Posting this multiple times to try and get more upvotes is pretty spammy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595667
It's actually the 7th time this has been submitted:
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#22Posting this multiple times to try and get more upvotes is pretty spammy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14595667
It's actually the 7th time this has been submitted: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=upstart.me
In all fairness, if you read through the comments, you'll see that each time was a new version being launched. This time it's the full product. The previous time there was a landing page. The time before was a prototype. And the stuff before that seems to be a completely different service with a URL belonging to someone else (sold perhaps?)
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#23I wonder if this can be considered a Show HN. It only offers an "Enter Your Email" field which looks like it's mandatory to use the "Try it" button below. Which I think does make this a sign-up page which is explicitely not a Show HN. On the other hand, the button works no matter if and what you put in that box. I think this pattern is in place now because the last time this page was submitted, it was considered not…
you can simply skip it by clicking the link underneath the try it now button. No need to enter your email.
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#24I wonder if this can be considered a Show HN. It only offers an "Enter Your Email" field which looks like it's mandatory to use the "Try it" button below. Which I think does make this a sign-up page which is explicitely not a Show HN. On the other hand, the button works no matter if and what you put in that box. I think this pattern is in place now because the last time this page was submitted, it was considered not…
you can simply skip it by clicking the link underneath the try it now button. No need to enter your email.
That's what I said. "On the other hand, the button works no matter if and what you put in that box.". You make it seem like one has to put something into the email box though.
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#25That's a clever idea... an ad network for all those newsletters...
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#26I like the look of the GIF on the front page ( http://upstart.me/img/preview.gif ) but it’s 3.3MB — I believe you could cut that down significantly. I have a similar GIF on Citationsy’s frontpage ( https://citationsy.com/ ) and it’s only 1.1MB. Apart from that (and the unnecessary social media logos on the left) I really like the way the website looks. Fun animation on the Try it button!
Why GIF at all? There are crossbrowser compressed video formats out there.
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#27Some companies in here:
http://www.loopinsight.com/2017/05/16/apple-videos-highlight...
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#28I like the look of the GIF on the front page ( http://upstart.me/img/preview.gif ) but it’s 3.3MB — I believe you could cut that down significantly. I have a similar GIF on Citationsy’s frontpage ( https://citationsy.com/ ) and it’s only 1.1MB. Apart from that (and the unnecessary social media logos on the left) I really like the way the website looks. Fun animation on the Try it button!
Why GIF at all? There are crossbrowser compressed video formats out there.
For me, it was mainly that the GIF would autoplay (so to speak) on mobile, whereas video would not. I’m also adding the top part of the window as an SVG and the shadow in CSS, and the whitespace left and right of the content in the window varies based on screen size, that seemed easier to do with a GIF.
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#29How can we get our newsletter listed? I run one with about 2,000 people for tech in development.
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#30Any chance you'll be adding music as a category?