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JohnTitus

54 karma · joined November 3, 2010

software developer/front end guy
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JohnTitus··on Show HN: All Facebook Offers on one Place
Thanks for the writeup!
JohnTitus··on Show HN: All Facebook Offers on one Place
I'm the OP. If you haven't heard of Facebook Offers, they're like coupons businesses can post on their Facebook page. But, if you're not already a Fan, they can be difficult to discover - so we made Foibly. Appreciate any feedback!
JohnTitus··on AppCloudy: Hosting for web apps
More info?
JohnTitus··on Show HN: QuestCompanions, temp labor for MMORPGs
My first question, as a user, would be - "How much?" Maybe create a page for each game you support with examples of quests/costs/the level of "companions" available and their experience...
JohnTitus··on Show HN: QuestCompanions, temp labor for MMORPGs
You should consider, if you haven't already, doing some SEO work (both onpage and off) to target related keywords. It's usually cheaper and more successful (in my experience) than just buying ads, plus the affects are more long term.

Keywords such as "world of warcraft" + "help, guide, tips, quest help" would be good targets. Start on keywords with lower monthly search #s to get started.

Gl, and please post an update in the future to let us know how it goes.

JohnTitus··on Show HN: QuestCompanions, temp labor for MMORPGs
Love the idea. How will you market it?
JohnTitus··on Job Posts That Sell
I also didn't like having to give my email just to see what you're selling, but did it anyway. And then found out that you're "full up", but you'll get back to me when there's room. I'm annoyed that that I'll now get email from you and so far you've provided me nothing.
JohnTitus··on Show HN: CourtDateReminder.com - weekend project
I hate when that happens. However, with proper SEO, your site could still get a lot of visits. A quick search of Google Keywords shows that tens-of-thousands of people are searching for "court date" related items.
JohnTitus··on Show HN: CourtDateReminder.com - weekend project
Why wouldn't they use ohdontforget to get a free reminder?
JohnTitus··on Ask HN: Possible to re-compress JPEG on the client before upload?
Large images ( > 1 MB or so ) put into a Canvas in Chrome cause Chrome to crash with the frowny face Uh oh. At least it did as of a few months ago, not sure if it's been fixed yet.
JohnTitus··on Show HN: Signal Box, the API to your web apps
Are there other companies that do this sort of thing?
JohnTitus··on Why I'm Moving Away from the Play Framework
So what's the best alternative for a Java shop?
JohnTitus··on Google shutting down Picnik
Too bad. It was very helpful for editing pics in Flickr.
JohnTitus··on Damn you Safari. Damn you to hell.
I was a bit frustrated :(
JohnTitus··on Show HN: My sideproject - The javascript is free, but the backend will cost you.
Thanks, I'll take a look at that. The same thing was happening on Chrome in Windows for awhile, but I thought I had fixed it :(
JohnTitus··on Show HN: My sideproject - The javascript is free, but the backend will cost you.
http://www.watermarquee.com
JohnTitus··on Authentication made easy, fast and RESTful
I'm wary of signing up for a service that has no cost details.
JohnTitus··on Ask HN: Please Review My Startup: What Do You Really Think About Me?
Don't make me signup to post anonymous feedback.

Also, the POST A RESPONSE button should be a button that I can click anywhere in, not a giant button with a little text link.

JohnTitus··on Show HN: Remote Desktop for Web Apps
Neat, definitely useful. I'm wondering if it would be possible for someone (or you guys) to build something similar that would let me "take over" a user's session, so I can demonstrate my application to a potential new user.
JohnTitus··on Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully.
Agree on the select button. Drag and drop is neat, but is usually annoying when my browser is full screen.
JohnTitus··on Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully.
I tried to drop an image file. While it correctly fired the dragover event(changed the text to "Drop it like it's hot"), it didn't prevent the default drop event correctly - instead firefox 3.6 just showed me the image.
JohnTitus··on The New York Times to Begin Charging for Web Use on March 28
Pretty sure people have been predicting that ever since they heard this was coming.
JohnTitus··on Show HN: Graffitly - Anonymous Public Messages
Thanks!
JohnTitus··on Show HN: Graffitly - Anonymous Public Messages
http://www.graffitly.com
JohnTitus··on Like Facemash for Facebook: Piu sexy di
I'm not really interested in voting which of my friends is sexier. Maybe this is a french thing?

You could make it more like cubeduel, and just ask, who is the better friend, or something along those lines.

Also, I was turned off by the fact that the app wanted to post to my wall. I'd need a good reason to give it that kind of access.

JohnTitus··on Show HN: Phoneify - 20 hours with Rails 3 & Twilio
Awesome idea, slick & complete implementation. I look forward to pricing details!
JohnTitus··on Show HN: Yelp for People, Reviewing Humans, chattel.me
The name made me think of cattle.
JohnTitus··on Facebook launches overhauled comment system
The "advantage" FB has is that comments on a 3rd party site get posted to your FB page, and replies to those comments on FB go back to the 3rd party page. I'm not sure that's really that big of an advantage - some may consider it a disadvantage..
JohnTitus··on Review my startup: Mentaway.com
Curious: How'd you come up with the name? Also: How do you plan to make money?
JohnTitus··on Cloud9 IDE - Your code anytime, anywhere
How well does it do with non-javascript code? If I could code ruby on rails on it, and deploy from w/in it to Heroku, I'd sign up today. (happy feature creep!)
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