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wanderfulon Show HN: Circulate, our contact reminder app

Thanks! Love the idea of twitter integration. Auto-generation of tasks/reminders is in our feature backlog.

wanderfulon The Secret to a Happy Marriage: Do the Dishes, Put Out, Don’t Talk So Much

You could try nagging her?

wanderfulon Ask HN: I've built a front/back end performance profiler, is there a market?

Re: Open sourcing:

- Benefit: Releasing as open source automatically brands you an expert.

- Benefit: Far increased exposure

wanderfulon I pitched YC, was rejected, just closed a multi-million dollar round.

Agreed. Getting funded IS being profitable for some startups. It is as profitable as some startups will ever get, relative to the financial position of the founders prior to funding. And that's fine. Not all startups will be a success.

I think funding becomes the thing to do moreso than it becomes the right business decision. I'm more in the bootstrapping camp which is what I'm doing with my startup.

wanderfulon Life Hack - The 30/30 Minute Work Cycle Feels Like Magic

Yeah, the brain has a built in ability to identify context and fit the expression in those parameters. It uses the pre-frontal cortex. This is the same 'functionality' that allows bilingual people to identify which language is being spoken and respond in that one.

People don't trust themselves. You can learn to switch back and forth the same way you learn to talk in different style to your grandparents than your friends, and so on.

wanderfulon Show HN: Our little html5/js dungeon crawler.

Oh ok, I had assumed it was possible to move diagonally.

wanderfulon Show HN: Our little html5/js dungeon crawler.

Love it! Took me a while to find how to turn the music off.

How about a character review at death? And maybe a local and global leaderboard?

Maybe a different colored icon for the stairs down would be nice, but that depends on how easy you want to make it for the player. ;)

My keyboard doesn't have a numpad — maybe a duplicate of the numpad somewhere on the keyboard would be a solution?

EDIT: After playing more, monster and item variety is low. A way to see dungeon level would be good as well.

wanderfulon Ask HN: What is Wealth?

The ability to do what you want, when you want to do it.

wanderfulon Ask HN: Show me your Half Baked project

http://imissafri.ca/

Not a business project, just a fun aside to share hi-res wallpaper from Africa. Other projects on the go, of course.

wanderfulon How do I publizise our startup

The design looks professional-enough to me. Better than a lot of B2B sites that make a killing. The logo is the weakest link design-wise. The V symbol is alright, but the fonts are poorly chosen, the color and edges show compression, the edges of some of the type is blurry, etc. You might want to give your call to action buttons (Start free trial) a color that stands out, maybe a bit bigger. The idea is to make it clear to the user what their next step is. Also, why are there two call to action buttons, sign up and start free trial, when they basically mean the same thing? I'd maybe suggest having a big sign up button with "30 day free trial" in text below, or something to that effect.

The copy is a bit clumsy. Definitely have a native speaker with some linguistic savvy look it over.

In terms of getting clients though nothing mentioned above may be a factor. What is your conversion rate? Improving your site will improve on that, but if no one is coming to your site then marketing your site is a more important step to address.

Do you have any existing clients? How has their feedback been?

I'd recommend finding people for whom you've delivered well and investigating what worked well about that relationship. Maybe they can give you referrals, maybe you can target people in similar situations, and so on.

wanderfulon Be happier: Rent Everything

You are compounding interest in this financial market? How? :) Is it above inflation?

wanderfulon Ask HN: Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?

How did I get downvoted for this? All it would have taken for either of the companies not to fight is for them to show a little bit of humanity or professionalism.

I am NOT saying that it was ethical to attempt to trick them into fighting -- that would be a false dichotomy on the part of the reader. To me it IS unethical to attempt to trick people into fighting.

I am saying that even with attempts to trick, the people still had the power to choose to fight or not. The person who "tricked" them is NOT responsible for the other people's choice to fight. He did not take away their power to choose and he cannot take it away. To me, to give that person power over their choices is also morally unacceptable.

wanderfulon Ask HN: Did you ever do anything unethical to get your startup off the ground?

No one made them fight but themselves.