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vuzumon Just 27% of employees believe in their company’s values

Actually, employees don't give a shit about the companies they work at and they should be treated as such. If it's not their own company all they care about at the end of the day are the money they get (the more, the better), the conditions they get and to complain about every single fucking thing. All this while trying to trick you as much as possible by not being efficient or trying to become better at what they are doing, on their own.

So I'd urge owners of companies to hire and fire people quick. There are rarely good people who stay within a company for more than 2 years and who care about what they do. Those people usually become part of it (partners).

The rest are just there temporary, so treat them as such: shitty replacement parts.

vuzumon Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years

Hey Tyler, I hate to do this to you (and to SnapWidget and others), but there's something cooking.

With the API and feature rich product updates that are coming up, I think we'll hit a cross road. I don't think I have to go into details, you'll figure it out with this sample widget + Editor: http://blogvio.com/widgets/util/map-with-google-maps/composi...

I just want to let you know that we appreciate you opened up and shared your story. I checked your product and it's cool. Keep up the good work! Don't hate the messenger. :-)

vuzumon Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2014)

SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Spain and Romania)

We're Vuzum, a boutique digital studio focused on delivering great experiences. We are a team of 20+ developers and digital artists spread across two offices, in Spain and Romania.

We believe in delivering a quality service, in being direct, in transparent pricing and openness. We approach each project with the scope of delivering high quality for each pixel we put on screen.

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Below are some of the latest projects we did:

* US Navy Digital Signage: http://www.vuzum.com/work/project/us-navy-signage

* Camron: http://camronpr.com/

* Radian: http://www.radianboston.com/

* 1407: http://1407bway.com/

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We're building small to large scale projects using up to date technologies and PASSION AS A SERVICE. Find out more and get in touch at www.vuzum.com.

vuzumon Amazon Dash

They released this amazing piece of hardware, and then they can use the same technology to complement it with an app. So you have both worlds happy - with or without a smartphone in the house. ;)

vuzumon Amazon Dash

Best idea ever, wow what a great product and functionality! This should be in every house! :-)

Amazon acts like a startup still. Good for them!

vuzumon Show HN: Drag-and-drop library for 2D, resizable and responsive lists

Guys, how is this different from http://gridster.net? Or is Gridster done by you?

vuzumon Why does 1Password need to see all of Dropbox?

We've had this same problem at Blogvio. Users asked us why we need access to their entire Dropbox. And indeed we didn't need - but we didn't know better either.

After a bit of research we found out we can have a specific folder set to Blogvio that would sync with the system. And that, combined with something like Zapier is a much better solution that we envisioned first. Learning by mistakes! :-)

vuzumon Ukraine protests: Before and after photos from Kiev's battle zone

Interactive view of the same photos: http://blog.blogvio.com/post/77297366370/ukraine-protests

vuzumon Your best passive income? (2014)

Let's see. There's a few somewhat passive channels for us.

We just launched our product Blogvio (http://www.blogvio.com) which is yet break even. Right now we're only partnering with platforms to white label our Editor and widgets, but we'll soon release a pricing plan for all users of the website.

Our 2008 marketplace Flabell (http://www.flabell.com) (flash products... I know) is still going strong, although we too think Flash is dead. People still buy those components, so we still provide support for them. We stopped advertising though a few years back. :-)

Same goes for our Flash Components on ActiveDen, these still sell a couple of hundreds every month. So it's still passive income after 6yrs+. :)

vuzumon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2014)

Iasi, Romania, FULLTIME

Blogvio - We’re an early-stage startup focused on making content distribution easy and fun!

We are currently seeking a few developers to join the team and help us reach our goals. Our web stack is based on Symfony, a custom implementation of SpineJS / CoffeeScript and MongoDB. Ideally you’re also experienced with Stylus / NIB, enjoy analytics and have some front end skills (Ajax, HTML5, CSS3).

Visit us at http://www.blogvio.com

vuzumon Twitter: What Happens When a Startup is Retweeted to 100k+ People

Correct. :)

It surprised us as well. We were expecting to have quite a spike in the traffic, since 100k users is a lot. And it is also the reason why Twitter went so big with the IPO in the first place.

What happened instead is this: http://o7.no/1dgSQg7 (only 29 clicks from Twitter directly)

http://o7.no/1dgTkCR (I will attribute this growth to Twitter for the sake of helping them look better, although it isn't - we've been approaching different user acquisition hacks)

But now I'm actually wondering how many of these Twitter accounts are real. I'd guess 5% tops, or lower. Is it actually worth advertising with Twitter at all?

vuzumon Twitter: What Happens When a Startup is Retweeted to 100k+ People

We don't plan to share any numbers yet. We think it makes it more interesting to hear your expectations first.

vuzumon Twitter: What Happens When a Startup is Retweeted to 100k+ People

The trend seems to be going up, but I am really curious to know what kind of traffic you guys expect when 100.000 somewhat targeted followers see a retweet about Blogvio, a tool they potentially can use.

Here's the first screenshot, next one coming on Monday: http://o7.no/1bikU1r

vuzumon Twitter: What Happens When a Startup is Retweeted to 100k+ People

Try another guess. :)

vuzumon Twitter: What Happens When a Startup is Retweeted to 100k+ People

Nope. :)

vuzumon Twitter: What Happens When a Startup is Retweeted to 100k+ People

This is my conversation with Marta from Twitter. Her answer was no. http://o7.no/1c0diR2

Interesting that we got the eyeballs out of chance two days later. :-)

vuzumon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2013)

Iasi, Romania - Fulltime (no remote) Blogvio (http://blogvio.com) - finalist at HowToWeb http://blog.howtoweb.co/2013/10/startup-spotlight-2013-final...

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We’re an early-stage startup focused on making content distribution easy and fun! We love our work and what we’re learning and building together.

If we’ve interested you, tell us your story at jobs@vuzum.com.

vuzumon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

Cool, can you share some feedback?

We'll be new widgets and improvements soon. :)

vuzumon Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?

Blogvio (http://www.blogvio.com) - add beautiful widgets to your website.

It's cool because you don't need to do any coding to add beautiful and custom galleries, video players, mp3 players, and any other types of widgets to your website. Just copy/paste an embed code and you're done.

This helps you a lot especially if you're an agency or freelancer, or if you're using a publishing tool such as Wix, SquareSpace, Weebly, etc - where you don't have access to a server to upload files.

vuzumon Ask HN: Review my startup, blogvio.com

It's explained in an animation, going through the words describing it: players, galelries, and ends up on widgets. I believe that might work! :)

vuzumon Ask HN: Review my startup, blogvio.com

Hi and thanks for the feedback!

1) It's a sample widget. Hit the widget word and it will loop through several. Those will change as we release them so that we feature new ones constantly.

But I understand how it can be confusing.

2) The plan is to keep the user focused on the only thing that matters, the widgets. We'll think this through.

3) Agreed! :)

4) Will check, thanks!

vuzumon Show HN: Introducing Blogvio – Integrate beautiful widgets into your website.

We thought that is a good RSS feed to show the widget's functionality. :-)

Clicking on the widget title at the top will change it with a widget from a different category.

vuzumon Ask HN: Review my startup, blogvio.com

What do you think of:

"Add beautiful widgets to your website."

It's as short and easy to remember as the current tagline. How does it sound for a native english speaker?

vuzumon Show HN: Introducing Blogvio – Integrate beautiful widgets into your website.

Some real life examples

Our pitch on Roon: http://andreipotorac.roon.io/from-blogvio-with-love

On WIX: http://hi8969.wix.com/vuzum

On Weebly: http://vuzum.weebly.com/

On WordPress: http://www.andreipotorac.com/san-juan-2013-in-coruna/

On Tumblr: http://blog.blogvio.com/post/62511677274/usability-test-2

On Blogger: http://bibliotecahellin.blogspot.com.es/ (scroll down)

Real user: http://www.ciaraconlon.com/2013/why-you-should-try-for-a-min...

vuzumon Ask HN: Review my startup, blogvio.com

Thanks for the tagline. We'll think it through and optimise the copy.

vuzumon Ask HN: Review my startup, blogvio.com

The reason we did that type of animation there was to go through the four types of widget categories we cover (video, audio, images and utilities). Do you think it makes more sense to just keep widgets instead of animate to it?

vuzumon Ask HN: Review my startup, blogvio.com

Oh, sorry had to mention it! We did stop the iPad version as it needs work on the touch events. So it redirects you to mobile too.

On mobile you have what you've seen :-) so that we don't loose the users. It wouldn't make much sense for them to use Blogvio there as the screen is small for content creation.

vuzumon Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

Spent days collecting them. They should be! :)

vuzumon Launching your project to the world? Try these sites to get the word out

Will definitely post more after launch, including this press list. We should be covered by a big player tomorrow. :-)

I'd say you need to hit the road really hard, and try to approach entities to which your product would provide real value.

For example we also found partnerships to be a great distribution channel. We approach them by showing how much value our product can bring to their service (e.g. http://andreipotorac.roon.io/from-blogvio-with-love - this is the real deal). So far it worked great with the ones we approached! This means thousands of potential users so far!

On the other hand, we help them with user acquisition since we're a platform that integrates well with publishing tools.

So:

1. Partnerships

2. Press

3. Sites above

This is the order you should use when building you distribution strategy.