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Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by thaumaturgy »

basicallydan wrote: post #2

Alright then let's see how this goes :) Email: dan [at] danhough.com ## Help me out 1. I want to open up a co-working space in London, or possibly elsewhere in the UK. Idea is pretty fully-formed but I'm missing a few pieces to the puzzle. Anybody experienced in this? 2. I'm releasing my first non-free iPhone app pretty soon, marketing advice would be super useful. It's meant for London Pub Crawls. ## Let me know if…

> I want to open up a co-working space in London, or possibly elsewhere in the UK. Idea is pretty fully-formed but I'm missing a few pieces to the puzzle. Anybody experienced in this?

I helped (very slightly) get a co-working and business hub going in my area: http://sierracommons.org/. It's going to be celebrating its 5th anniversary in a few months, and I can possibly put you in touch with the guy who's done all of the real work in keeping it running, if your scope matches his.

It might help him out if your conversation with him gives him some ideas on presenting talks on starting co-working spaces, since that's the sort of thing he's into these days.

Send me an email (address is in profile) if you'd like to get in touch with him.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by Noxchi »

snide wrote: post #29

email in profile. HMO: I'm launching a static site generator that comes with a fully-featured CMS so that your non-tech friends can edit the site. It allows frontend engineers to build a custom CMS through a form-builder and then scaffolds templates out of them. I'd love to have some general feedback on the concept and what would keep you from using it. I'm worried that we're targeting too small a segment (frontend e…

This looks really close to something that I've been thinking of building. I think the market would be web developers who want to have a custom content site but don't want to wrangle with all of wordpress, because it's slow and there's too much boilerplate to write. A templating system that's easy to use, but also extensible when you need it.

I signed up for the beta, I look forward to testing it.

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Post by moron4hire »

streptomycin wrote: post #18

I made a basketball management simulation video game: http://basketball-gm.com/ My original motivation was for fun and learning, but now I have several hundred people playing every day (average 1 hr each) and it's making $600/month in ads. Problem is, I don't know how to take it to the next level. I think my main issues are no marketing knowledge and a complete lack of connections in the video game and sports industr…

How hard would it be to reskin the game as soccer/rugby/American football/hockey/etc. management? Expand your potential customer pool.

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Post by checker659 »

HMO - Need a business contact at Wacom

If you know anyone at Wacom (the awesome tablet manufacturer), please help me get in touch with the said person. I've created a software that I'd like Wacom to bundle with their osx drivers. I think the software would help a lot of Wacom users.

Here's a screen-grab of the app : http://d.pr/i/4yG6

Thanks!

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by gregcohn »

davecolenj wrote: post #57
gregcohn wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OK i looked at your HN post, your splash page, and your home page, and I still don't know WHERE you're running for congress. Perhaps you could lay out the basic vitals and your qualifications or platform here?

New Jersey! The second district. It's most of South Jersey, from the Philly outer suburbs to Atlantic City, Long Beach Island, and Cape May -- and everything in between. Here's my bio, albeit in campaign-speak: http://coleforcongress.com/about/ The basics: - Worked on '08 Obama campaign as a data analyst and field organizer - I moved WhiteHouse.gov to an open source CMS and released code back to the public - Worked w…

Thanks -- understood that the platform is national.

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Post by guimobob »

olalonde wrote: post #46
guimobob wrote: post #36

I'm a junior developer at a networking company (currently going to university, but I will be done in about 10 years). I want to improve myself. I am working on the Linux kernel but I have no idea how to get better at it, nor at networking. If anyone can point me to some (advanced?) topic related to networking or Linux, that would really help me. I have done my own small version of tcpdump but I still behind behind ot…

> How to write English (non-native language) I suggest writing a blog in English. Practice is probably the best way to learn. There is also http://english.stackexchange.com if you have specific questions. > Program well in c in userspare (Currently reading 'The Linux Programming Interface') In my experience, reading other people's code is the best way to get better at a language. I don't have much experience with C b…

> I am currently learning embedded development (maybe we could help each other?).

I would love to!

And thanks for the links, I will try/read them.

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Post by dyscrete »

snide wrote: post #29

email in profile. HMO: I'm launching a static site generator that comes with a fully-featured CMS so that your non-tech friends can edit the site. It allows frontend engineers to build a custom CMS through a form-builder and then scaffolds templates out of them. I'd love to have some general feedback on the concept and what would keep you from using it. I'm worried that we're targeting too small a segment (frontend e…

Please send me an invite!

sam@email.ly

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by j_s »

lettergram wrote: post #54

I am building a lightweight ebook reader (currently ~32kB compiled) that will be used to gather statistics on how people read books, magazines, etc. The idea being, if we know how people read we can help people learn better. Obviously, there are other uses such as improving reading speeds, comprehension, and more. Further, we can potentially learn how structuring of sentences can effect peoples interest and learning…

No doubt the data geeks at Amazon love sifting though their Kindle analytics; nice to see an open initiative.

Perhaps some effort should be put into reverse-engineering Kindle data similar to how the Apple device databases were reverse engineered? http://www.crypticbit.com/zen/products/iphoneanalyzer

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Post by spitfire »

olalonde wrote: post #53
spitfire wrote: post #44

HMO - account recovery industry. I'm building a service based on machine learning and operations to improve outbound recovery attempts. From customers experience it works very well. I know there are people here who are or have been in the industry. Help me out by getting in touch so I can hone my messaging, product and expand my network. email in profile.

Meta commenting about down votes is frowned upon on HN. You should probably remove your "NB" as it could be considered as complaining/baiting and turn into a self fulfilling prophecy. From the guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ): Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downmod you. Regarding…

NB removed. I suspect I was being down-voted because of the industry.

Outbound recovery attempts refers to calling people up and asking them to pay their bills in the collections industry.

The first attempt will be a Dunning letter asking you to pay your bill. When you call in this is an inbound recovery. If they have to call out to you, it's outbound.

outbound recovery costs serious money. You need to pay for office space, equipment and an hourly wage to an employee. At the end of that you often see 8-40% recovery rates. My work pushes that number up significantly.

FWIW: There's a huge opportunity for people to bring A/B testing of dunning letters to the industry. It'll be a huge slog though.

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