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Re:Show HN: Matterhorn – Your new project manager on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:48PM (#8991843)
Just curious–why do you want to host the data on your own servers?
Re:Unicode Text Converter on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @09:52AM (#8630299)
Huh. I'm really surprised there isn't a Russian clone of tender already.
The first video I checked out was fun.
Re:Where else do developers hang out? on Tuesday November 11, 2014 @11:28PM (#8594015)
Real-world Meetup.com meetups.
"Those schools that attract students with a wide range of SAT scores generally have higher correlations between the scores and first-year grades." --http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/WhosCounting/story?id=98373...
The people I like to follow on twitter most are those that are laser-focused on producing content related to one thing. Conan O'Brien, for example, almost exclusively tells jokes. I don't want to read his re-tweet of some fan's comment, for example. These make Twitter a lot less useful. A complement to your service would be to remove these less useful tweets from my feed, and just show in aggregate the links that were tweeted, as you currently do. I've spent very little time on Twitter; maybe this kind of service was first offered years ago.
Looks useful. Is this better implemented as an option of a linter?
Re:Show HN: Criticize our website on Saturday November 08, 2014 @08:05AM (#8576747)
Following what @georgespencer said, there's no strong brand here. Forget about the website and come up with a brand.

By the way, marketing yourselves to people that will pay you handsomely for professional services and then putting an ad for a $4.99 template at the bottom is a dumb idea.

I love your beluga-head icon.
Re:Show HN: Flow XO – Zapier/IFTTT for business workflows on Friday November 07, 2014 @04:45AM (#8571806)
It certainly looks like Flow XO fills a need, but how does it differ from IFTT? I'm familiar with the concept of IFTT, but have never used it.
I would focus on simplifying the steps a new visitor to the site takes. I found it confusing. For example, I got to the screen with the h1 text "Welcome", but at the top left was an animated arrow pointing to another Welcome button. Where am I supposed to go?
Re:Show HN: Product Hunt for the Outdoors on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @12:30PM (#8562956)
I don't like that you're playing off the name of an established firm.
Re:Show HN: Eyes in Space on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @12:27PM (#8562933)
It's been hanging at 35% for a few minutes now.
Re:Show HN: Sketchmob – Real artists turning your photos into art on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @12:24PM (#8562909)
You have a lot of copyrighted works on your home page, like Spawn, The Little Mermaid, etc. Are these just ripoffs or are Disney, etc being compensated?
Re:Show HN: Seat wiki on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @12:19PM (#8562876)
Just curious why you'd create this.
Re:Show HN: Dev_tones – 500 royalty-free UI sounds for your app on Wednesday November 05, 2014 @12:16PM (#8562857)
The example sounds sound really nice. I'm less likely to get hooked on the free sounds though because of the attribution requirement.
Re:What exactly is the Google glass for? on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @01:54PM (#8558315)
I use it as a heads-up display when I go on spacewalks and during neurosurgery.
Re:Tinder Demotes CEO Sean Rad in Wake of Sexual Harassment Suit on Tuesday November 04, 2014 @01:52PM (#8558302)
Unexpected!
Re:QuickVid 2.0 – Imgur for Videos – New UI and Re-design on Monday November 03, 2014 @08:08PM (#8554658)
Ah. I'd never really looked much at imgur. Seems they've got the funny video angle covered, too.
Re:QuickVid 2.0 – Imgur for Videos – New UI and Re-design on Monday November 03, 2014 @08:07PM (#8554651)
Notice how imgur hits you immediately with the main attraction, funny pics? If QuickVid is to be funny videos , shouldn't that be more visible? I'd think ppl have to be inspired to upload in the first place. Have the instructions on how to do so is secondary. Actually it doesn't appear that funny vids is your angle, but video hosting/sharing in general. Don't you think you need a slant or else you're just a YouTube clone? Anyway, funny vids on YouTube kind of hit you immediately on going to YouTube anyway, so that might not be a good angle either.
Re:Netherlands unveils world's first solar bike lane on Sunday November 02, 2014 @11:25AM (#8546977)
Has anyone produced a long-term, economic and environmental study of solar roads yet?
Have you gone to any local Meetups to just ask other developers?

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