Isnt $0 - $49 quite a large gap in your packages?
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OP: "Nope. Worth much more."
1 year later... adds video support and valuation jumps to 10B.
Front-End. Entry-Mid level. I enjoy native (JS, HTML, CSS). I work mostly with Native JS, jQuery, Sass, Stylus, Yeoman, Grunt, Bower, and tons of small libraries.
I've purposefully kept a very native stack because I wanted to stay true to a solid foundation and then join a company where I could learn in-depth about the frameworks/libraries that they're using. I'd be particularly excited to learn Backbone, Angular, or work in a Pythonic codebase.
Sideproject (Rails): http://subella.com
Github: http://github.com/ryel
Personal: http://christianryel.com
Email is in HN profile page if anybody has questions.
I'd also REALLY appreciate any constructive criticism.
I can't imagine how mad the big guys (Facebook, Twitter, etc) would be if this service grew big
I can't wait for the day LinkedIn goes the way of the Myspace. The only thing people will be wondering is how it took so long. That being said, I'm looking for a job now and couldn't imagine not using LinkedIn. Everyone asks for it.
I like the energy of startups but finding the right group of people is hard.
The enjoyment you may get out of talking to a sushi chef or similar is this mutual respect that if the chef wants to talk to you about software, you are the professional and you've spent your life perfecting it. When you speak to a sushi chef, you expect the same level of competence to go into his food. In other countries often when you go out to eat you don't even know the name of the restaurant, or even care... When you make plans to go there you reference the restaurant by the name of the chef that works there. "Hey, I heard Chef Baca is working at Roberta's Pizza Joint, we should go". When you go to a sushi bar, you expect the chef to give you your sushi exactly how it's meant to be eaten. You dont ask for a side of ranch, or ketchup, which is kind of like walking into an art gallery and asking the artist if he can add some more red brush strokes to his painting because you really prefer it that way.
As an artist, or a chef, I would kindly ask you to leave and take your bowl of ketchup on the side with you.
I like that you can get away with it but has anybody ever complained?
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Btw you have some kind of awful bug where after you click about 2-3 subjects on the left sidebar, the links to view info on the notes for sale becomes blank and unclickable. I suppose that doesnt help conversion :P Email me if you need a better explanation to recreate the problem.
I was expecting the right answer to be for the salesman to take the pen from Belfort, sell it to someone in the audience, have that person sell it to someone else, and then the salesman turns to Belfort and says... I can get you a good deal on this pen right now before it reaches market cap but we have to move quickly.
Though I still think it's a shame because I wanted to see the movie but wasnt willing to sit through it because of how grotesquely inappropriate I heard it was.
*Oh wait, maybe market cap is the wrong term. Lol.
We dont have enough evidence to take legal action in this case, but our investigation found out something worse so we would like Tom to resign before it comes out publicly.
How many times have you watched a video, maybe an hour long conference and wanted to go back to a point in the video where something specific was mentioned. You have to skim to the area where you think it happened, and then re-watch the video until you find what you're looking for. That sucks.
Even if Youtube allowed people to embed the full transcript of a video in some kind of search layer with corresponding points in the video that would be a dream.
Besides that I'd like a web browser built on 'the hive' that eliminates advertising. If you want to browse the web without being tracked, traced, prodded and harassed you could install the browser and a small, unnoticeable amount of your CPU is used to help power the hive. I would then like to see that operating system give a charitable donation every 6 months that says they will donate 1 month of computational power to a research organization.
One thing I've always wanted to create is a competition website like Kaggle but with real world results. Let's say I create this and go to Mount Sinai hospital in NYC and tell them that I want to run a contest. The contest is to anybody who thinks they can increase Mount Sinai's margins by X percentage within a particular area of interest. The agreement with Mount Sinai is that they have to give us all of the available data and we will open-source it. The challenge for open-source folks is to review the data and if you can find a way to increase margins by X percentage while still upholding the same level of quality, you win the prize. Let's say Mount Sinai gives us access to the entire spreadsheet of products they order from hospital gowns to radiation machines, or even lets say we fund a $100,000 bounty to anybody or any team who can reduce their emergency room wait times by 50%.
You could solve the problem in any way possible, improving hardware/software, or simply finding redundancy in logistics.
Hospitals are probably not the best examples but I hope you see what I'm getting at...
That being said, I wish Google would take on the challenge and include subway info.
- If somebody made a NYC transit app that I actually felt comfortable relying on... I would love push notifications ASAP of when my frequented trains/buses are down. I always forget to check the night before so please just tell me and make it relevant.
-Also I really want a detailed map of NYC that I can view offline but it needs to be lightning fast.
After all the frustration dealing with those apps, a couple months ago I finally decided to buy a paper map of NYC and start memorizing all that I can. I feel a bit more liberated and a little more like a NYC aficionado (snob).
Awesome work!
One thing I have really enjoyed in this app is having built something in an industry which I have 0 knowledge and almost 0 interest. (fashion, beauty, health). I believe it's allowed me to build much more effectively and detach many of the emotions from building and any preconceived ideas about a particular industry. I normally work in front-end and because I'm looking for a job now I've seen a lot of employers give me a stink eye when I dont have experience in a particular industry or even an interest. I think it's odd and I can see their concerns but I also sometimes like to point out that I can also add to the team something nobody else can, a fresh perspective.
In order to stay motivated I have found inspiration not through the industry and the space itself, but through efficiency and learning new tools that power this website. One of the things I'm most proud is a prototype of a client side feature in which I'll be allowing users to create 'hotspots' anywhere in the image they upload. A typical use-case would be for a user to create a hotspot over a particular item of clothing or accessory and reference a referral link to that product. I've also re-created this hotspot feature in mobile and in videos on top of the Youtube API.
I originally moved to NYC to do essentially the same thing you're doing. I gave it up and started coding after banging my head against the wall working with founders/product/marketing teams that could talk all day about funnels, optimizations and product flaws but at the end of the day werent capable of actually doing anything about it. I know that the field is not so much competitive as it is brutal in that 85% of your job is convincing the client that they need you when they really dont. They don't need you to survive. However... if you're good, they could make a significant return on their investment in you. That is what your selling.
They do not need you, but without you... they're leaving money on the table.
One thing I noticed is that 9/10 of my clients were product oriented people. What this means (IMO) is that you're website should look great. When your clientele is the demographic that makes up HN, than you can skimp on design and get away with a truly phenomenal product. A great example here is Tarsnap.
I would look into ghost.io and wordpress, among many others.
Also I think you need to make sure that you put your best work into your own brand. You could do so much more to make a better direct connection between your home page and your blog. Right now they appear to me to be 2 separate entities, and initially I thought they were 2 separate domains. Also you should have a bigger social presence front and center on your website. You do a great job of getting these damn posts on the front of HN but you yourself arent capitalizing on the traffic.
Anyway... This is getting really long but goodluck! Let me know if I can help in any way other than my useless drivvle on HN lol.
If it was the latter scenario, feel free to reach out and talk to the phishing scammer. Recently I had a great conversation with the guy sending out BTC-e phishing mail. We talked about where he bought his email list, how many people he has on it, and how he's just trying to get enough money to buy a safe house for his family. He sounded like a pretty decent guy aside from the fact that he's stolen about 20,000 litecoins so far.
But seriously, most guys who can predict hours needed with any amount of reliability are the guys who have been doing it for awhile and have already done a similar job. They use past experience to predict amount of work hours needed to finish something. If you truly have no idea how long it will take you, you could begin by breaking up the project into each piece and try to project how much time each of those pieces would take. For example, how long will the design take, the homepage, the about page, the forms. Break each feature apart and try to estimate time for each, then add them up.
My best suggestion is just to overshoot your hours. If they accept the offer you should work hard to make sure you meet the deadline and if you go under the deadline, be honest and tell them how much money you saved them.
Of course this is all nothing more than my opinion, and it's coming from a 20 year old who thinks he can develop the web's front-end w/o a college degree (also unemployed if that lends a hand at discrediting myself or preventing some of you from pulling hair from your head because of my ignorance). I hope none of you will argue the belief that the brain and the human body are both so complex that we are nowhere near fully understanding not only "it" and what "it" is in it's entirety and it's role in the world, but more importantly that we don't even know how it works. Some of you may agree with me in saying that we may never know everything about the human body/mind. (And by never I simply mean the foreseeable future.)
One day soon I hope the industry changes into a field where it goes undebateable that while yes, the human mind and body could quite possibly be one of the most complex systems we've ever seen in nature... it is still much different than the human mind. When we treat the human mind as something different from the human brain we stop becoming victims and take more control over our lives.
I think we need to stop simply "treating the brain and observing the mind." What I mean by this is the practice of Psychiatrists and their willingness to prescribe medication like a band-aid patching up deeply rooted emotional issues. IMO it is not only wrong, but detrimental to believe that behavior is the outcome and not the cause. I am a behaviorist at heart (maybe fool-heartedly) but I believe that the human brain in the natural world is so complex... that in a sense, it has created something potentially destructive to itself. What I mean by this, put very simple, is the ability to make ourselves believe that something exists. Whether it's a dependency (OCD, Food) or man-made fear itself (think scary movie - cabin in the dark woods), we have the ability to make these things real. Not real in the physical world, but real enough in our personal world. When bad things happen to us in the physical world, our body reacts. When a loved one passes away, you feel the pain, and often find yourself becoming more vulnerable to sickness from the stress.
When I was about 10 or 11 I bought an old crystal at a flea market that was so big I could hardly fit it in my palm. I liked it, and I liked owning it but never paid much attention to it until one day my Grandmother noticed that I had been carrying it around. She told me to sit down and she began telling me a story about how supposedly crystals are so powerful that some people claim that they can heal you when you're sick simply by holding them. She began telling how she knew of some people who specifically wore jewelry with crystals attached with nothing but the pure intention of gaining some kind of fortifying health benefits. I was so mystified by this idea of a powerful healing stone I began to carry this crystal around. I carried it around in my hand for most of that day and the following day it was in my pocket and later under my pillow when I slept. The length of time of this was 2 days, 1 night. By the second night I was overcome by a nauseating sickness.
As a kid I was so mystified by the coincidence. I figured that the crystal had to have been so powerful that it had the opposite effect on me and became too string of a healing stone.
I wont get into whether or not the power of crystals is something real or not. The irony in this story is that a couple of years later I found that same crystal lying around in a box somewhere. It had yellowed and felt slightly malleable to the touch as though if I pressed into it too hard with my thumbnail it might leave an imprint.
It was a fake.
It wasn't a crystal, is wasn't quartz. It was all in my head. I made myself sick because I believed in something so hard. This is the type of sickness that psychiatrists are running in place trying to remedy.
Of course there is a little more to the story but I'll cut it short here.
As for the article, I'm not sure, but I can tell you I've had much more anger come from fixing cars and working on engines than any video game could ever create inside of me. The difference is that it's very easy to walk away in a fit of rage after working on an engine. I'm not sure what the difference is, or if there is any difference other than rage created from a video game will get much more attention than a motorhead restoring an old car. That would mean that the difference is only based on perspective.
Just a thought, FWIW.
I believe that line does more harm than any potential good.
IMO it would create this false sense of urgency and only sets up that person for failure. Within every company you should always feel the implication that if you do well enough, you could be the boss.
The person you hire will have this constant reminder of "why am I not COO yet". Which I assume would only create more tension.
If your goal with this line is to be more attractive to candidates who are maybe over-qualifed, or serious go-getters, I think you can show that more appropriately by upping salary and setting the bar higher for job experience/requirements.
> "Arrival at this location means Curiosity has driven 3.8 miles since August 2012, when it landed inside Mars' Gale Crater."
It's crazy for me to think about this in comparison to Earth. Imagine somebody dropping a robot on Earth before any known life and trying to make sensible conclusions about what the entire planet was like by only exploring 3.8 miles...
There's an endless number of possibilities as to what could happen in order for me to not be able to go online and verify with that link. Why would I put myself through the stress of potentially forgetting and now I have to worry about the secrets of my dying breathe being released to the public while I'm still around.
If I wanted anything to be taken care of I'd feel much safer keeping it in offline storage with a note attached.
What I think you should do is have a tiered level of notifications. For example an email every week is the first round of notifications. Then I wonder if you could pull my last login info from major services that are going to be around for awhile like Amazon, Google, Apple, Facebook(debatable), and if I havent logged into any of those services in 1 week, then go to the final round of notifications which is an in-person phone call.