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I hope they launch here soon. It's a really awesome service.

Try "how to win friends and influence people". It's a cliche but it really works.

Tech Zing.

I'd like to know this too. If you guys don't mind sharing of course. Also would you consider doing a report of your progress after the first month?

I'm surprised by how emotional i am about this. RIP Steve.

I think you will succeed. But you can charge $2.

You should write a book on this mindset. Hell, i'd pre-order a copy now!

Mind blown by your last question and I have no idea.

I will definitely be using this. Great job. My only advice would be to add features slowly. It's great right now because it is simple.

Depends on who owns it

I REALLY don't think that github's plan is unreasonable. I pay for it quite happily. But good on you for DOING something about how you felt

What do you mean by little people. Curious. Literally little or small minded?

clickable: http://superowl.me/ nice design btw. :).

clickable: http://www.betausersnow.com/client-signup.php

Tech founder here looking for designer in London.

Startup: gonepon - Innovative local deals.

Love what you're doing. I would change the "Make your website do stuff" though. It confuses me as its a bit vague.

Probably just to help this guy out and get his laptop back from that douchebag

clickable: http://quoterio.com

Brandon,

I found this answer very insightful. I'd ask to ask you one or two more questions via email.

I don't see one on your profile though. Can you post it here?

Or email me at tapha@live.co.uk and i'll get right back to you.

I assumed that they made a lot of money on that acquisition.

Care to elaborate?

See apple's pricing. They seem to take it to the next level with the odd number thing: http://apple.com/

I started Blurb.FM last august. Got some early traction and press, link: http://venturebeatprofiles.com/news/view/blurb?article=28735... (behind a paywall now.) Here is an archive of the emails: http://twitter.com/blurbfm

I had to close it down because the workload became unsustainable pretty quickly (i was running another startup at the time).

My advice would be that you know your content generation strategy very well and make it work in such a way that you don't get burnt out.

I would also suggest that you offer an incentive on signing up. People don't normally like to sign up to newsletters that are just newsletters. I offered to plant a tree for every person that signed up (cost was only $1, i would earn double that from ad revenue in a year and that's when the trees would be planted.). It worked really well, i had an almost 30% conversion rate.

Also do as many things as you can to get people through the door and establish momentum. No other business needs more momentum to build than email newsletters. Word of mouth is king.

Hope that helps.

Just checked your profile. How the heck did you get remix.com! ?

One of the best articles on hn this year.

Dan,

I've been following your work for little over two years now. I'm so impressed by what you do. Do you have time this week for a skype chat? I'd like to get your advice on a product i'm working on.

Let me know if you'll be free! Email is on my profile.

I'm trying to find a way to show people the ads that they really want to see.

I hope everyone on HN installs this.

gEdit. Becuase it's simple.

Wow, this will save me hours in development time. Guess procrastinating on HN is useful after all ;). Great service guys, congrats!