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pcharles

16 karma · joined August 19, 2011

I am a Technology Consultant and Entrepreneur in NYC.

http://hnofficehours.com/profile/pcharles/

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pcharles··on Ask HN: What tech do you want to learn?
Are you talking about analytics? Like with big data?
pcharles··on Ask HN: Do you prefer to receive HTML or plain text email?
HTML
pcharles··on Ask HN: Should I validate a client's idea?
Yes. Do your due diligence & be up front & honest. Also prepare to have a 'backup' plan (other peson/people) in case he still wants to move forward
pcharles··on Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
promoting it is the hard part. You also have to beware of the bargain basement shoppers that will vampire you
pcharles··on Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
Ha. Gotta love sh*t like this. Hilarious Probably most sales from college kids
pcharles··on Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
Freemium model almost always works best! Best of luck
pcharles··on Facebook set to finally launch auto-play video ads in news feeds
I HATE this.
pcharles··on Show HN: Server Check.in, one year later
I agree. I wish I woulda been able to start with something like this. Some of the LM features are overkill & clunky.
pcharles··on Show HN: I made the first web based Vine client
How long did it take you?
pcharles··on Show HN: Server Check.in, one year later
Nice. I was looking for something like this for a while. I finally settled on http://www.logicmonitor.com/ but this is a cool alternative
pcharles··on Show HN: The Stumbleupon of Online Shopping (for Xmas) in 83,203 lines of R
cool stuff. My gf had an idea for a site like this for teacher's supplies.
pcharles··on Ask HN: What is a good conversion rate for a landing page?
Very nice lp's. What CMS platform do you use, if any?
pcharles··on Ask HN: Why is our eCommerce store converting poorly?
I think the most important question is: Do people want it enough to pay for it? You can always get great feedback, but if people do NOT want to pay for it, then it doesn't really matter. Find out if the value proposition is good enough. Maybe you need more to sweeten the deal. I would recommend pushing the product to targeted users for about 1 month and see if the conversions increase.
pcharles··on Ask HN: How To Grow An E-Commerce Site With Zero/Low Budget?
You could migrate to Shopify http://www.shopify.com
pcharles··on Ask HN: Would it be okay to build a better (web) game from someone else's idea?
You only have to improve upon the idea by 10% and it is a value-added alternative.
pcharles··on Ask HN: Fantasy Sports Improvement
Well there's alot of paid services out there where you can get some pretty accurate statistics of game outcomes as well as player stats. I was thinking more along the lines of how users actually playing the games.
pcharles··on Rate my startup: SafeboxApp.com
Great idea. Especially with the 'issues' of security with Dropbox released within the last few months.
pcharles··on Ask HN: Let's see your weekend projects
Cool stuff!
pcharles··on Storyboard software
I came across 280slides.com, which is like a web-based version of Keynote, so I can use it on a PC.
pcharles··on Storyboard software
Yes that is what I am looking for. I have to prepare a storyboard for a software demo layout. But I do not necessarily want to do alot of manual work (copy/paste, switch screens constantly, etc). So I was hoping there's something out there that allows you to run through the 'demo', record, then edit the recording with notes/comments for the editors to follow.
pcharles··on Ask HN: What is your idea-to-launch process?
First, validate your idea. Make sure it is something that a market wants. If not, how can it be refined as such. If it cannot, ditch it and come up with something else.
pcharles··on HN Business users: What are your daily pain points from a technology standpoint?
What do you think would be a good solution to that?
pcharles··on Ask HN: Why is it so easy for Anonymous to hack websites like that of Sony?
I'd go with the latter. Remember, the highly paid web guys at the large organizations find out about alot of the 0-day attacks around the same time the rest of us do.
pcharles··on Ask HN: Resources for beginner freelancers?
check out Business in a Box for the documentation and templates. They have different plans

http://www.biztree.com

pcharles··on Ask HN: What do you want, and why?
All is good but do not aim for 'rich', prefer 'well off'. Because rich is temporary.
pcharles··on Ask HN: Evaluate my side project please?
1. There should be a blurb about the site. But focus on the 'Why' and not the other W's. 2. Beef up on SEO and spread the word on other sites, blogs
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