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amarcus

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About amarcus

From Melbourne, Australia.

Recent public activity

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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 #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.