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pb30

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About pb30

Minnesota web developer, pb30.com, usetrackthis.com

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    Comment #2134187

    Side note: If you're on Chrome there's an extension that will auto-redirect you to SO if you click an efreedom (or similar) link https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gledholol…

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    Comment #918821

    http://status.mosso.com/2009/11/cloud-sitesservers-dfwsat-de... http://status.slicehost.com/2009/11/3/dfw-interruption-2 http://search.twitter.com/search?q=rackspace+OR+slicehost

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    Comment #439632

    Check out the login page: http://zend.usetrackthis.com/session/login You can use your Google, Yahoo, AOL, Facebook, MySpace or any OpenID (Wordpress, Blogger, etc). I'd imagine mos…

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    Comment #439618

    I'll work on adding some examples. I did consider email tracking w/o an account, but haven't yet implemented it. At least creating an account is fairly low friction due to OpenID.

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    Ask YC: Feedback on new TrackThis design/features

    My recent move from student to unemployed has given me time to completely rework one of my side projects. Old site: http://www.usetrackthis.com New site: http://zend.usetrackthis.c…

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    Comment #393591

    Thanks, I knew it'd be a tough one to monetize, or else I would've done something earlier. Perhaps some sort of donation nag screen on the website would increase the donation rate.…

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    Comment #393537

    Awhile ago I added a thanks/pls donate direct message nag when a first-time user submits a package. The results have been pretty poor, and theres been one complaint on the Uservoic…

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    Comment #393527

    ~20 new users daily, ~40 new packages daily, ~180 unique users with stuff being tracked, ~150 updates sent out daily

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    Ask HN: Monetizing a Twitter bot?

    I run http://usetrackthis.com (track your packages by Twitter direct message/email/SMS) and am looking for feedback on monetizing or improving it. Right now all the action occurs t…

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    Comment #289229

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion...

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    Comment #288785

    http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism#Rationale_for_del...

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    Comment #288522

    http://citizendium.org/ ?

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    Comment #288452

    No, the old article was pretty weak, just a couple of lines and a link to the TechCrunch launch post.

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    Comment #288428

    I already moved the tag, this article links to a specific revision of the article, not the actual article

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    Comment #288405

    Their point of view: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Deletionism#Rationale_for_del...

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    Comment #288284

    This method of deletion (prod) is sometimes used as a way to force people/fans to improve the article. To contest the deletion all one has to do is remove the tag, and hopefully im…

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    Comment #288277

    Rather than just complaining about Wikipedia, I've contested the deletion by removing the prod tag and added some sources from major publications. Please help add references from r…

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    Comment #164493

    You may want to change your passwords and your mobile email address. Both were accessible.

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    Comment #144628

    I'd like a page that lists all the updates from those that I'm following (like a standard Twitter client) but with a link to expand the conversation around each update