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Post by liamgooding »

Not strictly a coding project, but definitely not the day-job so I'm classing it as a project.

I've been writing a book introducing people to the idea of using data effectively in startup marketing decisions.

"Growth Pirate" - http://growth.trak.io

I launched the pre-orders at the beginning of June and had some great feedback, plus plenty of suggestions for the next release.

I've found it really liberating and relaxing to write something that has a "flow" like a story. Any blog posts or guest posts need to be "standalone" where as the book has to flow and take the reader on a much longer journey, and I've found it hugely challenging but I've learnt tons from it already.

As the book is aimed at "data-driven beginners" (who are mostly really experienced marketers/CEO's but perhaps new to SaaS or tech startups) so it's a very specific target reader. I'll definitely work on more books in the future after the experience so far!

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Post by viggity »

emilioolivares wrote: post #373
viggity wrote: post #338

just recently launched a service that will let you create interactive dashboards (pivot charts) off of your excel files. Got a huge influx of beta sign ups from HN and ProductHunt.com. General Site: http://www.machete.io Example Boards: $4.4B in startup funding: http://www.machete.io/board/view/seed_db_funding_rounds/157a... All Penalties in NFL's 2013 Season: http://www.machete.io/board/view/NFL_2013_Penalties/37316…

This is very cool. Are you using D3 for data visualization? What is your stack?

main engine is dc.js (which builds off of d3 and crossfilter.js). all three libraries have big learning curve, machete's goal is to make it accessible to non-devs. We're looking at targeting devs that don't want to learn yet another 3 frameworks. If you're already familiar with the three (which we are), it makes a great prototyping tool then you can re-do it to add the bajillion features that we purposefully left out of machete.

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Post by meowface »

Wouter33 wrote: post #342
meowface wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I understand the tradeoff here. It sounds like people are gaining a little bit of extra privacy (by preventing spammers harvesting your email) while sacrificing a ton of privacy (by allowing a a third party MitM to intercept all of their emails to and from that domain). I actually like the idea a whole lot, but I'd prefer if this could be done in some provably confidential way (where your service has no…

Of course you're putting some kind of trust in a third party. But the idea here is that you do that with all your good intentions and have a better alternative than just plain listing the address. It is up to us to prove our reliability, got some ideas on how to do that, but love to discuss that with you! Apart from that it could also provide a service to your customers with the webhooks you utilize.

It's not hard to believe in good intentions, but a bit harder to believe that your service is and will always be secure. One breach and suddenly millions of emails from thousands of domains from old backups are all over the internet. There is a way of making a service like this with minimal risk if you have a full breach, but it's hard to verify that as an outsider.

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Post by JamesAn »

Flash (SWF) player written in ARM assembler (personal project). The declining usage of the former, and the unproductivity of using the latter, are cheerfully dismissed. http://flashasm.wordpress.com/

Web-app with TAPI computer/telephony integration, for receptionists and telephone answering services (business project) Website not finished.

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Post by conorgil145 »

A friend and I are tired of using the Google Authenticator app to manage all of our 2 Factor Authentication codes, so we are planning to build our own set of tools to improve the entire user experience related to 2FA. We are going to treat the project as an experiment and attempt to follow the principles outlined in Ash Maaurya's book Running Lean as strictly as possible. We are planning to start a blog so that we can share all steps of the experiment with the community. This will likely involve documenting the original motivation, our Lean Canvas, the Problem Interviews, the Solution interviews, how/why we made certain engineering decisions, experiments we run and the learning gathered as a result. The first step will be to find and interview as many people as possible to understand if others have a pain point relating to 2FA. If you are interested and/or have a pain point relating to 2FA, please send me an email at conorgilsenan - gmail so that we can arrange a time to chat!

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Post by contingencies »

maz1b wrote: post #444
contingencies wrote: post #194

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This is a great problem to attempt to solve, for a few reasons. First, there's heaps of audio content out there with friendly licensing already. Second, there's huge amounts of metadata and related text available. Third, there's so many different angles of analysis to tie things together with. Fourth, everyone's got at least a few devices that can access some or all of that content. I share your belief that someone c…

Thank you very much for your feedback. I agree, the site is very basic right now, and we have grand visions for it that we're actively working on to make a reality. We do believe that we can fine tune and help people discover all kinds of music, and some of the things that you mentioned were absolutely terrific ideas. Would you be interested in reviewing at a later date to see how we did? If not, I truly appreciate y…

Sure thing, feel free to send me an email when you'd like me to take another look.

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Post by ftfish »

Flolagale wrote: post #416
ftfish wrote: post #70

Nothing as interesting as many of the projects here, but I've had around 10k visits this month and plenty of returning visitors, so I guess it's useful enough. It's a very simple generator for static social media sharing buttons with support for Font Awesome: http://simplesharingbuttons.com/ Quite useful for mobile websites or email newsletters.

Nice design! Looks very useful, bookmarked.

Thanks :)
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