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ChaseB

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chase@kegstool.com

www.facemouth.com

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ChaseB··on Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
What an amazing video. Thanks for this.
ChaseB··on The Cost of an ACL Injury
$1,600? My Saint has had two TPLO's, which is the most common surgery for an ACL(CCL in canines) tear. Each Surgery was $5,000+. You got out on the cheap!

Having said that, still 1/12th of the OP's bill.

ChaseB··on How I got a YC interview as a single founder and blew it at the final hurdle
"but when I finished I filled the BCC with as many permutations of what his email address could be and then hit send."

I've figured out a great way around this. Install rapportive in gmail, compose a new message and start guessing emails. If the email is correct, rapportive will pull up all the information for that person. Bingo! There's the correct address!

ChaseB··on How to Build an Email Client
The biggest frustration I have with gmail is multiple account management. This chrome plugin isn't perfect, but works really well.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/checker-plus-for-g...

ChaseB··on How To Do A Startup On The Side And Not Lose Your Family
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=what%27s+an+elder
ChaseB··on Show HN: Craigslist Car Search
I purchased my 4Runner like this. 3 reposts over a month with "4 Runner" and dropped the price $1500 each time. He needed to sell it fast. I got a really good deal.
ChaseB··on 500 Startups Co TinyReview new iPhone app released
I like it, I guess. Very Instagram'esqu. They make you log in with fb. I see this more as a feature to Instagram rather than a whole separate app.
ChaseB··on How to Close a Sales Call
Last summer I spent a day on a motorcycle tour with two retired IBM salesmen. They reminisced sales stories all afternoon. I couldn't believe the amount of preparation and planned sales tactics they employed. A blue suit was required at all times because blue conveys trust and will result in a higher sale.
ChaseB··on It's Insanely Hard to Make a Kick-Ass iPhone App
My iPhone app http://www.facemouth.com.

Polished and went nowhere. Breaking the top 25 for an indie dev is hitting the lottery. It takes a big Ad budget and great PR.

ChaseB··on Please Poach Me
I'm working on a project in the HR field. I'd love to chat if you're interested. Chase (at) kegstool (dot) com. Hope to talk soon!
ChaseB··on How Much Money Do The Top Grossing YouTube Partners Make?
I can give you a real number. A friend of mine runs http://youtube.com/moviebuzz. He's making $8-10K a month. He only has 144K subscribers. Not too bad for a 22 year old working 1 day a week.

He says the big guys, like DeFanco, are bringing in well over $100K a month.

ChaseB··on Show HN: BBB for Linkedin profiles.
I've been working on this for a while.

HN feedback is always appreciated.

I'm bringing the VeriTrust / BBB model to individuals.

Anyone on HN that would like a free VeriTrue verification, shoot me an email. chase@veritruecorp.com

ChaseB··on Misadventures in VC Funding: The $24 Million Moz Almost Raised
Most of the story is unreadable for me.

http://i.imgur.com/4R7EO.png

*edit: working now.

ChaseB··on Got Ice? The Physics of Chilling Your Beer
No video. I guess I could put one on YouTube.

Haven't sold any. Sent out a catalogue sheet to all the big box stores and any that were seriously interested wanted to see a sample. Factories quoted me 30-45K just to start. It's definitely on the back-burner, though.

ChaseB··on Got Ice? The Physics of Chilling Your Beer
My uncle built a really cool beer chilling device. I posted it about a year ago.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1634090

ChaseB··on Foursquare Closes $50M at a $600M Valuation
I'm more interested in http://www.fivestarscard.com/, which I think is a YC alum. Their customer retention model is much more intriguing to me.
ChaseB··on Ask HN: Is pay for ad-block a feasible model?
You'd be surprised how many people don't know ad-block exists. I'm not just talking about my 65 year old uncle, John, either. I can only speak from first hand experience, but a majority of my 20-something year old friends are in the dark too.

Only 1% of US internet-goers have it installed. The hard part will be educating the other 99%.

ChaseB··on Ask HN: Review my iPhone application - Facemouth
apple: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facemouth/id428103766?mt=8

web: http://facemouth.com/

ChaseB··on Heist selling an app a second
Hmmm, day 3 and I'm at 58 downloads.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facemouth/id428103766?mt=8

ChaseB··on Rate my app: Facemouth
Well, most.
ChaseB··on Rate my app: Facemouth
I license all the photos. Cartoon characters are not an option, unless I create my own.
ChaseB··on Ask HN: Please review my video site..
Click: http://www.videowatchr.com
ChaseB··on Rate my app: Facemouth
Clicky: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facemouth/id428103766?mt=8

http://facemouth.com

ChaseB··on [dead]
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/facemouth/id428103766?mt=8
ChaseB··on Show HN: Less Work, More Golf
I started www.niblink.com a couple years ago. Failed to get traction / pursued a new venture. The golf industry can be fun. Best of luck.
ChaseB··on Rate my App: Tea for iPhone--getting quantitative about tea
Found this on dribbble a few days ago. Congrats on the app launch. Can you ask mactyler if he's interested in doing some design work for an app I'm working on? Chase (at) kegstool (dot) com. Thanks!
ChaseB··on My WakeMate: 1 year, 4 months, 12 days in the making.
Description from OP

"Inspecting the WakeMate bracelet, it’s nice. I have exceedingly manly wrists thanks primarily to YouPorn and long nights of StarCraft 2, and the fit of the bracelet is snug."

ChaseB··on Back to the front of the pack: Ars reviews Firefox 4
thanks!
ChaseB··on Back to the front of the pack: Ars reviews Firefox 4
I love the app tab concept. Just wish the favicon would update and tell me when new mail has arrived.
ChaseB··on “We don’t get out of bed for less than $10,000 per day.”
AdBlock-Plus has made ads virtually irrelevant for me. Sometimes I forget that people are even subjected to them.

Last year, while traveling through eastern Asia, I would occasionally drop by an internet cafe. I couldn't believe the amount of ads non-ABP users had to see. It still baffles me.

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