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I sent the site owner an email to see if he can comment on more general search queries he may have lost ranking on. If it is just that long quoted one I agree that your suggested headline would be better.

I admit I struggled to come up with a headline for it and my choice of wording was not very good. However, he did lose search traffic as a scraper site took over his top ranking for certain searches.

It appears he has more details about specific queries on this page: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/AdWords/thread?tid=0bb...

I eat with my wife and son at home, unfortunately that isn't one of your options.

Hmm... I just tried fresh FF4 and the settings window came up right away for me. Do you see "Buylater settings" in the Tools menu? If not can you email me your "Troubleshooting information" (under Help -> Troubleshooting information) to raph@buylatr.com? Sorry about that.

Ah cool, I didn't know about gazaro before.

Scanning frequently for changes. We are aiming for 5 minute updates, but it depends on how many items are being tracked and if we saturate our Amazon API access.

We're aiming for 5 minute updates on items, and we are using the Amazon API.

I'm a huge fan of HN and with the constant reminders here of people successfully doing something, I've (re)launched an app that tracks amazon price drops. Thanks hackers! Also special thank you to Joshua McKenty of http://www.piston.cc who built the first version of this.

I tried a home office with a door that closes but found it just easier to get an out of house office. I did fine with just my wife but with a baby it was really hard to not go help when I heard him crying for an hour, etc.

Also my wife found it much more empowering to just have to deal with the baby on her own instead of having me as a 'last resort' option just a knock away.

Yeah I didn't like a lot of his more out there stuff but I just ignore it. He still has some excellent insights on productivity and has some new ways of thinking about common, tired problems that have helped me.

I was really overjoyed when I found out about this and actually started a site based around it. I'd been listening to positive / educational audio every morning on a walk / run and found it to have massive improvements in my productivity and happiness.

I also read a lot of Steve's stuff so I wanted to be able to listen to his stuff while on my morning walk and while doing errands but he only had a few podcasts.

Thus, (shameless plug) www.empoweraudio.com was born. I got some top audio talent to partner with me to do audio versions of Steve's content - if anyone is interested.

I find just going for a brisk walk in the morning and potentially running while listening to some audio I find positive very helpful. Either stuff like Tony Robbins, technical podcasts, or something to remind me of all I have to be grateful for.

I think a lot of it is the routine or your habits... for example, I know without a shadow of a doubt that I perform better at my work when I take at least 30 minutes in the morning to walk and listen to something positive. More bonus points for taking even 5-10 minutes to meditate. Yet historically my stick-to-it-iv-ness for those activities always seem to go away when presented with the days urgencies or more mindless 'busymaking' like random surfing.

I listen to the audio still while commuting or around the house, but often read the transcripts if I don't have as much time.

For some guests I really like to watch the video as it helps connect with the guest and Andrew.

I don't think I would have even started using mixergy if it wasn't for the video and the visual connection with Andrew and the guests though.

When I add someone to follow I just get a blank page (if I go back I see them added)

This makes sense to me than the article did and I had no prior understanding of it, though some people might also like real world examples.

I feel like seeing the essential (as you've done) and then finding examples that are specific implementations is how I learn best.

But are they profitable or are they expecting to make it up some other way?

I am. My contract income recently dropped and I'm ruthlessly cutting my expenses, but I would eat one less meal a day before I would drop my Mixergy subscription.

You are absolutely more capable than you think. I started freelancing with a decently sized startup based on the recommendation of a good friend who was an all out super star.

I was looking for freelancing work and failing miserably at it. Someone at this startup asked my friend if they knew anyone for "some short term CSS projects". He sent them to me.

I hadn't done CSS in over 2 years (and only then I barely knew enough to do squat) My friend reassured me that I could do it. He also encouragingly said "don't screw this up".

I started the same day of the recommendation. The "short term projects" they originally wanted turned into 2.5 years and over 125k in income for me - about 15 hours / week. I've now gone on to get strong recommendations from every person of the team I started working with at the startup, as well as a new contract with some of them after they'd moved on to a new place.

Something I believe strongly that helped me was I was totally obsessed with turning things around as fast as humanly possible. I responded to emails, calls, etc within an hour and would often complete a project in not much more time.

I don't understand why it is inappropriate to label it a startup. By your definition 37signals is not a startup because they made money early on and don't work more than 40 hours per week.

It seems like the childish / teenaged measuring stick he talked about regarding revenue or employee size. Like it isn't a real business/startup if you don't work 70+ hours per week and earn no money quickly.

I like symfony as well but as of late I've found several things in the documentation to be segmented - such that you need to read around in several parts to find the secret recipe that actually works. I'm planning to contribute to the docs soon hopefully but with a brand new baby boy I haven't had a tremendous amount of time.

Here in small town midwest you can get decent rental properties for around 50k-60k.

I didn't know about this and I'd love to get started using it. I wanted have an affiliate system for my own app but writing my own was not attractive at all.

I'll definitely be watching.

Are you hiring only local people or are you accepting remote applicants as well?

Ability to create more value == get paid more == be more secure.

I really liked this interview. I esp. liked the little preview of the revenue question. That could be used to increase the number of people who stick with the interview if you gave a preview like: I'm going to ask him X, Y, and Z.

I really am interested in how these companies really get off the ground - going from doing consulting for example to selling a product and making enough from that they can live off of it - I think an earlier interviewee called it getting "wife profitable".