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This is based on a love of b2b saas products that focus on increasing productivity...

First, ditch consumer. They don't pay and are very fickle. Lots of lookie-loos. And it's really hard to actually solve a problem for them because they don't even know it's a problem.

B2B is way more lucrative. Getting a SMB to pay $100-500/mo for a product that adds value is easy. Try getting that amount from a consumer!

On the site UI: design, colors are good. Make the tabs animated so it scrolls through the features.

On the content: you are stuck where I (and most other techies) get stuck. You are focusing on features. You have to focus on the benefits. Answer the question: what's in it for me.

I see there's a bunch of features. Strip all of it down to 2-3 things. That's it. You have to focus everything into 2-3 key things. And you have to present them as benefits to the customer. For example, 'distribute to social media' is a definitely a feature. 'Share your pictures with all your friends in one click' is a benefit (I think).

Think of it like this: a feature requires the customer to connect the dots to answer the question of 'what's in it for me'. a benefit connects the dots for them. It's like the "because..." of a sentence.

On the product: my goal with all my b2b work is to try to simplify the process until it takes zero clicks to perform it (i.e. fully automated). if something takes 3 clicks, figure out how to get it to 2 clicks. If it takes 2, get it to 1. And if you can get 1 click down to zero clicks, you have reached productivity nirvana! :)

Second, you have to pick a really specific niche in SMB to go after. DO NOT BUILD A ONE-SIZE FITS ALL PRODUCT! You will fail.

Pick Info Management for dog groomers or Info Mgmt for funeral homes. Go very specific and build a product that is custom-tailored to that niche. This reduces competition, decreases customer acquisition cost and will get you delighted customers.

Once you pick your niche, you have to fully understand that customer and their processes. This is impossible for you to do unless you were a dog groomer in a previous life, so you'll have to find some subject matter experts (SMEs) and pick their brains.

Then, pick the part of their process that is the most painful for them, that technology can help fix and that they will pay money for. Solve that problem and you make money.

You might get lucky and your existing product will cover some of what's needed to solve that problem, but it might not. You'll probably want to identify SMB niches that you think might have a problem related to info management as your starting point.

The biggest thing you want to be aware of is that when you are talking to SMEs, keep a wide open mind and ask all sorts of questions. Don't try to force your product or your presumption of what their problems are. You will most certainly be wrong.

Good luck and keep us posted on your progress!
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I remember first starting to read reddit probably about a year or so before digg v4. Originally I thought the site style was boring, but I kept coming back because there was always fresh content.

I noticed that after digg v4 things started to downhill. in the last few months it has gotten dramatically worse.

unfunny memes get beaten to death. Rage comics, etc. Two years ago there wasn't that crap. I feel like memes are taking over, and regular comments and submissions are forced into banality when they would be better without the old, beaten-to-death meme.

there's still a lot of good stuff but there's now a sea of horrible content to sift through.
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It is true that skinny, light skin and big eyes also have a different value in China. But it still is hard to get sufficient data to support that one of these is a factor for women who meet u. If you look "american", that alone might be enough. Also if you find another country where other values apply. I don't know for sure, but let's take a country in Africa. I guess (but don't know!) that more masculine, strong and dark skinned men are better looking there. The average North American or European guy will still have more success there, then in his home country, because he still has "plastic" and money value, that is a lot higher then for most black man. Even a Chinese man (who sometimes feels treated badly by western girls) will have a lot of success in Africa, beause the Chinese financial and living standards are higher then in many African countries (also don't have any data to prove that "most" really applys). And also in his own country a Chinese male will have better chances with women, because there he works on an equal level, while he really has a disadvantage in Europe and North America.

To make a long story short: I don't think "I get more girls in this country or in that." can be a good model to compare the beauty values of women or bosses, because other factors are more important.
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I don't typically like to spread rumors, but I work as a bartender in Walnut Creek, CA and a guest that claimed to have close mutual friends with Steve said it was defintely because of his health. I obviously can't substantiate her claim, but she seemed extremely sad and elaborated quite a bit.

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> Here I'll give you a "real world hyperlink": print the damn URL in English so that I can remember it if I don't have my phone handy.

Provide both then, because typing a URL is a pain on most mobiles, especially urls more than 5 characters.

> If you're running a print ad you can afford a short snappy URL.

What sense would it make? You have an existing brand and an existing site, why have to create a new brand and a new site just to link to that?

> Therefore, they will be relegated forever to the sphere of computerish heiroglyphics that normal people will always ignore, because they have no obvious real world relevance.

Japan and Korea demonstrate how absolutely incorrect you are.

> By way of contrast, most of the old EAN barcodes have the number printed under them, so a human can see what they encode when the barcode scanner breaks. QR codes, not so easy.

Wait that has no relevance whatsoever to the previous half of the paragraph, you said "normal people" would always ignore QRCodes, but anyone can recognize a barcode and knows (at least roughly) what it's about. QRCode will reach that ubiquity (as I mentioned, they already have in Japan and Korea for instance), and by that time children will only have to learn about them once.

> I mean, if Google Goggles can OCR text on a menu or poster in real time... a QR code is just making things complicated.

Google Goggles can attempt to do that with all the power of Google behind it. Just about any low-power device with a camera can recognize, read, fix (qrcode embeds significant amount of redundancy for error recovery) and decode a qrcode.
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I don't think its the language as so much the frameworks
themselves. example with rails, a lot of developers use several dsl's and with each one there's a learning curve, haml, sass, coffee script, rspec, etc. I think its mainly understanding frameworks that lead to productivity
There are a bunch of triggers you want to include in the agreement, like what if one of the founders become incapacitated or gets divorced? Will the survivor/ex-wife now be your boss? You'll need to either dig up a well-written agreement or get some good legal advice.

If you're attorney costs less than their attorney, you're most likely going to leave an opening for you to get screwed in the future. Even if your other founders aren't dicks, a future investor might be (i.e. screw over bob and kick him out or you don't get my money).

Remember, this is like a pre-nuptial agreement. You have to write the agreement as if you are going to get a divorce.

You want to make sure you cover owner equity distribution in the agreement. If the other founders are pulling money out of the company, you should get an equal share.

And you might want to consider a buy-out clause. This gives the other founders an option to buy your shares. They will really like this. And you might give up some upside, but still walk away with a nice pile of cash. Make sure to structure it as best you can, so it's your option to take or not take. This gets tricky, but is doable.

If you really think there is some potential for the company to make some serious profit, you need to go find a $350-500/hr attorney to help you get into the right agreement.
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> It's amazing that it's gotten as far as it has without any large companies pushing it (that I'm aware of).

It's not being pushed much in the US. It's been created by a subsidiary of Toyota and is ubiquitous in Japan. It's also widely used in South Korea and (at the very least) Netherlands. I don't think there's any phone there which lacks native QRCode support in japan, and just about any poster has a QRCode on it linking to the relevant page.
It doesn't seem to cover all linked lists, only data structures where each element is part of two or more otherwise independent lists (so it doesn't cover list tail sharing either).

I'm not very good at reading patents, so please point out the claims that contradict me.
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Actually, in the case of such an egregiously stupid comment, that's what the flag button is for.
But you're right about the subreddits, and this is one of the more important features which manages to keep acquainted users from leaving the site, even if they are tired of the now 4chan-esque frontpage.
in all honesty I think wozniak deserves more credit and bill gates did more to get affordable home computers to the mass than jobs did. But I have no doubts Jobs would of been successful regardless.
I didn't claim that Facebook would take all the profits in such a scenario. Of course Microsoft would have a valid claim to some profits from a joint venture, the two companies would strike a deal over the exact split. As has been noted in other threads, though, even a small share of the search market can be worth a lot.
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Are you suggesting Android is not controlled by a huge corporation? Android is a lot more open than iOS, but the interaction with customers is completely controlled by a handful of corporations.

We need an open source hardware device running a truly open source OS. That would be really nice.

EDIT: Even if we don't have open source hardware, what would be great is having the ability to buy modular parts to build up our own devices. This used to be common practice with desktops, but got totally killed since laptops took over.

If I had an extra life, that would be my startup.
Relevant to what argument? To what use case? What is a gaming PC? What is a gaming laptop? What are the use cases for each?

I would liken the gaming PC to an audiophile hi-fi setup, almost no one expects it to fit in a messenger bag and run off a battery. For the connoisseur, no portable setup will fulfill all of their needs, and in all likelihood, they'll have setups to cater to each use case. But what if you can have a machine that's ultra-portable, but could also be docked to a setup that allows for high frame rate/high res gameplay? Some people already do this on laptops with express card bridges to external PCI-E sockets. Works pretty well. Here's an example of one such build, although I've seen better:

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So many of the comments I see here follow a pattern of "I didn't give much to the community, but expected a lot more in return".

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I'm in a bit of a situation - I need to learn to build stuff (web or mobile apps) in 2 weeks. What can I pick up and be dangerous with, quickly? I have access to a MacBook and a PC, an Android phone and an iPhone - above all I have a blazing fast internet connection and full 80 hours coming up that I can devote to learning.

I used to be a C++ developer, then took a 5 year break from any/all programming. I can still make sense of C++ code and have most of the OOP concepts, but please keep in mind that understanding code and being able to build something are two very different things.

Imagine this, you lose your entire skill-set due to an accident or injury, and need to be able to build something/anything (web or mobile app) by learning something in the coming two weeks or so - what advice would you give yourself? What would you learn, something fast to pick up and make useful stuff with. Please assume you're of average intelligence, not a genius, neither an idiot.

This does not have to be production-grade, just a shaky first go will do.

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None of the Thinkpads that I have on hand (x30, T41 tablet, X201, Z61m, covers ~ 10 years) exhibit that feature, so it's not something "thinkpad does".

The difference with the Apple logo is that it is usually illuminated - rather than mere branding that you have to look for, it actually pulls your eye and works as an advertisement due to the difference in illuminance.
Am I the only one who seems that this makes it seem like he's dead and just not stepping down from CEO of Apple? It's not like he's not going to do anything else in his life.
Riding the tram, there was an ad of sth. interesting sticked to the door. The URL and a QR code were printed at the bottom. Instead of opening the browser and typing in the URL on the shaky train I fired up the Goggles app (home screen), pointed it to the code and about 2 seconds and one button later the page was loading in my browser.
Given an URL and a QR code above I would always choose to use the QR code just because it's much easier than using the tiny on-screen keyboard of the smartphone. QR codes should not try to replace an URL but rather be an alternative to typing it in. You could compare that to whatever.com (not hyperlinked, type in/copy paste) vs. http://whatever.com/ (hyperlinked, one click).
A year ago I started learning web development and found that you have to start with a framework. I used CodeIgniter (PHP) as the code is pretty clean. It's been around for a long time so there are a lot of communities where you can ask questions. There are also a lot of books based on it.

some popular php frameworks include Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter.

I looked at all 3 and tested it out. I went for CodeIgniter.
There's already a discussion about that, see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2873795
Great to hear. People will like it. Non-fluid designs and missing media support are what I hear most when talking about CMS'es. There will always be different levels of site building in the future and your product fits in between them:

- Simple page builders
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ugh...Java...i took Java in college and found it to be a horrible language. loads so slow and not the best web dev language around.
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Great, now we just wait that Microsoft, Googrola, Samsung or Apple buys the patent :/
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It hasn't always been that way. The Powerbook G3 series (and before?) had a similar logo, but oriented in the other direction.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4#Industrial_design
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Thanks for lovely computers and phones, especially the MacBook Air. It's my most favourite computer ever!

Hopefully the bar is raised sufficient enough that we wont go backwards in design and function. I once tried to buy a PC laptop just for something different (I've had Macs since 10.2), but nothing at all could come close to the MacBooks.

A nice screen, keyboard, trackpad and design all in one package is apparently too difficult for every other laptop manufacturer out there. Except for maybe Lenovo, they are a bit of alright. But there just isn't anything like the Air!
Please, can someone give a good reason why the bundled camera apps are not supporting QR codes? For an average user, it would be the easiest option to just use the camera on the phone. Less friction and so on.
Yes, the difference with Apple is illuminance. But I think they started it when they were much smaller, and it was meant to be promote word-of-mouth-ish promotion. Sure now that Macs are popular, it sucks to have too many illuminated logos being thrown in your face. I don't like that either. I too find it sad that too many children these day will think the Apple logo is synonymous with computing devices. At least in the earlier days there were many different logos from different companies.

Going back to ThinkPad, I think the difference was that it was a small logo on the corner. Consider having a big ThinkPad logo in the center, and how odd it may look to anybody who looks at the user. Probably why other manufacturers also do it.
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The second answer by andcoz ends with a great summary. I'd quote it here if copy on ipad worked on SE.
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While I agree fabulous's comment is totally inappropriate Im caught off guard by some comments to my submissions and or commments left.

For instance I recently unsubscribed to Groupon emails. After doing so Groupon pointed me to a page to watch a tongue and cheek video to get me to change my mind.

I hate getting spam emails and I was very eager to banish any further Groupons (signed up by mistake). There tongue and cheek video was very ineffective for me. I did think it was unique, interesting and something worth sharing. But, since I felt negatively towards it the title of my submission was "Worst Email Unsubscibe Page?". Because that is how I felt about it but still wondered what others thought.

For whatever reason because I chose a negative title the submission was flamed - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2928041

Again that is how I felt time of writing the title because it was un-effective for me, but wondered what others thought about it.

Ive been reading HN since May '07 (various accounts) so Im not a noob. Maybe Im someone who thinks differently at times then others here?
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Am I missing something? I don't see how that helps a user to parse a QR they come across in meatspace. Say, on a movie poster or fast food cup.

If I'm on a website with a QR code... should that publisher not just use a plain old URL?
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This is an old thread I found. It's from 2006. I think much have changed since then and it would be possible nowadays :-) What do you think?
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> Reddit commenters seems to take some pride that they are not as worse as their cousins at 4chan or youtube.

As a redditor for >5 years, I'm not sure they can claim even that anymore.
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hm, non-hackers was bad wording on my part. I guess my view of hackers is very broad, describing a mindset, not particular skillsets.
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Not really. Downvote is for poor responses, which are still more or less acceptable. We don't want to spend our time on HN downvoting trolling clowns and other vermin.
I am someone who is actively resistant to "group-think". It often gets me in hot water to be so out of step. It's tricky to be very out of step with a group and still participate in a meaningful, constructive fashion. I try extremely hard to avoid framing things in a blatantly negative fashion. Negative framing of that sort seems to only work if the majority are pretty much guaranteed to heartily agree.
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