JonLim

Kind of a weak article, but the TL;DR of it is:

Professional gamers can now earn a decent living from streaming their play, even if they don't win tournaments and what not. You just need to play the game and gain a viewership.

Not to mention that it is beautifully designed and very intuitive, making it very accessible for almost any dumb-dumb (like me!)

I'm an avid reader and I'd love to know how you would incentivize me to read, share, and promote on my social channels.

Reading your Digital Reader preview article, it seems like the more I read and share, the more content I have access to? Just a personal opinion, but I wouldn't want to share my opinion on a book just because I get greater access to other books.

Sneak peeks, access to the author, discounts to buying the books, those would all be decent incentives for me!

Great cause - apologies on being a bit late.

Your concept art looks amazing and would definitely love to give that game a go and maybe a bit of my support. Other than donations, do you guys need help with any infrastructure at all? I'm the Product Manager for PostageApp (http://postageapp.com) and any help we can throw your way would be easily arranged.

My mom got an LG Optimus cause she wanted a smartphone with wifi without having to shell out the cash for an iPhone or Android phone.

It has a terrible screen, is hardly responsive, and is only useful as a phone. And barely, considering how difficult it was to place a call using that awful screen.

They looks interesting - if they can be snappy and responsive and work well, I would give it a shot.

My only reservation is that it would be proprietary Sony everything that it would work with, which means that it probably sucks when trying to use in conjunction with anything other than that.

Yay for more competition!

Neat! Thanks for answering. Definitely something I'm going to pass along to a few friends who are in this space or are constantly starting something. :)

As for the mail, no worries! Let me know if you have any questions about us, or if you just want a bit of feedback regarding your transactional designs and copy.

Cheers!

This looks really great!

A couple questions:

- What language/framework do you guys use?

- How secure are the transactions?

- What do you guys use for transactional emails (welcome, password recovery, donation receipts, etc)

I'm the Product Manager of PostageApp (http://postageapp.com) and I'd love to give you a hand with transactional emails, if you are so inclined! Let me know, keep up the awesome work!

This was my reservation as well. I'm pretty stingy about who I give Facebook access to.

Why not? They're continuing to create really great products that scratch their own itches and are allowing the company to grow.

Seems like they have the resources for it and the drive and ambition.

Looks great!

Here's some of my thoughts:

- Sign-ups might feel a bit lengthy for non-technically savvy people, maybe just allow them to put in their Restaurant Name, their name, and an email, and give them a pre-made page where they could add/edit all their information

- There's a mailing list option? How does that work? Will I be able to push updates to anyone who signs up?

- You might be able to make a more restrictive way to input restaurant hours; being able to put in hours freely is great but doesn't give me a format to use

- It's been mentioned already, but the URL IS really ugly

Overall, plenty of work to do, but you've made a fantastic start. Happy to give you more feedback if you like, let me know. :)

Great so far! Very minimalistic and easy to navigate.

Notice that you're using Google App Engine to send your welcome emails, and I'd love to offer you PostageApp (http://postageapp.com) while you're in beta. We'd be happy to help you out with that. :)

Let me know, cheers!

And add that to the landing page as well, it wouldn't help anyone who discovered this without HN.

If they're anything like the web dev shop I work in, absolutely not. We're free to grab drinks after work and we're free to go home, there's never any pressure to join.

I assume GitHub is all that and a bag of cookies - you can join and chat and build relationships with people, but under no circumstances is a gun held to your head.

Chances are, if you work there and you enjoy the environment, you'd WANT to go out for drinks with them!

Why wouldn't something in the cloud work for you?

I personally have a Google Apps account that I connected to my iPhone as an Exchange account, and it syncs my Contacts and Calendars plenty well, and gives me my mail at the same time.

I presume a regular Gmail account will serve the same purpose.

Done.

I'm a bit concerned with your product value proposition based on the questions you asked at the end, but I'm sure you guys will shape it based on what we give back to you.

Good luck!

I know this article is supposed to be centered around Tim Ferriss but the meat of it, to me, was about how Amazon was walking right into the turf of book publishers and setting up shop.

Hey book publishers, you shouldn't be concerned at all, because you've seen this coming for years. They made and popularized the Kindle, and you could have made a huge and radical shift toward digital copies of books and including them in your contract negotiations.

Oh, but I guess you could have never seen this coming. Learning from the music and movie industry must not have been an option.

Come on guys!

Hey Matt,

Apologies on the delay. I will definitely get in touch wtih you later today, cheers!

This is a neat idea, and the visual editor on the page is really neat.

However, I'd love to chat with you on improving your email deliverability - right off the bat I saw that your SPF records aren't set, so let me know if you'd be interested in getting some help in fixing that up. :)

Cheers!

Neat!

Could immediately see some great travel use cases for this.

Nerd request: let me type in the text fields on your app mockup on the site, and have it translate on the other side. Be able to flip it or flip languages.

That would just be... crazy.

It is? OH.

Don't I feel stupid. :)

Pretty sure it's fake - plenty of faked sports videos. Look for the video with Ronaldinho hitting the crossbar three times with a soccer ball. Insanity, but fake.

Still awesome though.

I really like the idea and I have plenty of designers I could show this to, however, just one thing irks me:

It asks for me to give it access to my DropBox. The issue with that is I had no idea how to do it until I went searching. Perhaps there's a way to link to the part of DropBox to make it easier for dum-dums like me?

I can think of a few drawbacks:

- Extremely commoditized, people shop around for hosting providers based on price and included features, so you better have a good offering

- Your service must be top notch and you need to be available to fix things pretty much instantly

- Reliability when reselling services is not in your control, so... good luck with that

Best of luck!

I tried to get into out-of-copyright classics but I just can't read them. Call me stupid or uncultured but I prefer a good fiction book that is light hearted and will get me through my commute.

Are those really much better formatted though?

Interesting concept, and definitely great for those who want to read business books that those founders are most likely going to recommend.

A few questions:

- Beyond getting book recommendations, how else will you offer value? Online discussions? Cliff notes?

- What happens when multiple founders recommend the same book?

- Will you be using Amazon Associates to make money through affiliate book sales?

And of course, a few comments:

- "Featured Entrepreneur:" text and entrepreneur profile image do not line up, along with the entrenpreneur's name, this is bugging me and can easily be fixed!

- You have a very simple description, but you might want to give me a reason why to give you my email address other than getting book recommendations from you

- Getting high profile entrepreneurs (like Andrew Warner) is great, but what will it really mean for me?

Great idea, hope you get a good list of subscribers!

Depends on the book! A lot of my Chuck Palahniuk pirated books were so poorly formatted that I just decided to buy the damned thing after viewing how good the sample was.

Kindle user here. Started out by downloading a handful of books from various authors whom were recommended to me. After seeing how poorly formatted some pirated books were, I downloaded some samples of other books, and the formatting was great.

Went and bought a whole whack of books right after that. I pirated the first book in Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones) and bought the rest because I loved the book so much.

So yes, Amazon has played this arena VERY well, in my opinion.

I hate to do this, but it's "grammar".

Not that I'm calling you an idiot, you have a very fair point.

Neat! Definitely bookmarked, I love Show HN posts the most!