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zabeth24··on Bridging the Gap: Stripe Notifications
I've really been needing something like this. Can't wait to dive in and automate my emails.
zabeth24··on Show HN: Followshows – Never miss an episode again
I agree with the previous commenter that, perhaps, you could separate out "like" (to get recommendations) and "follow" (to get future updates) actions.

When I first signed up, I followed only shows that will have future episodes, but I'd love my past favourite shows to impact recommendations.

zabeth24··on Show HN: Followshows – Never miss an episode again
Anyone figure this out yet?
zabeth24··on Show HN: Followshows – Never miss an episode again
Here's a second vote for adding upcoming shows!
zabeth24··on Show HN: Shopstarter to help creators transition from Kickstarter to ecommerce
Fantastic business idea. Can't wait to see where this goes.
zabeth24··on Show HN: Streak.com - Do sales, support and bug tracking all inside Gmail
I've used the Beta for a multi-user sales pipeline. Worked wonders!
zabeth24··on Top 3 Investment Books to Navigate 2012
Thanks for gathering these together. "F Wall Street" looks like a great book.
zabeth24··on Show HN: Taking the Emmys by Storm (screencast on how to develop with Storm)
The best part is at the end when he plays back all 200K Emmy tweet in 6 minutes and says "I feel like I'm narrating a horse race"! Hilarity ensued.
zabeth24··on Vidyard (YC S11) Is A YouTube For Businesses
Using vidyard on my site and Tumblr blog. Best part is seeing the viewing analytics.
zabeth24··on An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users
Yes! Tweet using the button on our landing page. The results from that tweet will show up on the landing page if you rank among the top 6 influencers!
zabeth24··on An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users
Actually, we primarily look at just the clickthrough rate on the links to determine someone's influence. Influence is highly categorical.

For example, if I tweet about tech things, I'll get many clicks since most of my followers are techies. If I tweet about horses, ... not so many clicks and therefore I have a poorer influence for "horses".

Klout and # of followers abstract away these fine-grained details that, IMO, are critically important in determining social influence.

zabeth24··on An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users
Klout scores really show more of a relational-sort of data. I actually don't place much faith in the quality of their "ranking" system, IMO.
zabeth24··on An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users
We wanted to keep things ultra simple. Oh, and FREE!
zabeth24··on An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users
Thanks! We're using it on our site now to see who is tweeting about the launch! Real-time results ftw!
zabeth24··on An Awesomer Tweet Button: Tracks your site's most influential users
You might be able to do it with HubSpot or PostRank, but we couldn't find anything simple. SO we built it!
zabeth24··on Ask HN: Braintree (payments gateway) alternative for startups outside the US?
It depends on how you want to charge for your web app. Check out Willet (http://www.getwillet.com).

[Full disclosure: I'm a Willet co-founder.]

zabeth24··on Online payment integration does not have to suck.
Fair enough. I'll bump this to the front of the feature queue!
zabeth24··on Online payment integration does not have to suck.
Yeah, most people don't see 'spare change' as 'real money', funnily enough.
zabeth24··on Online payment integration does not have to suck.
We're considering allowing users to have a Willet account (ie. new user name and pw). Aren't people sick of having so many logins these days? That was part of the incentive to use FB - keep things simple!
zabeth24··on Online payment integration does not have to suck.
Willet works the same way. Spend away until you reach $3 of purchases, then you enter a credit card at this point. We securely store your credit card info in our digital vault. When you reach your limit again, we'll run your credit card and email you a receipt!
zabeth24··on Online payment integration does not have to suck.
That's what we're aiming to do!
zabeth24··on Online payment integration does not have to suck.
Exactly! Furthermore, you can charge small amounts. Look at all of the success of the mobile app stores and in-app payments. YOU CAN DO THIS ONLINE NOW!
zabeth24··on Show HN: Accept Bitcoins on your site
It's a good idea that would take quite a bit more work on our part. We'll discuss it and see what happens! Thanks!
zabeth24··on Online payment integration does not have to suck.
Cofounders are here and in chat (http://getwillet.com/getstarted) ready for your questions!
zabeth24··on Show HN: Accept Bitcoins on your site
It won't be free forever.

Once we know how well it works and we've ironed out any bugs, then we'll start charging. Initially we'd rather deal with people who don't trust us because we're free than people who are pissed off because we aren't free and don't work :P

Also, it was a fun project to work on - we had to learn all about the Bitcoin API and host our own daemon!

zabeth24··on Show HN: Accept Bitcoins on your site
I bet your App Admin can set this up for you to allow it access. I don't know 100%, but I'd recommend checking it out.
zabeth24··on Show HN: Accept Bitcoins on your site
This may take up to 5 minutes due to how the Bitcoin network is implemented. We have to wait for the correct number of confirmations to propagate through the Bitcoin network in order to be able to confirm a BTC transaction has occurred.

Wish we could do it faster, but this is as fast as it gets!

zabeth24··on Show HN: Accept Bitcoins on your site
Thanks! Do they have Twitter? I'd love to chat with them about it. Looking for feedback on the project too!
zabeth24··on A BitCoin Miner Video Review by Barbara
Thoughts? Feedback? What do you think about the series?
zabeth24··on Show HN: Approcity - Hackers helping hackers get users
I'm using it on my site http://cAPPtion.tv at the top. I like the fact that it doesn't look like an ad bar - it looks like a legit "Here are the apps I'm featuring" bar.

edit: I work with the Approcity main dev.