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Location: London, willing to relocate, Full Time. Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ut1wm0n1nvrwlzj/Tom%20Layfield%20-... Contact: me at tommizzle dot com About: Product Manager an…

Location: London, willing to relocate, Full Time. Resume: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ut1wm0n1nvrwlzj/Tom%20Layfield%20-... Contact: me at tommizzle dot com About: Product Manager an…

Really? Assessing demand before diving into app development is considered a bad thing?

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What problem does this solve that Quora doesn't? Seems like you might have a hard time competing.

SimplyBusiness FULL TIME (London) Front End Dev, Senior Java Dev, Senior Ruby Dev http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/about-us/careers/ Our business is now at an exciting new stage of …

SimplyBusiness FULL TIME (London) Front End Dev, Senior Java Dev, Senior Ruby Dev http://www.simplybusiness.co.uk/about-us/careers/ Our business is now at an exciting new stage of …

We have the relationships with the merchants, the users don't. We take a small cut of each sale.

I launched the beta of my app in mid-November, although I must admit I did start mid-October so I'm hoping I still qualify! I decided to build a revenue generating URL shortener. T…

We're currently working on a REST based API with authentication. Release should be in within the next two weeks.

We made a concious decision to keep the revenue share margins under wraps, but rest assured it is - and always will be - in the users favour.

There is currently a very basic api in place @ http://shrtn.co/api/*your-url* Custom domain names are a great idea. Thanks for the feedback!

At the moment most of the merchants are added via CPA networks, so the dev time is fairly minimal. I expect this will change when we exhaust all of the top merchants on the affilia…

I used to be a confidence/game coach a couple of years ago, and a common theme would be that socially awkward people generally had a higher tolerance to rejection, and vice versa f…

The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur by Mike Michalowicz. Only about a third of the way in, but it's awesome so far.

Thanks for the feedback! Interesting idea about not calling it a shortener. I'll have a think about possible alternatives :)

Sure - It isn't aimed at professional affiliate marketers for sure, but even JoeNobody might get a sale every now and again, so it still could attract that user base.

Nope - don't need to sign up to anything except shrtn itself. Whenever a sale is made via your link then your account will be credited with the appropriate commission.

In my eyes the value proposition is that people can replace their usual URL shortener with shrtn, and potentially earn money without having to sign up to multiple affiliate schemes…

Hi! Been working on a new startup called shrtn.co, and think it's at a stage to show HN. It's basically a URL shortener which adds affiliate links onto the end of URL's, then share…