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Unfortunately, not too many buyers read things long pieces of text.

Usually things like SSL (the lock in the browser from a user's perspective), trusted seals from well known companies and logos from trusted brands (Visa, Mastercard, etc.) makes users feel a lot more secure than the description or details about the security.

Amazon's Sign In button has text "Sign in using our secure server." You might want to look at some of the leading companies for best practices to create a secure environment for the buyers.

> (3) no interest = less equity at conversion

This will be taken care by the market via the caps put on the Safe.

I was confused too. However, I think they are going to bring in-app search (like Android) to iOS. They can always auto index the apps on the device and then send the data to their servers. Alternatively they may also relase APIs for developers to push user specific content to their servers to index items (more like ElasticSearch or AWS CloudSearch.)

$200M is a lot of money to just improve the app store search. They might end up using it for that too.

Thanks, will check out other images.

This is something we can use. I just tried an image and mediacrush gave me a URL of the hosted image. I compared the size of the original image vs the one on MediaCrush. They were both same (130kb) Am I missing something? Or there is nothing to optimize in the image that I used?

Edit: Just realized the original image is optimized by Cloudflare Pro account. I guess they work well.

Scalyr folks - Please make the header of the table fixed.

PictureLife manages pricing based on storage. One of the things I liked about Everpix was that it was $5/mo no limits (AFAIK). If you can figure out a no limit pricing that would be great, it doesn't have to be $5/mo.

I am also a Flickr Pro member. I always thought Flickr+Everpix was a great combination. You can always create a set of apps (desktop/mobile) and have users connect with Flickr accounts to store the pictures. I won't mind paying one time $50-100 for a good Flickr uploader that works more like Everpix.

IMO the content on the site does not reflect it to be 'user acquisition as a service.'

Value Prop - I think the site/service is very generic and might need some specific niche. A lead for a plumber is very different than a consulting company or an airplane selling company. The site makes it look like I can plugin ANY type of B2B business and start getting leads.

Pricing - If I am a local roofer and paying $800 to leadgeni.us I'd pay for a specific number of leads rather than 20 hours of research. Further, the site doesn't tell me who will research for the deals. Are these interns, experts in my field or people who have minimum of 3 years experience in deal finding?

They are back up for me now.

Amazon.com is back up for me.

You should checkout this book - http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/95708.The_Now_Habit

It bothers me that neither fastmail or freron have full screenshots of their interface. What reason can they have to not put a tour/screenshots section on the site?

Here is an idea - Pause/freeze the trial period. Initially give a 14 day trial period. If the user does not come back after 2-3 days, send them an email that you have paused their trial for now and it will start running again when they login next time.

Google Answers is the only service I can think off. I don't think it was popular though.

Looks like Wordpress. If it is, use this http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-super-cache/

Edit: Also would recommend using Cloudflare.

Ahh, thanks. I didn't realize it was just a demo. Sounds like a fun weekend project.

Just tried http://nlp.stanford.edu:8080/parser/ it only allows up to 70 characters for parsing.

Looks interesting. fflick.com did this sometime back and were acquired by Google.

A feature suggestion - "Enter your email to get weekly notification for movies with more than 80 buzzscore" (where 80 is editable.) An extension to this could be email me movies that are popular for their comedy, acting or the story.

If my math is correct: 2.75% of $10B/yr = $275M/yr. Although they may not be charging 2.75% across whole $10B. I don't think Starbucks would pay 2.75%.

I think there is a lot of great feedback in this thread. Lately I have been helping a family member with setting up their online tools for a spa. Here is my feedback based on that experience:

- It was hard for me to find the Signup button. The only signup link on homepage is hidden in the top nav. Other pages have it below the fold.

- As others have mentioned, I have no idea what Basic, Pro, etc. are

- Screenshots, screenshots, screenshots!

- From what I understand the biggest value proposition Snip offers is the CRM (I am assuming it is easy to use). Setting appointments on cloud based is pretty easy using Google Calendar, but what GCal does not provide is the history of a client interactions. This is not obvious on the homepage.

- Show me the money - It will be great to see something like this on the site (if not homepage.) On average using Snip's history tracking salons were able to increase appointments for existing clients by X% and product sales by Y%. If you don't have these stats yet, might want to put industry standard stats.

- FYI the business I helped tried GenBook and BookFresh for online appointment scheduling (by customers) and that didn't work because people liked calling most of the time. Since this is a new spa most of the customers were first time customers. They currently use getbase.com as their CRM. It is more of a hack and not really the most ideal solution. I'll recommend Snip to them. IMO, a fremium plan (similar to Getbase) would help attract people getting vested into using your tool.

- I didn't see on the site if you let export the data if a customer wants to leave. You might want to think about this, if you don't already have the export built in.

Feel free to contact me {hn.handle}@gmail if I can help answer any question. All the best with Snip!

I am curious to know how you cultivated sense of urgency among employees after this conversation? Did you start sharing more about competition and/or other information? Did you share it directly or massaged the message so the employees don't get discouraged? Or was "we don't want to be discouraging" an assumption?

Way better than the first version. Still missing things Sparrow is good at: 1. Send & Archive button/setting 2. Option for 'Delete' and 'Archive' on swiping an email in the inbox. 3. Hold to mark as read/unread for an email.

> don't forget ebay and amazon fees add up to 11%-20%

True, but comparing Helium with eBay and Amazon is like comparing apples to oranges. Both Amazon and eBay are marketplaces where you get visibility from buyers other than just payment processing. Helium should be compared to more the likes of Shopify (integrates Stripe), Volusion and BigCommerce.

Here is something interesting Facebook can/may do: Apart from showing variations of the gifts (such as colors, flavors, etc.) have another option of "Save $xx as Facebook Credits." Once people have Facebook Credit sitting in their accounts they'll be more inclined to use Facebook to pay for things.

I thought about the address part too. However, don't they already have locations from smart phones to determine where you live, where you work and where you hang out.

IMO, it would take as much time to Google Rapportive and find out what it is as it took me to write and submit this comment.

You probably meant 'Google will be smart'

"Getting that JavaScript is a one-time operation, and a 304 from then on."

In theory it sounds right. However, there are a couple of cases where users will have to load JS a lot more than they should. Since most of the logic lives in the JS file(s) they will be changed and pushed out a lot more. This will force users to download the JS every time code is deployed.

Also, I am not sure what percent of "New users" land on Twitter pages, but they will have to download the JS.

3M is not the revenue, how much they raised in total. His point is that they lasted 4 years with just raising 3M (+ whatever revenue they generated)

Design looks great, but can't get the meeting working. It is stuck on that flash permission dialog. Neither allow or deny work. I am using Chrome 18 on OS X Lion.