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smarterchildon What should a developer know before building a public web site?

There are many, I think. I know of one offhand: http://lite.launchlist.net/

I'm making a wiki with some of them but that's the only one I have on hand, aside from the SO post.

> And two, it's far more important to choose a good password for the sites that matter -- don't worry about sites you don't care about that nonetheless demand that you register and choose a password...

I actively use terrible and crappy passwords for certain sites, when I'm more worried about someone getting the password than someone getting access to my account on that site.

smarterchildon 17% leave their job due to insufficient recognition

You have an impressive amount of self awareness - I think that's by far the most valuable thing one can possess. Some suggestions:

a) Push the baby out by this week. If you're anything like me, the improvement in your actual project will be exponential.

b) This is a little harder to explain, but I'll do my best. I've felt inadequate many times in my life, and it can be paralyzing.

You need to be OK with failure, because life is full of it. That doesn't mean you should accept it, but it means that your worth shouldn't be defined through being successful, and you shouldn't be crushed by failure. How you do that is really up to you - I've found my own way - but once you're OK with that, you won't feel like you have to "earn" your breaks, and the need to perfect things will decrease.

I hope this is helpful. I don't want to offer more advice than I can chew, but I wanted to at least say something. Feel free to shoot me a message.

smarterchildon Review my startup - Adventure Cow

You hit the nail on the head - I've been thinking about it for a while and I still can't decide if it's for adults or children.

smarterchildon Ask HN: Who Is Launching This Month? (November 2010)

Adventure Cow | http://adventurecow.com (11/1/2010)

Just launched today. Read Choose Your Own Adventure-like books over email, or write your own.

(Looking for advice and signups!)

smarterchildon Remind HN: November is Launch an App Month

Just launched: http://adventurecow.com

Make stories just like Choose Your Own Adventures!

HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1857156

smarterchildon Review my startup - Adventure Cow

Also, here are some screenshots of designs I tested for the frontpage: http://drop.io/frkcsbx

smarterchildon Review my startup - Adventure Cow

Writers/readers - sales (that's not yet)

Educational institutions - writing software

smarterchildon Ask HN: Review my startup: Send Handwritten Thank You Notes to Your Customers

Amazingly, I've met another company working on this - Gracious Eloise. You might find it worth looking into as you're doing your homework for this.

smarterchildon Facebook Acquires Drop.io

I always wondered how Drop.io made money. I use it all the time for one time file sharing drops, but they never had anything to sell me.

smarterchildon The $105 Fix That Could Protect You From Copyright-Troll Lawsuits

Is this something you can do after being sued?

smarterchildon Ask HN: I'm launching a story-telling site next Monday. Review my site?

Entirely or not entirely? (suggestions on rewording?)

smarterchildon Ask HN: Simple little business - what should I call it?

Off the name topic, but I've been looking for this for months!

I imagine the business margins (at least starting off) would resemble a pawn shop or consignment shop. Have you looked into those?

I hope it works. Tell me if you launch (in the states)!

smarterchildon Ask HN: Why doesn't someone provide JS encrypted webmail

Outlook only. The original post was about webmail, sorry.

smarterchildon After 4 years of self-funded coding marathons I feel "finished", care to talk?

Agreed. I don't understand why so many people want TC coverage.

If you sell pianos, find musicians.

If you sell coupons, find local restaurants.

What are you selling that's gonna go on TC?

smarterchildon Ask HN: Why doesn't someone provide JS encrypted webmail

If you make it, I'll would use it.

smarterchildon Why is it so hard to avoid premature optimizations?

Avoiding premature optimization involves looking at the whole situation, instead of the optimization.

* Working at a strategic level is often nebulous and requires some definition.

* Little changes are simple, concrete, and instantly rewarding (if only I could do X, this would work better).

smarterchildon Ask HN: Is there a viable business in this?

In my specific case? I have all sorts of data mixed up in there; also, I change the software I use over time so a clone would fall out of date. I do wonder if the enterprise market is entirely standardized on cloning though...

smarterchildon Someone please build this: Anti-shelving filter for GMail

You could put that together with this: http://3mindme.com/

Say: "I would like an email back about this email in 1 week."

Disadvantages to this:

* Your email goes out to them and gets stored for that long.

* You have to remember to include it as a bcc on every email you care about following up with.

* It doesn't automatically snooze if you get a followup.

* You have no way of tracking responses (in, say, a DB).

But it's a cheap solution that will do the job. Otherwise, there are special CRM packages for this. Unfortunately, I don't know much about them.