombinator.com font logos"

iqonikon Show HN: Angular Hold Button – hold (not click) to perform action

Can it have touch support so mobile browsers can interact with it? I can see that being incredibly useful as it allows you to have multiple actions on limited screen real estate.

iqonikon Build a commission only sales team

I found these guys after being advised to find a Sales Guy for my side-project:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11453802

Disclaimer:

I'm not associated with them in anyway but the link is my referral link.

iqonikon Autoscaling for Digital Ocean?

I would pay for this - email in my profile, let me know when you launch.

iqonikon Ask HN: How do you find a startup partner or investor in the UK?

@tixocloud - Can you drop me an email (in my profile) as I think I'm also working in the same market but from a different angle. Couldn't find a way to contact you on your website.

iqonikon Ask HN: Would you hire a programmer without a degree?

I'm in the UK and we definitely hire without a degree. We do, however, require a few years exp. to make up for it.

iqonikon Ask HN: Is there any significant reason to stay on LinkedIn?

I only have a LinkedIn account as the App I have requires me to have one. If I delete my account, my App goes too. If I create a new account just for the App, all my users have to re-link their accounts. Sucks.

iqonikon Show HN: I negotiate up to 95% SaaS discounts for an interested subscriber base

I just signed up as a business and decided not to proceed. I don't like the upfront cost, I would much rather a pay-per-click model or a percentage of sales achieved. Feels like too much risk for an unknown, unproven service.

iqonikon Ask HN: At what point does your side project become your job?

Any ideas on how? I have tried Facebook/Google/LinkedIn Ads' and didn't get much response, it's a high touch sales process that involves pointing out the problem they have, most are aware of social media, have created accounts but then do nothing with them.

iqonikon Ask HN: At what point does your side project become your job?

I agree to some extent, but normally they would expect there money to be spent on marketing etc. rather than to cover my household bills?

iqonikon Ask HN: At what point does your side project become your job?

I should mention the reason I haven't made an 'Apply HN' post is the money available ($20k) wouldn't be enough for me to cover my expenses and quit my job.

iqonikon Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

I didn't get an email, just wanted to make sure I didn't miss it?

iqonikon Google nabs Apple as a cloud customer

Side note, but I'm impressed the article didn't try and put a positive spin on it given Jeff Bezos' interest in Business Insider.

iqonikon Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

It works worldwide, the only reason I'm concentrating on the UK at the moment is because of my high touch sales process. I'd love to chat more (email in my profile) and I'd appreciate any connections you can make. I'd also be happy to pay you a referral fee.

iqonikon Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

If anyone reading this is interested in this product please email me (in my profile) - as this will be ready very soon after chatting with the OP.

iqonikon Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

FYI applypage.io is available.

iqonikon Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

I think you're onto something here but don't realise quite how useful what you have can be in the right hands, with the right pitch.

Push the mobile side of things, right now every recruitment site has a brick wall where the CV upload is mandatory but every iPhone user cannot upload a file - you're solving that problem and then some.

My product is similar to HootSuite, Buffr etc. but by focusing on a Niche (Real Estate) I'm seeing promising traction. By focusing you're going to find it easier to reach potential customers and your product development will be cut down too.

Are you in the UK? I'd love to meet for a beer and discuss, I think this could be huge.

iqonikon Show HN: CSS3 art book for babies

Nice, any reason you haven't launched it as an App and tried to make some money? :)

iqonikon Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

How do you see them using it? I know a couple of a Tech recruiters and I'm happy to email them on your behalf if I can understand the use case.

iqonikon Ask HN: How did you find your first 10 customers for your startup?

I'm aware that I owe you an email reply OP, sorry I have been busy and have stopped cold emailing customers.

Right now, I'm selling to retail / real estate (http://www.retailwizard.co.uk / http://www.propertywizard.io) so to get customers I literally go to their workplace & ask them for 5 minutes of their time. I did try emailing as you know, but I have found going to speak to to them face-to-face to be more effective for my niche.

Obviously email works for other sectors, something I'm looking to explore again in the future.

iqonikon Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

I'm a Perl dev. & my side project is:

https://propertywizard.io

iqonikon Show HN: Host your status page on GitHub

Nice "hack". I'm using statuspage.io for the notification side of things but can see why this is a very decent free alternative.

iqonikon Show HN: NockNock – create tours for real estate properties with smartphone

I run www.propertywizard.io - I'd be interested in talking to see if we can help each other (email in profile)

iqonikon Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

I took a look at your site and don't see how they have the same goals?

Sorry if I have missed something, it's a cool project anyway and it's 100% solving a pain point many people feel when using Twitter.

iqonikon Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

Right now I spend my Saturdays going to a High Street and going shop-to-shop. If the manager/owner isn't in I'll follow up with a call to try and get a meeting.

Word of mouth is starting to bring in new business, my accountant has recommended a few people to me! :)