mattblalock

If it were me, I'd just setup a PPC campaign in Google Ads and not worry about it anymore.

I'd imagine your brand name carries a low CPC, so the cost to ensure potential clients find you would be pretty low.

Use [exact match] keywords, campaign goal of clicks, and a pretty basic/clean ad with some sitelinks.

Worst case, you're really visible and it adds some authority to relevant serps.

I design, build, and operate measurable growth programs for B2B, B2C, GOV, NGO, and Startups.

Multi-faceted marketing expert. I specialize in managing WordPress at scale.

Location: Charlotte, NC (EST)

Remote: Yes, preferred.

Willing to relocate: Yes.

Technologies: WordPress, PHP, Javascript, REST API, Redis, Elementor, Automations w/ make.com or 8n8, agentic processes with crew.ai, SEO and content creation, Figma for design, LLM and MCP/Vector database config, GTM, GA4

Resume: on request, or see https://mattblalock.com

Email: blalock.matt[at]gmail[dot]com

I've built and managed WordPress for multiple y-combinator startups, NOAA, NASA, the US Navy, 100s of others, and even the real OG... Snoop Dogg.

Reach out if your team needs an expert with WordPress.

Congrats on the launch!

I am wondering about your pricing and how you imagine your tool being used with so few requests... I might manually use 150 GPT4 requests in a day... but your $97/mo plan includes 150/mo?

I think we need pasture... some interesting perspectives in this piece. I think we should probably stay focused on nourishment, as a society. Not the opposite, but thank you for sharing this propaganda.

Sounds awesome!

Man, 3 days is nothing!

Give me some time to fall in love, and I'll happily pay. It seems so shortsighted, as if I'd somehow use up all the usefulness of your app in 7 days or perhaps even 30 days.

Its a tool for work, and if it can reduce my load in any significant way I'd pay $500 for it. Now, I'll never really know. Too bad... for both of us.

Hrm, I use Spaces and Chrome with no problems. This isn't the case for everyone.

Everything fun in life boils down to that, eh?

I would say the act of "Pinning" an article of digital content is an act of comment. It is shorthand for "This is really interesting to me. Maybe you'll like it too?"

Just go for it. Don't worry so much about things like this. Give your project passion, that's all it needs.

In my mind, this is the same as asking if its okay to not use linen for my biz cards.. it doesn't matter.

I've worked with numerous retailers who use something like this. Usually an eMail server just makes a ping when a payment notification comes in.

During peak seasons (read: December) at an ecommerce company of mine a few years ago, we did pretty much exactly this. We used a cash register sound, though. Played it into the office and warehouse so everybody knew how fast things needed to be going. Totally worked, the faster the register went, the harder everyone worked.

Hrm. Didn't notice boobs, wondering if Filip is really smart and knows it will lure men in... very good sales pitch, IMHO.

What technologies does he use? How would those be affected?

This. If they understand that the tools they utilize everyday would not exist had SOPA been enacted in 1991... and it continues to move with support, we know the rafts are safer than this boat...

Same here.... The elephant was it for me, too. This drives the nail deeper.

Those donations put a pretty big dent in that evaluation, he may be near the clear.

HackerNews makes me sad sometimes, too. Seeing everyone's successes, silly stories with the gang, witty blog post, mind-blowing hockey-stick-shaped-charts of "how we got to our 900 millionth user!" ... I'm working 12 hour days doing like 11 jobs, making just enough money to convince myself "in just a few months" I'll find that thing that ticks and then it'll be us making hockey-stick-shaped-growth-charts and finally buying that island ive had my eye on... but even then, the island isn't totally private, so i should probably work harder then i can get a bigger and more private island, one that is fire-resistant and erosion-proof. But shit, look, is that guy competing with me? Do I need to burn his island down? Are there enough customers? Where's the money gone? Wait, why aren't there any customers? Where's all this retail revenue going? I don't see them in the stores, the postal service can barely make ends meet (must not be ecommerce), and then the search volume is low, too, but the customers are coming in, we're selling stuff, we promise... not in America, you're not.

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I've noticed that by cutting out HN, I am happier and feel more positive about my business.

The comments on this thread make me want to never come here again...

Sounds like a whole bunch of niche startups are on the horizon...

Yeah, community playlists. StereoMood sort of does it... I think more with tags, like you suggest.

I always want something me and my music nerd friends can play with and share. Like keep a playlist going in the office but let any people add to it.

Google Docs for playlists?

I'm launching an app to organize & evaluate business ideas.

For updates: http://mattblalock.com/blog/idea-tracking/

How about editable playlists? Allow users to make suggested revisions and additions, letting a playlist evolved without the OP...

I've longed for someone to do it... something akin to StereoMood with a little bit of TurnTable.fm activity to it.

They never see the vision...

I like it – would love to hear more about what motivated your friend to do that for us.

Could you send me an eMail?

I'm always interested in futuristic products, especially in the context of reality.

What kind of crawler is it stopping?

Just makes our experience bad.

I read and enjoyed your post. Like you, I too was disappointed the conversation was political... I was hoping for more startup oriented conversation.

I'm wondering if this isn't a real Fake Apple Store... as in, Apple recognizes the need to develop that market and also recognizes the fact that their products are prohibitively expensive for those customer - to avoid diluting the Apple brand, build "Apple Stoers" selling the merchandise at a deep discount.

These new Apple Stoers would be very functional and serve the company on many levels. Quickly test new markets with low risk, introduce the Mac at a lower price point, and eventually could be replaced with Real Apple Stores in strong markets.

As the Chinese economy develops, the price of the merchandise increases (maybe shifting from store to store?) and in a few decades they have a stronghold on the edgy cool market of top-of-the-line-computers in the new world market, but also have one on the lower-end Apple Stoer brand.

Sounds like a good plan, just seems strange that we're all talking about it though...

I used the service for about a week before being booted... in the US. Suddenly, I don't have a Facebook friend on the "inside" or something...

It's really fun but not working 99% of the time. Right idea, poor implementation. Guess the "social listening" sector is still wide open.