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Wonder if other companies will follow suit?
Thanks very much. And neat site - I actually have used this before!
700 people on the site at one time? Or 700 for the day? 700 at the same time is incredible (to me)! You must have been nervous about your server. When we hit 250 we panicked we would go down!
That's a really cool design! Reddit winds me up!

Ask HN: What is the most amount of people you have had on your site at one time?

Mine and my mates site GetInspired365.com has just been featured on BBC Click - http://t.co/0OmbHSSwuk - and were staggered to see we had 250 people on our site at one point. What's the most you've had on your site? Just interested to see as means of a comparison against other sites.By the way, if you're able to get a small mention on BBC Click, we'd highly recommend it. We've seen some great...

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Re:Show HN: Some stats, how are we doing? on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @07:53AM (#5600953)
Awesome thanks, I'll check that out. It seems like the hardest thing in the world to get people to come to your site. I keep reading about people who have 1000s upon 1000s who are coming to their site and I just don't get how they've done it! Perseverance and a little luck I guess.
Re:Show HN: Some stats, how are we doing? on Wednesday April 24, 2013 @07:21AM (#5600867)

Show HN: Some stats, how are we doing?

We launched our site - GetInspired365.com exactly 10 weeks ago. In that time we've had 36,000 users, of which 30,000 have been unique. We've also just broken 100,000 page views and the average duration on the site is just shy of 2 minutes.We started very slowly and in our first 6 weeks only had 130 users registered (email addresses given to us to receive daily doses of inspiration) and averaged...

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Idea HN: Bomb proof bins

Had an idea that I can't do anything about, except suggest it on HN and see if it catches anyone's imagination.The idea is Special Bomb bins - a lot of bombings occur by terrorists placing bombs in bins. I don't know anything about bombs but I wondered if all bombs all contained an element that a bin could pick up on and auto alert authorities that that element existed within the bin. For...

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Re:Show HN: Stumbleupon for Inspiration on Thursday April 11, 2013 @08:29AM (#5531456)
Thanks for the feedback. We normally go for a topic (event, person etc) on a particular day - a topic that has relevance to that day. I then select appropriate quotes for that topic and the quotes are determined by which ones are most popular on GoodReads. Will review them though, thanks.
Re:Show HN: Stumbleupon for Inspiration on Thursday April 11, 2013 @06:33AM (#5531025)

Show HN: Stumbleupon for Inspiration

My mate and I recently built a new website that aims to present quotes and videos in a cool, visual way. Imagine BrainyQuote but visually more compelling.We've just added a feature - stumble. Users can now stumble their way through inspiration. Simply click this link - http://getinspired365.com/stumble and press the right and left arrow keys. If you feel like you are in need of a bit of...

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Re: on Friday April 05, 2013 @03:11PM (#5500395)
I have just changed that - thanks. The user who posted it thought his name was Robert, and therefore unfortunately so did I!
Re: on Friday April 05, 2013 @02:04PM (#5499984)
Re:Show HN: Our weekend project, a month on on Thursday April 04, 2013 @08:03AM (#5492127)
That's great, thanks. I will mention this to my friend (the developer)
Re:Show HN: Our weekend project, a month on on Thursday April 04, 2013 @07:28AM (#5492018)
We've just had that feedback from a user - we're add it in. Thanks for the tip.
Re:Show HN: Our weekend project, a month on on Thursday April 04, 2013 @07:24AM (#5492004)
Do you mean the original discussion? If so, it is here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5206662

Thanks very much, very kind!

Re:Show HN: Our weekend project, a month on on Thursday April 04, 2013 @05:43AM (#5491741)

Show HN: Our weekend project, a month on

Hi guys,A month ago we launched our site - http://getinspired365.com/ - to HN and got some great feedback. We've attempted to take this feedback and improve the site. It's taken us a month, and we'd love to hear your thoughts.Specifically we've addressed the following:A New InterfaceTags - Every bit of inspiration now has multiple tags associated with it. That means, if you are inspired by a...

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Re:Times Haikus on Monday April 01, 2013 @12:19PM (#5474001)
Slight tangent but if you love short stories then you'll probably like the famous "6 worded story" by Ernest Hemingway. Unbelievable that he could write such an emotional story in 6 words. If you haven't read it - it's here:

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn."

Software company buried a $1K prize in its ToS

Came across this on Reddit today and thought it was incredibly interesting.The link they've linked off to doesn't appear to be working (presumably down to traffic volume).The Reddit discussion is here - http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1baw7v/til_a_software_company_buried_a_1000_prize_deep/.The Original link is here -...

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