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Exactly. For example it would be 99x cheaper if you were going to buy $10.00 / day vs the Coinbase feature (don't get too excited, it's $0.99 in fees for Coinbase's out of the box feature vs $0.01-$0.03 in fees you'll hit by using the Coinbase Pro API). Definitely requires more set up and maintenance, but that's half the fun of it :)

Working on two chrome extensions! I've been putting some polish on one that enables you to mute people on Twitter (https://github.com/jeffreyiacono/penalty-blox). The other is not yet published (soon though) and lets you send tabs from your comp to your friend's comp. It's been pretty neat to be browsing around and have a new tab pop up that was sent from my friend who is using the extension too.

what does the ! do?

social sequel pro - very innovative!

All data (account names and hash tags to remove) are stored client side in localstorage, so the extension doesn't query / load data from an external API like yours does. As a result, I haven't bumped into that "gotcha" yet. I do use a background page to bridge the popup's stored data with the content script that does all the heavy lifting (from what I remember). Just fyi on the localstorage adapter: leveraging the one from the Todo example on the backbone website. Thanks for giving me a shout out in your article, very kind of you.

Nice post! For anyone interested in seeing another sample, I wrote a chrome extension that leverages backbone as well a few months back: https://github.com/jeffreyiacono/penalty-blox

rss: http://hourlypuppy.com/feed (raw) http://feeds.feedburner.com/hourlypuppy (feedburner)

ah brilliant. I like that

yeah, the submission via email is not ideal, but for the mvp I wanted a basic submission feature so mailto fit the bill. I'll look to make it submit via browser this weekend! Appreciate the feedback

that's be pretty awesome. I know of the "rent physical art" services, but none that do what you described.

so a subscriber could get an email with a link to the current pup? I'd suspect not many people would want an email from me every hour. perhaps making it easy to toggle on / off would make that option more desirable? I could also integrate the site better with @hourlypuppy on tw. thoughts?

thanks :) if you have any other tag lines to add to the rotation, let me know!

I'd actually like to eventually enable it so shelters can put their pictures up for free. That way a visitor could view and then own a pup.

I wish I could up vote your comment more than once for picking up on that reference :) I'm from Vermont so that movie was a right of passage during my younger, hockey-playing years.

Thanks! I thought the concept of a temporary unfollow that was 100% client-side was interesting. The best analogy I could come up with for that was a "penalty box" ... again, thanks for giving it a try, very much appreciate it.

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Great post, Dan. It reminds me of the article the Buffer App guy wrote on his experience getting everything up and running. very smart and disciplined to root out the demand before committing dev. keep up the good work

Welcome to the recruiting space, try not to go crazy :) To get your service started, using email as the main messaging medium is smart as you want to build up your candidate-base, so offering something (in this case, information and job leads) will help you win adopters. Charging on a per job posting basis is a difficult sell as there are literally thousands of others offering very similar services. Showing job-seeker numbers can help motivate the employer to go with you as can past success stories. I'd recommend focusing on achieving those before you start charging. Think about offerings above and beyond just job postings, those are a commodity.

I've been running CollegeJobConnect for the past year and be happy to chat with a fellow entrepreneur who is trying to make student recruiting better. This is a really, really difficult space to be a startup in, so as much as we can all help each other the closer we will be to bringing improvement.

good luck with the pitch! knock 'em down