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Happy to answer any questions you have about Parlor!
Posted by
jasonz on Monday December 03, 2018 @10:10AM
from the show-hn dept.
Howdy HN!First off, I have to say I’ve been looking forward to this day for a long time! Over 3000 days ago I joined HN with the goal of eventually posting a “Show HN” for a startup I co-founded. Today, I get to finally do that with Parlor! I owe a ton to this community and truly believe I’ve learned something from HN just about every day since. Any feedback you have on Parlor would be...
kyro - I want to congratulate you on your decision! I went through the same thing (graduated in 2011) and it was indeed very difficult at the time. Over time your friends and family will come around and realize you made the best decision for yourself. Work hard, find a great mentor, and enjoy the ride !
nice looking site! as for the testimonials, i think they transition way too fast for a vistor to read each set
sent!
spread the word on bitcoins :)
bought the book and donated to fightforthefuture - Hooray Internet!
if you want to quickly fix number 2 (overlapping text)
add some line-height to your banner class (40-45px looked good to me)
You're going to be successful no matter which road you choose. You have skills people value that you can always use. Not knowing more about the details, I say go with the new opportunity with the guy that seems to want to work with you. Who do you want to spend the next x number of years with?
http://octopress.org/octopress is pretty sweet.
rake new_post["title"] and you have a new post.
easy to style as well.
But information technology is what I know, and it’s probably too late for me to learn a new field from scratch.Information technology can absolutely save lives - I'd argue that a developer building medical software can save more lives than a PhD working on a treatment for cancer. The subtle killer these days are all the extra days a patient spends in the hospital. An extra day or two is what leads to complications. Work on solving the inefficiencies of inpatient medicine (documentation, communication, decision making, ect.) and you can go home at night knowing you are literally saving lives with your programming skills.
My favorite part is the "I am a new user" button - very slick!
It would be cool to somehow use a digital scale to track supplies. Each time you weigh a reagent, the scale could enter the amount used into Quartzy.
Come to think of it, using NFC might work really well for logging supplies. Stick a NFC sticker (I bet tagstand would hook you up) on items you want to track.
Yeah it might be tricky to sell equipment, although maybe between labs at the same institution might work. An interesting alternative might be "AirBnb" for lab equipment - renting out the unused time.
Quartzy should look into helping labs sell used lab equipment. It's hard to find a lab that doesn't have some good, functioning lab equipment that is no longer being used. They could set up an exchange that allows the trade or sale of equipment to other labs.
I bet this would work amazing if you had a celebrity or two at the event. You could also attach prizes to various seats to get some bidding wars.
What if you let users sign up and use the site for 1 month free? They would be more invested in the site after a month and be more likely to part with some money. I would guess that you would make more money with one month free + 5 dollars for the rest of the year vs 5 dollars up front.
I really like the dropbox model of subscriptions. I would never had paid money when I signed up for dropbox, but now I'm right at my free limit. They have me in a win/win for them - I either pay to increase my storage or refer friends. For 365.io I think users would really get the concept after they see their "free" 30 pictures.
Great job on the design.
one to centercity philly, dont like those odds
Well I wish you good luck. Be sure to weigh the pros/cons of each career path that can get you to similar goals - MD vs PhD vs NP/PA. Is there a particular field of medicine that interests you the most?
Why do you want to be a doctor?
Just spent an hour playing with the sound bites - made me wonder how much it costs southerners in lost productivity from speaking so slowly
Posted by
jasonz on Thursday November 11, 2010 @12:25PM
from the a.wholelottanothing.org dept.