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matclayton

433 karma · joined July 13, 2009

Coder based in Cambridge, UK.
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matclayton··on Ask HN: MixcloudAds, if we white-label it would you use it?
We use it for some other ads, and its the sole reason why decided to make our own, its the definition of bad ui, and a real pain to use.
matclayton··on Ask HN: MixcloudAds, if we white-label it would you use it?
Or do they sell the excess inventory you dont to a larger ad network??
matclayton··on Ask HN: MixcloudAds, if we white-label it would you use it?
Thanks, they never showed up in our search for a solution, prior to going and building it :)
matclayton··on Ask HN: MixcloudAds, if we white-label it would you use it?
We are finding most of the advertisers are users of mixcloud, and are buying ads to promote either their blogs or their own mixcloud profiles. The idea is the users of your site, buy ads on it, so community based.

Inventory is currently a single fixed 300wx250w image but thats just for our use case, and would need changing.

matclayton··on [dead]
Kinda strange, lots of pages are cloned straight from twitter.com, even the trending topics are upto date. Most interestingly though, if you login with fake details. It redirects straight to twitter.com, presumably recording the details along the way?

Certainly is a good clone, either that or twitter really liked the jaiku source code...

Mat

matclayton··on Tips for a new Django developer
Really don't like the sound of that, pickling allows you to serialize any python code, and consequently deserialize it. Presumably you are placing user submitted data into this pickle and therefore without careful sanity checking wouldn't this potentially allow the user to inject code which may be run on deserialization?

Someone else may be able to shed more light on this and correct me (please do!) but thats my concern and would love to hear if it was a valid one or not.

matclayton··on [dead]
That's my fault, can assure you none of them are fake, lot of them are new though. Tweeted the link out, and our followers seem a little excited to help out today, a few probably just signed up.

Mat

matclayton··on [dead]
Thanks, we only rolled that out late last night, the about page definitely needs some wording adding, will be done ASAP. Thanks for the feedback.

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matclayton··on [dead]
We've looked into both solutions, pop out and inline player, but the one thing we want to achieve was continuous playing whilst browsing the site. Doing this inline, is technically more difficult, so for now, we made it pop out.

Certainly will look into inline though.

Mat

matclayton··on [dead]
We are already working on ways to solve this, just didn't make it into this release.
matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Already provide these, when you signup to an event the iCal file is include in the email, an should auto add to your calender.
matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Thanks for taking the time to go through the process. It's our main goal, to make the whole process as quick as possible. Which is why we didn't bother with a screencast, but seems we need one! Thanks for the tips, will put one together next week.
matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Of course, just take time and we don't want to open it up until we are confident the design is robust.
matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Ouch thanks, that image isn't even used in this version of the site, its from an old build, which is why it is still a high res version. Have removed it from the next CSS revision to go out. Will have a check around for anymore excess images, Thanks.

Mat

matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Thanks, much appreciated. Looks like a screencast is in order, truth is from http://www.webticketing.net it takes 1 click to register (on the front page), then one click to create event. From there on, it will all go live the instance you click the confirmation email.

We really should demo how easy this is though.

Mat

matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Not going to say too much more on here, but watch this space :)
matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Thanks, we have had this comment a few times now, time to make the big boxes clickable :)
matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Thanks really great feedback, much appreciated.

1. The Time Picker isn't mine, its a open source JQuery Plugin http://haineault.com/media/jquery/ui-timepickr/page/

2. We are working on the Invite Friends/Promote code still, which is why there is a kink in the workflow at the moment, by the time its done, it will all make much more sense.

3. Printable Tickets are planned, actually investigating using moo.com api or something similar, but won't be doing these in the near future.

4. Reserved Tickets are due out next

5. Templates, in due course.

6. No plans to customize the Email at the moment, but we are certainly considering a white label solution which would allow this.

7. Ticket id's aren't customisable, but adding them to the CSV would make a lot of sense, will certainly do that.

I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think we could make this profitable, hope that is enough of an answer :)

Thanks for the great feedback much to ponder, and will certainly adjust the feature list accordingly.

Mat

matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Awesome idea, coming shortly :)
matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Our initial niches are university and nightclub events, hence the wacky colors, but we do aim to tackle eventbrite.com and the more mainstreams events eventually.

Mat

matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
Glad you like it, had some feedback suggesting the create event isn't obvious enough as a sign-up on the front page, so may change the wording.

Mat

matclayton··on Ask HN: Rate my Start-up webticketing.net
There is a quick video interview here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GhAicc3iCE

Need to do a screen cast and put it on the frontpage still though, hadn't thought of that :)

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