matthodan

I first made Knot News public last September, though I didn't really have a launch. I managed to get a handful of wedding blogs to post links to Knot News at the time, which is how anybody knows about the site. Today, most of the traffic I get is direct or from Google searches for "Knot News" or something similar. I've been trying to get all of the blogs that are covered on Knot News to link back to Knot News, but it's a slow process.

+1 Just started reading, but looks good so far.

Thanks this is good feedback! I def need to do a little work on the favorites.

Possibly, but Green Wedding Shoes, one of the more popular wedding blogs, gets over 45K monthly uniques and there are probably 5 other wedding blogs with similar traffic. I should be able to get more than 3K!

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Not as good as a call, but here are links to their Facebook pages (most have public posts enabled):

[moved to its own thread] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3458653

Just got my Pro account-- no brainer.

First article as of right now: <div class="score">2.2702851337050234 = (4 + 6.0) / (6.220370086885 + 1) ^ 0.75)</div>

4 = # of clicks, 6.0 = publisher score, 6.2203 = age in hours, 1 is to prevent divide by zero, and 0.75 = gravity

Are we not coming full circle? Can't you make the argument that we're getting closer to a world in which all the server does is store and retrieve information, while the browser does the heavy lifting? Thank you JavaScript and web APIs.

I would love to hear any feedback you have on the site-- thanks!

Does anyone else find the pledge hard to read/interpret? I think I read it 3 times before the meaning sunk in. Granted, I hadn't read the rest of PG's article yet. Short and memorable (e.g. "Don't be evil") might be better. My suggestion: "[Insert company] won't sue companies with less than 25 people for patent infringement." It ain't perfect, but that's what I got.

I suspect this wouldn't work for well-covered companies, but for less well-covered companies (e.g. investment funds), it seems possible.

That's a good point. I need to spend some time putting info about the site in print. Thanks for the feedback!

GIT

I thought so too at first, but this way I can control the length of the unique ID while still guaranteeing that every ID is unique. Clearly, if you decided to have a 2 character masked identifier, you'd end up with a small number of possible objects before problems start to happen. As a TODO, I need to implement an elegant way to handle situations when all possible UIDs have been exhausted. If you know of a good UUID lib that lets you control the length of the UID, guarantees 100% unique codes, and gracefully handles issues when UIDs have run out, let me know! I'd definitely consider replacing my CodeGenerator.

Who is the DHH of Django?

I wish I could compare this curve to comp in finance. It seems like a lot of money until you realize PE firms/hedge funds/banks are offering fresh MBAs +$200K a year. I'm not saying finance is better, it's just a data point to put things in perspective.

Why are you offering it for free? I'd gladly pay for this. Feature request: I'd like to be able to subscribe to podcasts too.

Hi Chad-- I've been looking for an app like this! I just sent Andrew @ Mixergy an email begging him to give you permission to include his feed. His blog is the reason I've been on the lookout for something like this... Any chance you'll be able to play his video interviews via the app too?

Wow, that is a great write-up.

Thanks for the advice! I'm going to test out an Aeron and a couple alternatives tomorrow. Thinking about the risk of developing back problems sure puts the cost in perspective.

Totally an April fools! These guys to produced it...

http://www.roggeundpott.de/projekte_de/alle-projekte_de/re-3...

http://www.roggeundpott.de/input-output_de/#1652

Very cool. I'll definitely use some of these.

I like this idea-- you might even start with comments collapsed so users can quickly identify threads of interest. Here is a simple mock-up of what I'm envisioning:

http://imgur.com/SGbyG

Agree 100% that Textmate is easier for people who are just getting started programming-- heck, I started with it.

Apologies in advance for not answering your question directly. Frankly, I wish I could have caught you before you paid for Textmate, as I would have encouraged you to try VIM.

VIM has become one of the most popular editors among Rails developers and many Textmate users are making/have made the switch (myself included). It takes a week or two to get familiar with VIM, but once you are comfortable you'll never go back to Textmate. Having just gone through the VIM learning process, I think you should do the following:

1) Download MacVIM (I assume you're on a Mac) and understand that your VIM configuration is stored in your ~/.vim folder and ~/.vimrc file

2) Search for example .vimrc files-- Tim Pope has a nice example at https://github.com/tpope/tpope/blob/master/.vimrc

3) Build your own .vimrc file from scratch-- research everything you add to your .vimrc using :help (:help is huge, don't discount this) and Google. Think of this step as building your own text editor. VIM is extremely customizable, but unfortunately it doesn't ship with all of the functionality that users expect enabled

4) Install pathogen, then install each of these plugins in the bundle folder in your .vim directory:

  - rails.vim (syntax highlighting, navigation, and much more)

  - snipmate (easily create custom code snippets)

  - nerdtree (browse project files)

  - command-t (find/open files within project easily)

  - vividchalk (color scheme)

  - ack (text search within project)

There are probably 100 other plugins people will recommend, but I think these are a good start

5) Write a blog article about your experience. I'll be posting mine soon!

Do you have projects that generate cash flow? If so, how did you decide on those projects and how long did it take for you to see a meaningful amount of cash flow?

I've been thinking about building something like this, but haven't had the time. I'm glad to see someone did it!

What a great post-- thanks for sharing! I've been wanting to write a post like this for a long time... It inspiring that you actually did it.