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Email : leon {at} rocketmailmerge [dot] com
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rex_gsd··on Ask HN: I have developed bedsheets that can go months without washing
Doing exactly this on Kickstarter would be a sure fire bet. Do it now!
rex_gsd··on Show HN: Freight Finder, an easier way for truckers and shippers to connect
Excellent idea, thought I'm also not really sure how you'll get it infront of truckers. Perhaps you could take out an advertisement in one of the numerous trucking free magazines/newspapers that you'll find in truck stops on the highway. Though they're often not cheap to advertise in.
rex_gsd··on Hack this for 20 BTC
I found a bug, when you generate a wallet you can press the clear and reset button and the generate button remains enabled. This allows the user to generate a wallet using an empty string.

This is using Chrome 31.0.1650.57 m

All tips greatly received : 1Li2Dq9L49mJmCYcEh4n2eSQ9B6eWKCgBv

rex_gsd··on I'm creating a website to promote early stage sites and ideas
I sent you an email to the one via your contact us link. I like the page!
rex_gsd··on DutuPHP: A unified, object oriented API for PDO and mysqli
This looks promising, I'll check it out.
rex_gsd··on Crowdsourcing and visualising local noise complaints
Great app, typo in partying neighbours. You're missing the y. http://dontwake.me/street_review.php?action=search&listi... - Clicked on it after searching for brisbane, map in the link shows England.
rex_gsd··on Show HN: Remove backgrounds from images online
I agree, definitely needs these buttons. Works amazingly well!
rex_gsd··on Fuck you PayPal
This is why I went out of my way to find an alternative processor to Paypal for my most recent startup. Monthly fees were definitely higher but chances of this happening, much lower.
rex_gsd··on Show HN: Weekend project - FaceInToilet.com
That's an awesome idea, though maybe you should consider mixing up your marketing as a 'take revenge' kind of way instead of the 'pranks' target you seem to be going for at the moment.

'Upload the face of your enemy' instead of 'Upload your friend's face'.

rex_gsd··on Show HN: A side project - shareable diffs for MSWord files, pdfs, and more.
I really like the interface, nice side project.
rex_gsd··on Ask HN: Company not paying salary on time, what to do?
For a written contract to be valid it needs to be signed. If you never signed any contracts you have no employment contract for him to base any legal cases against you on.

What country is this?

rex_gsd··on Ask HN: How are you using the PDF format in your websites?
We wrote an app to create invoices for my company as PDF for easy printing. Had a lot of good feedback from business associated so we released it as a full paid app (With free accounts) - http://www.rocketmailmerge.com
rex_gsd··on Ask HN: Favorite recurring billing payment gateway?
I've had great support from the team at http://www.chargebee.com (Hooked into pin.net.au) for handling my recurring payments for my SaaS
rex_gsd··on 109 paying subscribers in the first month
Thanks!
rex_gsd··on 109 paying subscribers in the first month
I read that you spend 0 time on marketing, but how do people find your service in the first place? Is it all organic searching or did you slowly gain traction since 2007 and spread by word of mouth?

I've got an online SaaS I just launched (a month ago) and am struggling to figure out how to get people to even sign up for a free trial.

rex_gsd··on Setting up a Payment Gateway
You mean setup a service similar to stripe to be all all in one service, or the kind where your clients still need to open a merchant account with a bank and you're just the interface?
rex_gsd··on Guerilla Marketing: TaskRabbit Flyering in San Francisco
Shame we don't have a service like that in Australia. Hmm
rex_gsd··on Australia Post's free Amazon locker-style service
Looking forward to some of the major US carriers like UPS, or even USPS signing on to this.
rex_gsd··on Show HN: My second startup; solving the problems from my first startup
My server decided it would be a good time to do an update cycle, at 2am our local time; just bad timing unfortunately for users from the US.
rex_gsd··on Show HN: My second startup; solving the problems from my first startup
Yep, I totally agree about the term Mail Merge being pretty unknown so I'll get some feedback from friends on what it could possibly be changed to.

I'll be trying direct marketing first to the businesses that already do mail merges so if that fails I'll fall back on search hits and make it more new user friendly.

rex_gsd··on Show HN: My second startup; solving the problems from my first startup
That's the problem with landing pages. They're always hard to design objectively when you've worked on the product for so long. I'll think of some optional wording for headings etc to better explain it.
rex_gsd··on Show HN: My second startup; solving the problems from my first startup
Clickable link : http://www.rocketmailmerge.com
rex_gsd··on Do you think this App video in just 2 mins conveys how useful it is?
I don't get much SMS spam and I had to watch the video without audio but it looks really simple to use and if I did get spam I'd be downloading that right away.

Cool video.

rex_gsd··on Gamification of Googles streetview API
That's an awesome idea and very nice execution.
rex_gsd··on Ask HN: How do you stay focused on your side projects?
I've been working on a side project for about 6 months. It grew out of a need I saw in some friend's primary businesses and thought it was a worthwhile project. I essentially worked on it about 2-3 weeknights a week and about 4-5 hours on Sat and Sun as time permitted.

I stayed focused by setting small goals, achieve this function by the end of today, then call it quits. Before I knew it the code was finished to my satisfaction. I finished the code at the end of January and have some ideas for the next project.

I try to get one side project (One SaaS app I can sell to subscribers online typically) a year completed. This one took about 200-300 hours I think, thought that's just a rough guess.

rex_gsd··on Show HN: Testimonial Board - Generate more sales
The screenshot is nice, but do you have a live demo of some business's testimonials, even if they're fake? I'd like to see how it sort of works and what my customers would be seeing before I create an account.
rex_gsd··on Ask HN: if you would want to move on from IT, what would you pick today?
I'm not sure about being well paid, but I've always thought doing pottery would be pretty relaxing and is about as far removed from IT as I can come up with.
rex_gsd··on Show HN: Yet another side project of mine - Life Tip a Day
Nice clean design. I'd recommend enabling pagination on the page numbers though. I tried to click on number 2 for page 2 and it didn't work.
rex_gsd··on My new code startup: Tell me what you think
Looks like a cool idea. If you can solve the chicken and the egg problem by filling it with some useful snippets before launching you'll be able to pick up a user base quickly.

Edit: Another startup from Brisbane, nice! I live not far from there.

rex_gsd··on Show HN: 8 million downloads after one year on the App Store
Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the presents; Ah the Christmas theme. Just one of the small things that escape you when you're very busy. Have updated that now. I'm still not quite happy with the design of the TMR page. The whole thing needs to be scrapped when time permits and redesigned, fortunately people like the software beneath so it hasn't been the highest priority lately.

I just looked up your landing page for Tiny Piano. It's nice and informative but the grey background is a bit striking for the black iphone. The contrast would be better with a lighter color. You can pickup some really nice templates from themeforest for a few $ if you're not a designer at heart.

Best of luck cracking 10M downloads! I'll add an extra download to your totals shortly.

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