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It could mean less money overall, if advertisers want to target the kind of user who would sign up for an ad-free pro account.

Boutine had an Instagram integration already, but decided to use this instead. It was handy since it saved me from having to integrate with lots of third-party services myself.

Style Owner was definitely an inspiration for us when we started -- I think they're a great site. The biggest difference between us and them is how we get our products. Each of the…

Good question about the ratio. In the office right now, there are 3 men, and 7 women. Boutine was founded by guys, but the key branding and merchandising decisions are made by wome…

That's definitely in the roadmap for the near future. Would you mind discussing a bit more over email? My email is adam@boutine.com Thanks!

When we talk to people about the company, the finance to women's fashion part of the story always generates a lot of questions. If other people here are in a similar spot (thinking…

We're still in the early stages of product development, and all of our designers are hand picked. So we work with the designers we do have on board to give them insight in to how p…

Boutique + magazine.

The following is from Pramod (CEO/other co-founder, since he can't comment for some reason...) Yeah, I was an IB analyst for 2 years. After that switched over to the investing side…

We're actually working on tools for collection templates right now - not sure about an exact release date yet. The svpply idea is interesting. We hadn't considered that! Thank you …

We've integrated with Facebook's Open Graph so we've got a pretty good idea of demographics, and high school/early college are the most active on the social side of the site so far…

Adam here - one of the co-founders. I'm happy to answer any questions that any one has!

I agree that being reasonable is the reasonable thing to do. However, censorship cuts both ways, which I was trying to demonstrate with my earlier comment. If playing the lobbying …

More to the point, what's stopping Google from declaring war on the MPAA? I imagine a lot of money would be lost if Google just pulled every site belonging to a member of the MPAA …

I agree it's tricky to start with. Though if you've got a funnel with numbers that work, it's the difference between making a few cents per customer, vs a few dollars per customer.…

I don't really see the problem with making the user the product. T.V. does it, newspapers do it, radio stations do it. Either a user pays for a service, or they get marketed to. Th…

If you start without any sense of the competition, you're setting yourself up for failure. The last thing you want to do is find out after weeks/months of development that there is…

It's right in the uncanny valley for me... The super deep Winklevoss twin voice makes me uneasy for some reason.

Hello Hacker News, A little about me -- I'm new to the Bay Area, and in need of a technical co-founder. I'm a self taught Ruby/PHP developer, who also does design and front end wor…

I had this same conversation with someone last night. I suck at meeting new people. But I can email 100 people for a meetup, a few will respond, and the majority will forget they e…

aMember does everything but number 3, but there are a ton of download tracker plugins out there. Between the two, you should be able to accomplish everything you need. Drop me a li…

Paypal isn't ideal for getting money, but for giving money, it doesn't get any easier. Mostly everyone has a paypal account, so adding a paypal email address field to their profile…