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borat4prez on Wednesday January 28, 2015 @09:41PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I'm looking to launch a new community based site soon and was wondering about writing my Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.. should I ask a lawyer to write it? Write it myself then show a lawyer? Or am I good on my own?Are sites like TermsFeed.com worth it for the money?Thanks, just want to be safe about it.
Vacation up north a few summers ago. Brought my laptop, but there was no connection unless I went to a coffee shop in town.
Thanks. Do you think Google Analytics would suffice or should I use additional sources?
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borat4prez on Sunday January 18, 2015 @02:13AM
from the ask-hn dept.
Launching my community based startup in a couple weeks. It's a rails app. I'm a frontend dev and found a great guy on HN to help with the backend. Figured instead of trying to perfect it, I should launch and go from there. Any tips for me? Feeling anxious about it, but I'm prepared to fail or succeed.
My gift URL isn't loading.
The music scene is pretty good down there. Been to some great shows over the past few years.
How do I apply my Detroit area startup? The application on the website is only for Austin.
Interesting, haven't heard of them surprisingly. Although it looks as they're a PayPal company.
It's called PayStand and don't have any issues so far. Not sure if you're familiar. It works for what we need, a little higher of a rate we were looking to pay (we don't push the transaction fees to our customers which is an option of theirs), but had to implement something in time for the holidays.
I was e-mailing sales@stripe so maybe that is a different department than their regular customer service. Sorry I did not clarify. I'm sure they're doing a lot of things right, I just had a bad personal experience.
Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately, it's a seasonal business so the bulk of our sales comes in November and December and needed to get something besides PayPal checkout implemented before the Thanksgiving rush. It was just dumbfounding how long it took
[email protected] to reply to my e-mails.
The last e-mail we sent was November 25th at 5:50pm and didn't get a reply until November 30th at 5:03pm with "Thanks for clarifying, and I apologize for a delayed response on my end." ..by that time we already found an alternative, got it set up and installed in less than an hour.
In my experience Stripe has very poor customer service. Hopefully they spend some of this money in that department.
Trying to talk back and forth through e-mail because they won't give me a number to call about sales trying to get a lower rate because my volume of sales is greater than $80k+ monthly, waiting 24+ hours on average for a reply and even 72+ hours on one occasion, finally gave up on them and went with another payment processing company. This happened over the past month. Kind of disappointed.
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borat4prez on Wednesday November 26, 2014 @11:24AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I want to make a website like woot.com or shirt.woot.com where I schedule one limited product per day and only sell one product per day. Once the 24 hours ends, the product isn't available to purchase anymore and the product for the next day appears and becomes available for purchase and so on. What is the easiest way to do something like this?Shopify? Stripe JS Widget? Something else?
Matt, I am the webmaster of
http://TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles.com -- before I took the site over, the forum was hacked (~2010) and we were hit with a ton of bad links (posted on our forum and lots of underage adult websites linking to us).
I've been working the past two years, from contacting all the webmasters via WhoIs information, creating unique content on a weekly basis, having a good social media following, and still for the life of us, we cannot get ranked well organically on Google.
Could you personally look into this or give me any advice on resolving this issue because I feel like I've done everything possible and we put a lot of work into the website over the years. I would really appreciate it.
This looks great! I've been a WordPress dev the past 2-3 years and started my first Django project a few months ago. I know html/css well and can do jQuery plugins, but I'm not too knowledgable past that. I know programming concepts, I just have a hard time putting methods and classes together and all that good stuff. My brain thinks more creatively instead of logically. Hopefully this book can help me out, I'm currently paying a developer $50/hr to build the app (50+ hours deep so far), I'm just doing the HTML/CSS because I'm pretty good at that. Would love to take control of the whole thing!
Maybe this book can help?
Also it'd be neat if you took a look at my project so far and let me know your thoughts! I have a private repo on github and the app is up on Heroku right now. companyhen<at>gmail.com if you wanna chat and take a look :)
p.s. Backed $25 :)
I recently split my ads (50% AdSense | 50% Media.Net) on one of the blogs I maintain and they both earn very close to the same amount every day. I like the service.
Posted by
borat4prez on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @11:30AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I signed a contract with a developer for X amount of hours of work. He completed the hours and I sent him the first payment, haven't heard from him since. Is this usual? I asked if he is interested in continuing work or should I find a new dev a week ago with no reply. Really don't want to stall on the project and it's close to being ready for launch.Found him on HN through the freelancer...
Can I use the new HN comments algorithm on my new website? :)
A little luck and a little experience. Plus 4 years of community growth.
I prefer not to say the site if you understand.
The original title was linkbait.
Very interesting, although someone claims the history to be bogus.
I currently have a website that gets over 500k Uniques per month and over 5m pageviews a month, so it's interesting to see what the future could hold!