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Hey, thank you! And yep, since it's the same amount of time required by our testers (and they get paid the same regardless). If you actually have a blog about a rare barbed wire collection though, hit me up and I'll do one for you gratis because that's just awesome.

I'd be more embarrassed for writing on Forbes. do you have any idea how easy it is to get an article on there? $100 will buy a guest post from a ton of contributors, normally done for SEO value or fake PR landscape.

the type of people who value others with authentic arbitrary social reach figures.

It's very unlikely someone bought them for him to make him look bad. Instead, a lot of the time when fake followers are created they are programmed to look 'normal' by following other accounts and engaging. Otherwise a single follow target can be a real outlier and easier to triangulate.

source: worked in spam for a long time.

Also, 10k accounts is like $5-$10 for most 'in the business'. There are a lot of services that sell for this upwards of $50-$100 though. We're not talking about a lot of investment.

I built this thing for all of us who read too many books and collect too many ideas ("build things that people will miss when they're gone, take more cold showers, measure twice, cut once"). I keep reading great books or posts with great ideas and I keep forgetting to put them into action because they don't really belong on a task list.

So, the idea is you list a handful of thoughts / ideas / snippets that you should be considering and it pings you with an email randomly through the week and keeps the thought or idea in the front of your mind as you work.

the interesting part is that he says you basically bid on the placement yourself. Lots of publishers are paid via CPC, so only when clicks are made. I'm guessing this has to be CPM bid then, in which case to be effective you're going to burn through you $2 per month awfully fast.

Another thing - if you're actually taking part in the bidding process this is a trojan horse to jack up the bid prices (they work in an auction format roughly) for everyone else.

Well played, evil Google.

> It is NOT about monitoring stuff that is occurring outside that state, which is the intent of the watch

The added utility of a mindfulness reminder is fairly effective for a lot of people. The 'standup' reminders were a core component of the watch introduction by Apple.

> Nobody has to be instantly available to everyone.

True. I guess the idea is that the watch notifications are less disruptive to general life.

The article ends with: "Summary So here You have it. Google can index (and indexes) hidden text and dynamically inserted text. If content is relavant to Your website, You won't get penalty from google."

I think that's disingenuous. The panda algorithm is believed to specifically target duplicate content. You're saying that if I had a website full of content stolen from more authoritative web sources that I wouldn't lose any ability to rank? I think you're wrong :)

I think there may be a mixture since your question:

> When you're coding, do you think "What's the best possible way to do this," instead of just "How can I get this code to run?"

I do both. Mostly begin with phase 2 (mentally) and then go back and look at the 'best way' and design schema and business objects around that. I end up making a lot of sacrifices and doing things that are probably not optimal due to what I think is poor real world experience and experience working with other, more seasoned developers. My knowledge of design patterns is fairly limited and I tend to churn out projects that work, are fairly reasonable but yet I think they lack the elegance of many of the open source projects or example githubs I've seen.

Meaning, I'm better than good? Or worse (because I'm no longer challenging myself)

>If you aren't familiar with something that you see, look it up. If it looks useful to you, build something with it.

This is essentially what I do. Thanks for the tldr.

Wonderful response, thanks. I have attempted a handful of open source utilities and none of them ever received any activity from others at all. I would love to maintain a project or just work with others in general since I'm working in isolated 'for myself' territory.

I think a larger focus needs to be placed on location based navigation. I get that it's primarily poland right now, but the drill down options for location are abysmal: http://lifetramp.com/search?place=Chicago-Miami

I would be MUCH more willing to hook up in my state than other countries, etc.

It seems kind of silly to pay that much for what is essentially a paginated front end for http://getbootstrap.com/customize/ + an unproven CDN.

I'm not sure this is really addressing a pain point for anyone.

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Those questions were asked and it came down to the fact that it was a collectibles marketplace and the specific things they were looking for were not available or not an attractive price. There is also the trust issue... many seem to rather want to use ebay.

Taking the marketplace project: a marketplace is probably only as good as it's contents. Liquidity is the determining factor... and it's a chicken and egg scenario. So maybe that venture would fail that test from the start. You can be better with technology but the intrinsic value wasn't raised so maybe it's a fail.

You are correct. That puts it succinctly - I like making things, but I suck at choosing what to make (or selling what I make). Maybe they are the same thing.

The visits for one specific project were in the tens of thousands over the course of a few months after 'launch'. Feedback was numbered in the tens at most and mostly things like 'cool site!' 'cool idea!' or 'i cant find this specific product'

The site looked promising but noone comes back to check things and of the initial rush of users, a decent % signed up but did not participate in any transactions.

The last couple have been collectibles marketplaces and quantified self tracking platforms. I think that is my main thesis -- solving problems/making things easier for people through technology, especially in markets where they are not taking advantage of technology much.

Agree, but then again, most of the parroting that has taken place with respect to this entire debacle has served to expose people to many of the issues and practices around online privacy, so there is that (albeit under poor circumstances, but lemons -> lemonade).

What's with the weird goal amount though? Is there some significance there that I'm not aware of?

As a guy with a comic book marketplace startup (http://comicswap.com) - I'd have to disagree. Some of the recent prices fetched for key golden age issues are absolutely insane and many of the currently running series are fetching ridiculous prices (Image comics in particular, like The Walking Dead).

However, the bronze age - yep. Very little there worth much.

That would be fairly easy for us as we have "wantlists" and we do a good job (i think) of getting user information in the interest of establishing trust.

Excellent feedback. Even after having hundreds of emails of correspondence with users... this is still better :)

1. Business model - in the future the $ comes from dealers and additional functionality (stores/featured auctions) not present on the site.

2. Traditionally the collectibles markets are tough because while you can supposedly sell something for $xyz, you'll need to actually find a buyer willing to pay that. Many items are worth a lot of cash but end up selling for next to nothing because collectors are very specific. What we're doing is basically a reverse-marketplace on the back end. Users say what they want and then dealers get a feed of the most "wantlisted" items and compete for the bounty of filling those wants. All marketplaces have to solve the chicken and the egg problem (as you went on to note re: buyers and sellers both needed) -- this is our attempt at overcoming it for both sides. There is incentive for sellers, as they'll get a near instant sale. There is incentive for buyers to stick around as they just add something to their wantlist and get a near instant offer. At least that's how it works in theory :)

3. You can use the transaction system without the site right now, yes. It's just not well documented. I suck at the documentation :)

4. Agree on all. The help and support section is brilliant, will be working on that right now. Facebook login is a step in the "user start" page that lists a few tasks for them to complete in order to gain trust in the marketplace. That's a big push for us, trust building.

Excellent feedback. This is exactly what I've done and it does work. Now I just need to get them to stick around and actually use the thing.

Couple days for about 80% of them, but the other 20 have been there through iterations for almost a year.

The app is comicswap.com

a handful of the new features (from the "launch" email):

* Dedicated Comic Pages with Multiple Listings (no more 1 listing, 1 page setup)

* Wantlist - Add a comic to your wantlist and get an instant notification when someone lists it for sale or trade!

* Over 180,000 Unique Comics Available to Browse on the Site

* Many Comics Have eBay and other retailers Piped In along with Users Listings for Comparison Shopping

* Robust Feedback System (on swaps too!)

* New Messaging & Transaction System Allows for External Swaps (you dont even have buy/sell/trade through our site to be able to track and leave feedback on your swaps!)

* Mobile Design - works on phones, tablets... pretty much anything except stone slates from the prehistoric age.

* For dealers and those with lots of comics to sell -- you can subscribe to a feed of items that receive more than 5+ wants from users and receive an additional bounty for listing these items for a quick sale.

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