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theguardian.com is hotbed of climate alarmism.

The only ones against free speech these days are the far/weird-left. They have some twisted logic about not tolerating intolerant (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance). They are very selective whom they see as worth not tolerating.

"The thing is: I have yet to see a project done overseas at that sort of hourly rate that has actually gone well."

The argument sounds like something Rush Limbaugh would say, "It's cold where I live, therefore global warming is a lie!".

I'm the solo founder of PrintFriendly.com

Two years ago I applied to YC, and was turned down in the interview process. They asked, "how is PrintFriendly going to make a billion dollars"? I'm still trying to answer that (or at least a more modest version of the question).

Today PrintFriendly revenue is about $10k/mo, 1.2M visits/mo, and slow but steady growth.

I'm happy with the results, delighted actually. However, I'm not travelling the world, or working from a beach. I work hard everyday and reinveste the capital, to try and build a stable/strong/significant organization.

Sweet. I've used iconfinder.com over the years. Its now a default stop when searching an icon. Seems to be getting better everytime i visit too. Keep up the good work!

Barf. Sad, to see Hacker News being used as a marketing channel.

Vision and stamina to keep pushing till it done.

Quality, creativity, and difficult problems are the devils tools!

"All your events are belong to us"

Got scared when i read this. Gotta be a mistype (second headline, middle of page).

Thanks, glad you like.

My motivations were fairly pure, wanted to build a platform that gave citizens more power. Also thought there could be a way to monetize (ethically) with traction.

Got some press in the early days, and believe the problem is other than exposure. The site just isn't filling a need. Need to come up with something people really want.

Yes, currently getting 3K-15k visits/mo. About 20% repeat visits.

Agree that giving people a way to "be heard" has value, just need to get the process right.

Polarizing would be a good tactic. Not sure I want to go there though. I've still got some idealism ;)

Steps to gain traction were focused on making the product viral (send to friends, embed vote on site/facebook, etc).

Also partnerships with other organizations, for example, democracyinaction.org had an email your reps widget (powered by govit).

I like the idea, but think I'd need more users before I could attract the attention of senators/aides/other.

Congress members have their websites, email list of their supporters, would need to offer something they didn't have.

Main reason is the money. I'm not a programmer, so fixing bugs, update scrappers, server, etc. cost money.

Hmm, I love watching videos on iPad

haha. "Video is dull as dish water when it's talking heads".

Works better for categories like eSports, Cooking, How To.

Hah, you're good. I'm platinum (ztay). Day9 rocks. But, gotta say, I can't miss an HD Cast. He's just fun.

Did you see the talk HD gave at the recent Google Tech Talk. HD has over 57 Million views, and google is listening. http://youtu.be/Y0Stg0f1360

Love it! "They know when to Expand"

The link has a prob. http://youtu.be/Ea8DlGM7e14

Have you seen this Idra Interview? HaHaHa http://youtu.be/pHG40AdYfJ0

I can picture Day9, HD StarCraft, working at ESPN in the near future.

HD StarCraft's videos have over 57 Million views, and Google is listening.

Check out this Google Tech Talk. HDStarcraft and Painuser to discuss eSports. http://youtu.be/Y0Stg0f1360

Yes! I'm in the gold, but will keep practicing. Email me, Taylor at printfriendly.com

A nice actionable insight, "You can't directly control where your thoughts drift. If you're controlling them, they're not drifting. But can control them indirectly, by controlling what situations you let yourself get into."