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HMO: Help Me Out

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Re: HMO: Help Me Out

#171

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.

I'd be happy to help out, feel free to get in touch!

Email: hello at duncanmsmith.com

Skype: notduncansmith

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

#173
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I worked with a dozen startups to put together the Startup Sticker Pack: http://startupstickerpack.com/ A dozen stickers from cool companies for $5. I'd love to hear from people about why they would / wouldn't want to buy one. It's not quite selling as well as I'd hoped. I'd also like to hear from startups / groups who might be interested in buying one for each member of their team. You can email me at mail+hmo@rober…

This looks really cool! I would definitely raise your pricing, if you want to stay in the single-digits then $8 (or even $7) would be great. I'd also look into formalizing your team sticker offer: 10% off for orders over 5x or something along those lines.

Edit: start hawking these at conferences. You'll make bank. Also, bookmarked to order in a few days when I get paid.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

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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 use…

Maybe you're right about the "bot." I was imagining a cute, squeaky little robot, but hm...

Awesome, thanks very much!

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

#175

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…

> (Advanced?) topic about networking (everything from Cisco routers to network security)

Did you consider getting a Cisco certificate as a way to upskill yourself in the networking area? CCNA will give you a solid base, and Jeremy Cioara from cbtnuggets [1] has awesome video presentations about the subject.

>Also, as a second request, can anyone point how to simulate a network (simulate a small internet) using visualization (qemu and the like)?

Take a look at gns3 [2]

[1] - http://www.cbtnuggets.com/it-training-videos/course/cisco-64...

[2] - http://www.gns3.net/

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

#176
HMO: I'm a Linux/UNIX Engineer with some solid experience in enterprise grade technologies like clusters (PowerHA), virtualization (PowerVM, KVM, bit of VMWare), etc. I did a lot of work with IBM tech in general - AIX, Power systems, Tivoli... Wrote a bit of code, did some scripting and have good networking know-hows. Enterprise is getting boring, so I'm looking to get involved into some start up projects. I'd even consider volunteering if the project is interesting. Feel free to contact me via mail - nikola [at] krzalic [dot] com

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

#177

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cottonseed -- do you have a dummy email address at which I can contact you? I work for a startup that leverages topology for data analysis, and we are hiring.

My email is in my profile.

Sent you an email!

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

#179
post #49

I worked with a dozen startups to put together the Startup Sticker Pack: http://startupstickerpack.com/ A dozen stickers from cool companies for $5. I'd love to hear from people about why they would / wouldn't want to buy one. It's not quite selling as well as I'd hoped. I'd also like to hear from startups / groups who might be interested in buying one for each member of their team. You can email me at mail+hmo@rober…

This looks really cool! I would definitely raise your pricing, if you want to stay in the single-digits then $8 (or even $7) would be great. I'd also look into formalizing your team sticker offer: 10% off for orders over 5x or something along those lines. Edit: start hawking these at conferences. You'll make bank. Also, bookmarked to order in a few days when I get paid.

Thanks for the tips. I'm working on getting a better landing page together. I'll look into formalizing that bulk discount too.

Re: HMO: Help Me Out

#180
post #60

HMO: I am launching a message board/forum powered by Google Drive. getforum.us (Every 'workspace' is a Google Doc and all the documents attached are stored on your Google Drive.) I would love feedback on the user experience and your thoughts on the product. How I can help: I can look at your product and use/review it for design and features. I also know some html5 and frontend javascript stuff if you have questions.

Have a contact address? Minor thing upfront: The Signin-Workflow. First, signing in with Google, ok. Then, signing in again with Google into Forum? That didn't work, I tried it multiple times, until I just waited a bit after the login and the forum appeared by itself. I'm behind a slow, flaky connection, but she seemed to be alright that moment.

hey I'm at admin@nimbusbase.com, thanks for the notice. I think there might be some problems with our login, will look into it.
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