I am very confused. The author of the article writes that svbtle could have been the next tumblr. It's like saying my clean design html could have been the future facebook.
I think svbtle has a clean design and a good interface, nothign more.
If my instincts here are wrong, then I have to question my understanding and all the IT experience I have. I might be missing a big part of this svbtle and obtvse controversy.
While I agree with the premise of your posted link, the grammar starts falling apart later in the post. Seems to have some logical leaps there at the end as well. Just seems like the author is not a native English speaker I suppose.
Pivotal can handle much more data and is much more geared towards to agile. I like it to handle my tech project management. Its brilliant for that.
I use Trello for "business project management" (marketing copy, emailing people, customer development todos) and pivotal for "technical project management".
Impress.js is an awesome piece of tech—but I wouldn't use it for a presentation:
There's just a very fine line between over- and underdoing a presentation. It's never good just to dash off a presentation with lousy layout and design but it may not be beneficial to overdo a presentation as well. Too much FX and animations makes you at a certain point needy: "Look what I did to impress you", "Look, another animation!", "How nice, isn't it??", "And here another 3D effect, awesome isn't it? I spent the entire day to make the rotation perfect, just for you because I like you!". After the 5th animation the viewers think you are a needy guy, needing approval, spending to much time on design than content and having nothing to do.
Different with pure web presentations for a large audience, then such tools are nice, but I don't know if they convert better than a gold old landing page.
Though I am not a fan of Scoble I do not think that Google made Scoble and other to use the platform. Why? Two reasons:
1.) Scoble interest is to get traffic from everywhere. Raising awareness, brand recognition, etc. Google+ was skyrocketing at the beginning and for already known Internet celebs an opportunity to easily scale on another platform because at that time they were the first on Plus and quickly got traction through existing fans. And as known Internet addicts they cannot just ignore a platform. So it's a mutual and balanced relationship reach (for Scoble) vs content (for Google). Compare also other bloggers/publisher who spammed from day 1, e.g. Pete Cashmore from Mashable.
2.) There are lots of high, high level Google execs who never used Google+
Agree. Although it was embarrassing for Google in the first few days of the beta that Mark Zuckerburg had the highest number of followers on Google+, without even a single post.
I'd recommend freelancer.com/odesk/elance or any other dedicated market place. Freelancer.com i.e. allows very focussed searches via projects, you can specify the skills, timeline and all requirements and usually you get tons of very qualified bids in less than 24-48h.
Yes, but I'd far rather work with/for someone I met through Hacker News (probably, in general, I did actually find a great guy through oDesk). I've found some great work through these HN posts before.
Definitely for seeking work those sites do tend to be mostly a race to the bottom, you wouldn't believe the silly small amounts some people bid for projects (and how often they get chosen based on that).
Don't get me wrong, but this is such an ignorant comment. Try it once and then you see why Badger is different (as I said before: the domain search is awesome).
Yeah, you are right, it was rather too quick to repost—but hey that can happen when founder are enthusiastic about their product. And their were tons of redundant Godaddy SOPA posts—that can happen on a social news site, I am not angry about the repost, maybe next time they should think about a new hook but badger is a promising product with an awesome domain search—I tried it and I like it. So before snitching them try the product once.
We are all founders and if there is one who might be a bit too spammy, too pushy, too persisent, we flag, downvote him—we should hold together. Starting something, especially a domain registrar isn't easy (and there is a need!) and we should support every one of us.
Disclaimer: I've nothing to do with badger, I don't know them
The question was more of an open one, of what's seen as allowable and what's not. My post wasn't intended to be a snitch, it was more of a reference other posts/responses about the same service.
I for one didn't see a problem in the repost. The format is different (the other really only showed up under "ask", and this is on the main page), and badger said they removed the invite only, which is definitely a milestone on releasing a product. I'm glad they reposted without 'SOPA' in the title; I for one was starting to ignore that word on HN.
Congratulations to Badger for creating a new registrar. I'm sure there were a lot of hurdles to jump through.
Your game looks nice. Do you maybe have a blog post about the making of? Was it your first Unity3D game? What prior experience do you have in game development and in general programming, which languages? How long did the development take?
Sorry for all the questions—I'm about to dive deeper into one of the game/3D dev frameworks and an HN reader's opinion would be highly appreciated!
1. Maybe it's not the perfect way to startup something but at least he's doing something (and not just reading anymore). And who knows, maybe the IRC chat doesn't bring a team but gives him tons of new inspirations and ideas for new ventures.
Read the original post again. An MVP Rails app can be built in fourteen days by an experienced dev/designer duo, no problem.
But startups aren't just web companies. The idea could be a physical product that requires prototyping, for example, and that's not getting done in two weeks of part-time work.
