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Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by bmelton »

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…

Is there any convincing you that second amendment rights should be treated in parity with first, fourth and fifth amendment rights?

If not, I wouldn't be able to vote for you, but I wish you luck regardless.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by emrgx »

_xhok wrote: post #79

Email is [redacted]. HMO: Just launched [redacted], an automated gift shopping service. 1. Would like to ask someone questions about it. (Would you use it? What kinds of gifts would you like to see offered? How do you keep track of gift-giving? Is it a pain point for you?) 2. Would love beta testers and feedback. Let me know how I can help. I'm happy to answer questions, beta test things, or give programming advice (…

This is a cool idea. This isn't really a pain point for me but I immediately thought of a couple of people in family (aunts) who are very active gift givers in a large family. I would imagine mother's with small children would be a target market for you (they tend to have to keep up with a lot birthdays). But that's just an assumption. With that said, I would suggest making the site for friendly for non-technical users. I think the "bot" terminology would lose them.

With that said, I'll bookmark your site and pass it along to people I think would be your users.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by dserban »

How I can help: I'm a Haskell developer and I'm willing to develop moderately-sized applications for you in my spare time.

What I need: I would like some personal branding advice (coaching) from someone who is good at it. I've been reading online resources about the topic but it's not enough.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by michaelfdeberry »

Help me out: I created a website, but I don't really know what to do with it, or if it's even worth doing anything with it.

https://www.recruiterator.com/

In short the site is like rate my professor for recruiters.

What I can offer.

Web Development, .Net, Java, Android or Windows Phone programming.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by emrgx »

HMO: I just put up a MVP in a beta test. It's a workflow where you can build a data interactive with maps, charts and graphs to embed in your website/blog articles. I put up the workflow and then created a survey at the end to gather the tester's feedback. Would love some feedback.

http://thedata.directory/

HYO: would happily help anyone out with some beta testing/user feedback.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by emrgx »

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…

Just signed up for the invite. FYI you convinced me to sign up 3:30 minutes into the vide demo.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by Permit »

Myself and a friend are working on a code visualization tool in the spirit of the original Code Bubbles (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181742)

It's called Code Connect (http://codeconnect.io) and you can see our prototype demo at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQ8NJOypqs

We're currently working on Visual Studio, but I'd like feedback on other IDEs and editors you guys think would be extensible in a similar manner. Would this behavior even be possible to accomplish in Eclipse, IntelliJ, SublimeText, Atom.io, etc?

We're also looking for beta testers and people interested in giving us feedback on the idea. You can subscribe for updates on our beta's release at http://codeconnect.io or reach out to me directly via josh@codeconnect.io or on twitter at http://twitter.com/GetCodeConnect

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by snide »

thaumaturgy wrote: post #56
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…

Hey! I watched the full video and clicked around your site a bit. I think this is fantastic. It's just anecdotal, but I've met quite a few people who are far more comfortable in HTML/CSS than they are in any backend work, so although this doesn't count as market validation, I don't think you're targeting too small of a segment. In fact, I had someone pick my brain just a few days ago because they want to build a prof…

Thank you for the comment. The good news is I feel the same way about the CLI and the video. The video is temporary as we work towards a proper launch. For now there's a few dozen guinea pigs helping us polish the functionality. The CLI will take a little longer as our small three-man team is stretched a bit. Maybe in a few months.

Also agree about the theming. The nice part at least is that theming in theory is very easy. Themes are just git repos that are downloaded and installed through the browser and unpacked via a websocket. I think you're right though that we need a few solid, well-designed themes there in the beginning though. It'll likely be my primary concern over the next month now that the product is finishing up. Although opening a store might be a good way to go, I'm thinking we'll likely just try and partner with one of the many buy-a-theme sites out there and simply let them continue serving that niche.

Part of the fun of startups though. Trying to octopus your way through a launch, building every little bit.

Again, thanks for the comment.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by snide »

sinak wrote: post #121
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…

We've actually been wanting something like this for a project we're working on to build a new CMS for part of EFF's website. Initially we were thinking of modifying prose.io to make it more flexible, but this goes even farther. Unfortunately we're probably too far into dev at this point to switch (we went with a rails app), but this problem comes up pretty regularly for us and I'm looking forward to giving Webhook a…

Always respected EFF's work. If there's anyway I can help you feel free to reach out.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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Post by donut2d »

Permit wrote: post #147

Myself and a friend are working on a code visualization tool in the spirit of the original Code Bubbles ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1181742 ) It's called Code Connect ( http://codeconnect.io ) and you can see our prototype demo at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuQ8NJOypqs We're currently working on Visual Studio, but I'd like feedback on other IDEs and editors you guys think would be extensible in a sim…

This is really, really cool. I'd love to see this in SublimeText but I doubt that it would be able to work as well as it does with Visual Studio.
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