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Good advice. The problem is though, with .io domains yearly prices are at about $70 (if i remember correctly). Renewing for 10 or so years is a pretty significant amount ($700+). Especially if your not sure about the potential of it or just don't have that kind of cash at hand.

This was particularly interesting:

"Design is a funny word. Some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, it's really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most people don't take the time to do that.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people.

Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have."

Groupon has just missed their bebo moment.

I'm building one. gitpush.com. I don't have anything up yet but send me your email and i'll let you know when its done.

Just sent you a email

A rating system could work in theory. Putting it into practice would be hard though.

High Cost + Low Margins = No disruption any time soon.

The ubercab for parcel delivery service could work. But only if the margins get better doing it that way

You'd also need to get over the trust issues involved. I 'trust' that Royal Mail won't open my shit when they deliver it to me (when it actually comes).

Amazing how little that matters when you're making billions of dollars.

(i don't know how to quote stuff you've said above so assume i have :))

I think that pessimism and rationality are close cousins. In that modern terms like 'be rational' tend to really mean that we should 'be skeptical'. Which tend to mean that we should 'be pessimistic'

Offtopic but how did you get your twitter feed to display itself like that: http://twitter.com/borud/

Please don't apologize for trying things. :)

To answer your question. I have personally been more right than wrong when i have followed a gut feeling. I also act when i go with it more often than when i dont. When i am 'rational' i often DO NOT act because rationality tends to lead to pessimism. Atleast with me.

I'm actually not trying to do that. I did all the above in the hope that it would attract only those with experience with ad tech and have an interest in it.

I posted on HN because i'm much more likely to get good advice on something like this here than i would get asking friends.

this was already submitted. Different url.

You should charge for this. I would pay

Yes, very smart. But your friend shouldnt be intimidated. Every good entrepreneur has the potential to make moves as smart or even smarter than Bill Gates did.

I would stick with PHP and try codeigniter. Going down the 'Rails' or 'Django' path. Ultimately just gives you a new toy. I wouldn't say it was worth it. But that depends on what your goals are.

Ruby is a nice language though. I do all my non-web stuff in that.

I highly recommend Peter Cooper's Book: Beginning Ruby, Link:http://www.amazon.com/Beginning-Ruby-Novice-Professional/dp/..., if you'd like to get started with it.

Considering the fact that the asking price is $200,000 per person. Shouldn't be a problem for most of its customers.

I'm guessing that he's talking about Barclays in the UK. There the only one's i know who do this.

The day we wake up dreading what we're about to do

Thanks for the shout out Kilian. The blurb was awesome! Still one of the highest re open rates so far. :)

We've just sent out our first blurb. Which you can chech out here.

http://eepurl.com/V6-o

Clickable links:

http://Blurb.fm

http://www.pehub.com/80480/newly-minted-web-entrepreneur-att....

To make money really. The fact that they can find interesting information would be the bonus.

Well, essentially i would be adopting the pay-per-click model.

And have the same kind of profit share with the twitter user.

The model allows for the user to do the targeting for us. Because they will only promote the things that personally interests them. I suspect that their interests would also be their followers interests

Thanks Matt! I've changed it up. As i didn't realize it was showing like that in other peoples computers it was showing up great in mine.

Check it out now.

Its just a pre-launch landing pge btw.

Its all based on arbritray calculations ive made thus far according to the market-click-through-rates. If you got that high? Wow.

Edit: Ive taken the feedback and improved the site.

@slater: I didnt even realise the webfonts werent showing up until you told me! Thank you.

@Rust: Yes, its a CSS file im using for the main site when it launches. I havent separated the two. So what you see is the main site's homepage css.

Bad i know. But this was very much a "Quick and Dirty Kind of thing".

There ya go mate: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/getting-the-hang-of-....

Then try this: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/tools-and-tips/terminal-gi....

I'm definately not a designer. But wow lol. That bad?

All jokes aside though. What do you think i could do to make it more appealing?

I'm launching something similar but for twitter.

Clickable Link: http://twitspare.com

Its a very crowded space. I think there's a reason why people haven't really tried doing it for facebook.