natgordon

>> How stable are the product links you use? Do you do any type of periodic validation?

Right now no.

>> If I click on a link to view a product, it might be nice to open that window inside a frame (or modern equivalent) with a babyli.st "reserve" button at the top.

Great idea!

Thanks for the concrete feedback. Great, great, great.

I put up the vendors page after I saw a vendor create a list of their products with a description "create your baby registry on this site to register for our store". At least I can contact them once we have something engaging to tell them.

Really good advice. I think of toys-r-us and babies-r-us as the same but they're not... Thanks.

I hear you. I think the one thing that makes this different is that I'm not going after the universal wishlist market, just the baby registry market. When you go to create a baby registry you're not like "oh, i need a wishlist of items for the baby".

I'm just starting to market this with people in the pregnancy/baby space, and so far they seem to think this is a totally original idea made just for them.

Great feedback. It was an after-thought because the first people who looked at it were like "oh, i can only register at those 6 stores". Thanks.

I'm 8-months pregnant. When I went to create a baby registry I was pretty disappointed with what was out there (I ended up using Amazon Universal Wishlist). I found myself with some time on my hands waiting for baby, and decided that I'd build a better baby registry. I partnered with a great designer I met on forrst.com, and this is the result.

I'd love any feedback, suggestions etc.

This is cool. I recommend letting the user auto-post it to CL like airbnb.com does. Then the user doesn't have to look at the html.

I've working on http://toeflnow.com.

The primary market is ESL (English as a Second Language) aged 17-24.

We are not converting. We actually had a much uglier out-of-the-box wordpress site that was converting better than this website.

What's your advice about how we can improve conversions for our paid products?

I'm the exact same. 8.5 is what i need to have a good coding day.

I didn't make any progress :)

The idea was to connect your different affiliate accounts to give you real-time, rich data about aggregate sales. But in order to access this information on behalf of the affiliate marketer you need to overcome a huge trust barrier (eg. with access to their cj account you can view their ssn).

- affpad.com

- afalytics.com, affilitics.com, affilytic.com, affilytics.com // was looking into doing an affiliate analytics app

- hashreply.com // idea was same as twithawk

- voxily.com

Public library search interfaces are awful. The Vancouver library and Seattle library both use the same standard catalog software. They're slow and clunky.

Based on the name ipac, I think they both use this software - http://www.l4u.com/iPAC.php

This was from an another HN thread (HN Contractors) - https://spreadsheets2.google.com/ccc?key=tk7rUIb-2aPdk_5gFJE...

I've been contacted for work through it.

Do you think non-tech people saw that the same way as us?

I felt the same thing about the Winklevoss' story-line. Did non-developers/non-HNers get the same thing from the movie?

That's really helpful.

In the movie when the girl says, "But Sean Parker founded Napster", in real life she would have said "Shawn Fanning".

The pros on this list really resonate with me. Whenever the "women in computing" discussion comes up my biggest input is that women are missing out on a job that can pay exceptionally well right out of college, offer flexibility down the road and that it's FUN to create stuff.

A friend of mine runs CareerCup - http://careercup.com/

Highly recommended as a place to find/practice tech interview questions.

Are you using an SRS (Spaced Repetition) flashcard program? It helps if you're starting and stopping because it will force you to review all the words, grammar, sentences etc. that you used to know.

You can fit it into any other learning you do. It really helps put things into your "long-term memory".

Software: Mnemosyne - http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/ Anki - http://ichi2.net/anki/

The 35-year old cut-off could be considered gender-specific.

I'm a 30-year old female entrepreneur and software developer. I would love to do Y-combinator or other incubator program. I also want to start a family. If I wait for years to have kids, there is a statistically higher risk of infertility. This isn't the case for men. I think the author is correct that women may be more ready to launch a start-up when they're 40.

My partner and I saw this market opportunity a couple of months ago. For a first version we came up with 9 banner templates and instead of allowing the user to update the banners themselves we do it manually within 24 hours.

site: http://33banners.com/ blogpost: http://aflanagan.com/will-this-make-500-a-month/

From our experience I think your biggest challenge is going to be reaching potential customers.

Best of luck.

I meant "really creative browse". :)

They also completely bypass the chicken/egg problem. The site can work with a small number of sellers. If I'm an artist I can set up a store on etsy and use it as my professional website. I then give out the etsy link to people I meet in the "real world" to buy my work online.

Etsy does really creative product search - it might be the best site out there. http://www.etsy.com/buy.php. It's a really fun site to navigate.

They probably get less attention in the tech space because their user base is mostly women.

I just moved into a house in Vancouver. Vancouver has a MAJOR bedbug problem. I cross-referenced every place I looked at with http://bedbugregistry.com.

Some advice - look at the corners of the mattress at every hotel or hostel you stay at for the black dots or an inky stain.

Launching real products for real users it major :) Good luck.

Lenguajero is a pretty bad name. It's easy to pronounce in Spanish (and is actually kind of witty) but is terrible in English if you don't know Spanish.

I'm the other co-founder of Lenguajero.

Yeah, but YouTube was bought by Google for $1.65 BILLION at a time that they had around 70 employees. So it was at least a financial success for the founders.

Reach out to Kirsten Winkler - http://www.kirstenwinkler.com/

She's like the techcrunch of online education (someone else said this once).