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abeh | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you manage shared company passwords?

I have used http://www.strongbox.io/ - it allows you to create a 'box' of passwords or other data that is securely shared with other users.

abeh | 13 years ago | on: Hipset Launches Artist Discovery Program

If I was an artist considering this, I would want to see a video of the reviewing artist as they listened to my song. I would want to see their facial expression, and see that the reviewer seems like they know what they are talking about. Also, if I could listen to the music of the reviewing artist, I could judge if the review has any merit.

abeh | 13 years ago | on: Ruby on Rails Bootcamp in Seattle

Are you accepting international applicants? (i.e. from Canada) Would you be able to get them hired in the US after?

abeh | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you wish you knew about UI/UX design?

I'd like to see an article that explains the difference between UI design and UX design, with examples.

abeh | 13 years ago | on: Hacking on Side Projects: The Pool Ball Tracker

Huge pool fan here: Put this in a mobile device that I can mount from any angle and record all my games anywhere - I would pay a lot more than $0.99 for it!

abeh | 13 years ago | on: How we designed our logo for $30

Sounds logical. If it fails, hopefully the reason for failure is not the logo, or an accumulation of things done quickly and cheaply.

abeh | 13 years ago | on: How we designed our logo for $30

It may cost you more in the long run if you update/replace the logo you got for only $30 now. The branding and visual elements for your site and company should work with your logo; so whatever branding assets you have (site, business cards, stationary, ads) will all have to be updated if you change the logo later. I would not consider this to be a low risk experiment.

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Visual design will not fix your broken business

The point about visual aesthetics may be true, but that's only a part of what a graphic designer does: a good graphic designer will solve communication problems, and that is definitely a business problem worth solving well.

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Early Startup Time Wasters

You could try listening to podcasts - when I was 'commuting' (i was actually walking) to work, I'd listen to something informative and interesting, so I'd arrive at work inspired every day. For example, TED talks, or web tech stuff: http://5by5.tv/webahead

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: My wife needs something to do from home to make money...

SEO consulting - it can be learned relatively quickly, is not that technical for the basics, and is a great complement to your programming/web expertise for your projects

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Google is making a huge and annoying mistake

Does not seem like a UX issue, but rather a business decision.

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Startups Are Bands for Hackers

There is one really important shared aspect: the point at which all the members of the band/startup decide to go for it - make a serious commitment.

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Demonstrating responsive design to clients.

Also, if this page itself was responsive would be nice: resizing the browser would select the appropriate view.

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Demonstrating responsive design to clients.

Great idea. One improvement might be to make the mobile view look more like a mobile device; now it looks very much like the tablet. Perhaps the borders (sides in portrait, top and bottom in landscape) could be thinner.

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: Is there a particular metric for your startup that you track daily?

Is that all users? or just paying users? For profit, do you look at gross or net, or both? If you could only look at one of those for a day, which would you choose?

abeh | 14 years ago | on: EMI music is sold to Universal. We're down to three major labels.

I think http://bandcamp.com/ seems to be along those lines.

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Why Can't We Drink Sea Water?

A university biology professor mentioned in a lecture that a small percentage of people have kidneys strong enough to drink sea water.

abeh | 14 years ago | on: Currency.io, a html5 currency converter - open sourced to learn from

Perfect domain name!

abeh | 14 years ago | on: 15,000 more monthly signups just by changing the name of my webapp.

Perhaps with the long generic word name, the site was perceived more as a 'website' while the shortened unique one is now perceived as a 'web app'.

abeh | 15 years ago | on: Poll: Did you get into YC for S11?

I guess it is obvious, but even more clear would be: "Did you get invited for an interview at YC for S11?". Also, does anybody know how many teams are invited for an interview, and how many from those are finally offered YC funding/participation?