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racoder··on Show HN: IonMag – a new open source WordPress theme for blogs and news sites
For the last eight months, we worked on a challenging new project. Our plan was to create an open source, responsive WordPress theme dedicated to blogs, news and magazine websites. We wanted to craft a solution that will change the way users build and manage their sites. The development period is over, and we are proudly introducing ionMag.

We welcome any feedback and if you have any questions please ask here.

racoder··on Why Valve's SteamOS Could Be Revolutionary
No. xbox 360 gpu has ~ 240 GFLOPS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenos_(graphics_chip)

phones have ~ 25 Gflops - 50 Gflops http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/11

racoder··on PHP needs to die. What will replace it?
He lost me at "The most obvious potential successor to PHP is Ruby on Rails". why compare RoR framework written in ruby vs PHP programming language... go for Ror VS cakephp, RoR vs codeigniter, RoR vs symfony etc
racoder··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
I know what you’re saying but I really needed some help on this part of the project. For example when I was listing my site in web app directories or in the chrome web store I always tried to talk about my service in a very personal way (that made it look like a hobby) but after getting a lot of feedback here I will talk about the service in a professional way and about the company and plans in a personal way.

The feedback from this thread is amazing, thanks to all!

racoder··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
Your comment has some very good advice. I realized now that most of the marketing stuff that I’ve written was made with the assumption that the user is like me. I like reading about the developing process of an app… that’s why I thought it is important to broadcast that. I will try to read more about marketing and about how to know your clients and market. Thanks for your time.
racoder··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
I tried to present two extremes. Unfortunately English is not my primary language and the company extreme looks a little strange :) .

Some grate advice in your comment, thanks for your time.

racoder··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
I don't think I'll have enterprise customers, my target market is formed by small sites that have to be online (eCommerce and services that ask money). So i'm left with the middle path or personal.

Thanks for your suggestions!

racoder··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
When I've made that page the idea was to present myself as a person, as one software developer working on a nice product.

A lot of people suggested a middle path... that is what I'm thinking to do now but I will give it more time.

racoder··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
English is not my primary language and sometimes I really have difficulties writing what I want to say. I will try to read more about this.
racoder··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
the short summary of the article: "Be human. Stop hiding. Be yourself." is a good suggestion
racoder··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
1. The product is targeted towards small website owners that depend on it. (ecommerce, services that charge money)

2. When the product is finished I plan to add a payment plan for some additional features. People won’t read the about page even when they want to pay for the service?

3. Yes, your pro and personal is a very good suggestion … thanks!

racoder··on Should I present myself as a person or as a company in the about page?
I'm a one man startup.

My about page should be personal like: After working for 4 years as a server administrator for some medium to large websites and after having a lot of trouble with existing monitoring solutions I decided to build my own.

---OR---

Like a company: With our 4 year experience in the server management industry, we build this tool to help our clients… etc

please let me know what do you prefer.

Thanks!