_yb | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2015)
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_yb | 13 years ago | on: The making of Medium.com
http://www.teehanlax.com/story/medium/
try entering through this, it worked for me
_yb | 13 years ago | on: My product failed
First of all, declaring failure at this point is so ridiculous that I'm pretty sure that the only purpose of your blog post is to advertise that "Iron Conversion" thing.
Second, Reddit and adwords aren't the only marketing strategies out there, especially when it comes to small businesses. I mean, C'mon, how many small businesses owners turn to reddit in search for "inventory management app". Even more than that - how many business owners actually turn to the web to look for solutions?
I don't know how you imagine them, but small businesses owners aren't hackers. They want solid solutions and they surely would be interested in something that solves a problem and is cheaper than their current solution.
As I see it, your only marketing strategy is phone calls. I mean, hundreds of them. Just open Yellow pages and start making them calls.
Pitch your product, ask business owners about their problems with their current system, describe how yours would solve their problems. Try to get business owners interested, offer a free trial, ask for email addresses, do follow up -phone calls-.
I'll reiterate - small businesses owners aren't hackers.
Edit: I just saw this - "Online Inventory Management without the suck"? Seriously? I really want to know how you imagine your average customer (genuinely interested)
_yb | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: I'm an engineer, how do I learn design?
Try to recreate the designs of your favorite sites. This way you'll practice your skills and get a lot of "I see what you did there" moments. Later on you will be able to implement those things in your own original designs
_yb | 13 years ago | on: Poll: is your startup profitable?
Not exactly a startup: our project [1] is making some revenue, but is far from profitable (edit: which is kind of on purpose, but that's a story for another time)
_yb | 13 years ago | on: Freelancing and Lifestyle Design
hearing from someone who made a lot of mistakes can be more insightful than someone who won the jackpot on their first try
_yb | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Launching Hoverboard – beautiful, responsive portfolios
I really like it, great design job.
You might already have thoughts in this direction but I would think about how to benefit from having a lot of devs and designers at the same place, posting blog posts and projects (the first thing that comes to mind is some sort of feeds). Good luck!
_yb | 13 years ago | on: The Onion releases fartscroll.js
_yb | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: we like to work from coffee shops, so we made this
Yes, get the white one:
http://instagram.com/p/XzdnxHut8u/
_yb | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Fast and efficient domain checking tool
Looks good. 2 things I would add:
- automatically exit the "getting website preview" on taking the mouse off the div.
- an X or some way to close the website preview thing (once website preview loaded).
Good luck!
_yb | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: Bootstro.js - intro.js for Bootstrap
I was expecting that clicking on the darker areas would exit the intro, consider to do that.
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