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arooni

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About arooni

Hi I'm David Parkinson (https://www.twitter.com/followdavid on twitter). I am life-long entrepreneur hailing from Lawrence, Kansas who started my first business @ 10 years old. I majored in Computer Science at UC San Diego then worked at Microsoft a few years before leaving to raise $500K for one of my businesses. Then I rode my motorcycle from Seattle => Ushuaia Argentina and back through Brazil [42,000 miles -- 18 countries]. Now I'm working in the Kansas City area on the various projects you can see below:

Links:

https://www.davidparkinson.com (Writing about personal excellence and entrepreneurship)

https://www.aroonilabs.com (Founder)

---Assorted Arooni Labs products:

https://www.phonemyphone.com (easily find your misplaced cell phone, or escape a boring meeting or date)

https://www.magicpresspass.com (save fistfuls of cash by getting in free to concerts, museums, national parks, tourist traps and more with a personalized press pass complete with a backing media organization)

https://www.adventurecopilot.com (the first ever adventure travel consultancy, focused on recruiting people who have completed extraordinary adventures like sailing around the world, climbing Everest, hitchhiking around the world, motorcycling around the world, etc).

Recent public activity

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    I have a simple-ish webapp to write that involves basic CRUD, hookup to the Stripe API for payment, a hookup to Twilio for SMS texting, some kind of cool image gallery display UI a…

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    I read far too much news/politics articles and I'd like to read more books instead. How do I go about doing this? The novelty of news and perhaps the uncertainty of rewards (slot m…

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    Comment #31781033

    If you come for the king, you had better not miss.

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    Ask HN: How can I read long comment threads from HN or Reddit on my Kindle?

    I love the discussions here but they can be quite long and I'd love to read them on my jailbroken Kindle Paperwhite v4. I've tried some export as epub extensions as well as saving …

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    Comment #20364741

    Marketing for my buy a press pass service (gets you in for free to all kinds of events, concerts, museums, clubs, etc): https://www.magicpresspass.com Marketing and recruitment for…

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    Comment #19120143

    I realized I want to read all of these shareholder letters from 'Day 1'. Luckily some guy has already compiled them all into one PDF that I just sent to my [Amazon] Kindle. Reading…

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    Comment #18332740

    In life you are either a consumer or a producer. Consumption is the silent killer that's killed more dreams than any other force in history. Relavent: https://www.davidparkinson.co…

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    Comment #3250406

    I think this is brilliant. And I think that it will be successful as evidenced from the strong opinions in this thread. Strong opinions help products spread. The fact that some peo…

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    Comment #1773728

    Work from anywhere. Just need a small design project done: Email me at david {AT} emptyspaceads {DOT} com ===================================== JOB SUMMARY ========================…

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    [Ask YC] Is jobs page for YCombinator startups only?

    would like to post the fact we're looking at hiring a Software Engineer here in Seattle: http://www.emptyspaceads.com/about/jobs... but couldn't see a way of posting that on the jo…

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    Comment #148653

    Yup! I'm debating flying/driving down there... you?

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    Comment #148398

    For those who are attending, please consider adding to the wiki ( http://wiki.startupschool.org/doku.php?id= ). Additionally, I've created two pages that I strongly encourage you t…

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    Comment #144762

    Quit Microsoft in January ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=110792 ) and I am loving working full-time on my own ventures. I did build all products: ( http://www.phonemyphone.c…

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    Comment #144733

    + 1 vote for making this happen the weekend of Startup School (especially for those of us who would be flying in to the Bay Area)

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    Comment #116732

    Here are my notes: * The error page seemed a bit cramped (I tried things like entering A points, or -3 points) * Your Current Bid: 36 points. Bid More! (What does this mean? I'd li…

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    Comment #111713

    I'm 99.99% sure it's the demo code. You see we pull down all the HTML + CSS from your site and insert a bit of our javascript code to your site when we show the ads. This could cau…

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    Comment #111589

    Again, we have two detection options, "Automatic" which is what the demo is using in addition to "Let Me Decide" where you can specify the HTML elements that you'd like the ads to …

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    Comment #111375

    Thanks for your feedback run4yourlives. Can you please elaborate what specific issues you're talking about? I'm testing it now ( http://www.emptyspaceads.com/about/demo ) and don't…

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    Comment #111269

    Ah I see. Can you tell me what OS & browser you were using? I've tested with many setups and the ads should go away when the mouse is over flash elements.

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    Comment #111267

    shawndrost: Thanks I've verified the bug regarding accidentally counting clicks and will look into it. Can you elaborate on flickering? I've tested with your same setup some days a…

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    Comment #111065

    Thanks for your feedback dkokelley. I'll see if I can incorporate the message of not having to sacrifice your site's beautiful design to run emptyspaceads.

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    Comment #111063

    Thanks for the feedback nkohari. I'm happy to hear about AdCamo, it means that the space I've gone into is valid (with the entrance of competitors).

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    Comment #111047

    Great comment. The ads we show on your site are ones we pick but as the website owner you get to control what's inside the ads that appear on your site. For the purposes of a previ…