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Interesting feedback. Thank you!

> "The worst thing is to have people not buy, but have no idea what kept them from making the purchase"

That is very true.

My feedback: I visited your page and did not buy because I have zero revenue on my sites, and I have bought already so many things before (books, hosting, web templates, logo, etc) that I am in a "puzzled mood". I also did not feel the offer was for me. Right now my problem is figuring out how to make money out of my sites' visitors. To clarify I am one step behind where you are: I look at many options and wonder which way to go. Building a web app is one option, but it takes lots of time, and I would like to first get some confirmation that it is the right option to go for. Other option I consider is creating content (tutorials, forum).

can someone explain? (I am not familiar with github and the whole thing is cryptic to me)

I am selling web design services. My goal is to get them to order a website which is not happening.

Yes it does not help, but I prefer not to share the address.

I wanted to see if there are some general advice; what others are doing that works.

Is there a way to ask an open question (no list of predefined answers, but a text box for the user's answer) ? I cannot find it.

Interesting. Reminds me of a recruiter who runs several jobs board. He blogs at recruitingdomainnames.com about domain names... he might be interested in your solution. I saw him in this very interesting interview which I highly recommend: http://www.domainsherpa.com/jason-davis-slouch-interview/

How do you know that "a good number of people who browse the new page" ?

I would guess the 'new' page gets 1% of traffic compared to the Main page. So on a slow day like today, such a quick feedback looked organized... but that seems to be the way to go to get on HN I read.

How do you get 4 points and 2 positive comments within 29 minutes of submit?

Hacker News 1st page seems reserved to orchestrated maneuvers...

(nothing against the actual post here, but just saying)

I got 5 questions in a row like 'Do you want to meet there at that time?' which were direct twitter messages to specific people. This needs more filtering as others have commented.

It bugs me to see this on TechCrunch and HN when there are great submissions that did not get such opportunity (example: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804373).

Yes, but how much did they offer for Duck.com? Duck.com being now with Google, they should just rebrand to something else. Forget the duck. Go with something else. PunchBowl.com or whatever brandable name.

What some would call the 'radio test'.

1. Must be a dot com.

2. Must clearly state & define the product or service being sold.

3. Must be easy to pronounce & therefore pass the radio test.

4. Must not be longer than necessary, the shorter the better.

5. Must be about a product or service that is in demand & being searched for.

6. Must be easy to remember, in fact it must be a no brainer to remember.

7. Must be a domain a business could be built on.

source: http://www.ricksblog.com/my_weblog/2012/11/ringscom-roofscom...

I agree they should re-brand. Duck.com would have been good. The day I saw duck.com redirected to Google I thought DuckDuckGo missed a great opportunity. That's where you see how savvy Google are.

which copywriting book(s) or material do you recommend?

Great stuff. I just played 20 minutes of guitar in a row. That did not happen to me since years. Thank you very much for this tool.

The one thing I miss: if I search I don't get any video with already made soundslice tabs. Even a search on 'nirvana' returns no result with soundslice annotation even though there are some.

How about some keyboard navigation shortcuts? (left-right arrows). It works on http://www.HnEasy.com.

Wow. Thanks for the feedback.

Interesting one.

I would love to see a list of all the Hacker News "meta tools".

I posted my own last week: http://www.HnEasy.com sorts hn all posts and comments by upvotes from the last day... to last 5 years.

Interesting title. But... I wanted to try, but I don't want to sign in with facebook. Sorry.

I created HnEasy.com a few weeks ago. My objective was to give an easy way to find the best Hacker news posts and comments since 2007. I use it to catch up on hacker news every few days. I hope you find it of value.

Thank you. It's fixed. Left and right arrow should hopefully work to browse.

Had the same idea. http://www.hneasy.com/index.php?type=posts&hours=70000

For anyone interested, a link to easily browse the best posts since 5 years: http://www.hneasy.com/index.php?type=posts&hours=70000

"Communicate with users from an integrated dashboard Free your inbox. Forget BCC & mail merge." The other two benefits are not so clear to me... "No messy onboarding required." what does that mean?

I personally appreciate the article. Thanks for the effort.

> "and tools that do it already exist" Which are those tools?

Can this tool connect to a mysql database and generate html5 CRUD forms based on the database? I have seen a tool like phreeze.com and I am wondering why there is not more in that direction (building web app basic pages based on existing database design)?

> "someone told me I could sell it for a bunch of money if I wanted" This reminds me of a common scam in domain names: I once received an email saying I had a very valuable domain. I got really hyped. Turns out the guy was ready to buy it... but he needed a 3rd-party appraisal from a company I had never heard of. Basically this appraisal company was scamming for $30 appraisals. Just FYI.

Here is how I sold a domain for >$4,000 -> If the domain has SEO potential (exact match to search term), what worked for me was to create a one-page static website explaining the domain name is for sale, and explaining the major benefit of the domain name. Important is to optimize the title and meta tages for SEO. Put the site up, wait a few months and see if anyone comes to you. If your site starts ranking in google you will get people's attention. What is key is to know if your domain has value, and if it does to know how to negotiate.

1. survey is organized by Microsoft, 2. I think the survey is skewed because typically when you go there you don't have anything specific in mind to search so you type one-word query (they even propose them!) and one-word queries are hard for google