Update: We've gotta run, but this was great. Thanks so much and enjoy the weekend.
HN Office Hours with Jared Friedman and Trevor Blackwell
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#2BugReplay (http://www.bugreplay.com) is a bug reporting tool in the form of a browser extension that captures a screencast of the user’s actions synced with network traffic, javascript errors and other browser data.
What's the best way to grow your early user base? Ideally we'd like people who are going to use BugReplay at their jobs and open source endeavors, but we want to keep it relatively small until we feel like it's ready for the widest possible audience.
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#3We've talked to many startup employees and they all have given positive feedback. One concern that comes up is that startups are not OK with changing the cap table for tiny transactions. In that case, we have plans to offer synthetic liquidity solutions via derivative transactions.
We'd like to hire your thoughts on the problem we are solving and our approach so far.
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#4Do you think that marketplaces for services is too mature of a market? I'm working on a site called bid2mow.com to help new lawn care companies find work. It seems like everyone is focused on come to my app/website and I'll get you a price versus an ebay model. I know task rabbit had that model and went away from it. Ebay may not be amazon but it's no business to sneeze at either.
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#5http://weavesilk.com is a side project of mine for many years. I put out a brand new version of the iOS app this month and am thinking about developing it further but find it very hard to decide what direction to go.
The website is popular, and people love Silk, but for different reasons: some find it relaxing and meditative, others like that it closes the gap between their artistic ability and taste.
It's been used as an inspirational sketching tool for artists (http://bit.ly/1Qlm1kA), to make album art, and has been on exhibit at the Children's Creativity Museum. Some teachers use it to teach kids about symmetry.
I've made something compelling but don't know what to do next, or how to figure it out.
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#6I am founder and CEO of Exivest [ http://exivest.com/ ]. We help startup employees value their equity, help match them with direct buyers or arrange synthetic liquidity. We've talked to many startup employees and they all have given positive feedback. One concern that comes up is that startups are not OK with changing the cap table for tiny transactions. In that case, we have plans to offer synthetic liquidity soluti…
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#7Problem: in the midst of running everything, I do all the coding slowly by myself, and the urgent coding todo list has exploded while some of our sites age. What should I do?
Thank you!
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#9We're developing a publishing network. Individuals and groups can start magazines. Users can read on a timeline and interact like in a social network. What's new? Now anyone can get publishing infrastructure as good as a well funded online magazine. That means lots of unique publications in verticals that well-funded magazines & newspapers cannot do.
What's the best strategy to lure in people to use the service? How do we make money?