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davodesign84··on Show HN: Fishoid: an ambient fish tank for your screen
Very cool!
davodesign84··on Ethereum Denver 2019 Hackathon Finalists and Winners
Wait, CryptoCattle did not win anything?

https://kauri.io/article/1d85cb754b1c4c13b819351287a27fab

davodesign84··on [SHOW HN] New ethereum dapp Blocklord just launched, thoughts?
Full disclosure, I'm the creator :P
davodesign84··on [SHOW HN] New ethereum dapp Blocklord just launched, thoughts?
From the reddit launch post:

Blocklord is Ethereum's 1st Decentralized Planet Earth where every corner of the planet has been tokenised on the Ethereum Blockchain, and can be customised and traded.

ABOUT BLOCKLORD Blocklord subdivides and tokenises every corner of planet Earth. You can own, customise and trade blocks of land on the blockchain.

Each token, or block, can be personalised with image, text, a link to your personal or commercial website an so on.

You could own Times Square, the Tour Eiffel, your office or the place where you met your significant other, and customise each block to your liking, leaving your mark forever on the blockchain.

Blocks can be re-sold or rented out to tenants who might want to temporarily advertise on your blocks, generating real world income.

You can earn value in 4 different ways. 1) You can decide to resell a block for a price of your choice (e.g. you buy for 0.1 ETH and can sell it for 0.12ETH for 20% profit) 2) Other players can decide to buy you out without your consent, they would need to pay at least double what you paid for, this is to retain liquidity in case somebody bought, say the White House, and then decided not to play the game anymore. 3) You can rent your block, for a daily fee another player can decide to put their data on the block. Imagine a coffee chain would want to advertise a campaign on the blocks where their premises are.

What do you guys think? How would you use it? Any feedback would be great!

davodesign84··on We really do love Mozilla Persona. And that's why we're sticking with it.
So they are going to still provide the servers but not support the development? That's an odd choice..
davodesign84··on Hyperlocal Neighborhood Maps Reveal the Chaos in Aleppo – Wired
Of course is not surprising, but I find it very interesting.. we are relying too much on technology. Or at least, I am.
davodesign84··on Hyperlocal Neighborhood Maps Reveal the Chaos in Aleppo – Wired
Is interesting how low tech can be used to get better penetration than high tech...
davodesign84··on Oh, you still use Wordpress for your blog? That's adorable.
I used to love WordPress. Now is too feature heavy for a blog and not flexible enough as a CMS (without a lot of customisation)..I might give Ghost a try, feels a lot like Medium. How about the SEO though?
davodesign84··on Why we love Mozilla Persona
I guess Mozilla limited resources would be used on other projects until it gets the right traction.

I believe it deserves it, but more collaborators should chip in, or more websites should use it in order to make it elegible for more resources.

davodesign84··on Start Smaller
Not necessarily.

The MVP approach can allow you to build fewer features that are actually useful for your user base.

There are tons of product out there that are gaining market share against older/bigger companies, think about the CRM market for example. The big players can't remove all the "wrong" features they built in the past because a portion of their user bases is attached to them, smaller players can iterate at a much higher pace.

davodesign84··on Start Smaller
Apologies but I had to. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5sxLapAts
davodesign84··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool? (February 2014)
http://www.zonino.co.uk is a platform for finding tech jobs in London startups. We scrape the jobs automatically parse them with a natural language processing system (GATE), index them and make them available to the public. For free! It gives me a nice fuzzy feeling :)