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xgibbousx

22 karma · joined March 28, 2013

I've been programming hardcore for seven years now and plan to share my apps with Hacker News.
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xgibbousx··on How 2 Guys Built Power in 8 Months for Less Than $500
The team was frugal and did what they could on their own to arrive at success. Less than $500.00 came out of their bank account and the time was spent willingly.
xgibbousx··on How 2 Guys Built Power in 8 Months for Less Than $500
I think it was all the elements of the article that led to success. For example, the partnerships would not have formed if the team had not created a great game in a timely fashion.
xgibbousx··on Show HN: Statpedia – World's Most Simple Chart Creation Tool
Interesting observation. Thank you.
xgibbousx··on Show HN: Buy, Sell, Trade Platform – Looking for First Users and Feedback
Just wanted to stop by and say thank you to everyone who provided feedback. Our website is now MUCH better because of it. We're still working away to get everything implemented and are proud to have made Hacker News a part of our story!
xgibbousx··on Show HN: Buy, Sell, Trade Platform – Looking for First Users and Feedback
Thank you very much sir.

Very sorry about the registration form not working. I will look into it further.

Can you please ensure that you have filled out the following form fields:

+ email + first name + last name + password + avatar

I think it may be possible that one of the fields above wasn't filled out however it's also entirely possible that they were and our system isn't working properly.

Regarding the social logins, we have been asked this before. I will add it to the list and have it done ASAP.

xgibbousx··on Show HN: Buy, Sell, Trade Platform – Looking for First Users and Feedback
Thank you for the feedback!

We will add a "New or Used" option when creating a product and display that.

In your particular case, the clock is actually brand new but unwrapped :]

xgibbousx··on Show HN: Buy, Sell, Trade Platform – Looking for First Users and Feedback
Excellent feedback!

We will make the avatar optional during registration. If you don't select an avatar, we will just use a default round allBST logo image. You will be able to update your avatar at a later date in the account section.

This will be done tomorrow.

Thank you for taking the time to let us know about this.

xgibbousx··on Show HN: Buy, Sell, Trade Platform – Looking for First Users and Feedback
Excellent feedback!

Based on yours and other users' feedback below, we are going to rework the home page so that it accomplishes the following:

1. Use newly designed interface elements for groups that, inside of them, shows the latest 4 to 6 products last posted in that group. In other words, you will basically see a large square, representing a group, with a bunch of small squares inside of it (representing the latest products in it). This will get rid of the spammy look and also emphasize the fact that the elements on the home page are actually groups of products.

2. Modify the header section to explain what the site does and what is unique about it.

I will be working on these items tomorrow and should have them completed by the end of the day.

Thank you for taking the time to provide your very constructive feedback.

xgibbousx··on Show HN: Buy, Sell, Trade Platform – Looking for First Users and Feedback
UPDATE:

1. Error popups fixed.

2. Attempted to fix tile overlapping problem by adding in a font-loaded event listener that does a tile re-layout when triggered. Apparently, asynchronously loading fonts can cause the overlapping problem. Hard to replicate. Hopefully we don't see this again.

3. Coming up with new layout for the home page to better describe what is going on.

xgibbousx··on Show HN: Buy, Sell, Trade Platform – Looking for First Users and Feedback
Thank you for the screenshot of the bugs. Very helpful!

The stacked tiles is a major bug that has been tough to fix.

Email error is new and I will fix that right now.

I will attempt to make the tiles on the home page more obvious as to their function. Totally agree with you.

Thanks so much for the valuable feedback.

xgibbousx··on Show HN: Buy, Sell, Trade Platform – Looking for First Users and Feedback
allBST is a brand new "Buy, Sell, Trade" platform looking for its "first pioneering users." Create a group, post some products, invite your friends, provide feedback in the comments!
xgibbousx··on Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback
Yeah, I'm going to start working on that today. I think bloggers will be very interested considering that it's a great way to monetize their blog as well as receive awesome articles to provide to their reader base.
xgibbousx··on Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback
All blogs show their Alexa ranking which is calculated by how many unique visitors per day the blog receives combined with how many page views it gets. For example, an Alexa ranking of #1 means it's the most popular site on the Internet where an Alexa ranking of #1,000,000 might mean the blog gets about 200 unique visitors per day with about 1,000 page views.

Therefore, by looking at the Alexa ranking, you can get a really good idea as to how much traffic you'll get. The price per article will be a function of a blog's Alexa ranking.

xgibbousx··on Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback
Good point. I think there is a fine line to walk with regards to Google's concept of a link scheme.

In the case of Trafomatch, the links won't be embedded in the article with keyword-rich anchor links. There will only be a section at the bottom of the article with a link to article writer's site for more information.

The link at the bottom of the article will be approved/vouched for by the blog site owners. Furthermore, blog site owners will only select excellent articles that fit within the context of their blog to keep their user base happy and engaged.

With all this, I think Trafomatch will fall on the good side of a link scheme analysis.

Also, even if no links are provided do to a negative link scheme analysis, website owners will still get a lot of traffic from the blog reader base itself.

xgibbousx··on Show HN: Traffic Generation Idea Feedback
I'm going to manually email them myself at first. The ones that decide to use it will hopefully do a blog post on it furthering the concept's reach more autonomously. Over time, as it gains traction, the site should start to promote itself.
xgibbousx··on Show HN: Cloud Based Password Vault
Cool, thanks for the feedback. TitanPass is extremely secure and only you have access to your data. I made it cloud based because it was a requirement to have a highly centralized vault. The whole application is made in PHP so I won't be able to make a decentralized native app from it. Hope you still get a chance to try it out and again, thanks so much for your feedback.
xgibbousx··on Ask HN: How does your business manage passwords?
As a single founder startup, I store all my passwords in text files buried in my My Documents folder. No one besides myself uses my computer so I haven't had any issues thus far. Not the safest route but then again it's just me.

I don't have any product recommendations but I do have a question: What exact features are you looking for in a team password management product?