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Stormpulse http://www.stormpulse.com Bootstrapped, just went profitable, 2 co-founders, recently hired employee #1 (me) and #2.
GuruFi - http://gurufi.com/ : Service for directly connecting essay editors with clients. We are still very much an alpha site, but we are bootstrapped and breaking even. We hope to add transparency to an otherwise obscured industry and to generally give people a chance to get writing help from experts.
The biggest source of traffic we've gotten so far is the Ask HN thread I posted 2 weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492184
We're launching this week (Sleep.fm) an updated site ( http://sleep.fm/coming-soon/ ) to announce our iphone app. We just learned & became skilled at Objective-C; stoked to finally be releasing a product outside of web browser. Appreciate any/all feedback on new site UI/UX.
The "Stop" button, used when testing, needs to be more... conservative. Until I click "Set Alarm" I have no idea what those icons at the bottom do. Title them so that I can also click them. It will save users a bunch of time. I know I shouldn't, but if I type www.sleep.fm/[special_char] I get a 503 page. Make that fancy or forward it with htaccess. I really like the voice, as well as, it telling me my flight, weather…
Re: icons at bottom yeah they are just static - they add color to our dark design. Though I have heard this comment before, so I'll c how it looks without & a bigger clock window.
Re: [special_char] ... when it goes live will get our alarm links working as they do on live site (http://Sleep.fm/7am, http://sleep.fm/8am, etc). Maybe that' what u meant?
Not sure what you meant by "Stop," button. Is it too big?
thnx again
It lets you convert HTML to PDF online - either directly in your browser or in your apps using the API.
Based in sunny Perth, Australia :)
We have high-res PhotoMaps of the major Australian cities and allow you to see change over time by flicking through the dates of places we have captured.
Stormpulse http://www.stormpulse.com Bootstrapped, just went profitable, 2 co-founders, recently hired employee #1 (me) and #2.
Very cool, but can we get metric units? Google does a good job of facilitating this: http://img.skitch.com/20100719-t7nebfpieb75hrsbhu9w29361k.jp...
Loggly - http://loggly.com/ is a cloud-based log management service funded by True and Trinity. Logs are normally a real PITA, especially on something like EC2, but we make dealing with them fun and easy. Basically you point your logs at our servers where we catch them and store them safely away. We apply a fulltext index to the logs to make them searchable. Results can be processed with custom scripts you write and…
