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Another post is saying youtube is down as well

If you're looking for potholes to avoid when starting a company, I'd encourage you to read Inspired by Marty Cagan. Not a startup book per se, but a fantastic read on how to eliminate the 4 types of risks for any product (value, usability, feasibility, and business viability risks).

UPDATE: Github responded with the following...

(GitHub Developer Support)

Apr 4, 2:52 AM UTC

Hi Scott,

Thanks for reaching out, and sorry for the trouble!

GitHub Pages doesn't currently have a verification process when configuring a new custom domain. We chose this design due to its low friction, but unfortunately it also means that any GitHub user can claim any custom domain, so long as it isn't already in use on another repository.

When you downgraded your account to GitHub Free, GitHub Pages for your private repository was disabled, and this released your custom domain for potential use by other GitHub users. While the risk of another user accidentally claiming your specific custom domain is low, we've experienced trouble lately with opportunistic ne'er-do-wells strategically claiming custom domains they find to be available.

Our engineering team is currently investigating potential improvements to prevent this in future. In the meantime, we're taking the precaution of performing manual verification in any cases such as yours. A quick way we can verify your ownership of the domain would be for you to add a TXT record to your domain's DNS configuration.

When you create the TXT record, please include the following value:...

and from there gave me a value to put in my DNS to verify ownership.

Not a great experience today but at least they responded and are working to remedy the situation (which I still believe was a huge ball drop on their part in terms of both communication and implementation).

Thank you!

Thank you! This is nuts that this can happen and someone would do such a thing. Stupid.

Son of a biscuit! This is exactly what happened. They said I could have my 7 private repos without a Pro account so I downgraded and didn't realize it shut down my gh-pages websites. Then this schmuck comes along and steals them. THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO IS REPORTING THIS!!

I've logged into my DNS provider and confirmed everything is set up the same as my other github pages which are working fine. Is that what you're asking?

As stated, it's not all my sites hosted on github. Just that one. But it's configured exactly the same as the others.

Last I checked, it was a significant pain in the butt to get an API key from Instagram, specifically because they didn't want you doing this sort of thing. Anyone know how he got access to the Instagram API? I've played around with similar methods but ended up using selenium because of the API restrictions of IG

Click bait. Not Google's fault. Third party data wasn't accurate in the eyes of the residents.

Agreed that ain't it. I built up my account relatively quickly to a modest 11k followers and found nothing but emptiness there. Superficial interactions with people I don't know. Meaningless. I never post now. I spend more time thinking about the future, layout out a plan for my life and reading books. ROI of that time spent is much, much higher both in terms of moving my career forward and overall happiness.

I have literally no idea what you're talking about

Momentum extension on Chrome helps with this. Holds a todo list visible on each new tab as well as a place to put your top priority.

The simulation won't allow it. Those trying to determine it will be eliminated from the simulation. Even discussing this on a public forum is dangerous.

And it's back!

Apparently not very well :) I have some Google AdWords campaigns going on and I posted it here when I launched it.

I live in Denver now, but I can vouch that Providence is an amazing city.

We've put quite a bit of effort into our onboarding process at https://visualteamstatus.com/. Takes less than 60 seconds to go from nothing to a full account and dashboard with analytics. We think that's pretty good considering the integrations required between VTS and Visual Studio Team Services.

Hey guys, this is Scott and I wrote VTS. Happy to answer any questions you have and take your feedback as well.

Also, just for you guys, I've created a promo code. Use HNROCKS for your first 2 months free! Limited to first 100 users.

I have 4 monitors: laptop 14" screen plus 3 22" monitors. One of them is mounted vertically: perfect for Slack or longer pieces of code. I love this set up. You can find the monitors for cheap and it's much more flexible than just one TV. Additionally, I can rotate them so each is at a perfect angle for my eyes; can't do that with just one big TV.

I'm launching mine next week. Hope to be a success story on a thread like this a year or two from now!

They're investigating https://twitter.com/boxstatus

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