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https://www.slidingboxes.com/ Saas portfolio site for artists. Launched Jan 2013. 0 Marketing. 5k+ users (not sure where they are coming from, not sure if they are spam accounts) 2…

Incredible! Virtual reality just got that much more serious.

$4,300 apartment lease. $1,000 car lease ($700 lease + $300 car insurance). Huge sum spent on high end restaurants. Taxes Also ended up hiring a few contract workers to take care o…

Was a downloadable CMS.

Mine too.

I created a CMS that did user integration with message boards, there were few to none at the time. I made many mistakes, the biggest ones were: 1) Having hit a relatively high succ…

I am a passive income hacker, here are my thoughts: Studied CS at university for 2 years, dropped out to pursue an idea. After a couple years of work, I was bringing in 20k a month…

Directly beneath the announcement is a list of the most popular IE downloads: #1 - IE 8 #3 - IE 10 #4 - IE 7... #5 - IE 9

Brilliant, thank you!

In my case, the company I work for is based in California (I started out from there) but I now live in Connecticut. It's been over a year since I last saw them.

I've been working remotely for 1 year and 3 months. The company I'm working for checks in once a week for about 20 minutes, other than that all communication is done through baseca…

In issue 1, in the third code snippet within the for loop. Shouldn't this code: finalParams[key] = defaultParams[key]; be written as finalParams[key] = paramObject[key];

Carbonmade is plain and basic. And while I tend to believe that less is more, the only real customization they offer is allowing their artists to select between 2 different backgro…

Agreed with everything you mention. I'll update the front page of the website and duplicate the Sliding Boxes effects on the main screenshot. I'll rewrite some of the language to t…

I would say my biggest competitor is Carbon Made, they charge $12/per month and also have a free plan which gives 5 projects and 35 images. Being new to the market, I thought it wo…

Hi HN, Quick personal background: My name is Ziad Hilal, I've been working full time for 2 years as a web developer for an interactive agency. Before this job I had started a compa…

I was under the impression that GetHacker receives $50, it's the price a client has to pay in order to connect with a developer. Then you the developer would be able to negotiate c…

I've built systems with both Stripe and Braintree. Stripe is so much easier to work with. Braintree's not too bad, but the implementation of Stripe is more straight forward.

Name sounds like testicles, which is fitting since the site looks like balls in chrome.

heh, read all about this dude back when I read Masters of Doom.

Sounds like you really planned it through. I'm sure you'll meet lots of people, good luck!

PayPal is a lot better than the older solutions (think Authorize.net). However, Stripe makes PayPal look just as bad and complicated as Authorize.net. With Stripe, you can seriousl…

Not exactly. Iframes aren't involved (yuck how ugly!). Javascript is used to catch the form's submit, all the data on the form (credit card info) is sent straight to Stripe's serve…