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Ask HN:Where/How to promote travelers network site?
Me and some friends have created HomeyPlanet ( http://www.homeyplanet.com ) which aims to be a community of travelers sharing "off-the-beaten" track spots around the world with other travelers.

We went live a month ago, we have about 150 users, 500 spots (half of them in Portugal, our home country). We have limited this to Europe, merely because we feel the spots are already very disperse. At any point We can include the rest of the world.

We did not really do extensive promotion, because we wanted to make the most of the initial user feedback to improve the website. However, now we would like to really start promoting this, but we are a bit lost on how to do it. We have prepared a video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oFTMjfR-0M&feature=share ) but we don't know where to put it.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

So far, we just spread it on Facebook and we contacted people using CouchSurfing, a travelers community we all belong to and that focus on hosting travelers.

Any sort of feedback, criticism or suggestions is welcome.

Thanks
Three points from the article:

1) The ISP's now have content of their own, so they'll gladly try to stop the illegal sharing of content on their network, because there's now a profit incentive to do so.

2) The White House acted as a "broker" in this deal, probably forcing their hand to accept the deals, unless they wanted more regulation for this.

3) The presumption of innocence is gone. You can now be found "guilty" without any court saying so.

On 3, that's why I think the Big Content industry is by far the most dangerous entity not only to online freedoms, but other freedoms as well. They are the ones pushing most of the online censorship regulations, and they are the ones pushing institutions like ICE, Homeland Security and even FBI to consider people guilty first and take down their websites or servers, without due process.

I wouldn't be surprised if 5-10 years from now they'll try to get the Police to check your iPod or phone for any illegal songs when they pull you over for exceeding the speed limit.
It's Reddit. Reddit, when it comes to doing things for the community, absolutely doesn't care what your race or gender is. What Reddit also is, though, is violently anti-commercialism. Any sort of additional advertising, or company-posing-as-a-user, or anything that tries to take advantage of the community's overall good will in that fashion, will get slapped down.

That's currently the case here. It seems to be a company (a small one, mind you), who lied about who they were, and why they were doing what they were doing.

Now, it seems to be a small enough company that if they had let this be known from the get-go, then Reddit wouldn't have cared. However, from what seems to be the case, they didn't even use one of their cofounders as a "company face" sort of deal-- they have, in essence, made up a person from the ground up, to the standard of "Well, Starcraft players can relate to someone like this", to PR for them.

That is what's got people pissed off.
Cython, in my eyes, would qualify as a "production"-level compiler project - the lxml library uses it, and you occasionally run into it in other projects.

Cython follows the "optional static typing" approach, and implements a rather large (but not complete) subset of Python. It's a very good intermediate solution for those 20% of the code that take up 80% of the running time.
The main issue here is that it appears that a YC company was claiming to be a hobbyist developer that solicited (and received) donations.

They haven't responded, so it could all be a misunderstanding. However, it doesn't look good.
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I agree that its sometimes very hard for people to visualize what you are proposing. One screen shot does go a long way. If there had been a more positive response my next step would be to create mockups and re-confirm with my target market that I am on the right track.

However, I'm not so sure that peoples natural reaction is to say "I don't need that" ... personally if I'm in a forum and I see something that is of no interest to me, I'm far more likely just to move onto something more interesting, than to leave a comment. Before starting my little experiment, I was actually expecting things to be biased the other way: eg, people would say "sure, that sounds great, I would buy it" and then when push came to shove not actually buy.
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I think that even the "brand-name" CS schools have this problem. Most of our students aren't /really/ going to be practicing computer science (heck, I don't, in industry... not in the purest sense); many of them will be writing software for a company. (Well, or they'll go work in finance, which is a whole different topic.)

While I definitely agree that (as with pretty much any complex skill) the only way to learn is by doing, over and over again, our undergraduates frequently go out into the world having only taken one or two classes that include any sort of nontrivial software development.

Now, these students are largely smart people, and they figure it out---but after two or three years in the workforce. I've heard this from other people, too, who have way more experience with the subject by virtue of having been around longer.

It's sort of an identity crisis thing: are we trying to produce computer scientists, or are we trying to produce software engineers? Neither is a wrong answer; they're just very different goals.
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As somebody that has made many things on the web and never had anybody come, I have to agree :-) These days there is so much noise on the web that I feel you have to be sure your idea really will grab peoples attention.
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Based on this[1], it appears that the jakefrink account has been ninja-editing their signatures, from "-Jake", to "-Jake (Jong-Moon)", to nothing right now. So yes, it seems like the latter right now.

[1]http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/im6r4/there_is_no...
So it's basically the same as setting up an EC2 node in AWS with WP? Which 'can be' free. Though I guess this service will be easier for people who not have the know-how or not want to bother for doing it themselves?
They actually have responded[1], and it seems like they pretty much put their foot in their mouth, based on the highlighted reply.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/im6r4/there_is_no...
This reminds me that most of what PyPy delivers today - 10x speedup, full range of the Python language, was available within CPython in a module called Psyco that you could easily install.
Like PyPy for a long time, Psyco was only available on x86.

Psyco's author, Armin Rigo, then got disgusted with Psyco and went on to work on PyPy (possibly for more sanity and better funding).

So, yes, I'd be quite happy to use PyPy, even by default, if it was as easy to install as CPython (or ghc, for that matter, which is a bit larger than CPython but also quite easy to install) and worked out of the box. I definitely was when it came to Psyco.
Well, a mockup would have been my next step, if I had received a more positive response at this stage. However it became obvious right away, that my feature set was wrong and I had miss judged how big the market was.

I think the ad-words are a good idea though. I'll have to keep this idea in mind for future projects. How 'obvious' do you think I should be on my landing page, that there is actually no product though? Do I just land to a big 'coming soon' sign, with a field for people to enter their e-mails? Or should I try and create a fully functional site and just say on the purchase page that the product is coming soon and allow people to leave their e-mail.
I agree he's missing the point.

"Do what you love" might be better put: Make your money doing something related to what you're most passionate about.

So if you're into sex, coffee, reading, writing and travelling - write a hedonists travelling blog while you're doing it. Or move to Costa Rica and open an online boutique store where you sell only the finest local coffee to other aficionados. Or coffee and books about sex. Or create a community site (see Ravelry) where people who share your passions can mingle.

I think the idea is that doing something that feeds your passion is a reward in of itself. And because you're passionate about it you will enjoy to putting more effort in and thus have greater chance being successful.
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With this the "Facebook Browser" makes even more sense. Facebook is probably more scared of being dethroned on the data-gathering (therefore advertising) than losing the social "battle" itself.

Well, actually Google is probably scared on the same (money) level.
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It's difficult to see his replies because they are being downvoted on reddit, but at the very least he seems to be confirming that Jake Frink isn't his real name. http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/im6r4/there_is_no...

I can buy that he wanted to use an alias, but pretending to have done it all on his own and having no affiliation with any company was a bad move.

I'd like to wait for more info before burning him on a stake though.

EDIT: "I was ashamed. It was the first time going through a startup experience. After telling everyone I'd be going over to the Bay Area to setup a startup, it was hard realizing it had failed. Those months after were very tough and I didn't know what to do."
I do business under an assumed name, FWIW.
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This is a presentation from 28msec at the university of washington. 28msec leverages XQuery as a single single-tiered application stack.
I love when Google does things like that. There's an unique opportunity today to leverage modern technology to actually help people in their troubles. It might be a way of marketing, but whatever popularity they gain by it, I believe it's deserved.
Honestly, I don't know if this was naughty in the way PG would define it. Naughty is a kind of word with a gleam in it's eye and nothing to be ashamed of. Based on the link from the "Naughty" section of your link[1], it seems more like a liberal, anti-establishment-for-the-sake-of-establishment mindset, and that's the sort of thing people like Banksy are lauded for.

This whole thing isn't naughty, just stupid in the extreme. There was no additional market to grab with this lie, just the potential to hemorrhage users once word of your initial shady tactics get out.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/im6r4/there_is_no...
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You make a couple of really good points - programmers are much better at visualizing how a solution would work than the general public. Also, sometimes people really, really just don't know what they actually want :-)

However on the flip side if people can't understand what I am proposing or why they would want it, it means I am going to have a much harder time selling it to them. Suddenly my task is not about coding and marketing but more about first building the market, so I can then sell to it. Its probably a good opportunity for somebody, but I'm not sure that person is me :-)
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I don't have a Google+ account, and don't know if it solves this, but one of the failings of FB lists is that they only control what you share, not what others share about you--there's no way to set things up so that you can have your work friends, your school friends, and your close friends all tag photos of you, but only have those tags be visible by default to other people within the same circle.
How long is the class?

I would suggest that the mechanics of setting up a company is mostly a list of things to follow: incorporation, taxes, shares, contracts etc. some with branches that needs to be followed. But it is something you only do a limited amount of times (I have done half a dozen).

The key thing, I think, is to teach how to create great teams. It is your core team which defines your future. Maybe you want to look at going through an abbreviated version of Steve Blank’s “Four steps to Ephiphany” as well.
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Thanks! I think at the end of the day, the only opinion which really, matters is that of the person who will be spending the money.
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I went to business school, took entrepreneurship classes, and the business I started is profitable and has been operating for over a decade. I feel somewhat qualified to speak on this.

When my friends and I decided to start a business based on my idea, I was finishing my PhD in physics and had no idea how to run a business -- no knowledge of accounting, management, marketing... I didn't know the difference between debt and equity. I took classes at the business school of my university. It gave me the quick and dirty knowledge I needed to get it started.

Among the classes I took in entrepreneurship at business school, I wrote my first business plan, learned breakeven analysis, spoke to entrepreneurs, got mentors, got connections to investors, employees, patent lawyers, eventual board members, did my first market research, which involved speaking to successful entrepreneurs in my field, I could go on...

The resources available to a student at a university are incalculable valuable to someone who knows how to use them. If all you do is sit in class and accept what they tell you, you won't get much out of business school. You probably won't be great at starting a business either.

Business school entrepreneurship programs deserve criticism and could do better than they do, but few of the comments on this thread hit them. All fields' best teacher is experience, not just entrepreneurship. School gives a foundation -- no more no less. Everyone in every field learns more in the real world than sitting in classes, or nearly so. That doesn't mean school can't help.

To say no class can teach you how to start a business misses what they can do. They can teach you the overall process, connect you to networks that can provide resources like capital, labor, business services, marketing, experienced and connected mentors, prestige, and so on. They can give you perspective on wider business issues beyond start-ups. They can help you understand what happens after the start-up phase.

The programs may not be for everyone, but that means they aren't a match for all, not that they have inherent problems.

After my business was up and running I went back to finish my MBA -- a decision based on experience and knowledge.
> Redditors are nortoriously anti-capitalist

I'd say: 'anti-corporation'
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I really like your bottom line! At the end of the day, it all comes down to a really subjective subjective judgment on if you should proceed.

And frankly, I'm not sure that I have all the knowledge or experience to be making the right decision. May people in this thread raised some very good counter points and undoubtedly have more experience and knowledge than I.

However at this stage, I think I'll go away and test out the target market for a few other ideas I have and see what kind of response I get. I think I could do with a few more data points on what kind of response to expect from the "talk to your target market" approach.
I like this subtle jab at JavaScript developers: "...programming skills are required. However, usage of the Javascript APIs that call WebRTC in the browsers will only require typical web development skills."
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b) Unless it's subconscious, I disagree. I procrastinated my way through the high school and at this age I had zero fear for my life or competition with anybody. Things do change when one gets older, but at that point I didn't cared about being outcompeted by others (actually, right now, I don't really care that much either).

c) Sometimes forcing us to focus on a single task is beneficial. Multitasking is usually bad for productivity, at least from what I've seen so far both in my life and on discussions at HN.
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Its a good idea in some cases, but unfortunately I don't have two weeks to create a prototype. I'm actually trying to get together a minimum viable product, and launch in a few months of long weekends I have free, while my family is overseas.
I think Google+ will be a social network for techie hipsters and other early adopters seeking a Facebook alternative, but the novelty will wear off, and the mainstream will barely notice. Just my initial impression. There isn't a compelling enough reason for Facebook's 750 million users to switch.
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This release includes transparent large page? This will hugely increase the performance of memory-consuming applications (c,f. Redis, HBase, MongoDB, etc.). I confirmed at RHEL6.
Hardly anyone will provide you with support for commercial products under Centos. You just have a reasonable confidence.
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> the kind that’s telling you that what you’re supposed to be doing has, deep down, no real point.

I feel this description feels much closer to my problems with procrastination than the idea from the article.
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Thanks for posting this. I put it on /r/starcraft…I hope it's seen. Such a great product, and he sounds like a scrappy guy.

He posted a full explanation here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiRzBnlbpUs
Can someone please help me understand better what this actually means as a benefit for us?
Does WebRTC in the browser mean i'll be able to do away with my asterisk server eventually should i choose to, and develop my own solution that works just in the browser, or am i way off track here?
Believe it or not, it is possible for Facebook to be lean and agile yet produce a less than compelling response to circles. Google's internal process has also been criticized before by other former employees, such as the infamous color survey. Your eagerness to dismiss an account from someone on the inside is a little weird and doesn't refute the points he made.
> This is the first time I've heard that "Scientific Linux"

"Then you haven't followed the linux distros (especially RHEL binary compatible clones) close enough. SL is actually older than CentOS."

I was trying to explain that your average Linux sysadmin is aware of RHEL and Centos, but not "Scientific Linux". That's all. I stand by that statement.
Seriously, why do you need so many rights to my twitter account!!? i don't think that's necessary...

Also: got a 500 error on signup (via email/password)
There's something in that concept. I sometimes don't do things people request immediately, knowing that they most likely don't really need it. Then either they repeat the request (forcing the computation ;)) or (more often) realize it was superfluous.
People misunderstand the whole 'do what you love' philosophy. They think that you just go about doing whatever seems interesting. The truth is that you have to 'do'. If you like philosophy, then write a book, talk about it, give a theory. 'Do something about it'.
Circles are ok to set up at the beginning, but many people belong in more than one circle and it gets cognitively tiring to sort people appropriately into one-and-only-one circle.

It's also cognitively tiring to work out the consequences of sending a message to a circle larger than what you might type into an email "to" field.

You can work out the consequences of a broadcast announcement to the world/all your friends/your whole company. And you can work out the consequences of a private message to a few friends.

But in between is hard, and kind of unnatural. Maybe people will learn, but I think most people will only use a few circles (Public/Private) at most.

Random thought: the main reason for Circles is to reduce the negative consequences of sharing an identifiable message with someone inappropriate. If that could be predicted via machine learning, that'd be interesting.
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I have never seen the Dropbox video. I think it was word of mouth. You can explain it to your friends in a few words and thats what is key.
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So, except for point 2, it's a matter of learning the language and culture thoroughly.
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I gave it a try and it looks interesting, but I'm probably not part of your target audience. I don't know if it's a good or bad idea. I'll give you some usability feedback though based on my experience.

I put down a remark and a fake e-mail and was confused for a little bit. There was no submit button or any obvious way to inform the page that I was done entering info. I finally realised that I needed to press enter but this was not made clear to me.

The remark did not show up, but I noticed I was now logged in and ID'ed as my e-mail. I needed to enter the remark again before it showed anything.

I feel like it would have been more intuitive if the marks were visible even before my mouse hovered over the image. There can be an option to enable marks only on hover over but I don't think it's a good default. If your aim is to prevent the entire image from being covered in marks, then perhaps you could limit the number that show up (using some criteria like only the most recent X number of marks).
Yup. And a huge number of people quoted in NYT articles are immediate friends or one degree away in the reporter's social network.

And there's a whole email list ("Help a Reporter Out") where PR pros find "experts" to happily mouth quotes on demand for reporters (e.g. "Seeking Professor of Media Studies to comment on violent video games phenomenon"). The idea is that helping a grateful reporter out of a deadline jam in this way will then get your client a good story.

In general, the story behind a story is usually more interesting than the story.
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