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Re: Show HN: Depot

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You should consider self-hosting your webfonts - http://i.imgur.com/R6TsOW4.jpg

I don't know why you are in gray, but that's a valid point. I too had to switch to IE to get fonts.net to release the font files.

Re: Show HN: Depot

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Isn't it strange that for common data structures these companies still need a custom application like Depot? In the past people could survive with a spreadsheet, why isn't a spreadsheet-like tool that support small processing/linkage of data and a small editable manner of presenting that data? Wouldn't that be a universal solution, like the spreadsheet?

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Nice site, but I'm always puzzled by this idea that a business can be managed entirely with a cookie-cutter product. Surely if your business can run on something like that, it has zero competitive advantage, right? In practice, I find that supporting all the edge cases inherent in my business made it very worthwhile to build my own such tool. But then, I guess there are many other entrepreneurs out there who don't ha…

My partner is a photographer. Her competitive advantage stems 100% from skill. Services like these look great for managing her growing business. Just the time she'll save on creating quotes, invoices, receipts, credit notes, managing the whole lot and tracking appointments, deposits paid, amounts outstanding, etc. across different platforms seems to make this well worth the money for a small business or sole proprietor.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Conform from my side, it is text field. Not sure how they forgot to use password type...

It was intentional - to avoid having to use a confirm...

I gotta be honest, if I were the target audience, this would be a turn off for me. A confirmation re-type is no big deal and is kind of expected, as it's the norm. Also it's just not secure. I don't know about you, but I often have to type in my password in front of people. Or during presentations. Maybe you'll say the login field using type=password (I admit I didn't look), but I'd say that it is still concerning.
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