julienmarie

You can contact me at this address : jm at producture dot com

Really cool product. If I may suggest, as your target audience is mainly designers, you should I think polish the design of the app. The tool is about refining design, but the app design could benefit from some love ( fonts alignment, shadows, color palette,.. ). There is some room for improvements, and by itself it's a great news ( btw, i'd gladly help ;) )

Well... the guy should read Schumpeter. Every "industrial" revolution wipes off industries. In the same time, a whole new industry appears, a whole new class of jobs and a whole new lifestyle and culture. The middle class is not destroyed at all. On a world scale, it is rising. Rising in China and South East Asia.

We can't reduce a world wide phenomenon without taking into account hundreds of other factors ( populations in western countries growing old, the globalization, sacrificed generations in Europe and exodus of its skilled youth ) to Kodak vs Instagram.

Damn, I wanted to post that comment :D the other crowdfunding site might launch a research project on how to maximize crowdfunding using machine learning

I just see a lot of people talking about cognitive behavioral therapies. I guess it's one of the differences in the "psy" area between the US and Europe where psychoanalysis is more widespread.

I've also known some deep depressive years (after my mother committed suicide). The cure has been to read ( Nietzsche mainly), to embrace it, to listen to my brain, to little by little understand it. Understanding that depression is a pure symptom of our humanity : it's the moment you loose meaning in your life ( as Nietzsche says, the Human being is the only animal who needs meaning to live ). And then, you realize that the meaning of your life can only come from one source : yourself. We are easily trap by the need of approval, the need of existence within the eyes of the one who surrounds us. These approvals do not exist and are only projected, forecasted, approvals, it's our own devils. We are free to put whatever meaning we desire on our lives, as long as we respect others. Life is a permanent challenge to ourselves. This is the reason this is the most beautiful journey... Life is short anyway, let's make it a beautiful adventure. There is nothing to lose, everything to gain.

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French technologist and marketing guy based in South East Asia (Manila, Philippines). I have been CTO/co-founder of a few startups and agencies, based on technologies such as Rails, PHP and Erlang. Love to implement awesome front ends (Coffeescript / Websockets etc...) and scalable backends.

I've also worked with many startups and big agencies on marketing and UX issues.

My LinkedIn : http://ph.linkedin.com/in/julienmarie

My email : jm at producture dot com

Like the idea. It could be a time saving service :)

I must confess that I use this website quite daily ( in fact everytime I want to watch a movie ) since I discovered it a few weeks ago here on HN. its a real gem. I love the interface too, even if I think that we could polish just a bit the css to make it more attractive ( if you want, I volunteer :) )

what is (approximately) the actual traffic and load of the server... i've been curious about g-wan for a long time :)

"Legal documents are easy to misinterpret." => Isn't their goal the opposite ?

Interesting point here. But it forgets that it is a well known reality from software vendors, who basically choose how well protected their software can be. As an example, an interesting move was Apple's one with Logic Pro. I remember previous versions being uncrackable, needing a USB dongle. And then, as a move to conquer market share, the only protection is now just a serial number (I'm not even sure if Logic calls home to check it... ). The more people can use your technology for free in a training / learning / amateur way, the more you will become a standard, the more you will sell licenses to your customer base : the professionals.

First thing is the payment schedule. I usually do 45% deposit, 45% at the end of the work, 10% when the site goes live. This ensure that I get at least 90% of the contract.

Also, have complete Terms and conditions. One important point is all the intellectual property that goes with your work => until complete payment, the work is yours, and usage of it is illegal. With final payment, I usually issue a letter transferring the intellectual property to the client.

An other important point is all the payment and refund policy. My policy is simple : no refund, projects started are to be paid in full. If the clients needs an explanation for that, explain that while you dedicate yourself to his project, you have to say no to other projects.

Make it easy to get paid. Set up an online payment system or anything that makes the relation frictionless. Even if it cost you a bit, it makes payment way faster to arrive (no need to go to the bank or post office, find the checkbook...).

One saying I like : Until you sign the contract, you have to be the mum of your clients, reassuring him, explaining things, understanding him. Once signed, you are his father : you are here to reminds him the terms of the contract. It means that you have to be thorough on revisions, delivery dates for contents, and of course, payments.

Trust your guts with clients. Usually, in my experience, clients who are hard to get payments from are the one hard to handle from the start. Usually individuals pr small companies, who try to get more for less. And know also that you have the right to fire a client if you feel that things go bad.

But the best way to get paid : make outstanding work, be nice and understanding. Know when you have to charge for a request and when it can be free. Little treats are always nice if it cost you close to nothing and it has value for the client.

I love this one : http://vimeo.com/22053820

The design seemed really familiar to me... is there any connection with http://www.systemone.net/ ?