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1. Notifications are going to make or break you. I had signed up for OhLife.com 2 years back and it emails me every single day with a gentle reminder to write about my life. It also chooses a random entry that I've written in the past so that I actually look forward to reading what banal things I had written about. Prioritize this over all else.
2. Support email entries. I have visited the OhLife website about 3 times in the last 2 years. My main interaction is through email. It also lowers the barrier to actually composing an entry. Your users can create and refine drafts throughout the day and only send it across when the reminder email comes in.
3. Create a mobile app (lower priority than the above two). I've found that my most profound thoughts and exciting experiences are when I'm traveling. A mobile app is exactly what one needs during those times (Note: I use the word "app" loosely. It could just be a mobile-friendly UI for your website)
4. With apps/websites like these which solve one specific problem, it's always best to keep the feature set very minimal (even though as a developer your likely motivation will be to keep working on new features).
Good luck!
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Ask HN: What code review tool do you use?
We're still a small 2-3 person team but would like to start using a structured code review process.What code review tools with web UIs do you use? Would you recommend it? Are there any cloud-based ones?
1. I don't believe their site/demos are running the latest version of jQuery mobile (weird, I know). 2. Secondly, the resetting behavior can be easily handled now with the addition of beforechangepage by setting the current scroll position before transition and using $.mobile.silentScroll to update on page re-entry.
CEO/CTO Dashboard
Is there a startup (or tool/site) that provides a CEO/CTO Dashboard - a consolidation of vital info in one screen. Here's what I mean:1. Displays a calendar of important events: Board meetings, Engineering milestones, Conferences, etc.2. Latest revenue metrics: internal revenue/sales spreadsheets, Admob/Adsense stats, etc.3. Latest customer metrics: Google analytics, Helpdesk ticket counts,...
Ask HN: How do you promote your iOS apps?
The strategy for increasing users for iOS apps seems to be divided in to two main challenges:1) traffic -- getting more users to find your app and visit the description page2) conversion -- getting a large percentage of users to install your app once they're on the description pageThere are lots of helpful articles out there for #2 -- smart content writing, influential language, etc. However,...
Hashify gets a pretty UI. pen.io removes the need for a DB.
This works in the favor of big name brands who probably have a open sales channel through iAds which makes it easier for them to get promoted. It sucks for indie app developers who have limited ways of getting noticed by the Apple editorial team.
2. HN (for tech related news)
3. Curated newsletters (subscribed to Summify, Startup Reading List,and other email newsletters that curate news daily/weekly)
4. Zite (using it increasingly since it's machine learning algorithm is spot on)
Ask HN: How do you consume and stay on top of news?
Twitter, Facebook, RSS, GReader, Summify, custom intelligence solution? Share your tips or projects that help you:a) consume a large variety of news sourcesb) stay on top of it by reading only relevant interesting newsEdit1: formatting
The Great +1 Logical Fallacy
2. The Daily Dealist - http://www.thedailydealist.com - A social deal aggregator site that's gaining some early traction.
3. Bouncy Tags - http://www.bouncytags.com - Some would say it's from a bygone era of start pages but I find it quite helpful. Add bookmarks by tags and access them from anywhere (even mobile). Links that you use more frequently gain prominence over time. Use invite code "letmein" here: http://www.bouncytags.com/signup
The focus here is to create a community-focused treasure trove of startup knowledge rather than a page-view focused content site.
That site seems to solve the problem of finding book recommendations in a way that's easily filtered/sorted. I like the fact that it lists additional versions (ebook, pdf, etc.) of the book.
My thoughts were that the community might want to read reviews from a startup-oriented individual rather than the default synopsis from the book's publisher. I also imagined that multiple reviewers could review the same book (either on the hub site or their own blog).
Ask HN: Any interest in a startup book review site?
(Treat this as a customer discovery phase)After searching for some non-trivial amount of time I have yet to find a good review site/blog that caters to books of interest to the start up community. Since we're always strapped for time, I wonder whether it would help to create a site that would serve as a hub for these book reviews.The core value here isn't just the reviews themselves but other...