Great to hear that things are working out for you.
What is your plan? Are you going to attempt to grow the consulting business to full time?
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#22i don't think anyone here minds self promotion, so here is your site: http://www.loginaut.com
Before I whitelisted it, it was just a grey screen. You might want to put something in a tag. I like how Stack Overflow deals with that, for example.
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#23Congratulations! I just made the same leap myeslf.
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#24i don't think anyone here minds self promotion, so here is your site: http://www.loginaut.com
wow that sound when the site loaded was awful.
I agree. The sound actually made the fillings in my teeth hurt. A sensation of physical pain when your site loads is REALLY something you do not want.
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#25Congratulations and good luck on the new venture. Enjoy the process and stay persistent!
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#26Hey Zavulon,
Congratulations. Everybody has been criticizing your site already so I won't add to that pile.
You've already clued in to one of the most important things in business, you need more than one revenue stream, so kudos for you on that one.
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#27Congratulations! :D
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#28Does your company have a product that it maintains ownership of, or are you basically a contractor / consultant?
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
It took me nearly a minute on a 10Mbit connection. So yah, I agree with the above poster. Congratulations though!
Thanks for the feedback on the site design, everyone! It's far from finished, that was another reason I didn't want to link to it, but I should have been more clear about that :) With all the actual project work I've been doing, the site become almost an afterthought... Which is not a good idea, I know. I will definitely rethink the whole Flash concept and make it a lot faster. Thanks!
It loaded really quick for me, since I don't allow flash.
I am sorry, what sort of person quits there day job to start there own company, but hasn't learnt yet NOT TO USE FLASH. And certainly not if that is all someone sees. (unless of course you are a design company, but then you would probably find better resources than hacker news).
Are you sure you going out alone is for you?
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#30these symbolic raised hands you use in your design signal 'stop' or 'wait' to me. Maybe change them to something more descriptive.