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Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#51

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...

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

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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.

This is a great idea. A while ago, I had brainstormed something like oDesk + Etherpad for writers that would be based on reputation/ratings, and it looks like you're well on the way to something similar. Best of luck. :)

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

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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…

Hi thanks so much for the feedback.

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

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

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post #36

Stormpulse http://www.stormpulse.com Bootstrapped, just went profitable, 2 co-founders, recently hired employee #1 (me) and #2.

How do you guys make money? Sorry, didn't have time to explore the entire site

Advertising and Pro accounts (b2c & b2b).

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#59

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...

I dig the toggle; thanks for the request.

Re: Ask HN: Heard of any good startups?

#60

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…

Nice idea, but how do you handle privacy concerns?
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