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uts_··on Confessions of a startup: all our numbers, insights, everything
I"m surprised at the wages, a decent developer in Australia will cost $100k+ alone.
uts_··on What happened to Priceonomics?
This post may shed some light: https://twitter.com/Quan/status/388165409469243392
uts_··on Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup
Indeed, this isn't our only product :) But certainly we believe there's room in this space to do things better.
uts_··on Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup
Few differences (we also have a lot of respect for RF, those guys have a great product):

- Verified actions, we verify via API's that users actually complete an entry. You can just bypass this on RF (something I'm sure they're working on).

- API, you can create completely custom entry types on Gleam. Put our API code on your shopping cart, or email signup form & activate an entry. Useful for things like "Add 5 products to your wishlist for an entry, or leave a review for an entry".

- More social network coverage (Instagram, YouTube/Soundcloud)

- More ways to install than just embedding on the page

uts_··on Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup
I hear you on the backend demo :) Our frontend is all AngularJS, however the backend isn't. We plan to have a visual drag/drop builder once we do that.

We have most networks integrated from an entry perspective, including Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest (No API currently), SoundCloud & YouTube. We've got Tumblr coming then adding based on demand.

Our Facebook tab solution is 90% completed, we're just testing it currently. Install to Facebook will be in the free plan, on Pro you'll be able to customise the tab/gate images :)

uts_··on Show HN: Easy Way to Run a Contest For Your Startup
Co-founder here, I replied to you about oauth.

Integration with ESP's is critical to marketers, as someone mentioned below the key reason people run competitions is to drive sales/engagement with followup. Especially for Ecom.

There's a blog post going up in the next few days from Chris at Vero on this very topic :)

uts_··on My account's Facebook applications have been disabled with no explanation
Some of my apps are back, but some are still missing. Anyone in a similar boat?
uts_··on The big, ugly affiliate marketing scam
We're working on a solution to allow merchants to get users to unlock coupon codes directly on their site (without having to go via an affiliate).

Seeing stellar results so far with plenty of feedback for improvement (we're in beta). If anyone is interested in helping us test the concept further, hit me up!

https://gleam.io/app/rewards

uts_··on Keep coding. Punchy Prose will handle copywriting and editing for you.
Typo on the homepage:

Spruce up exisintg documents.

Not really a good start for a copy editing business....

uts_··on Cloud server showdown: Amazon AWS EC2 vs. Linode vs. DigitalOcean
ServerBear does everything the OP is already trying to do:

http://serverbear.com/237-small-amazon-web-services#benchmar...

http://serverbear.com/10-linode-1gb-linode

http://serverbear.com/1990-2gb-ssd--2-cpu-digitalocean

uts_··on How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90%
Sorry but I don't buy it.

You're telling me these links don't look paid to you (and this is an example of just the first page):

http://www.webhostingsearch.com/web-tools.php - Spammy footer link

http://jack-fx.com/ - Spammy blog roll links

http://www.helpdesk2000.org/ - More spammy blog links

http://www.chat-software.org/ - Spammy footer links

http://www.cloudcomputing-providers.com/ - Spam network links in blog posts

Guessing you guys will need to whip out the disavow tool to get out of this one. These are exactly the types of links that Penguin is going after - anchor text rich & not editorial.

uts_··on How Google Authorship decreased our traffic by 90%
These guys seem to have no problem with manipulating the search results will hundreds of thousands of paid links:

https://ahrefs.com/site-explorer/backlinks/subdomains/jitbit...

So it's really no surprise that Google's latest Penguin rollout has hurt them.

Sad to see it blamed on authorship.

uts_··on Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds, Spades: Players Who Suit MUDs (1996)
I wasted way too much time over at Discworld MUD, also one I I used to play called Realms of the Dragon just shut down today after 21 years (RIP).