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Correct. This is the open graph bot. You can force fb to scrape your site at will and clear the current cached image preview.

https://developers.facebook.com/tools/lint

Execution on a mac safari is completely foobarred.

Dropbox have blocked the links due to high traffic. :( anywhere else we can take a butchers?

Does anyone know any open source projects that provide that level of abstraction? I mean, login code, user profile management etc. is so repetitive, I'm surprised that even with all the frameworks there are out there, that none just have drag and drop ready to go functionality for this sort of stuff already.

Dedicate time to doing. I took at least one day that was me time, where I went to Starbucks after work and spent a few hours every week cranking out code. The disconnection from your home life, whether that be your significant other, or the mountain of TODOs around the house helped me to focus massively.

Don't beat yourself up over it taking a long time to get something together. Its going to take a lot longer to get a side project off the ground whilst working. I found that the first few weeks were the hardest, mainly because you'll be looking at a project that looks like nothing. As it evolves over time, it'll start to look like something and as such this in itself is motivation to find the time to work on it.

Stupid as it sounds. I also didn't buy a domain. You might think that 'oh I have an idea I'll buy a domain and go do it' but the inverse was true for me. The amount of domains I have that I have done nothing with is testament to that. The risk of someone else buying the domain I wanted was motivation, anyway, domains don't matter in the general grand scheme of things. If your product isn't shipped, domains aren't worth shit.

Focus on small wins. Create a Trello board with a few columns. TODO, DOING, DONE. Keep the tasks small, and when you have them done, move them over. Whilst not directly an answer on "where to find the time" it will help to keep you motivated to have a big column of "DONE" with stuff in it. Especially when you are going to have nothing visual at the start.

I have an extremely understanding partner, but I also set aside time when I put the laptop down. Stupid as it sounds, actually working on a laptop rather than a desktop worked for me as when everyone else was watching tv, I could code, and you can take your work with you so when you have some free time you can work.

I've written before on this very topic - not building your house / business on other people's platform.

That said, I think there's a real opportunity for Twitter to grow via third party apps by being more open, they just haven't straddled the line of being both a consumer app and infrastructure company well previously.

I agree massively with lots of what Dustin Curtis has previously written about his vision for the platform:

"Twitter has turned into a place where famous people and news organizations broadcast text. That’s it. Nothing great is Built On Twitter, even though it should be the most powerful realtime communications platform on Earth. There are simply no developer integration features for building stuff on top of Twitter as a platform, and that is absurd and disappointing. The fact that automatic tweets from apps are considered rude is one of the biggest failings of Twitter’s product team–Twitter should be the place for apps to broadcast realtime information about someone. And yet the culture around the Twitter community has effectively banned such behavior because the product doesn’t have features to filter/organize such notifications."

http://dcurt.is/twitter

They want the (hobbyist? / fun) apps yet, when something sizable comes along, the don't want someone else to run away with the ball. Coming out and saying to smaller indie developers now "If you build something decent, we'll take some revenue" I don't think would placate many. It may have been a decent way to start, but too much water under the bridge IMO.

As does Pinterest.

What size is the request / overhead?

'some tax avoidance schemes haven't been tested in courts yet'

Probably because the law isn't either fit for purpose, or clear enough for someone to litigate.

As far as I'm concerned, if they (are obeying the law) and getting away with it, then articles like these only expose that the government are the incompetent ones.

Totally agree. Came here to say pretty much the same thing. On a related note, highly recommend the Checklist manifesto (book) for devops.

OP (Benjamin de Cock) is one talented guy. Some of his work is phenomenal.

Ha. Yet their advertising optimisation teams continue to tout the benefits of implementing an interstitial ad unit on mobile:

https://developers.google.com/mobile-ads-sdk/docs/dfp/androi...

Edit. More here:

https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/products/mobile-ads-intersti...

Left hand doesn't know what right hand is doing.

Added a basic converter for you.

Sorry not at the minute, but its absolutely on the roadmap. I'll drop you a DM when its live.

Awesome. Many thanks for all of that. Send me a mail - paul@getdeckchair.com and I'll sort out the account deletion. Or alternatively a cancel subscription under billing you can use.

I did think about per user pricing but a flat price seems so much more appealing than competitors in the market. You are right though, size of the market likely isn't that big. Thank you for your feedback.

Think you may need to add a bit more about the technology involved..how easy to integrate, that sort of thing. Is this a component for iOS, or..?

Couldn't agree more.

Google, Yahoo, Twitter.

Three global brands that aren't dictionary names, and don't have to be. You don't need a dictionary word .com to survive either.

Second this. A Volvo engineer invented the modern 3-point seat belt, then made the new seat belt design patent open in the interest of safety. as well as countless other innovations

http://www.volvogroup.com/group/global/en-gb/researchandtech...

I'll just paraphrase your last sentence. As that old adage goes.

The problem with common sense is, its just not that common.

A well rounded answer, but I'll pass for now. If Google really believed in your ethos of making the software more valuable via third parties, their platform wouldn't require dom hacks that could break without notice. i.e. they'd open up their own APIs to make building these sorts of apps themselves.

I absolutely commend you for what you are doing, I just wouldn't be willing as a developer to dip my toes in that particular water to spend the time developing something they could rip apart and break.

As a side note, the documentation page is broken on Mac Safari 8 on OSX Javascript error:

TypeError: undefined is not a function (evaluating 'reference.endsWith('()')')

What prevents Google closing the door on this?

There's a good breakdown of the algo used at Amazon here. Useful for anyone looking at decent sized data sets:

http://www.cs.umd.edu/~samir/498/Amazon-Recommendations.pdf

I agree with much of what you are saying, personally the slew of bugs are the unforgivable bit as they are the parts that continue to persist. Legacy features tend to die

Problems in Real Estate listings:

Accuracy (many expired listings out there)- a good MVP would be a third party solution to feed inaccurate listing reports back to Rightmove / Zoopla etc, along with information on what part of the listing was inaccurate.

Shared Flat - finding the perfect room mate. Kinda like a dating app, only for room shares.

As someone else mentioned, Neighbourhoods aggregation of data from Gov websites on Crime, that sort of thing made into a good pluggable in solution using a postcode. .e.g. Pass a Postcode into your MVP API, spit back aggregated neighbourhood info.

Go check your traffic figures. Far too many sites are ignoring mobile because they don't want to invest in the developer overhead to sort it out. Google recognise their traffic has gone mobile, and will continue to grow movin fwd, so to continue to serve shitty experiences at the top of the result is a competitive disadvantage. Seriously common sense stuff. Ironically go ask anyone with an Adsense account how mobile traffic is performing for them. The real estate of screen available for mobile makes adverts much less appealing, and there is even more banner blindness.

I find that not registering the domain helps to focus me. 'dammit I need to create this thing before someone nabs the domain' like an artificial race to the finish line.

Also. Trello. Write a few coding tasks, finish a few tasks. And just keep adding more tasks when you run out of 'what's next!' means you can sit down on your oroject and get quickly up to speed on where you are too. In progress, finished, backlog are he columns I use.

Currently attempting to convince our team to switch to you guys (not just because of this event) your service is sooo much faster!

In the same vein it's worth knowing the privacy policy of providers such as BSkyB

https://accessibility.sky.com/privacy-cookie-notice

Not many people know that an entire profile about what program's you watch on your sky box are linked with the websites you browse through their broadband service to build a profile about you. It's one of the reasons their tv + broadband deal here in the uk is so competitive. Personalised tv ads are then served.

On highly trafficked sites , IE 8.0 usage can account for a fair amount of users, and conversions etc. It's a tougher decision to make to take those users off the table.