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amarcus
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Comment #20351835
This post title has caused it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20341855
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Comment #19559834
My two cents: 1) It should attempt to detect location and display that to the user. 2) You can save locations but, these are lost on refresh. 3) No way to specify Celsius. 4) It's …
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Ask HN: Looking to create a plugin marketplace for my webapp. Any advice
We have a fairly popular SaaS platform that operates within the marketing industry (think Mailchimp). We are wanting to setup an app/plugin marketplace and allow third-party develo…
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Comment #16654328
We do it via a one-line javascript snippet. eg: widget.js is a server side script that creates the widget and echo's it out. Many ways of doing this and the easiest is a bunch of d…
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Comment #13816503
Cap Tables aren't usually private. I don't recommend advertising it on your website but, certainly, any new investors will need/want to see it before committing.
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Comment #9656383
In my opinion, a Soft Developer is one who mainly just writes code. Whereas, a Soft Engineer is somebody who looks after the project end-to-end (requirements gathering, coming up w…
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Comment #9615571
Wouldn't this mean setting up a VPN on the phone and having all traffic routed through mobileadblock.com's servers? In this day and age of NSA, privacy and spying - not sure too ma…
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Comment #9574387
Why?
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Comment #9378510
I am unsure if any such pre-built solutions exist but, we have created something similar for our app. A user can setup an unlimited number of different API Keys for their account. …
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Comment #8781539
If HN isn't your target demographic, the answers here are going to be really skewed. Social signup is very much preferred (we have a number of iOS & Android apps targeting consumer…
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Comment #8728143
Suggestion: Get rid of the Hacker News reference in your header. I think that most people who don't know about HN will run away when they see "Hacker" in the title. You are limitin…
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Comment #8633839
Looks like it's broken. I just randomly entered some information: http://imgur.com/ZWpC6rL $110k yearly salary + $16k income from rent. Own a $500k house with no debt. Potential fo…
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Comment #8628297
My startup provides email marketing services. This is something we have always wanted to add into our product. We have looked at other services such as Litmus but, have not yet dec…
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Comment #8599437
You can type "help" to see a list of all commands.
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Comment #8339063
Doesn't seem to work on FB Fan Pages. I suspect that majority of your users will be small business owners looking for a social media dashboard. I have been looking for something li…
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Comment #8328514
Would be good to allow you to order by position on the front page as well as total number of votes on the stories. It will allow you to see that even though github is sitting at nu…
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Comment #8306978
It would be good if it faded into the next song rather than have the 1-2 sec delay while it switches to the next video.
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Comment #8283708
Those charts are confusing. They appear dynamic but, it's just images.
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Comment #8272128
First, make sure you have a product with traction and uses cases of it being used. Make a nice slide deck. Make a list of investors you want to target. Look them up on LinkedIn & A…
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Comment #8267182
I really like that you start the videos in the middle of the clip rather than at the very beginning.
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Comment #8255364
The Feedback tab on the side of the page looks a lot like it says "Facebook". Why is pricing based on impressions? Wouldn't it make sense for it to be based on actual feedback coll…
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Comment #8235866
To be pedantic - they didn't slash their price. It's still the same. They are now just offering additional space.
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Comment #8205416
Publicly shame them. That seems to send companies into overdrive to correct errors & issues.