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Re:WordPress Sites Now Support Google’s AMP to Make Mobile Pages Load ... on Wednesday February 24, 2016 @05:21PM (#11170714)
The official WordPress AMP plugin doesn't currently offer much. It seems to be a simple install-and-go plugin with very little configurations.

There are some developers working on a few other plugins. I found this PageFrog plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/pagefrog/ which AMPs your page but includes a bunch of other stuff.

Particularly PageFrog comes bundled with Facebook Instant Articles support along with configurations for ads and analytics, which seems to be missing from the official WP plugin.

PSA: Google AMP launching tomorrow

Posted by michaelcheng on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @03:17PM
from the self-post dept.

Google will begin serving Accelerated Mobile Pages (https://www.ampproject.org/) tomorrow! For those unfamiliar, AMP is a new HTML format designed by Google for mobile content. It’s designed to load instantly and is expected to have a big impact on SEO (via significant page load speed advantage).- - -You can follow the official documentation to build your AMP pages...

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Re:What we learned from getting rejected by YC on Saturday November 01, 2014 @12:37AM (#8542200)
got some great feedback from the community here and decided to revise and repost this
Re:We Landed An Interview At Y Combinator But Decided Not To Go — Here... on Friday October 31, 2014 @07:39PM (#8541627)
Hey _pius,

I'm sorry you interpreted it that way. In fact, I don't think we'd get into YC even if we tried for the interview—it's not really the point of the post. I just wanted to share our rejection experience and how we struggled to recover from it. My sincerest apologies if the post somehow offended you.

Sincerely, Mike

We just interviewed at Y Combinator – here’s the full transcript

Posted by michaelcheng on Thursday May 01, 2014 @03:01PM
from the self-post dept.

Last week, we flew down to meet the partners for our YC interview:11:45 am — 320 Pioneer Way, Mountain ViewYC Partner: So you guys are making a link shortener?Me: Yes.YC Partner: Like Bit.ly?Me: Let’s dive into why Bit.ly is not as good. We built the only link shortener that drives conversion. Bit.ly just shortens your link. We actually allow you to add a call to action to the page that you’re...

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Re:4-week old company got YC interview, here's our application on Thursday April 17, 2014 @02:31PM (#7605389)
Sorry for the repost, I decided to post it as text since it's more convenient than link, I've deleted the previous post.

4-week old company got YC interview, here's our application

Posted by michaelcheng on Thursday April 17, 2014 @02:10PM
from the self-post dept.

Please enter the url of a 1 minute unlisted YouTube video introducing the founders.http://youtu.be/Hjtb1n2B7fEIf you have an online demo, what's the url?http://www.snip.ly 60-second walkthrough: https://vimeo.com/89670092What is your company going to make?Snip.ly is a link shortener that drives conversion. It lets you embed messages into every page you share across social media. Here’s an...

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Ask HN: Snip.ly security issues

Posted by michaelcheng on Friday March 21, 2014 @06:02PM
from the ask-hn dept.

The Show HN for Snip.ly was on the front page for a few hours and it stirred up a big controversy (penalized once it hit 40 comments). Now I'd like to specifically Ask HN for solutions as opposed to feedback on the product.Summary: http://Snip.ly is a link shortener that lets you embed messages into any website.Side A: Powerful tool for extending your brand, providing commentary, and provide...

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