suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: Ning’s Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff
Yes, I do have an idea. And it is largely do to their user growth. This growth is not sustainable and will start to taper in 6-12 months. Facebook clearly is making money from ads (I'm not discounting this). It's been estimated at somewhere in the $400-600MM range. Of that Microsoft and their own ads make up the bulk of that. That is starting to dwindle and they are going to be headed in the direction of virtual goods a la Tencent. My point is that social media sites like Ning, Facebook, and Twitter are figuring out that free is not a business. Ning is just the first to admit it.
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: Ning’s Bubble Bursts: No More Free Networks, Cuts 40% Of Staff
Free is not a business model. Within 12-18 months expect Facebook and Twitter to go the same route. Their burn rate is starting to catch up to them and Twitter's search deals will shrink.
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: The world's most popular goals
Nice list, but most of these are low hanging fruit and are already saturated with established players. The riches are still in the niches.
Example: instead of losing weight, I'd focus on helping people gain weight. It's a much smaller market, but there are lots of skinny guys wanting to gain weight in a healthy way (me included).
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: Tell HN: I made a freelance translation site in only 5 months
I'd look at what JustAnswers.com is doing. They seem like a good fit in terms of what you're trying to accomplish with building a marketplace for translation.
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: Tell HN: I made a freelance translation site in only 5 months
Good job. I like the space and your site brings real value to everyone coming to the table.
URL is solid.
I know it's early on, but I'd like to see some examples or sample translations somewhere. And when you can get some press and testimonials it will make the site feel more trusted.
I'd also consider adding some type of image(s) on the homepage. It's missing a human element and at the end of the day it will be someone translating this stuff so I'd recommend adding translator user photos on the frontpage.
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors
Just because I don't have fancy science to back it up doesn't mean it's not true.
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: To Improve Fitness, Try Sleep
Thank you for body slamming me. But in a nice way. I stand corrected.
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: To Improve Fitness, Try Sleep
If all studies were based on such small sample sizes as this, then we'd all be in a world of hurt. I'm very surprised it got approved for publishing.
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: Female strangers get better response rates when e-mailing professors
Of course male professors answer females at a higher response rate. Those in the academia world rarely have hot wives. Professors get married later in life (this has to do with them having no lives outside of the lab). They then have to settle for less than what they want so they marry an intelligent woman who is in that 4-6.5 range on a scale from 1-10. And when young melissamiller comes emailing, she serves as a welcome distraction to grading papers. Stop making this out to be a big deal.
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: Stack Exchange 2.0
I forgot to add the word "community".
It should read: "The success of the StackOverflow community was built on the backs of smart programmers...
And yes, SX2.0 will have a hard time building the critical mass around anything other than programming.
suckafree
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16 years ago
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on: Stack Exchange 2.0
The success of StackOverflow was built on the backs of smart programmers who don't say anything unless they have something good to say. I've been to a few of the other StackExchange sites and the communities were not the same. Mostly the blind leading the blind.
StackExchange 2.0 is a weak attempt at still trying to replicate the unreplicateable (I know this is probably not a word). It will fail because few of these "new" sites will not pass muster during the beta phase.
