I can't for the life of me figure out why HN keeps hating on bitcoin for the past 10 years since ive been following this site has but has been pretty much spot on about every other tech related subject. It initially discouraged me back in the early days but once you GET it, you realize its one of the biggest technological breakthroughs in the history of mankind.
I think with bitcoin you simply can't read about it but actually get your hands dirty and fully use it to really understand the potential it is going to have.
This makes total sense.
It seems unfair especially in my case when they give you the go ahead and you end up investing alot of time and effort only to have one person not like your site and completely disregard all the work you have put in. When the reason for disabling your account is exactly the same reason they encouraged you to create your site in the first place it makes it all that much more frustrating.
My sites were not small either, they had heavy daily usage and brought over 800k in overall advertising revenue in the last 2 and a half years.
As a user, I wasn't getting paid either just wanted to help out since the coupon I found was superior than anything they posted for that store at the time.
Is their mission to help users find deals or pad their affiliate revenue? If it was the latter, their reason they gave me would make sense.
I'm fine with respectful open discussion but the entire situation left me with an uneasy taste in my mouth. If another CEO supported gay marriage and it created a stir like Eich's case did, I would feel the same way. Imagine if Sergey Brin donated to a gay marriage group 5 years ago and it caused such a stir that sites like fox or disney asked you to switch from chrome. Imagine the thousands of tweets criticizing him and the right media making a spectacle out of it calling out his character. That would be ridiculous.
It's about mutual respect and discussing ones differences in a cordial human way. In this case, it was anything but that and the double standard was obviously apparent.
I remember posting coupon codes to their site and having them being taken down constantly because they weren't getting commission on them. They were original company specials so no affiliate was getting paid (including me) but I posted them merely for the people who were searching could save money. They gave users 50% off hosting and the links on the retailmenot page were simply regular links to the products page disguised as specials.
When I emailed them asking why they keep deleting my posted coupon they said that any specials need to be run through them and they need a way to track aka put their affiliate id on them.
Left a bad taste in my mouth.
The guys that make millions in large part use their own software.
I used a simple piece of hardware last year for college football season that was suprisingly accurate. I weighted my own opinion most heavily but would use the software to confirm my picks. If both ways checked out, I would place a bet.
Never had a losing week last year and would usually pocket a couple thousand in profit a week. Of course there was alot of lucky but a large part of my success was due to the statistical software I was using.
I remember Josh the founder of Omniture said how they first got hired by ebay back in the day. Changing the color of the ebay homepage and button to yellow helped ebay increase sales by 15%. That slight increase on a heavily trafficked website resulted in millions of dollars in increased sales.
I bookmarked Tableau software a while back as I've heard it being constantly mentioned on various websites as great tool to use.I remember it being labeled as vital in understanding one's analytics and gives a different perspective in breaking down the specific business numbers.Has anyone used it firsthand? Especially with their IPO coming up, I'm trying to get HN's opinion on the long term...
I don't think most people realize how tech-based this area is and this should only help the companies in the area!
I searched for the domain godaddysucksbigbigballs.com multiple times and it ended up being taken after 10 mins.
I assume that since there was a grace period where people could simply drop a domain and get a refund after a couple days that squaters somehow obtained the information and weree buying domains that people were searching in hoping to profit.
when you create value, people will click and most likely buy. on twitter, you can see what exactly is on their mind so it becomes pretty transparent what they specifically want when they tweet.
The biggest issue is with compliance with the companies. There is a reason the affiliate process is vetted and takes alot of steps to make sure your serious about promoting. You indirectly represent the end company when promoting your aff link.
When you have someone blasting their affiliate link all around the web and on twitter it doesn't sit well with the end company and they usually bear the brunt of the compliants.
Good luck on the idea. If you can make it work the all the props.
As a affiliate who LOVED promoting on twitter and would see up to an insane $40 EPC on tweets, a freinds influence is great.
As a registered small business S Corp, if this passed it would be thousands more in taxes for me( about 10k).
http://news.yahoo.com/white-house-closing-tax-loophole-could-fund-student-172330175--sector.html
Alot of us including myself have formed s corps to save money through distributions we take.Obama is trying to close this tax benefit and instead tax the whole portion of profits with medicare etc. instead of just wages.I don't see how this helps small business at all. Means less money in our pockets.
After reading that article late sat night, I was planning on purhcasing 1-2k worth of VRNG stock at monday opening bell. He made some pretty interesting points and I go to vegas alot anyway so I figured what the heck lolDue to hacking all night, I totally ended up sleeping most of monday and wasn't able to get in on time.Did anyone invest in the VRNG stock? It's currently up 95%
The frustration from alot of devs has only increased with this crazy process.I was on the registration page at 7 sharp and still failed to get a ticket as it said the event was sold out only after a couple seconds!Did anyone manage to actually get a ticket?
Numbers are still down mostly due to international user base about 50% of pre-play levels.
Deems like the international crowd is just as much or even more confused about the market/play transition and as a result not downloading apps as much.
Especially since my app has a large user base outside of the US, I'd assume the sudden switch to PLAY was even more confusing for them.