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Re:Worth Building on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @12:06PM (#49980514)
I spend way too much on domains I think are valuable, can't possibly afford to buy up every domain other people think are valuable as well. Big guys might though, I've always heard rumblings of this, never seen a real example though.
Re:Worth Building on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:30PM (#49972647)
What do you mean?
Re:Worth Building on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:21PM (#49972581)
This was why I built https://checkna.me
Thank you. After the first playable version, it reminded me of Micro Machines for the NES.
Ha! I should add him in as a character, good idea.

Show HN: TurnLeft – a one-button stock car racing game in the browser

https://turnleft.app

The only control is tapping the screen to turn your car left.I built this mostly with Fable 5 over the course of a few weeks. I had to tweak a fair amount of the graphics to get them where I wanted, but 100% of the code was written by Fable 5.The idea was to make a really simple top-down retro racing game that runs entirely in the browser. You can also save it to your phone as a PWA.I wanted it...

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Re:Fixed Scope Projects Set Everyone Up for Failure on Monday April 14, 2014 @04:57PM (#7588890)
Must read for anyone considering hiring a team to build their product.
Re:Sorry, But Your Idea is Only Worth $1 on Thursday December 05, 2013 @11:36AM (#6855268)
Entrepreneurs are -- serious ones less so.
Re:Build Your Product, Then Your Business on Monday March 25, 2013 @11:30AM (#5437503)
...and businesses
Re:Build Your Product, Then Your Business on Monday March 25, 2013 @09:33AM (#5436833)
Isn't the product the experiment?
Re:Build Your Product, Then Your Business on Monday March 25, 2013 @09:19AM (#5436773)
This is more geared towards the administrative stuff that adds no value and is an excuse to doing actual work.
How so?? I see no issues with that at all.
Re:Vire.js: Vimeo Event Firing jQuery Plugin on Monday September 10, 2012 @10:23AM (#4499903)
Github is unfortunately down right now....
Re: on Thursday May 03, 2012 @03:58PM (#3925463)
Please give me feedback via email, [email protected]. Thank you!
Re:How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas on Friday October 28, 2011 @06:45PM (#3170408)
I demanded $40MM a year in compensation and the use of a private jet. I was told no.
Re:How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas on Friday October 28, 2011 @11:12AM (#3168575)
Once again, the example given in the post was not an actual test. I was using the idea as an example to guide the article.

The startup idea in the article isn't the focus.

Re:How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas on Friday October 28, 2011 @10:22AM (#3168369)
Hahaha
Re:How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas on Friday October 28, 2011 @09:26AM (#3168125)
But you still leave open the possibility of not learning the basics of whether or not someone wants the problem solved.
Re:How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas on Friday October 28, 2011 @09:23AM (#3168111)
It's the best one I've seen. There is also http://www.instapage.com/ but it's not as good and I've run into problems with pages not loading -- and when you're paying for traffic to hit a page, you want it to load.
Re:How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas on Friday October 28, 2011 @08:07AM (#3167915)
Well, the problem with doing that at this stage of the process is you risk getting the initial price completely wrong and nobody clicks it.

Even though, if you had priced it just $20 lower, everyone would have clicked it.

So by putting price in the mix before you even identify a willing market, you risk missing the ball completely.

Re:How I Quickly Test and Validate Startup Ideas on Friday October 28, 2011 @07:59AM (#3167895)
The quality of the people coming to the site, in my experience has been the same.

I actually have better CTR on adCenter compared to AdWords for the same ads on the same keywords (marginally better).

So it's really come down to cost for me. In my experiences it's consistently double or more for the top keywords in the bunch.

I've personally never run a massive campaign to drive tens of thousands of visitors to a site through either service. My guess is, if you need high volume of people quickly, you need AdWords.

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