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twalling··on Show HN: AICarma – See what AI tells customers about your brand (free for HN)
Some feedback, this is just me personally - wanted more of a preview of what I'd actually be getting before signing up - reluctantly signed up after seeing you had a promo code - still don't want give up a credit card just to see what I'd be getting, I got into the dashboard after creating an account but immediately was put into checkout for a trial

Overall too much friction for me to go from landing page to giving up my credit card.

twalling··on Sargablock: Bricks from Seaweed
cached version - https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:BvdFhn...
twalling··on Show HN: TinyStore - A minimal store for your Shopify Lite plan
I was wondering this too. The price difference is actually $16 not $20. Shopify Lite ($9) + TinyStore ($5). It seems like a pretty narrow niche and easily killed should Shopify address the narrow gap there. I would also wonder if Shopify already has the data to be able to make the judgement call that this narrow price range doesn't have the demand.
twalling··on Ask HN: How do you manage logs for your backend services?
Well the question in the title was how do you manage your logs, so people are answering.
twalling··on Finding My Next Bootstrapped Business Idea
I didn’t get that sense at all. His last bullet point is “The market should overlap with my existing audience”.
twalling··on Roll Your Own Analytics
I think you're more likely to hit Netlify's limit of 125k requests per month vs the 100hr limit.
twalling··on Going old school: how I replaced Facebook with email
You can accomplish with something like TinyLetter (https://tinyletter.com/) or Revue (https://www.getrevue.co). Not sure why he went the slightly more difficult route of using a service like MailChimp. (which also happens to own TinyLetter)
twalling··on Spark, New Markets, App Messaging, and Bitcoin Changes
This link is much better at talking about their plans.

https://blog.circle.com/2016/12/06/spark-new-markets-app-mes...

twalling··on Tell HN: Political Detox Week – No politics on HN for one week
I think its a sad day that we can't attempt to be intellectually curious just because its politically related. This last election has prompted me to start reading more on both sides and has lead me to some other readings such as the constitution, economic theory, history, etc.

It is possible to talk about these topics from an academic perspective and it feels like banning it for a week is equivalent to putting your head in the sand and ignoring it because its too hard to have a conversation about it. This is exactly the behavior I was motivated to try and change in myself (stick to tech only, ignore other issues).

Yes, its very difficult to talk about some politics in thoughtful ways but I would hope a community like HN has the people needed to try and address some of the issues coming up. Be it technical (detecting fake news, biases, etc) or intellectual commentary.

twalling··on Show HN: Hapibelly, Rotten Tomatoes for Restaurants
Whether one likes it or not, simply by visiting or looking at a site, you're agreeing to their TOS.

"By accessing or using the Site, you are agreeing to these Terms and concluding a legally binding contract with Yelp Inc., a Delaware corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California ("Yelp"). Do not access or use the Site if you are unwilling or unable to be bound by the Terms."

twalling··on Show HN: Hapibelly, Rotten Tomatoes for Restaurants
What do you mean you're not using their API? If you're screen scraping the content, you're still violating their terms of service.

"You also agree not to, and will not assist, encourage, or enable others to:"

"Use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other automated device, process or means to access, retrieve, scrape, or index any portion of the Site or any Site Content;"

https://www.yelp.com/static?country=US&p=tos

twalling··on GitKraken: git GUI Client for Windows Mac and Linux
There's a link to the screenshots at the bottom of the page.

http://www.gitkraken.com/screenshots

twalling··on Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
You know, auxiliary stuff like business socks.

https://www.evernote.com/market/feature/socks-en_CA?sku=SOCK...

twalling··on Show HN: Get a list of your Amazon purchases and see what you can sell them for
I'd try ingesting the order history report one can create at Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...

twalling··on Help Scale NPM
Heroku customers can always clone the nodejs buildpack and simply point the npm registry at another mirror.
twalling··on Create Cards via Email
I think its great that this was an intern's project at Trello and he got to announce it himself on their blog. Nice to see how much ownership they give their developers and sounds like a great internship.
twalling··on Ask HN: Anyone use Search HN before submitting articles to prevent duplicates?
No, this is what computers are for. There's no reason a user should have to check if a link is a duplicate.
twalling··on UltraHook – Receive webhooks while behind a firewall
Thanks. I was curious since I've worked on some projects where that would be a concern.
twalling··on UltraHook – Receive webhooks while behind a firewall
Can I host it myself?
twalling··on Show HN: I rewrote the Backbone.js Todo example
I like the fresh take on organizing the example but I disagree with the 2nd bullet point. Jérôme Gravel-Niquet's example encapsulates everything inside of an anonymous function and I don't see any var leakage into the global namespace.
twalling··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (November 2012)
Connected Sports Ventures Cambridge, MA FULLTIME - Backend Engineer (Node.js, Redis, MongoDB)

We're looking for another backend engineer to join our team as we continue to expand upon our realtime, single game fantasy, football and baseball games (http://rumbletv.com).

You can read more about our current positions and what we're building over at http://jobs.connectedsports.com. Any questions or applications can be directed to me at jobs@connectedsports.com

twalling··on Ask HN: Who Is Hiring? (October 2012)
Connected Sports Ventures Cambridge, MA FULLTIME - Backend Engineer (Node.js, Redis, MongoDB)

We're looking for another backend engineer to join our team as we continue to expand upon our realtime, single game fantasy, football and baseball games (http://rumbletv.com).

You can read more about our current positions and what we're building over at http://jobs.connectedsports.com. Any questions or applications can be directed to me at jobs@connectedsports.com

twalling··on Review my startup, mist.io - mobile friendly cloud management/monitoring
Agree. All you can really ask for is feedback on the landing page not your startup. For all I know you're in the first stages of determining whether there's enough interest in this to pursue it.
twalling··on Job Posts That Sell
I think the challenge in writing a good job post is finding your voice and putting together a concise (balance of bullet points and conversation) writeup which feels personal. Either approach pointed out here can come off sounding mechanical, dry and just don't read that well.

I also like when some of the marketing jargon is left out and it reads like a plain english description of what your company is trying to do. Don't pitch me with buzz words. Just describe the potential opportunity and the challenges that might appeal to me.

twalling··on Meetings.io - Simple, online meetings
Agreed. My initial impression was those photos were static implying that the service was audio chat only. I went looking through the features to see if video chat was possible.
twalling··on Readability vs Instapaper
Kindle support should be pointed out and while both say they support it, I found Readability's to be much more reliable. As much as I liked to support Marco with Instapaper I had to stop donating and switch. Sending to my kindle wasn't working any longer and Marco was never returning any emails I sent off inquiring about the issues I was having. So far Readability's Kindle support has been working perfectly for me.
twalling··on How I went from idea to profit in under 24 hours
I bet I could go from idea to revenue in under 1 hour.
twalling··on Introducing Grunt
I've been using it for over a month or so now and love it.
twalling··on How to build fast HTML5 mobile apps using backbone.js, zepto.js and trigger.io
I've heard anecdotally that setting those css animations via JavaScript vs defining them in a stylesheet, then toggling classes in the code, yields slightly better performance. I have nothing to back that up but would be interested in hearing if other's have noticed the same thing.
twalling··on Why Joost Failed, How Foursquare Succeeded, and Other Startup Lessons
Right. They succeeded in getting more funding. They haven't succeeded as a profitable company yet.
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