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Bad things get all the publicity. If something is going well and people are content, it's just "normal" and no one is going to write articles about it. Slightly bad things are enough to get news attention. You'll always see more negative news than positive.

It's called Autosweep and you need to call up to enable it as far as I'm aware. It's not possible to activate on the site alone. I'm not sure if it also authorizes them withdrawing from your account or not.

I moved my main domain from theminimgroup.com to minim.co when .co domains came out to get a shorter, better looking domain. I've had maybe 1 or 2 people ask me if I meant to say .com on something but it seems like the overwhelming majority don't have any problem with it. Then again, I wouldn't know how many emails I receive at minim.com.

Initially I would say pivot, but I always wouldn't force a pivot (e.g. try to think of a similar idea, make that instead). The fact that your product is well-known in your niche means that you've got a slightly easier job at marketing a similar project.

Other options you could consider: A) How technical is the support you get caught doing? Is it something only you can do? Would hiring a technical support "employee" via oDesk or Elance make sense? Would an open forum for support (if it doesn't already exist) help users solve simpler problems? Can you reasonably charge a support / maintenance fee (Charging for exceeding X hours of support per month)? B) Are there other ways to encourage the time commitment and get churches to keep using? Are there small features or changes you could make to encourage involvement?

What's your motivation for creating the product? If you really believe in it, you could find ways to minimize your current involvement while building another smaller service that may not mean as much to you but generate more cashflow and allow you to pursue projects.

Most of those questions are rhetorical but hopefully they help you narrow down the issue and possible solutions.

I think GetSatisfaction did a great job responding to this post at the time and it's important to give them some credit for a good response to criticism.

I had that hunch too (of course, pure speculation). Coincidently, I've now moved to Chrome primarily anyways.

I think there's a lot of range within design work so a smaller step up gets you exponentially better work. For example, $250 logo may be 10 times better than a $25 logo but a $2,500 logo might only be 1.5 or 2 times as good as the $250 one.

$15,000 for 4 pages of HTML is ridiculous, as is $150 for 4 pages. $1,500 should get you amazing work. I do a lot of work coding design to HTML/CSS and without being over-confident, I'd classify my skill in HTML and CSS as expert level. I charge around $200-$250 a page if coding directly from a PSD or image to HTML/CSS. Charging 15 to 20 times as much? I struggle to understand it.

If you want a designer on a mid-low budget, you can try Elance or oDesk, but set the hourly price you're looking for at $30-$50. There are good designers using those services but you need to get their attention.

I don't think there's any issue withing using the same blue. It makes me think Facebook as well which isn't terrible, but probably not the first though you want someone thinking when they visit your site (It doesn't look like you do much work with Facebook). Try a darker blue or a different style to the header bar (rounded corners, slight gradient, etc).

May not be well known for startups but be thankful it's a big city and there's still some activity. (DFW is 75x as big as Iowa City, my home).

I've used http://www.queensboro.com/ several times. First-time orders get free logo setup and it's a 4-piece minimum. Look at the sales etc. I've gotten 4 polos for ~$20.

If you prefer screenprinting, the guys at http://pofd.com/ have been great and have some of the cheapest printing I've come across.

Expect that your relationship will change and be prepared to change with it. Expect to forgive the past and expect to discover the future.

In my opinion, it seems fine for someone to submit their own work under another title than Review / Show HN. I look at the quality of the content rather than title but if the title was overly spammy ("Forget Backbone: Learn about the world's best ....") I'd have an issue with that too.

I've been building my own in Sinatra. Haven't got everything I want yet but if you're interested in the source, it could save you some time on the design side of things. It's all CSS3/HTML + Basic HTTP Auth. (Screenshot with different color "themes" displayed: http://i.imgur.com/8h9jK.jpg)

For the printer.

Increased to a 500 karma minimum - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1853529

Although people have been voting "No" and "Not...yet", I think the answer to your question is simple:

If your extension solves a problem that a person values at X amount of money, they'll pay up to X for it. If the extension creates Y amount of value, they'll pay up to somewhere slightly under Y.

Even without a hard copy, how would you be able to view the video but not download it? YouTube, Vimeo, etc. are all downloadable with a variety of Firefox plugins & desktop applications.

Let's say that you can solve that problem, perhaps there's a solution out there that I'm not aware of. You still have the ability to record it at the same quality it plays using CamStudio or any other kind of screen recording software.

Ok, so let's pretend you've managed to block any kind of downloading, any kind of screen recording program and any kind of site vulnerability. If I were the kind of person who wanted to download photos to start a scandal, I'd just take a picture of the screen with a digital camera. Sure, the resolution might suffer slightly but with a tripod and a little trial and error I bet I could get them pretty nice.

I like the idea of being in control of when they're deleted from the server or having a time limit, I just don't think it's possible to control where the content ends up.

Have you taken a look at what he actually wants designed? It's a single page that lists the committers. It's not a full site design, he's not looking for the world's best designer. I think he's offering a very fair price and the time commitment is low compared to true spec work.

I'm a designer. I'm against spec work. I don't consider this to be spec work.

You're right and I should have paid more attention. I had thought you were generating just the image from a web page. Having actually worked on something similar, I can say I'm very very impressed with the load time.

Then turn it back into HTML with an experiment of mine: https://github.com/andershaig/img-con - It takes an image, writes a span with a background-color for each pixel. Turns a 100x100 image into a 7 MB HTML file.

I agree with lovskogen. There's a number of designers / UI guys mixed in here on HN. Feel free to email me or make a Ask HN's Designers post.

You can get the SheevaPlug DevKit for $99 (http://www.globalscaletechnologies.com/p-22-sheevaplug-dev-k...). As far as the software they're using, it's not available yet but will be GPL (source: http://theplugbot.com/about).

I agree with others that this doesn't make sense to become a default. However, it doesn't mean that's your only option. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/57563 looks like it might do the trick (although I haven't tried it). If not, it shouldn't be too difficult to create your own GreaseMonkey script and solve your problem.

It's a good story but the title is wrong. He didn't keep the money, he was legally entitled to the money after the bank's mistake but returned it. Also, the story has 5+ pages. Great story though.

The motivated and hard-working will succeed.

I dropped out of college and it was a great decision for me. Every person is different. For some, college is great. For some, dropping out is great. I'd guess the choice that is better for you is related to your learning style.

I'd never attempt to convince someone to drop out of college, but if they do and it works out well for them, I'll be happy to congratulate them.

I would say there's not a lot of real, valuable sites on Flippa but they do come through. Sites of lower prices do have a better chance being legit but there's also a lot of worthless sites created just to sell. If you have a website with real, verifiable income, you can get $10,000 for it, you just need to prove it.

If you sell it within the first year, you probably can't get more than 4-6 times monthly revenue (not enough history). If you've got 12 months of revenue history, the prices start going up and solid sites get 10-12 months revenue etc.

I started doing a series of blog posts on Design for Coders and only finished one before putting the other drafts off to the side. Live post is here: http://blog.minim.co/design-for-coders-less-is-more. Shoot me an email and I'll send you the drafts for a couple other articles. If you (or anyone else reading this) has specific questions or topics, I'd be happy to answer/blog about them.

Passion isn't the only motivator. There's a reason that you turn up at work every day and keep working. Perhaps you just need to figure out what motivates you and use that to move forward. This post itself seems to say you have things you want to be doing or you wouldn't have made it. No need to rush things. If you're content with your job and not unhappy, no need to change anything before you know what to change.

I'm a huge fan of "Dina". Switched from Proggy.