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jsatok | 15 years ago | on: Introducing Amazon Simple Email Service

I'm in a similar situation. Sending hundreds of thousands a month with SendGrid, and while it'll be more than Amazon, I think the dedicated IP makes it worthwhile.

jsatok | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any web startups using Java?

I'm not on the development team, so don't know the rational behind it, but I know we're using GWT and Java at Rypple. I can connect you with one of our developers if you're interested. My email is in my profile.

jsatok | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Our telepresence setup

Exactly! The brand name solutions are great, but provide little flexibility, and aren't very startup friendly. The total for our solution came in under $3k, and we'd be looking at about $15-20k for a brand name system providing similar functionality.

jsatok | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: Our telepresence setup

That's exactly our feeling. I've seen the Cisco/Polycom systems, and they look great, but they're also a lot more expensive, and for what we (and many other startups) need, the value isn't there.

jsatok | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you use?

[Home] Mac Pro with 27" Cinema Display, 2x Quad Core 2.26GHz Xeon with 12 GB Ram, 120 GB SSD and a bunch of 1 TBs for backups/storage

[Mobile] MacBook Pro 2.66 GHz Core 2 Duo with 8 GB Ram, 320 GB disk

[Office] iMac Quad i7 with 8 GB Ram, 1 TB disk

iPhone 4 32 GB

iPad 3G 64 GB

TextMate for code/text

Parallels for Windows testing

Safari as my primary browser

Firefox (for Firebug) when doing web work

iChat for AIM/Jabber

TinyGrab for screenshot sharing

Dropbox for file sync between machines (All App Preferences are symblinked in so settings are the same across machines)

Transmit for File Uploads

1Password for password storage/secure password generation

TextExpander for Text/code snippets

Pages/Keynote/Numbers for productivity

Sequel Pro for MySQL GUI

jsatok | 15 years ago | on: Building the Simple Enterprise

Aaron's point around "building simple software takes vision and discipline" really resonates with me. I've seen countless enterprise software tools that are overcomplicated and cluttered with too many features, doing most poorly.

jsatok | 15 years ago | on: Design Strategies for a Successful Pricing Table

We've done A/B testing at Rypple on our Pricing page, and found most of the principles suggested by UXMovement to be true.

http://rypple.com/pricing

You've done some interesting things with your pricing page. Couple comments: - I'd reduce the complexity of the page by removing the drop down boxes for impressions and just changing the pricing buckets to up to the maximum impressions offered by that bucket. The way you've got it now means there's effectively 13 plans. - I've found that listing the features in order from those included in all plans to those included in the fewest plans to work the best.

jsatok | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: When does a startup stop being a startup?

In a recent interview (D8 Conference), Jobs called Apple "the world's biggest startup". I don't think it's a question of size, revenue or growth, but rather the mentality of the company and the individuals working there.

jsatok | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Are there decent alternatives to PayPal?

I signed up for a Chargify account a couple days ago, been working on integrating it into my app. Really simple, great API. I haven't run any transactions through it, but on the integration side, it's pretty solid.
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