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Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by mikegreenberg »

Hello!

Every once in a while, I like to offer my time to help other passionate people be a little more successful with their goals. If there's anything I can help you with, just ask here. No strings whatsoever.

If you'd like my help: Be specific about what you're trying to fix/solve/accomplish...your goal. The more details you provide, the better I can help you out.

I've done this before a few times now, and it's worked out well for everyone. Check out some of the previous "No strings" sessions I've done to get an idea of how I can help. (http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=mikegreenberg)

Cheers

PS: If you'd rather give than receive: Go find someone else to do something nice for...like give them a back rub. Those are fantastic! Or spend two minutes helping me validate a market. http://bit.ly/pmhS0U (Thank you!)

PPS: I will try to help all requests made before tomorrow afternoon or so and will attempt to complete by the end of Sunday. Be patient and check back. Also, I thought it was rude to mention before so I removed it, but I please keep requests to tasks I can do in ~15 minutes. I'll spend more time willingly, but smaller requests lets me help more people! Thanks. :)

PPPS: You guys are totally welcome to help each other out, too! (Request-maker, be sure to tip helpful replies!)

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

#4

Post by Vivtek »

gsiener wrote: post #2

Sure: Go to https://app.profitably.com/plan_ahead and model out a business. Would love to hear your thoughts on 1) how we can streamline that process 2) where you felt most confused or lost Thanks! Graham

Customer Acquisition Stages

In modeling customer acquisition, the metaphor of a funnel is often.

I think you mean "often used". :-)

I was a little taken aback by the gold/platinum/silver categories of customers in services; there was no explanation of why these three are given. (In my case, categorization of users ... hmm, actually it does pertain, now that I think about it.)

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

#5

Post by gsiener »

Vivtek wrote: post #4
gsiener wrote: post #2

Sure: Go to https://app.profitably.com/plan_ahead and model out a business. Would love to hear your thoughts on 1) how we can streamline that process 2) where you felt most confused or lost Thanks! Graham

Customer Acquisition Stages In modeling customer acquisition, the metaphor of a funnel is often. I think you mean "often used ". :-) I was a little taken aback by the gold/platinum/silver categories of customers in services; there was no explanation of why these three are given. (In my case, categorization of users ... hmm, actually it does pertain, now that I think about it.)

Good catch, thanks!

Think of those suggestions as v1...coming soon we'll have "business templates" that will flesh these out more.

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

#7

Post by jpallen »

I'm trying to expand my online LaTeX editor into a viable business. My cofounder and I think there is potential for a great enterprise product where we could really improve the workflow in publishing houses and teaching, where LaTeX is used a lot. We've had enough feedback from individual users to think this, but we're struggling to get our foot in the door with the people we'd need to talk to about selling to them on a larger scale.

Basically we're new to this game and are struggling to get started. I don't know if you or anyone can help, but it's worth a shot. Thank you very much for lending your time like this, I hope the karma comes back to you!

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

#8

Post by stuartk »

Thanks Mike! Would you be able to give me some feedback on a product idea I'm working on?

Its a platform for video tutorials where the student gives their response for a lesson via video also. The first use case that comes to mind is guitar teachers. Students can post video responses to lessons and be corrected/ advised. The teacher would pay for the platform and perhaps charge th students through the site, or even off site.

Do you feel this has legs? Any thoughts or ideas welcome. Thanks! Stuart

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

#9

Post by zheng »

ido wrote: post #6

Can you think of a way to improve my game's[1] interface, taking into account that it has to work on both mobile devices and PCs? Also, if you find any bugs I'd love to hear about it! [1] http://cardinalquest.com/free_edition/

Quickly, on OpenSuSE 11.4 (x86_64) running Chrome 14, the game interface doesn't hide my system's mouse pointer, but also displays its own. Slightly visually distracting.

While playing, I would move the spell bar to the left, as that seems to be both more natural and more common. For whatever reason, having it on the right distracted me a lot more from the gameplay, I felt as though I always had to keep looking over at it and back (seeing as I hadn't memorized the hotkeys). The info about my current health (which is currently in the top left corner) is displayed under my avatar, which makes it non-essential info, so it can be moved to the right.

Take all of this feedback with a grain of salt, I'm not a UI person :)

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

#10

Post by reemrevnivek »

jpallen wrote: post #7

I'm trying to expand my online LaTeX editor into a viable business. My cofounder and I think there is potential for a great enterprise product where we could really improve the workflow in publishing houses and teaching, where LaTeX is used a lot. We've had enough feedback from individual users to think this, but we're struggling to get our foot in the door with the people we'd need to talk to about selling to them o…

I think you forgot to include the link. By Googling "jpallen online latex editor", I found jpallen.net and ScribTex.

To make our volunteer's efforts more expedient, I'll note that the url is at -> http://www.scribtex.com/ <- Click that.

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