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Post by jordanf »

bornon5 wrote: post #250
jordanf wrote: post #95

http://bassoon.io A heart-rate monitor for ecommerce conversion rate. Most small-to-mid size ecommerce companies throw up their hands in frustration trying to use Google Analytics. Bassoon rescues them by slicing off their most important metric (conversion rate) and emailing it to them every day, or alerting them when conversion rate drops suddenly for any reason. We integrate with Shopify and Magento, making it one-…

Not to derail, but as a bassoon player, I'm curious how you landed on the name.

Domain name was available. I wanted Bugle though.

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Post by jordanf »

IAmGarrett wrote: post #262
jordanf wrote: post #95

http://bassoon.io A heart-rate monitor for ecommerce conversion rate. Most small-to-mid size ecommerce companies throw up their hands in frustration trying to use Google Analytics. Bassoon rescues them by slicing off their most important metric (conversion rate) and emailing it to them every day, or alerting them when conversion rate drops suddenly for any reason. We integrate with Shopify and Magento, making it one-…

Was not convinced reading your comment. Site converted me though.

Thanks, did you sign up for the beta? I can let you skip the line as a fellow HNer.

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Post by avitzurel »

The-Startup-Stack http://the-startup-stack.com/

I think that Devops is too hard and it shouldn't be. IMHO the main reason it's happening is that there are many tools and no framework to consolidate them, and a lot of the "cookbooks" or "recipes" out there are missing a production-ready bullet proof version.

The way I try to solve it with the-startup-stack is to bring all the tools under one roof with an easy step-by-step way to get your stack bootstrapped.

You can get started with terraform, chef-server and mesos in minutes.

It's still in very early stages of development.

I am trying to post weekly reports on my blog. Here's the latest: http://avi.io/blog/2016/03/02/the-startup-stack-progress-rep...

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Post by benjismith »

benjismith wrote: post #507
bobwaycott wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Out of curiosity, why an ongoing monthly fee for a desktop app, instead of a one-time purchase?

All the data is stored in the cloud and synchronized between multiple devices, with version histories of everything you write. As we flesh out the software, we'll also be building realtime collaboration, writing groups, etc... So in the long run, philosophically, it's more of a service than a single piece of software.

One other important reason:

We're a brand-new startup, and we're iterating the product fast. It's better for the customers, and for us, if we offer frequent updates to all subscribers, rather than releasing one big new version per year, and hoping our users upgrade.

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Post by edencoder »

https://github.com/Alex-iFactory/eden

A NodeJS/Mongo/Express framework kit

The idea is to bring back strong app/bundles namespacing for larger projects, while taking care of many of the boilerplate decisions for you. Everything is based on classes so thought it would be a smaller stepping stone for someone coming from PHP or C#

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Post by fosco »

woah wrote: post #404

I'm working on an incentivized mesh network. Basically, routers pay each other to forward packets. A routing protocol takes price into consideration and tries to get packets over the cheapest routes. Intermediary routers pay each other over payment channels. End users pay backbone connections with multihop (lightning) payments over the payment channels of the intermediary nodes. End result is that last-mile ISP's are…

I like this, any email distro signup to stay abreast of updates?

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Post by ClickQuestion »

zinxq wrote: post #502
ClickQuestion wrote: post #438

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Looks interesting. I'm curious why you built this. Prosper202 is the canonical approach used by most affiliates. It's got both self-hosted and hosted options. From your landing page, I can't tell what missing features led you to roll your own.

Maybe I don't get Prosper202 but it seems quite different. ClickRouter makes a realtime decision where to send your clicks based on your affiliate accounts. Say you have a forums with thousands of posts which have thousands of links. "Affiliatizing" them all would be a huge and nearly insurmountable task. With ClickRouter, you install a piece of javascript in your footer. Every click is intercepted and sent to the be…

Thanks - completely different use case than Prosper202. Very cool, I'll add this to my bag of tricks.

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Post by amackera »

Cadence - http://getcadence.com/

We've been hacking on hitting the sweet spot between the simplicity of Trello and the power of JIRA.

It integrates deeply with github & bitbucket, as well as slack/hipchat/irc, so you don’t have to spend a ton of time keeping the data in Cadence relevant or accurate. This bottom-up approach allows us to help map your development process and how work gets done on your team.

Sorry for the sparse page, we're slowly opening beta access to interested teams.

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