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pmikalon Ask HN: Has Hacker News been hacked/cracked?

Certainly seems like it.

pmikalon How to figure out value per member?

Take the average length of time that a user stays with your service.

Find out the average number of purchases they make.

Multiply to get average lifetime value.

Spend less than this number on your customer acquisition, ie Adsense.

Example: The average subscriber stays with you 1 year. It's a monthly service, so the average customer makes 12 purchases. You have a low/no cost service with a gross profit of $2/mo.

12 x $2 Profit per Unit = $24 LTV of the average customer

If you have some sort of viral component where users are getting other users, you'll want to account for that as well.

pmikalon Ask YC: Review my app (pycmds, a web-based command line)

It would be helpful if you had, at minimum, at least a fraction of the 12k+ commands already available at YubNub.

http://yubnub.org/

pmikalon Ask YC: Best artistic/design firms?

I recommend John @ http://www.skyrocketmedia.com/

pmikalon Ask YC: Alternatives to 3rd Party Processing?

Hi Stubbs, I might have a solution to this, but would prefer to discuss over email... if you don't mind contacting me, http://mikal.org/contact/

pmikalon Yahoo Mail fucking sucks

I have been having problems with my paid Yahoo account for months now. Can't search my own email. I call support, they reset the settings, it's fixed for a day or two, then it breaks... hit repeat. And all these new error codes. When did Yahoo mail ever need an error code?! Garbage!