tomharari

I wrote this yesterday on my birthday as a way to document my lessons over 20 years. It seems to have resonated so sharing here in case it's helpful to anyone else.

This has +800k views on Twitter so I guess it resonated. Hope it's helpful to someone here.

Garry and Alexis were early believers in Cleanly and have been incredible seed investors. Highly recommend them if you can get them on your side.

I'm going to chime in and say it's likely a sign of the times in the funding climate.

Oddly, he's not wrong either: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/disclosure/

You're very spot on here. I wrote a post a year ago on RapGenius and their SEO: http://moz.com/blog/how-i-would-do-seo-for-rap-genius

Yeah good point. I'm fortunate to know people from both Ruby and Python who would help. And each one has their own bias as to which one to learn. But you make a great point, a real life friend you can pester with questions is very helpful.

Wow. Thank you. Seriously, great response - very much appreciated.

Thanks for the reply. I've felt the same, just curious what others would say, especially if anyone here was in my shoes in the past. Appreciate the feedback though.

Use Bootstrap. If you're scared of using that, use Jetstrap to get a premade Bootstrap template.

Cricket has a motion sensor inside, making the Cricket respond in a tenth of a second, no other product can do that" <- Yariv Bash, Product Designer

I read this excellent answer on Quora by Harjeet Tagar on whether or not YC would fund a startup that competes with one of its portfolio companies: https://www.quora.com/Y-Combinator/Is-it-worth-applying-to-Y...

Curious if people here would still apply if they knew a competitor was accepted in a previous batch.

Let me take a look - playing around in it now. Thanks for the heads up!

Excellent point and I hope the founders are listening. Target 1-3 very specific use cases and push that hard. It has gotten a lot of buzz around SEO circles so hopefully that community will support this project if they feel it helps enough in their day to day jobs.

A shame there aren't more comments here. NerdyData is an awesome tool that has many use cases and was built by a very smart young guy I had the pleasure of meeting here in NY. Highly recommend checking them out.

Yup you hit the nail on the head. Great strategy for starting out an driving traffic quickly. I think the value add long term comes from being an authority in decoding hip hop, not just lyrics per se.

Hey all I'm the author of the post. Glad to see the post get on HN - happy to answer any questions ya'll have.

Good question and it's the one everyone asks. There's a couple ways you can figure this out. Scrapebox lets you scale the process of looking at google suggest. You could probably build a scraper of quora suggestions. Anywhere people are asking questions about topics related to your business will help you figure out what content. There's a google docs tool made by a guy named Richard Baxter that does something similar I'll see if I can find it and post the link here.