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djtidauon Show HN: PromptHero – Search millions of prompts for Stable Diffusion and DALL-E

https://prompthero.com/category/photorealistic?page=2

As mentioned above, the results do not change when paginating through categories. Page 3 is the same asPage 2 is the same as Page 1 etc..

djtidauon SeaGlide

I love seeing kids involved in projects like this. The excitement that goes alongside building these kinds of things is likely to keep them interested in similar projects in the future.

Does anyone know of any similar initiatives?

djtidauon ChartMogul Launched: Analytics for Stripe, Briantree, Recurly and Charify

Looks great, this is an area I have always thought surprisingly lacking by the payment providers themselves. I'll definitely be giving it a try when I get a chance.

It might be worth providing a bit more of a breakdown of your product (especially screenshots) as I found your sell sheet a little brief, just a little constructive feedback.

djtidauon Show HN: TouchstoneJS, a React powered UI framework for beautiful mobile apps

The brevity of the page displaying just the roadmap and live demo is honestly quite refreshing.

It's great to be able to just look at what is there and see where the strengths and weaknesses are (at least with some face value).

Great work on this, I can't wait to see how it matures.

djtidauon A cautionary tale about subscription services and how not to shut down a startup

I think the basic idea behind the assertion is that someone coming out of Techstars should know better, either due to the fact they have smart/savvy enough to be accepted in the first place or that they have been provided with enough information to make decent decisions like shutting a site down when the business has folded.

Techstars may not market themselves as a measure of credibility, but i'm sure it is something they care deeply about. If an incubator constantly spat out startups making deeply questionable decisions like this one they would have far less startups knocking on their door.

djtidauon AWS CodeCommit

Though many won't see any sort of advantage to switching, it would be very interesting to know what kind of effect this has on both Github and Bitbucket. There doesn't seem to be any major drawcard that will have people chomping at the bit to change over that I can see. I'm happy to be enlightened though.

On another note, is it just me or has Amazon really been ramping up with their releases lately? It feels like there is something new each week at the moment.

djtidauon New Facebook Rules Will Sting Entrepreneurs

This is true, information overload is a serious problem that much greater minds than mine work to tackle. Though personally I want to have a little more control over my stream.

Google+ had an attempt at this with giving a kind of ranking to certain circles depending on how noisy you want them to be. For me that is a much better approach as I am more involved in making such a choice. Though then comes the issue of giving the user too much work.

There are two sides to each coin I guess though in this case I do feel it is weighted more toward boosting FB's share price rather than truly looking out for their users.

djtidauon New Facebook Rules Will Sting Entrepreneurs

Whilst I understand Facebook's position on this and can see that they are trying to clean up news feeds (whilst maximising revenue), it has always rubbed me the wrong way that they DECIDE what I see. If I like a page, I want to see the information from that page, if I didn't I would remove them from my feed.

It's this kind of mismanagement of information I am subscribing to that will surely have people looking elsewhere.

Will Facebook soon filter out friend requests from people they don't see as being suitable?

djtidauon Show HN: Premium Medical Marijuana Subscription – SF Only

I too don't understand such negative responses here. As far as how it looks the site seems just fine to me. Not being too familiar with this market I'm unsure of the feasibility of the business but the idea seems sound.

Is there any reason why you are cash only at the moment? You really should look into adding some kind of online payment integration (Stripe is very easy to get up and running if the allow it for this market).

Just a heads up, on Chrome/OSX your example boxes popup is created three times, one on top of the other.

Good luck!

djtidauon Show HN: Is your WordPress blog starving for content? It doesn't have to

Hey guys, just thought I'd throw this out here. This is an ongoing weekend project that allows people to import/format their social media posts into WordPress.

I'd observed that many people were putting a lot of time into creating content on social media networks, leaving their blog to go without. This is a way to remedy that without changing existing habits.

djtidauon Introducing the Internet.org App

What a good way to do some social good whilst also opening up a new userbase that was not previously accessible.

With Facebook and FaceBook Messages both in the available applications, they get a foothold there ahead of their competitors.

djtidauon Stripe launches in Australia

I did this once stripe announced their beta as I had been waiting for some time. The additions of subscriptions and checkout was attractive. Along with the fact that stripe was more established.

djtidauon Make Your Copy Longer: An Archive of Research-based Marketing Facts

There is already a bit of negativity in this thread, but personally I found such a list to be quite interesting.

I don't think anyone in their right mind is going to take every little fact as gospel, but the writer has saved everyone time by providing a nice summary and a link to the text in which the facts were discovered. From there you can make your own decisions.

djtidauon Flickr is removing Facebook and Google sign-in

I used to be a huge proponent to single click sign in, in theory it's great. The problem I found with my own startup was that by allowing Twitter, Facebook or Google+ sign in, it was a point of confusion for the user. The amount of duplicate, even triple accounts was far higher that what I would have expected.

After reviewing the pros and cons, I switched to a simple email/password combination which also solved another problem of having to ask the user for their email address.

There really is a need for a true single sign in provider, in which you link your identity accounts to one 'super' account and then sign in with that, allowing whatever information is available from each as you wish, or simply a blank profile with only your identifier to link back to you.

djtidauon Dockerizing a Python Web App

My main reasons for using docker have been for portability and a development environment that is an exact match to that of production.

It's also very useful in deployment, I have different containers for my web, primary worker and mongo replicasets. Combined with Digital Ocean it makes it very easy for me to quickly spin up new servers and set them up as needed with only a few commands. There is also comfort in the fact knowing that I can do the exact same thing on linode without any modification to the container.

djtidauon How to Avoid Sleep Debt

I sympathise with you, being in a a similar situation (two kids under 5).

What I have found works best for myself is the exercise. It does simply come down to discipline. Do not allow it to be pushed aside. I ensure that I am up at 6:30 each morning to hit the gym and then I am good to go for the day on that natural high. It is harder to stay up in the evenings, and my sleep is interrupted, but when I sleep I sleep well.

Good luck!

djtidauon How to Avoid Sleep Debt

Just to add my own personal anecdote, melatonin supplements did not work for me. This is not to say it won't for others, but it isn't magic for everyone.

djtidauon Enough

I think what made this story all the more interesting to me is that you are doing this even though (and also because) you have a family. These kind of stories usually lend themselves to those that are less restricted as far as commitment goes.

For yourself, was it a question of weighing up between there more for your family against providing more financially for them in the future, or are you that comfortable that it isn't really something that weighs into it all that much.

Great article though, it's always good to see people going against the norm in search of a more rounded life.

djtidauon One of my domains could be worth a lot – what's the best way to sell it?

If it is as important as you feel, and you're not too desperate, it could be worth simply showing that the domain is available for sale and waiting for an offer, rather than rushing out and trying to chase it (you'll likely lose out a little on this).

Then again, depending on just how great it is you may never get an offer at all.

djtidauon Linear Feeds Perform Better Than Grids

The lists looked far more visually appealing to me, mostly due to the better usage of images alongside the text. The grids, whilst tidy, felt far less inviting.

djtidauon Stem cell scientist Haruko Obokata found guilty of misconduct

I will never understand why someone would falsify claims in such a way when the time will eventually come to back them up.

Are they hoping that in the interim they will be able to progress far enough to reach the goals they are trying to reach?

djtidauon Stripe Checkout: Added an option to remove the "Remember Me" checkbox

The turnaround time on this from Stripe really is something to be envied. One of the best ways to make customers loyal is to show that you hear them.

Funny fact, but due to Australian privacy laws 'Remember Me' was not able to be displayed in the first place so it didn't effect me.

Now just patiently waiting to be able to accept USD.

djtidauon Stripe Checkout

It's this kind of proactive engagement and quest for a clear understanding of your users and their goals that has had me waiting so impatiently for Stripe to become available in Australia.

We're prelaunch right now, but are about to implement Stripe (what will likely be checkout) shortly, after having already settled with a local payments provider.

If you're ever this side of the pond be sure to look me up and we will grab a beer.

djtidauon Pin Payments is Australia’s first all-in-one online payment API

I too would love to hear the story. Australia isn't known for being all that startup friendly, and with WA being the mining sector predominantly I found it quite refreshing to see something so tech focused coming out of there.

It looks like they have a great team and in my limited experience their customer service is really good. Hopefully some of them chime in here though their director seems a little HN shy from one of his latest tweets.

djtidauon Pin Payments is Australia’s first all-in-one online payment API

I have been testing with these guys as we get closer to releasing our service and they have been great to deal with. Not having to worry about a merchant account saved a lot of time when it came to paperwork and the integration is very simple.

The payments sector has been awaiting a shakeup in Australia for some time now, and Pin will definitely be a recognizable force moving forward.

Congrats on the launch and thanks for the lowered monthly fee!

djtidauon Don't Judge a Hacker News Post by its Comments

I wonder if this could be related to Negativity Bias (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negativity_bias).

I did notice the same thing and found it interesting.

djtidauon Show HN: Fine precision sharing for multiple Twitter and Facebook accounts

G+ integration is not really possible just yet due to the lack of a write API. Hootsuite do have priority access to such an API, though it is limited to Pages and not personal profiles.

djtidauon How to make a great looking video for your startup on a budget

I originally had planned to use voicebunny.com but when it came down to it I just couldn't justify the price.

The voiceover via Fiverr was even synced with the video.

djtidauon Killing Your Startup on a Thursday Night

This is an honest take on things, and whilst it would be great to have the ability to dedicate ourselves to something full-time, it isn't always possible.

I'm currently in the process of running a startup, whilst maintaining a family and a full-time job. Is it ideal? Certainly not, but at this stage of my life it just isn't an option to quit my regular job. This doesn't represent a lack of dedication to what I am trying to achieve it simply diminishes the time that I have to work on it. That is fine with me though (and I suspect it was with the OP as he decided to take the journey in the first place). I'd rather try when my circumstances limit things, than not try at all.