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Maybe I missed something, but how do you know what you are bidding on, just from the button? Or does this need to be embedded somewhere that already has the product details, like a blog post or something?
I've been guilty myself of looking for the "solo-founder how-to" guide. Like the person above, inevitably I was always disappointed because none of the answers said what I wanted them to say.
Great writeup.
Isn't there a way to tag the photo as ok to send?
This would also be cool with Dropbox. I know people have shared albums with new pics added every-so-often.
And a printed option (someday) would be nice too. Something like the recipient can one-click to get a printed version sent to their house (and I pay).
But very cool anyway.
And until this year, it also included a free handset, last one 20 months ago was a desire HD. So £10/GB does sound expensive.
The web is my content management system.
I post to Flickr, Dribbble, Blogger, Github, Google+, Twitter etc and that stuff is my content. I post it there so that other people will find it and interact with it.
After that realisation, I figured why fight it and decided that the strategy for my personal site was to collect all my content from those other places.
I no longer do that. I now look for the product whose support will be there for me when disaster strikes.
No matter what product you choose, at some point, something bad will happen.
For example, posting a listing to Etsy.com requires some very specific details which are not relevant to other sites. To post an Etsy listing, share the same photos on Flickr, share that content to a blog post would require a lot of data at the central point to spread to all those services.
I think it's easier in the cases I've seen to post to the end services and pull that data back in.
Shared fields are not often more than Title, Images, some Body Text. Then there are hundreds of smaller options from price to tags to materials to photosets to choose from.
The other issue here is that where cross posting is easy, usually the main service already provides it, i.e. posting from Instagram to Flickr. If you include services like http://IFTTT.com then you're pretty covered for this case.
Edit: although when you get logged out for inactivity or you click log out it seems to get rid of this cookie.
I know to some that's still young, to others that's over a decade away, but over the course of this year I think I have crossed over a bright white line as you put it (although not the middle aged one I hope).
That's not to say I feel worse, just different. Where I once felt invincible, I now feel experienced or where I once had endless energy to throw at something I now have the nous to work out a way of doing it with less energy.
I work alone, so it's not too embarrassing having an electronic desk. I have noticed that my legs ache less. I stand for about 1/3 of the day usually.
I can see that it could be useful for people accessing facebook from public computers or other temporary devices.
When I first read it I assumed you got a directory in Dropbox that when you posted a document to it, it added it automatically to the linked facebook group.
However, auto-play can be nice in the right setting. Lots of car manufacturers auto-play video as part of the design. Or some product shots like the MackBook page where the laptop opens and spins is nice.
I guess if comments were forced on downvotes, let's say "I downvoted you for being a moron" than instead of leaving your own version of "you're a moron" you could add your weight to the first downvote-comment.
So like downvoting with a comment, but kind of adding your weighting to someone elses downvote for the same reason.
I care because it's a measure of whether what I say is agreeable or disagreeable. It's not about fitting in or following the herd, but if I say something that loses me karma I want to understand why. Maybe I'll end up with the same opinion anyway or maybe it teaches me to think more before I talk. Mostly, karma helps me reflect on my opinions and question those opinions.
The only thing I would do with HN is to _force people to comment when they downvote_
If you agree with me, then an upvote with no commentary is fine. If you downvote me, tell me why. Maybe I could learn something, maybe I get the chance to explain myself better, maybe an open disagreement on a point enriches the community.
Re: making money. I plan to sell extras, like premium themes etc So keep the core product free and make worthwhile add-ons.