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Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by JoeCortopassi »

tarekayna wrote: post #130
JoeCortopassi wrote: post #129

This would be a huge help to me: I make 40k a year as a web developer, and it provides for my family, but we definitely have to cut corners to make things work sometimes. I feel like, given my work history, skill-set and ability to learn, I am worth more than this. But when I apply for tech jobs, it seems like my lack of a degree prevents me from even being considered. Can you look at my LinkedIn profile(which is bas…

Joe - one thing I would point out to help you out here. Every listing under your experience section is written like a story. People, especially recruiters, don't have time to read all this. My advice would be to remove the story format and have just bullet points that highlight accomplishments and business results. For example "designed and developed xx project using php/mysql"... "led the technical vision of xx".

You think I should ditch the summary part altogether, or just put some bullet points above it?

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by tarekayna »

jreposa wrote: post #56

Is this easy to use? Your goal is to open a new savings account. http://www.mybanktracker.com/savings We just launched our new style of rate tables, but we need more testing. It would be great to have your opinion.

The first thought that hit me when I opened the link is that I don't know where to look. I was searching for the product. Then I found it after looking at the bottom half of my browser . Three different horizontal menus and one huge ad banner seem to be taking a lot of space. FYI Screen Resolution 1366x768

Once I actually scrolled down a bit and started using the sliders I got it directly. Very easy to use, great job on this.

Another note is the "In the news" section has news from 6 months ago. It's not a big deal but doesn't look that good.

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by tarekayna »

JoeCortopassi wrote: post #131
tarekayna wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Joe - one thing I would point out to help you out here. Every listing under your experience section is written like a story. People, especially recruiters, don't have time to read all this. My advice would be to remove the story format and have just bullet points that highlight accomplishments and business results. For example "designed and developed xx project using php/mysql"... "led the technical vision of xx".

You think I should ditch the summary part altogether, or just put some bullet points above it?

I would ditch the summary altogether. You would mention this stuff when recruiters ask you in details.

Here is what I base this on: "Research has shown that your impression of someone is generally based on the average of available information, not the sum. So telling people one great thing about yourself will leave them with a better impression of you than telling one great thing and one pretty good one". Pitch Anything - Oren Klaff http://books.google.com/books?id=P3EFa-WuMMkC&pg=PA98&#3...

So just provide bullet points of the highlights, the accomplishments and the business results.

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

#134

Post by tarekayna »

jirinovotny wrote: post #47

Any ideas how to promote .NET WinForms control? Our Better ListView is designed to replace the inbuilt crappy regular ListView control, and it rocks - we just don't know how to promote it. Check it out: http://www.componentowl.com

I was pretty excited about checking this out, then was disappointed there is no live demo. Screenshots are good, but nothing beats a live demo of your product on your website.

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by Achshar »

mikegreenberg wrote: post #110
Achshar wrote: post #46

hello mike.. :D i be quick, i made a powerful media player inside the browser(html5/js) the response is average (for now). i would like to know what do you think about the idea. i understand idea is not everything and execution matters but it would really help if the base idea is strong.. app in question: goo.gl/kS86a i would like to know what should i focus on, user experience (fixing small bugs, polishing along as…

Hey there! I really like the effort of this product, but it isn't usable for me as it currently is. Here are the things which are non-starter for me that I've found: - Loading music is SLOW. I'm seeing a variable response of ~2-10 seconds PER song. This is when I dump a single track to the interface. It doesn't seem to matter which screen I drop the track into. This happens with MP3s and M4As. - Doesn't automatically…

first, thanks for providing your thoughts, it is much appreciated :)

now for the minuses

- i am aware of that but security restrictions don't allow me to read songs from the OS itself, so i have to copy each song to the app's ow file system so it takes more time.

- it does not go to next track because it is in 'explorer' mode, a playlist does that work, explorer is for managing files, i thought that was the prospect. but i guess that the difference b/w explorer and a playlist is not clear hence the confusion, i will work on that thanks!

- there is a search field, it pops up on top left, maybe there is a bug but i haven't heard of search bar not popping up before but i will look into it :) thanks! here is a screen of how the popup comes (when user clicks on 'search' tab) https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/NPI_iOXSKRiMn8bjoZ-5rzhK8e...

and i really want to work for it but i need to convince my parents to get me to drop it, its India and we are not so 'independent' :P my parents are very understanding and cooperative but they would still need a very good reason to allow me to drop college. acceptance to YC would be enough i guess. :)

thanks alot for the detailed feedback, you have already helped me to decide what i need to work on (improve underlying app and UX)

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

#136

Post by inconditus »

chetan51 wrote: post #34

Hi Mike, Thanks for your time and generosity! I just entered the beta phase for my side-project OtherMind, a fast way to take notes and make lists ( http://othermind.me ). I'd really appreciate it if you could try it out and let me know whether you think it's useful and marketable. Any feedback in general would also be great. Thank you so much!

Hi, just wanted to let you know your application is vulnerable to XSS. I can impersonate users, steal login credientials, and more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting for more inofrmation.

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by jirinovotny »

tarekayna wrote: post #134
jirinovotny wrote: post #47

Any ideas how to promote .NET WinForms control? Our Better ListView is designed to replace the inbuilt crappy regular ListView control, and it rocks - we just don't know how to promote it. Check it out: http://www.componentowl.com

I was pretty excited about checking this out, then was disappointed there is no live demo. Screenshots are good, but nothing beats a live demo of your product on your website.

Hi, by live demo, do you mean video?

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by chetan51 »

inconditus wrote: post #136
chetan51 wrote: post #34

Hi Mike, Thanks for your time and generosity! I just entered the beta phase for my side-project OtherMind, a fast way to take notes and make lists ( http://othermind.me ). I'd really appreciate it if you could try it out and let me know whether you think it's useful and marketable. Any feedback in general would also be great. Thank you so much!

Hi, just wanted to let you know your application is vulnerable to XSS. I can impersonate users, steal login credientials, and more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting for more inofrmation.

Aw man, I should have checked for that. Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. I'll work on it ASAP.

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by chetan51 »

inconditus wrote: post #136
chetan51 wrote: post #34

Hi Mike, Thanks for your time and generosity! I just entered the beta phase for my side-project OtherMind, a fast way to take notes and make lists ( http://othermind.me ). I'd really appreciate it if you could try it out and let me know whether you think it's useful and marketable. Any feedback in general would also be great. Thank you so much!

Hi, just wanted to let you know your application is vulnerable to XSS. I can impersonate users, steal login credientials, and more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting for more inofrmation.

But since anything you input to the system will only be displayed back to you, how are you able to perform XSS attacks to steal other users' data? Did you mean database code injection?

Re: Ask HN: Can I help you be more awesome today? (No strings.)

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Post by jpallen »

mikegreenberg wrote: post #15
jpallen wrote: post #7

I'm trying to expand my online LaTeX editor into a viable business. My cofounder and I think there is potential for a great enterprise product where we could really improve the workflow in publishing houses and teaching, where LaTeX is used a lot. We've had enough feedback from individual users to think this, but we're struggling to get our foot in the door with the people we'd need to talk to about selling to them o…

I'd be happy to play around with it a little bit over the weekend. I know a few people in academia and will ask their opinion as well. Maybe that will provide some help...

Thanks, any feedback is really helpful, but don't worry if it's not an area you're familiar with.
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