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The Return of Email Startup Acquisitions
Show HN: Stylesense - Hot or Not meets #OOTD (outfit of the day) Instagrams
Lessons learned from launching sachet on HN and Reddit
Show HN: sachet – handcraft your Vim environment online
If you are completely client side, how are you tracking the total number of notifications served? I would assume you would have to send some data back to the server to keep track?
Also, keep in mind that context switching is expensive -- switching from one project to another requires a change in your mindset and maybe even the technologies/syntax you're working with. It's very easy to burn out just switching between projects.
Here's a schedule that I follow: - Wake up at 5:30am. Hit the gym, eat breakfast, go to work. - Work from 10am - 6pm. - Be back home by 7pm, eat dinner. - Work on pet projects from 7:30 - 10:30pm. Go to sleep so I can wake up early again.
I've realized that consistency is really important. 3 hours may not seem a lot every day but if I do this everyday for 2-3 weeks, that adds up to a lot of time spent towards one project.
Another thing to consider is the scenario that copyright holders start going after Put.io like they did for Megaupload. If they were to get their hands on the database, they will have a record of exactly what each user has downloaded/shared. I wonder what that would mean for the user in terms of legalities and may be even penalties?
Really cool app (and great timing!). I have some feedback though about the website (haven't used the product):
* I can't find anyway to contact you guys directly. Checked the Twitter page for an email address (no luck). Checked the blog for an email (no luck). Couldn't even find anything in the WHOIS (no luck, privacy protection enabled). You should add for a way to people to contact you (if not an email address, then at least a contact form)
* The Developer features look awesome! I am interested but I don't see any way to get more information.
* Seems like there's a lot of demand for more cities (while you're at it, add Toronto and Ottawa please :)). I think you should capitalize on the demand and add a form on the website for people to sign-up for notifications. So, something like "Not yet in your city? Enter your email and select your city and we will notify you as soon as it's available". This should help a lot with marketing once the cities are available.
* Little design nitpick: The text under "A new kind of city map" is hard to read because of the white-font. It might make it better if you make the background image a bit darker.
Otherwise, the app looks amazing and I can't wait until it's launched in Canada!
Peter Thiel and Reid Hoffman reminisce about their time in college together
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Good luck!
I find it interesting how YCombinator is diversifying the type of companies in their portfolio. Kudos to YC for doing this -- I think it definitely opens up more opportunities for people.
Salesforce Makes A Rypple With New Acquisition
I've been looking for a finance/expense tracking app for a while but haven't found something that fits my requirements. I hope this list helps
We're planning to add more features such as more charts/statistics, etc.
We will also be working on a Chrome add-on soon
Show HN: SurfControl - helps you be more productive online (made at a hackathon)
Hi HN,We participated at the Mozilla WSOH (http://wsoh.eventbrite.com/) over the summer. It was a hackathon organized by Mozilla for interns all over Silicon Valley with an attendance of over 300+ interns from Facebook, Google, etc.A friend and I made SurfControl and were the winners of the hackathon. We just pushed our product live and would love to get feedback!-------------About SurfControl:...
Has anyone seen any scenarios where there was static content on the page and Google didn't index it?
http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control
It allows you to install, remove and manage packages from within Sublime itself
Suggestion: - statistics: top 5 ports show only 2 distinct ports. it would be better IMO to show 5 distinct ports