teadrinker

-8 in downvotes with no explanation? really guys? Sorry for trying to help, i'm out.

Multi-server? Nope, single. Same as you have now, just with added flexibility on ram with 2 clicks I can handle a huge server load with ease, then drop back when done. That way I don't waste time on low level optimization tasks and can keep to what I do best. Building things.

Seriously, there's no reason to stay on a traditional style server setup and you'll never go back once you've tried it. It can be pricey once you ramp up, but give it a shot as you can literally pay by the hour while you play.

BETTER SOLUTION: Get on the cloud. 15 minutes to upgrade your server when load gets high and billed by the hour at the ram level you're 'using. Theres very little reason to stay on traditional hosting if you're running anything close to a serious startup.

From the site: "Each time a subscriber opens an email sent with Campaign Monitor, we keep track of which email client they're using"

Maybe hotmail and yahoo users are more likely to open borderline spam whereas gmail users like to use email as more of a tool to get things done? Be sure to always read between the line before making strong inferences from pretty pie charts.

As an aside, have any of those inspiration struck domains ever paid off or been developed further? I ask because I've registered about 50 of them over the last 3 and a half years and after a good nights sleep the fire has usually died down and they languish in my account until expiry...

Come on man, ballpark? :)

Hi Jason, nice site and congrats on the numbers. I consider the design community to be tightly knit, and it seems you've tapped it well from your viral conversion numbers. How do you see this business scaling up and avoiding a ceiling in the near future once you saturate on that design community?

I shouldn't but I can. And that, is what freedom of speech is all about.

If she didn't like it, she should have left. She didn't leave, she had a temper tantrum. To save face, she then made that blog post. She wanted to share her side of the story, irrespective of its merits. And she knew, just as well as we all do, that the internet White Knights will assemble to her cause, also irrespective of its merits. And they have. Now let us not waste anymore time discussing this triviality.

The majority of people did not think he was an asshole. What we have here is one citizen attempting to censor another by influencing public opinion based upon her own beliefs and biases. And of course, white knights of the world will agree. That does not make a "majority", far from it, although it appears so since they are most vocal in support.

Did Noah know the word Bitch would set her off? How about other words which are commonplace, which would she feel insulted by? We don't know. And I think it is for this added uncertainty to a team that he was referring to rather than the specific term "bitch" which is, of course, commonly considered offensive in a workplace, particularly in direct reference to a known individual.

Self-policing? Are you serious?

I'm with the other guy on this one. I want to live in a free society, where no one attempts to enforce some artificial moral code on what I can or can not say. Don't like it, leave.

Enough people like Noah to get him a sizable fan base and enjoy his humor.

It DOES tend to be women who create artificial PC rules, and I would argue that is one of the reasons they are underrepresented within startup ups, given the traditional lack of sophisticated social skills of the (usually male) engineers. It would ruin the dynamic of a good team to have a PC woman "watching their every word" for perceived slights.

I really liked this. Thanks! Could I get a download link to the presentation that doesn't require me to sign up?

Agreed. Only one of these ideas has financial potential, and even then it's not an easy market to tap for that particular service.

Still, it's nice to see some idea flow as it always gets the juices flowing.

I'd argue the main reason it failed was it was a bad idea. Their was no market for your product no matter how well you made it.

Try not to take away execution lessons when the idea was poor. The execution was fine and if you'd have used a good idea you'd be doing reasonably well now.

As an aside, does anyone have links to other startup postmortems?

It's possible enough idiots will fall for it to make a nice payday.

What indication do you have that a paying market exists for such a product?

How are you going to make money from this venture?

Not to mention the lack of proper regulation. Particularly at the exchanges: http://nerdr.com/bitcoin-exchange-scam-bitcoins-are-worthles...

I was days away from entering the Bitcoin marketplace until I read that. Now I realize it's speculation propping up an artificial market price. Saying that, I would be open to hearing opinions on estimates of the true value of a Bitcoin, based on it's use cases and value proposition if anyone has any...

Sorry, I had not seen it submitted previously and your link says deleted, but not by whom.

It's not blatant spam selling counterfeit footwear or similar and I'm inclined to think it was the submitter who deleted it fearing downvotes from the bitcoin mob rather than a good old flagging (it has 4 upvotes right this minute and is worth a read).

You really think the US will sit idly by as Bitcoin use increases?

He mentions sources in the comments section and clears his intention with:

"This article highlights US laws are imminent based upon an increase in research activity into Bitcoin by the US courts service."

We've been discussing this article on the Bitcoin forums and I think we all know it's coming whether we agree with it or not. We can see any law passed against Bitcoin will affect it's market value.

Point 5 at the bottom of the article (Further Work) is worth a look.