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JayNeely

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About JayNeely

Digital maker & marketer, community builder, operations guy. @BarCampBoston organizer. http://BostonStartupsGuide.com (@BOSstartups) creator. Formerly @BostonGlobeWork.

You can find me at http://socialstrategist.com

E-mail: jay [.dot.] neely [@at@] SocialStrategist [.dot.] com

Twitter: http://twitter.com/JayNeely

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    This is a common issue for game communities too. Discord works better for bringing together game communities not only because it's a more active and responsive experience, but beca…

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    Comment #41829842

    I'm working with a game studio that's self-hosting their most recent game (Cyber Knights: Flashpoint)'s wiki for the first time: https://cyberknightswiki.tresebrothers.com/ It's go…

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    Comment #34914877

    I canceled Soylent a couple of years ago after two silently-failing billing errors within a year and a rude customer service response. Looking for replacements, I ended up going wi…

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    Comment #17646782

    I'd encourage you to expand the book-promoting paragraph to include a bit more info / some interest-generating hooks about what the book offers that the article itself hasn't alrea…

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    Comment #15730803

    Well for one, the trend is hugely toward people consuming media on mobile devices, where resources like processor power and battery life are much more limited and unsuited to effec…

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    Comment #14722766

    Why do you feel it didn't really generate revenue? What would you do differently if you were going to do it again?

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    Comment #14719898

    Could you talk a bit about what you've done to promote it? Or has it been a hands-off, 'whatever traffic the marketplace provides organically' kinda thing?

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    Comment #14719861

    I'm curious if other assistive software solves this need at the OS level, or if you other similar tools are already known to the community that it would be useful for. Windows has …

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    Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

    A friend pointed out a bunch of the 'tell us about your successful side project' threads suffer from a survivorship bias. They're still great for inspiration, but I suspect we coul…

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    Comment #13800161

    Would you be able to spend four weeks in Boston? We have an EdTech accelerator here, LearnLaunch, with a program specifically for scaling startups that are already growing after ac…

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    Comment #13568362

    The Name of the Wind, and The Wise Man's Fear -- great fantasy books by Patrick Rothfuss.

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    Comment #13295734

    Hey team, it'd be nice if the landing page actually explained what the software is, not just the benefits of it. Is it an embeddable video player (and if so what am I being asked t…

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    Comment #13190675

    I've relied heavily on search traffic / SEO, because it provides ongoing benefit even if I step away from it for a while. It's an easy fit for the information-focused sideprojects …

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    Comment #12857478

    "you get the same response rate when you write one-sentence cover letters as you do when you put a lot of effort into them" is faulty thinking. There are many reasons an employer m…

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    Comment #12769894

    Did you negotiate royalties with individual content providers at the beginning, or find the content through a marketplace of some kind? I'm wondering how you can find good content …

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    Comment #12765705

    https://protonmail.com/

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    Comment #12765672

    Because IP addresses are often shared resources. Your ISP gives each customer an IP address (often a temporary one), and then that customer's router system handles assigning privat…

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    Comment #12684525

    I was writing about this for some friends recently. A lot of people don't "get" twitter because it's a very multi-purpose tool; it's not built around a central use case. I find the…

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    Comment #12432968

    If I spend my grandmother's retirement fund on lottery tickets, maybe I'll win her a lot more money, maybe I won't -- should I try? Of course the likelihood of effectiveness matter…

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    Comment #11684658

    http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/15226/should-a-sentenc...

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    Comment #11454095

    So basically, I install a browser extension, do social sign in so you get my friends list, and now any time I go to a page not previously in my browser history, it's anonymously ad…

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    Comment #11453947

    With Amazon's Subscribe & Save option available for a lot of the major brands' anti-dandruff shampoos, I think your idea really banks on being able to create a better (and better-k…

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    Comment #11453907

    1) What legal risks are you taking on in providing this service, and how will you offset them? Providing the wrong information (two people with the same name, user input error you …

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    Comment #11453846

    Are you aware of / how are you different than BevSpot ( https://www.bevspot.com/ )? They seem to be solving this problem from the restaurant management side, which builds the deman…