maxsavin

If we slip we'll probably get beat down by everyone.

That's not how you stop someone like that. That's how you become them.

While I agree with the sentiment of the post, I was surprised by some of the examples provided, because they are what the press said and not what Trump said. With that said, it's surprising what choices for President the most powerful country in the world has.

I had a marketing application that sort of hacked on the Twitter API. Because of the API TOS, we couldn't really tell anyone how to use it, which made online marketing very difficult.

The solution I found was to host in-person classes on social media marketing. I would give a high level view of the marketing strategies and then plug my tool as one of the options.

This had a few advantages:

- Everyone had been "on boarded" before even trying the product.

- Everyone now had expertise on the subject they could share with friends and coworkers.

- Each class gave me the attention of ~30 genuinely interested people.

- The income from the classes really helped as I bootstrapped the startup.

Of course - some people were very annoyed by my advertisement. But in all fairness, the information was high value and many people enjoyed it.

Agree - its basically a way to take away ownership. That way, for the next 10 years or whatever, you're guaranteed to be a return customer. If software is standalone, I still believe in ownership. If there is a system, or data, to access, then subscription makes sense because those incur a recurring cost for the business.

The problem with all these things is that they require both people to have it, which just doesn't happen. Paper cards have the unique property of being transferable one-way, which Aqua achieves by using email.

Landing page needs improvement. I suggest checking out the site on mobile, people seem to get it better there.

This requires both people to 1) have a smartphone with NFC and 2) the app. Basically, DOA.

Hey everyone, I was in need of business cards and you can say, I went really custom. I recommend checking the site out on mobile. The app is web based, on iPhone now with Android on the way.

It's a good step! I have suggestions to clean it up:

1- You should add a margin on the left and right side so that the content doesn't bleed to the edge of the screen. (10px would keep it aligned with the input bar on iOS Safari).

2- The floating login link looks weird, I would just add it along the rest of the links below "Hacker News". To keep it tight, only show the Submit link if the user is logged in.

3- Add margin to the logo and make it bigger. Also, the entire orange bar could be made more spacious.

I think it's time to rethink the "give away everything for free" mentality. The people who made the first bet on it should be rewarded. I'm sure things will look different in 2-3 years. Also, Meteor is actually nice without SQL.

I started in the design/marketing side of things and worked my way to the back-end. I created apps that you can see at http://maxsavin.com

I'm looking for a co-founder who would like to focus on back-end so I can get back to design/marketing/etc.

Wow, thanks for the tip.

Wrong - every action has to be initiated by the user. Nothing is automatic.

We're selling one called Flutter - http://flutter-app.com

We're about to close it down, its got customers and MRR

I think you're right - the people who paid for the founder's stock knew the risk probably better than the founders. They should live with the decision.

I really like how this sounds. I just really hope CSS is implemented with great care and detail. Right now - Firefox and IE has a lot of quirks, and I only find WebKit and Chrome to have it working well. I've been doing CSS intensely for over 5 years, happy to give my feedback along the way.

Inside a computer

If you want to answer anonymously, I created a question on Quora:

http://www.quora.com/Have-you-ever-regretted-taking-an-inves...

How did it go?

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Interesting - Jobs went to Stanford?

Also, surprising he let him self be #3 on the list after apparently picking a fight with Woz about who would be employee #1

I thought PG was building it into a joke.. the post sounds way too defensive.

It makes me question the entire context of the presentation.

I saw Eric Schmidt's quote "By the summer of 2012, the majority of the televisions you see in stores will have Google TV embedded" and stopped there.

Nice. I would consider turning off motion in the settings because it would look less quirky in the videos

Goes against the MD style of the homepage.. trying to find another solution.

Yeah that works, but it creates a lot of code. <hr> is just 4 characters, and reminds me a lot of <br>, so its easy to read. Once you adapt your perspective to it, it becomes really awesome.

Text is easier to read when narrow. Agree on the centering.. working on some solutions for it. I only had ~1h to put into the site.

Thanks for the positive feedback! My reasons are: 1) You still want to have the option of a "hard" BR 2) I want to set the HR as a high level class, so I can use it freely through whatever I'm working on.

For example:

<strong>Headline</strong><br>

The quick brown fox jumped <hr>

over the lazy dog.

You 100% want the line break after the headline, and want to set an optional one in the subtext.

I like it because its very clean to look at, but you can also create a responsive class like <div class="desktop-breakline"></div>

Thanks for commenting. It's a great idea from a design and readability perspective. It sounds like you do not like my implementation - you could be right. Here is another way of doing it.. maybe I'll update the post late:

<div class="desktop-breakline"></div>

with the appropriate @media query.

It's obviously not for every situation. But for landing and marketing pages, headlines, etc, I'd go as far as to say it's absolutely essential.