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Ask HN: Review my webapp: Mobile site maker
Hi everyone! I just finished my app (ready for public Beta release after your feedback) and am hoping to get some feedback from the HN community.

http://gmbhnews.com/make-mobile-site/ is a mobile site creation service. You just add your blog urls ( +rss feed url ), and it generates a mobile optimized version of your site. It's very easy for the publisher to generate a mobile blog, All you need to do is add your blog, copy the generated code snippset in your blog for redirection to your mobile site and you are good to invade the more than 3,3 Billions mobile devices out there ( By 2011, 10 billion wireless devices will dot the Planet–five billion mobile phones and another five billion wireless devices ).

The mobile generated sites are optimized for almost every mobile device platform (symbian, iOs, Android, PalmOs, cell phones....etc) and publishers can monetize their mobile traffic with adsense for mobiles and keep all their revenues.

At the front end http://www.gmbhnews.com/ people can use the service as a news reader/discover dashboard, everything has been kept to the minimum necessary to give peoples a great experience reading news/blogs on their mobile devices, and saving the readers some bandwidth. I hope this can serve some of you and will welcome all your suggestions. FWIW , it's a bootstrapped startup and I'm still struggling to create a decent Logo for the front end www.gmbhnews.com/ (hope there's a designer reading this :) and willing to take a shot on it).

NB: the weird url: /make-mobile-site is for SEO purposes, till I can convince high profiles blogger to take a look and give me a chance (TC, RWW, Mashable......), got to count on SEO.
----> The user front end www.gmbhnews.com site is optimized for mobile devices and webkit browsers , looks very weird in other browsers but still works!
It looks quite nice and I've been looking for something similar - though ideally as a native iPhone app.

One thing I'm forever pernickety about:
donations != business

It's a nice looking webapp but it takes more than that to make it a business

EDIT: oh, wait, the frontpage only mentions donations but I go to sign up and there's a $5/mo plan. Why isn't that front & center on the front page? It makes it feel like a bait & switch

EDIT #2: Aggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh... It gets worse! Once I've activated my (supposedly) free account I immediately get presented with options to pay for 1, 6 or 12months. Even more bait & switch! Why don't you just man-up, put the price on the front page and give a 30 day trial. Right now I'm not even going to try the app itself - the upsell attempts are worse than GoDaddy!
True, but the risk of getting injured in the Cold War was significantly lower than what we see today in warzones.
Some things I love about Hacker News (and a few I don’t)
bash refers to a specific shell implementation, not the whole userland utilities (AKA the "coreutils").

BusyBox combines a bunch of Linux userland utilities into one executable, to save overhead on embedded systems. It uses ash, not bash.
Alison Armitage
I know this probably seems like linkbait, but I truly didn't write it for that purpose. Just wanted to post it here to say thanks (truly) to everyone who makes HN such an amazing community. It's one of the best things about the Internet for me.
Some tidbits from Joel Spolsky's talk last night on recruiting programmers
Reasonable comments. This - and the above - is the type of commentary I was hoping I would get. If I consider myself as a customer aswell, then am I likely to be swayed by a few dollars difference in a monthly subscription. Probably not. And anything less than $10 won't require too much consideration from me.
This is not a definition of ignorance:

"(1) Ignorant: The argument the person is making isn’t cohesive or otherwise makes no sense."
Unfortunately, the hardware acceleration makes the text rendering horrid. Text is less sharp, black text looks dark grey, the spacing of small fonts is compressed...I really found it unpleasant. Fortunately turning off the acceleration makes it look normal. I hope they can sort it out as it, as it sounds like a good move, but not at the expense of everyday readability.

Here is a comparison shot - not the best example, granted - normal is left, accelerated is right. Look at the H on line 5 - it fits the pixel grid normally, but doesn't with acceleration on.

http://a.imageshack.us/img291/9493/firefoxbeforeafter.png
> There’s obvious debunking that could be done – the first one I’d point out (almost did) is that trade creates wealth, if for no other reason than people like variety. So if you have 10 potatoes and I have 10 carrots, and we swap some of them, we’re both wealthier.

Wrong. No goods created or services rendered = no net change in wealth. What the OP is describing is more like inflation.

(I know, I know. I'm falling into his clever trap. This is why I never joined the debate team in high school.)
I'm a twenty something and this article embarrasses me. I'm a hard working financially independent person who busted my ass and am getting by just fine. Despite what your mommy and daddy told you, life's tough. I know more people like myself then I do sharing this authors whiny attitude.
Wow, I'm surprised that a book on pricing is so expensive. Since they're the experts, perhaps they think that all books would be more profitable if they were priced higher. I wonder if many books are priced lower because they hope to get on a bestseller list.
This sounds like something anyone could have written when I was 20 without batting an eye. The illusion of a gold watch, retirement, a guaranteed job after college, were all known to be suspect or a complete myth by at least the 1980s. Raised to be aware of the plights of others? I remember "We are the world" and "adopting" impoverished African children with a monthly food stipend. Seriously, there's probably a lot of interesting stuff that could be said about current 20-somethings in general, none of them were presented here.
I was implicitly assuming his parents generation is the same as mine (my dad was of vietnam age). However, after some thought, I realize I'm an edge case (I'm at the high end of the 20-somethings, my dad was 32 when I was born). My mistake.
If I understood correctly, here the Lisp code generates the C code which generates the small chunks of Lisp code which are then compiled. But I don't understand what you mean under "intermediate expanded file." In autoconf the config.h is the final resulting chunk that is used in the final compilation (somewhat in parallel to Lisp chunks generated by the C)." What's your take?
I agree, perhaps it's misleading and we should fix it.
When we have launched, it was a non-profit project, so we have added donations. Recently, we have added some additional features with a premium account.
>Another related tidbit: Microwave ovens getting water molecules so excited at 2.4 GHz ties in with WiFi performance.

Does this have safety implications? I mean, if I stay too close to my wifi router can I be damaged?
That's interesting about the bad yields at MIT and Stanford, not something I would have guessed.
Yes, the author did generalize. However, all the criticisms that I read about their generation are exactly that, generalizations. And the articles from both sides are always self-serving.

The unemployment rate for under 25s is stageringly high compared to the general population. The cost of education has gone up 300% while inflation has gone up a mere 30% since 1990, most paid with borrowed monies. The whole economy tanked due to our debt fueled ways while they had no voice, choice, or ability to influence the outcome.

If they want to be all "whiny," let them. My prospects were great coming out of college in the 1990's. The future was paved with gold. I wouldn't say much is paved with anything these days, let alone the road in front the driveway. The worlds an unjust place and they're finding it out. We told them it wasn't.
According to the link above, there were approximately equal amounts of 24-year-old men and women getting bachelor's degrees in 1980, but undergraduating men proportionally outnumbered women in natural sciences and engineering 2.66:1. By 1998, bachelor's degrees had increased by 34% for men and 85% for women, but in NS&E the increases had been 23% and 110%, leaving the proportional gender ratio of NS&E undergraduates at 2.14:1. Notably, engineering degrees for men fell by 21%, which had a larger impact than women entering.

I didn't hunt for post-bubble figures.
It is better to vertically breakup big corporations into smaller entities to solve unemployment crisis and promote competition.
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It's hard to give specific advice without specific information about your product, but here's the process I've used when pricing RateMyStudentRental.com for schools, and LeadNuke for businesses (note that my experience is primarily with B2B pricing).

1. Who is your target market? How much money do they have?

2. How much value do you create for them? <== This is IMPORTANT

--once you've set your price based on the above, continue to steps 3 and 4--

3. How much to related/competing products charge?

4. How much would you need to charge to be sustainable?

A few notes on these... The second step is by far the most important, but also the hardest. It's not about how much value you think you create, it's how much they think you create. Often, the simplest most trivial features end up creating the greatest benefits to the users. This can be difficult to grasp for anyone close to the product. In fact, this is the very reason you should start out pricing HIGH, higher than you're comfortable with, and refine the price from there.

Also, I try to set a price based on steps 1 and 2, before continuing on to 3 and 4, because 3 and 4 are really refining and validation steps. Step 3 is a good check to make sure you're in the right ballpark. If not, you need to go back and check your assumptions and figure out why it is you're so far off from the competition (although being far off is not a bad thing, just make sure you know why). Often, the very reason your price is so different from competition is because your step 4 may be vastly different (or wrong).

Step 4 is hard to do until you have a good idea of what your customer acquisition costs are, which is why it's also done after you set a price. The fact that you have 200 FREE users means you still know nothing of CAC. Step 4 is a very important validator of your business in general. If the amount you determine for step 4 is higher than the price you came up with, what you have is a problem, not a viable business.

Of course, my own process is a little more involved than this, and usually requires a lot more refinement (none of these steps are meant to be done just once).

Hell, maybe a good place to start would be asking some of your free users if they'd still use it if you increased the price to $X.

That being said, two of my favorite stories about pricing are the interview with Steve Blank called "It’s very easy to underprice your product" [1], and Jaques's recent post, "Double your price! (and no, I'm not kidding)" [2].

[1] http://venturehacks.com/articles/pricing

[2] http://jacquesmattheij.com/Double+your+price+(and+no,+Im+not...
As I grow older, the more I realize there is nothing new under the sun. The biggest difference between the current crop of 20-somethings and the previous crop (my generation) is the internet--ideas are easily accessible, so anyone can write about environmental issues, or factory farming, or peak oil, or whatever. Previously, you had to go to the library and find this stuff, but it was there (a few examples: Wendell Berry, Jacques Ellul, Ivan Illich).

Regarding "corporate America," there is quite a bit of generalization in the original post. My father recently retired from the company he started working for when he was in his 20s. He worked his way up the proverbial ladder and currently has an ownership stake. Most of his co-workers I remember meeting when I was kid still work there, or retired there. Yes, some companies are bad, but that is not the whole of it.

There is always some degree of navel gazing by "youngsters." My old journals are full of it. Again, the difference is that these days, the navel gazing is public. At least the author is doing some degree of reflection about the state of things.
Survey finds most hacking victims blame themselves
It's a Les Grossman "scorched earth MFer" policy. They build super-sexy beta products or buy hot startups (Wave, Nexus One, Android Marketplace, Dodgeball) and lure in devs and consumers, then get bored like a cat playing with a half-dead mouse and move onto the next shiny competitor up the block.

Meanwhile, no one wants to go into the space that they take up for fear of getting gently and graciously crushed in marketshare, and no one wants that market after they've left it, for fear that "if Google can't make money on it, we can't either". For example, if it wasn't for FourSquare, location-based social SMS would've been dead after Dodgeball; no VC would've touched it after Google bought it and failed.
Well that was a predictable response to this article :)
Imagining the Future of the Touchscreen iPod nano
Very cute; very problematical. C struct offsets depend entirely on the model, packing, target etc. How can this be controlled?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579522#c27

"One issue per bug, please -- file a followup for this if you wish."
Actually, you did download it. Google Maps (includes Navigation, Lattitude, Places, etc) was updated several times since you bought your N1. It was updated using Google Market.
Some narcissist explaining how smart and special he is in a self-promoting blog post on a personal site (indeed, he is so kind to explain his logic to mere mortals).

That is good for a facebook, but why here?

btw, next time we (ignorant, tribal peasants) probably should ask him to explain the meaning of words 'generalizations' and 'cliche'. ^_^
I can barely see a difference on my monitor. Maybe it's not reading your ClearType settings correctly, or not compensating for gamma or something.
If I boil the ad hominem away, the essay points towards an ideal I strive to achieve (also fail to achieve, but my glass is half full).

My ideal is to only respond to posts or comments that are worth an upmod. Downmods are to be imposed silently: If something doesn't contribute to HN, how is it worth any of my words?
Remember that it's currently not possible to actually buy apps a lot of places in the world.

Android has a pretty high market share here in Norway, but we can only use free apps. I have no idea what's taking Google so long. Anyone know the percentage of Android phones that can actually buy apps?
The trick is to quote a price high enough that even if they accepted, you would consider the compensation worth the aggravation. You win either way!
"This is the backlash of the children of the baby boomers against their parents, who grew up during the 60s, espoused free love, peace, and other hippy pop culture platitudes, and yet, became the worst generation"

And built the internet. And kept social security afloat for years after it was supposed to become bankrupt (most of those people now using it also paid into it, remember). And did a thousand other things. What makes you think this generation will be any more responsible? Greed and ignorance are basic human conditions and are in no short supply in any generation.
Ask HN: How do you like your product manager?
This is a throw-away account.

So recently the company I founded was acquired and this is the first time I've worked in a company this size. They also have a unique set of development challenges since they are a financial company, so I'm trying to be humble and objective about my feedback.

I oversee product development on their mobile side and I've found myself in a system of processes and procedures that are unfamiliar to me. For example, the guy before me wrote an 8 page product spec doc to instruct developers how to add a Facebook Share button on a website. The document even includes javascript and CSS snippets, etc. And the doc was probably circled around 4 other people for feedback, amassing a week's worth of salary-time. This seems like a colossal waste, I'd rather just do it myself in :15 minutes and call it a day.

So I can go on forever but would rather hear what developers prefer and have experienced from their product managers that produced great results. Thanks!
The Trillion Dollar IQ Business
Startup Competitors Watch From Five Directions
A Good story and some good advice there. Thanks once again. I perceive certain products in certain ways, in terms of the price guiding my judgement, e.g. higher priced items being of better quality which doesn't always hold true of course. Personally, I need to actually make use of a product which is higher priced before actually making the decision to buy. This is why we will go with the freemium model I think.
I would wager that using proper decimal formatting for $12.50 would also go a long way to increase conversions.

I'm always weary when websites don't take the time to get the simple details right -- makes me wonder what else (behind the scenes) they're not doing, like making the transactions "secure".
Ask HN: Techcrunch plagiarized my article...what can/should I do? 
Today's Techcrunch article is on a Groupon Clone called CampusDibs. I wrote about the article 2 weeks ago on my blog:

http://entreprenormal.com/post/1009185254/where-oh-where-should-my-groupon-clone-go

which then got syndicated on SAI.
http://www.businessinsider.com/where-should-your-groupon-clone-go-2010-8#ixzz0ywbNxsez

Here is my part:
In terms of choosing cities based on deal services, there are currently estimates of 150 Groupon Clones — with such low barriers to entry, it’s really difficult to know of (be aware of) each Deal provider in every city. They’re popping up left and right, and with Group Buying really getting hot in the summer, I expect a bunch of deals in other verticals to start popping up in the fall, specifically on college campuses (CampusDibs.com). These are places where populations can change dramatically (think Game Day at Penn State when 100,000+ people come to see a football game) and could take flash-mob deals to a whole new level. Look out for daily deals on campus at schools with large student bodies and a vibrant college town: OSU, Arizona State, Florida, Minnesota, UT Austin, Michigan State, Penn State, but remember, size isn’t everything, right Washington, D.C.?

here is their part:

If you doubt Campus Dibs’ chances for setting itself apart from the 800 or so daily deals sites out there, just imagine the power of the 50k plus populations of college campuses and alumni coupled with the mob mentality of group buying sites.

Picture briefly what a deal tie-in might mean for the student store, especially at campuses with pretty fanatical populations and hopping college towns. I’m looking at you USC, Penn State, Arizona State, Michigan State, OSU, and UT Austin who are among the campuses covered by Campusdibs.

sound familiar?

UPDATE: just wanted to highlight another point I made below:

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In my analysis, I did a google search for "colleges by student population" and got this as the top link:

http://www.happyschoolsblog.com/largest-us-universities-by-student-population/

The list was created from 2006 data. One thing to notice, I skipped over Texas A&M and University of South Florida and picked up Penn State (because I'm from Jersey, and half of my high school went there).

The TC article article also omits these two schools, and adds in UCLA and USC. (The author is a USC grad herself.) Even if she did find the same list, why also skip over A&M and USF?

a more accurate list would have come from more recent data:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_colleges_by_enrollment

Yes, it's possible, but I think pretty unlikely she'd independently decide to drop the same two schools that I did, assuming she found the same source.
You're OT, but yes, nearly all software today is components, but not in that rigid, anthropomorphized, Actor-model fashion. Instead, we have stuff we can use/import/require at compile time, or bundle with our own software.

I would say that the Apache Foundation's work is all about offering Free "off the shelf" components; see Apache Commons, for example.
Also interesting to hear programmers with "motivation problems" usually fail to regain motivation.
Perhaps it's both?
You'll need a different hack to put music or video files from a random computer onto your device too. That's assuming it's even possible, they seem to be in an arms race each new devices having your data further encrypted in some way.
What does he mean by motivation problems, though? The motivation to join the company? Or to work on that particular companie's problems?
I highly doubt that the failure of one company caused all women to give up on software development because it wasn't cool any more (Carmack was equally or more of rock star). Especially since working for a game company is one of the most grueling experiences in the software industry. On top of that, as "famous" as he may have seemed, I challenge you to find someone who didn't play computer games that even remotely knows who he is.
Clickable:

Mine:

http://entreprenormal.com/post/1009185254/where-oh-where-sho...

http://www.businessinsider.com/where-should-your-groupon-clo...

TC's: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/07/campusdibs/
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I hope dogs don't become an "internet standard". I don't want to work in an office with dogs. Maybe it would repulse me so much that I would even reject to work for Google.

Besides, I thought the internet standard is LOLCats.
Web based design on print media
Weakly held stupid opinions can be changed, and you’re doing a nice thing.

You're doing a "nice thing" by changing someone's weakly-held opinions to match your own? That seems more than a little bit conceited.
>Programmers with motivation problems: Joel has rarely seen successful "turnarounds".

Hmm, this is properly a more specific example of the general point that you can't change people, only people can change themself - I would imagine that the successful turnaround would be a lot higher for those who themself perceive this to be a problem (and not just claiming so to avoid problems).
From your pricing page, what are "Basic Goal Types" and "Advanced Goal Types"? Is that like, "do my laundry" vs. "solve P == NP"? As a visitor, these labels mean nothing to me.
Have you asked them about it?
Sorry, I know it's fun to rail on TC, but I'm not sure I see the blatant plagiarism that you do. It's definitely not word-for-word, and while the concept is the same, I'm not sure that proves anything.

Aside from whether they did plagiarize your article, there's pretty much nothing you can do. Even if they had cut and pasted your article verbatim, I doubt you could do much other than maybe email some other bloggers with an axe to grind against TC and see if they'd throw some gas on the fire for you. But with something this vague? Good luck :-/
The author really ought to replace "we" with "I".
I can see it. Barely indeed, but in the world of text rendering these small differences matter a lot.