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Jsarokinon What is the general consensus regarding hyphens in domain names?

Hyphen is death. Have you ever typed in a hyphen? Unless you're getting all your traffic from search then it may be fine.

Imagine users telling each other in person. Then the person almost always will forget to add the "dash" when they type it in.

Id say keep coming up with names for go with the 4 syllables.

Jsarokinon Students: You Are Probably Not Mark Zuckerberg, So Stay In School

I like to think of it as they went out and made the opportunity happen for themselves instead of waiting for the opportunity to present itself.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: Google Search spam solutions

Because people would make a macro that would "report to spam" their competition from different IP's. It would be a cluster F*.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: Best place to get a demo video made?

That's the type of company I'm looking to find, however their particular "style" wouldn't mesh well with my design.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: Evaluating a pre-seed funding offer

I don't know the answer to your question, but it may be worthwhile to post it on Quora as well.

Good luck finding your answer, and congrats on the funding offer.

Jsarokinon Is California the most miserable US state to live in?

Definitely not. No matter what some article says, its awesome to live in Cali.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: Suggest software to setup virtual classroom in India

Skype and a computer with a camera?

Seems like it fits all your requirements.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: What do startups use for customer support?

http://www.olark.com/

Jsarokinon Show HN: Pen.io

Would be cool to add a grouping by hashtag function.

So I choose the page name for my first entry to be Test123, and I also add hashtag #StartupPosts

Then later I make an entry called BlahBlah1 and hashtag #StartupPosts , it groups the two together. Then users can search by Hashtags to find posts.

Also, common hash tags would allow people to search content from multiple users. For example #Religion would have a bunch of religion based posts, from different users etc.

Jsarokinon Best Movies about Startups and Entrepreneurship

Wall street:Money never sleeps, or the first Wallstreet?

Money never sleeps was decent, never saw the first one.

Also add Glengarry Glen Ross. Thats where "ABC, Always Be Closing" came from.

Jsarokinon Best Movies about Startups and Entrepreneurship

Boiler Room - one of my favorite movies ever. It will change you.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: Review my startup, Enterthegroup.com

You should probably have, somewhere on the homepage, a quick snippit of what the site actually is/does.

"Take your Group Project or Classroom to the Next Level" doesn't really explain anything, its more of a sales pitch.

Something like "EnterTheGroup (ETG) is an ______ that enables you to _____ faster than ever before."

Jsarokinon HN now serving a million page views on weekdays

I'm not sure how accurate your assumption that new users are voters on the homepage is.

As a new user, most of my votes are on the "New" section rather than the homepage. I vote up the things that I think other people should (on New), rather than what everyone is going to see anyways because its up on the front page.

I do think that some sort of weight system for upvotes would be an interesting feature.

Jsarokinon HN now serving a million page views on weekdays

Hopefully with the amount of hits and new users the site is getting, quality doesn't decline. HN has (In a matter of 4 days) taken the #1 spot on my "TechNews" bookmark folder, so as of now the article quality is great.

As a new user, I'm quite surprised with how civil and helpful everyone is.

Often times when you put a lot of extremely intelligent and strong-minded people in the same place, things can get heated really quickly. Granted, strong-minded people are usually not offended easily.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: What tools do you use to test your website?

http://browsershots.org

Shows you what your site looks like in different browsers. Extremely useful.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: Please review my startup, CashBase (personal finances)

Would there be a way to connect with a bank account (that way transactions would be added automatically).

I don't know if banks allow you into that or not for security purposes.

Nice design, and love the video. The ease of use seems to be key with the service.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: How do you deal with setbacks / frustrations and self-doubt ?

I don't know the exact details of your situation, and I can't say I've ever experienced what you're going through but I think it can be boiled down to a simple question.

Are you doing what you love?

I think dealing with the frustrations is different for each person. You have to try things out and find what works for you.

This may be something you want to talk to a psychologist about.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: Review my startup, FleshEatingZipper

Unless their into that kinda stuff.

Jsarokinon Motivational Quote(s) For Entreprenuers

Entrepreneurship is living a few years of your life like most people won't, so that you can spend the rest of your life like most people can't. - Anon.

Failure defeats losers, but inspires winners. - Robert T. Kiyosaki

Some people dream of great accomplishments, while others stay awake and do them. - Anon.

An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he'll quickly learn how to chew it. - Roy Ash

Jsarokinon Motivational Quote(s) For Entreprenuers

Great quote. Be the wolf not the sheep :)

Jsarokinon OKtrends: The Best Questions For A First Date

Anyone spot an inverse relationship between religion and literacy on that last picture? haha

Jsarokinon Time Killer: Box Spin

Damn, just played two games, and killed time I didn't want to kill. Fun game though :)

Jsarokinon How to generate profit from a startup

Well, I think it is.

If you have 100,000 users on your website, and no way of making money , you're in pretty good position. Some brainstorming and figuring out how to implement ads and you're set.

If you have 1,000 users and a great way of making money, its not that valuable.

Also, users tend to like sites with less ads as opposed to more. Its better to build up your userbase before monetizing it.

Jsarokinon How to generate profit from a startup

I think each one has a different model for making money.

A lot of them dont have one at all. The value in their business is having a lot of people using their website (twitter for example). Twitter has a very limited way of making money as of now, yet the company is valued at billions of dollars. Its the ability to reach a massive amount of people that's valuable.

Jsarokinon People worry too much for other people

Id say your first point is correct. I mis-wrote when I said "right". Anyone can say think or feel whatever they want.

The problem here is people are up in arms as if neo nazis ran a racist advertisement, when in reality Groupon made a commercial at Tibets expense (if you even want to say that).

The reactions to the commercial are "outrage" and "boycotting Groupon"... Do people not have anything better to do? That's the point I'm trying to get at. Sure you can "act" upset, but was anyone really truly upset at the commercial, or is it just to bring attention to themselves?

Jsarokinon Ask HN: My app's been copied. What do I do?

Contact a lawyer. I'm not one, but there are laws that protect you (probably... Do you have any trademarks, patents?). Also, You have intellectual property rights to your app regardless of patents or trademarks. If its a blatant copy, you probably have means for suing them and getting some $$ back.

Again, not a lawyer, I could have said something completely wrong, but as far as I know what I said above correct.

Jsarokinon People worry too much for other people

I agree with the gist of what the article is saying.

For example, I can understand if a person from Tibet is upset about the Groupon commercial, but a person from America? You're not upset! You just want people to think you're upset. You're not even from Tibet! Get over it. (If you are from Tibet and found it tasteless, then you have the right to be upset.)

People are too involved with other peoples lives, and are always trying to find something to complain about.

The commercial was funny. Life's too short to get all pissy over a commercial.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: What's a reasonable affiliate marketer charge?

I'd say do something like this.

Flat rate on initial signup + % of every recurring payment after (this way you can get away with giving them a smaller percent than if you just did straight %)

$20 on Initial signup and payment + 15% of recurring payments.

Jsarokinon Ask HN: What's a reasonable affiliate marketer charge?

Yeah, its definitely possible (I own an affiliate network). Depending on how robust the tracking software your using is, you should have that option available.

Typical cut is a tougher question. What price are you thinking for as monthly subscription?

Jsarokinon Ask HN: What's a reasonable affiliate marketer charge?

I'm guessing the problem is that since you dont know how long users will stay on the monthly contract for, you dont know how much each user , on avg, will make you ergo don't know what to pay affiliates for commission?

Easy solution. Have your commission be a recurring commissions. Basically they get X% of each recurring payment. That way the marketers are trying to target users who will stay on board for a long time (ie. make them more commission).