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Ask HN: How do you build the marketing site for your SaaS app?
This is for anyone running a SaaS business - what tools/apps do you use for building and maintaining the marketing site for your product? I mean the home landing page, with the copy, video, testimonials, etc, the pricing pages, blog, and other content pages, which are NOT the product.

I always find that I build up the product part of my app easily, and leave the marketing site for the end and then scramble to put something together before launch. Editing the content later is also annoying, because I need to commit to the repo for it, and I don't like doing that for content.

Just wondering how others deal with this.
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Maybe I'm not that good at english because I believe I was clear that there obviously are people with more experience than me, but there are few. IT in the 70's and 80's was a extremely small field.
I've worked at a couple startups as well as a couple big companies. My salary + bonus has always been much, much higher at large companies than the startups. I also worked much less, so my effective per hour pay was double or more. Perhaps I got the short end of the stick, but I've never seen a dime from my stock options at these companies. One of which was aquired for a decent amount more than the valuation of the company at the time my shares were issued. I suppose the preferrreds took it all. It wouldn't have been that much anyway. Maybe 50 or 100k.

In the best realistic case, you are looking at 3-5 years of engineering pay as a one time exit after years of putting in extra hours and probably being underpaid. That's been my experience at least as well as everyone I personally know who has worked in the Bay Area the past decade.
Thoughts on Cody  – should complex movements be taught through an app?
Curious to see peoples thoughts on Cody. As an olympic lifter the idea of a video offering that teaches me the physical cues to learn complex movements sounds like a recipe for an injury.
Can videos from world renowned trainers truly replace real-time feedback?

Should we try and hybridize / bridge the gap between in person training and supplementary videos?
I found this useful paper from qnovo that describes the charging process they use. It's very interesting.

http://www.qnovocorp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Qnovo-In...
Yeah, I dont think his positions on non-technical matters really matter that much in this case. It doesn't mean hes going a good or bad CEO because of his beliefs in a totally different subject.

As long as one doesn't affect the other, everyone is entitled to his opinion. That's why we vote on stuff...
It doesn't read like it was intended as an apology.
It wouldn't strike me as very honest for somebody to apologize for a view unless they had actually changed that view without the influence of public pressure.
ICYMI - https://www.codyapp.com/
I know nothing about Box, so perhaps the people working there were paid market rate and worked normal hours. If so, I take back my comment.
> A simple way to mitigate this is to set up the BTC exchange like CBOE like NYSE

You are referring to mutualisation, and I agree it is a good idea. In a de-mutualised system, like Derivabit, if my counterpart farts then I alone get stuck with the downside. In a mutualised system, like the NYSE, when one counterparts fails the losses are distributed.

Mutualised systems are stronger than de-mutualised ones. Liability sharing incentivises members to watch and regulate the financial condition of their peers. And for the same reasons a diversified portfolio is safer than a concentrated one, they are more robust. Yet they also restrict who can and cannot trade (e.g. only NYSE members can trade on the NYSE).

Strong members build the foundation of a mutualised system. Having a party of Mt Goxes does nothing for market stability. Mutualising losses across the holders of an expiry seems like a reasonable middle ground. For example, if 10% of writers of options expiring on 25 March 2014 defaulted, Derivabit would not stick it to a random 10% of holders. Instead, all holders would receive a 10% "haircut" on the amount they are credited. Selling insurance on this haircut could be a future business.

> Isn't BTC suppose to be without fees though? What a scam!

There is no such thing as a free lunch.
"We are no banana republic. And by no means are we a pineapple republic. We are a complete fruit salad."
Flappy jam has a lot of to do with all those flappy clones. Basically, someone organized game developers to create flappy clones. It was meant as action against all hate and bullying the original flappy bird developer had to deal with.

Flappy jam: http://itch.io/jam/flappyjam
WebSockets are more or less ubiquitously supported [1]. Still, for compatibility and ease of development, your best bet for real-time web is to use SockJS [2], which wraps WebSockets and other transports.

[1]: http://caniuse.com/#feat=websockets
[2]: https://github.com/sockjs/sockjs-client
How is debugging different in Visual Studio than in the tools usually used for debugging the Linux kernel?

I work in Visual Studio on things that have nothing to do with Linux and am ignorant of the profundity of this product.
How about, in the future, pick your examples with a care for those who you name.
4% for a company like Box is pretty consistent (maybe slightly higher).

http://www.bothsidesofthetable.com/2011/10/14/understanding-...
In all these country, ‘hate speech’ is generally clearly limited to destructive and politically irrelevant things: nostalgics of the Third Reich are illegal out of respect for history, not because the government expects to be over-turned in the short term. Ireland and UK might have some more recent problems with ‘The Troubles’, but both sides can freely exchange political ideas (as long as its not to call for terrorism-grade violence). I’m not seeing Netherlands on that list, but a decade ago, they had an… interesting discussion on what to do with a political party that wanted to abolish sexual majority or ‘specism’ i.e. make pedophilia and bestiality legal. I’m fairly happy under-age children were not meant to have an open access to those arguments to be made believed “this is OK”.

I don’t have a problem with any of these. I have even less a problem when every country on your list has had recent, vivid debate on extreme speeches, and tolerated everything that wasn’t clearly in categories that unambiguously deteriorate political discourse.

I understand that this might shock some Americans who don’t understand it, but the overwhelming majority of Europeans would not even hesitate a second to refuse US-like free speech were anything goes, and Koch brothers finance everything, from blatant hurtful lies, attacks on science and fuel race-hatred.

I fully expect that this comment, like every similar one on Hacker News I made prior, to be heavily down-voted by people who have no issue with the form of what I say (polite, argued and relevant) but disagree with my opinion. Doing so goes against the principles of this forum, and you should be ashamed to think about it.
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This is amazing. It's not even that expensive
You do realize that you're going against what you just described as "moral fashion". Brave or suicidal? My advice: when going against current, use a throw away account, like me. Even when describing this, people are still thinking you're taking a stance :) humanity at its worse. Stupidity at its best.
Is there any API to speak of?
I think when he says "shop" he means it on the sense that an "auto shop" is a place that makes or fixes cars. So I think he's talking about starting a small bespoke software company.

OP can you confirm this? If so it sounds like you're half way there with your experience!
My point is that there are VERY VERY FEW people like you and they are expensive.

Also, you have about 30% more experience than me, I don't think it's a small amount.
I'd be interested in knowing if the older workers who avoid crazy hours are the same ones who avoided crazy hours when they were younger.
Don't y'all know? If an individual receives a certain payout, we can reason backwards about the amount of risk they must have shouldered based on the amount!

(My apologies, nilkn, this isn't aimed at you. I object to the near-religious startup belief that risk = reward. Real life is so much less supervised than that. :) )
Except in very rare cases, you will never become rich by being someone else's employee.
I view this as being smart. Box is under heavy competition not just from Dropbox, but from Google and Microsoft. 4% of $250 million is better than 50% of $0. The landscape is littered with founders who drank the koolaid and thought they were going to billions and ran their companies into the ground. Maybe Levie won't own 50% of Box, but maybe he will own 4% of a viable company with a real business going forward. And if all else fails, he'll walk away with $10 million.

That's a "problem" I'm sure many of us would like to have.
Firefox share continues to decline, and this promotion may prevent Mozilla from acquiring top talent. Talent goes where talent feels like going, and if they feel it's unethical to work for someone, then it's easy to see why this may turn out badly.

By the way, who was in charge of deciding whether to promote him to CEO?
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"I actually found all those flappy clones happening great."

Me too. I especially liked the clones that built upon the basic game play of Flappy Bird (single-finger control of vertical impulses) but added additional challenge, like Heli Math (solve math problems to fly through the gap).
To add to this, so what if it is "$200K" ? Basically that is enough to completely cover one kids education at a state school, put down 20% on a million dollar house, or seed fund your next "big thing" for easily 6 to 18 months. On top of that you've been working for a salary that probably paid all your existing living expenses so you were not accumulating debt. That is a pretty cool thing.

Further, if you continue to work there and it continues to appreciate (as it would if Box proves out their model) then you're looking at $200K * x where 'x' is the appreciation multiplier.

Even if your company does a reverse 5:1 split as a friend of mines did just before it IPOs that ISO option is now a 'something' rather than a 'nothing' which was what it was when it was illiquid.

Bottom line, its a Good Thing for everyone.
Did I say that people with more experience than me does not exist?
Pre-ordering solves that problem. The product is delivered to everybody at once, before any knowledge can spread.
Do you expect an employee to disparage their CEO in public? Maybe LGBT Mozillians really don't have a problem with his appointment, but they'd be foolish to diss the person who signs their paycheck.
It was easier. The end result (in terms of projecting forward) is the same however you do it.

PS: It's not dense, by the way - fair question.

> Edit : Sorry, I'm not asking what it is, I'm wondering why a trend in that particular metric points towards profitability, one day.

For the purposes of a "finger in the air" projection of when they'll hit profitability, it doesn't matter whether you use "Net Loss as a % of Revenues" or "Expenses as a % of Revenues" because, as you pointed out, Net Loss = [Expenses - Revenues]. The numbers are different (by 100 percentage points) but the general shape of the curve is the same. If you extrapolate the curve out, you get to break-even in 2015. It's completely unscientific. I'm basically pulling numbers out of my ass. I have an MBA, you see. ;-)
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Holy crap, my site was linked to by TechCrunch:

http://logarithmic-flappy-2048.ajf.me/

Though my Logarithmic Flappy 2048 was just Flappy 2048 with Math.pow(2) applied to all the draw calls. I deserve no credit.

EDIT: Oh great, now I'm being attributed as creating Flappy 2048 :(

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/some-mad-genius-combined-flappy-b...

EDIT 2: Wow, Google Play already! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.Ofear.Flapp...
The fact that you can name by memory the people that worked in the 40's means that the size of the computer science community back then was tiny.
Thanks. Glad it's there.
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I am born and raised in Dallas, so please use that as context, as I was not privy to the lively debate that Californian's had while this prop was being discussed.

I don't understand why someone who made a donation, in good faith and clarity, should have to be subjected to this sort of back and forth questioning and tearing down his ability to lead a company.

Sadness, I understand. Disagreement, I understand. However calling Brendan unfit to be CEO simply bc of a donation he made, to a cause you don't agree with; seems completely unfair.
Thanks. I've heard a bit about Georgism but haven't looked into it in depth.
> Nor do I believe many of those leading lights - hackers included - really want to engage in much unpaid "learning opportunity" to strangers.

Perhaps 'leading lights' was a bit of a stretch, but the reality is there are many people in the hacker community that spend a good amount of time helping others to learn. Whether that's through blogs, hackerspaces, IRC, sites like StackOverflow, etc... there's a wide range of people helping others out.

Why does this happen? Beyond feeling good about it, there's another benefit, a good question from a novice can help a more experienced practitioner deepen their own understanding. These benefits need not only apply to hackers, they can apply to any skillset. The potential for resources that facilitate this exists, and in fact such arragements do exist elsewhere in more chaotic forms, but I'd argue the path for development as hackers is clearer than in many other fields (at the moment).

> fine arts, dance, drama, and music

What physical resources do you need to study such subjects? Do you think organising practice space and meeting likeminded individuals would be hard outside college?

> You left out physical access to peers.

Yes I did. I see the social benefits of learning with peers, and I'm sure that makes learning more fun, but why pay huge sums of money for that privilege when it's possible to arrange in a more straightforward way (hackerspaces being a good example)?
Certainly a lot of start-ups take advantage of engineers, I was more making the case that Box isn't really a start-up so I wouldn't expect them to have a big upside on IPO.

There are some specific reasons to join a start-up, and hitting the unicorn lottery shouldn't be one of them. Also, you should be taking a market salary and working sane hours, which seems to be more the case in the last 2-3 years, though YMMV.
Did you read my entire comment before pressing reply or only the first three words?
Calling someone a criminal degrades their status from someone who doesn't commit crime to someone who does. It degrades them from someone who adds value to someone who takes value.

There is moral judgement involved with calling someone a criminal, and rightfully so. Taking what other people have created by force or extortion degrades society.
Is this in response to anything in particular?
Here we go again, another thread to paint Brendan Eich as the anti-christ for a donation he made to a single organization over 6 years ago.

This is getting ridiculous now.
Ha, fair enough. That slipped my mind, and now I'm going to go read up on the details of how exactly that happened, mechanically.

EDIT: Just a general assembly vote was enough, apparently. That's a weird situation all around though, hard to analogize to kicking a country off (as opposed to deciding who speaks for that country).
I'm curious about this statement, what political views does he hold that you think are not aligned with Mozilla's? (besides his known contribution to proposition 8)
From my ass, basically. It was an example. It work for any other kind of tech.
"So I do not insist that anyone agree with me on a great many things, including political issues, and I refrain from putting my personal beliefs in others’ way in all matters Mozilla, JS, and Web. I hope for the same in return."

On the other hand, I will spend cash money of my very own to try and force the law to comply with my beliefs against
others.

I always love bigots with one hand saying: "oh i have my beliefs but don't try and force them on others so please leave me alone" and with the other hand piling money on bigoted campaigns to keep rights from marginalized groups.

It's tiresome and disingenuous.
> Of course, the users probably won't pay and you can't use ads, so there may not be much business here.

No ads? Awesome!

No incentive other than 'build something cool?' Awesome!

No defective by design? Awesome!

Who cares about business? It's a means to an end, nothing more. If we can get the end without the business, the paperwork, the ads, the politics - i say good riddance.
He hasn't taken a public position. He's pretty consistently refused to speak publicly about politics at all. The only reason we know his private position is because somebody found his name in a list of private donors to a ballot initiative six years ago.
I often find that even when looking back on my own projects from just a few months ago - projects that are 100% my own creations - I'm often horrified at design decisions I made.

There really is something to be said for the advantage of having the complete picture laid out in a working implementation over crafting something from scratch with only abstractions to work with.

I've grown to greatly respect projects that do what they're supposed to do regardless of their whacky and inelegant implementations. Sure I could rewrite it to cut out half the bloat, but so could the guy who wrote this version.
Funny. I've played threes and 2048 quite a bit, and although I can see the similarities as well as anybody, they feel like completely different games to me. On the other hand, I find Candy Crush to be exactly the same game as Bejeweled, even though a lot of people find them different enough.
Yeah, maybe I should have said 50 instead of 30. I forget we are in 2014, my mind still is in the 90's. Miscalculation.
FWIW, he's been on the board for ages, and was instrumental in the founding of Mozilla as an organization as a company. A move from CTO -> CEO feels like an incredibly small change in ownership and reporting and I can't imagine it would affect people's opinion of Mozilla.
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If a CEO brings his politics to work and priviliges them over the good of the company, he's a bad CEO whether I agree with his politics or not.

If he doesn't, I don't see how it matters.
Yeah, I agree.

From the article:

"currently, there’s only one “Flappy Bird” knock-off in the top 20 on the iTunes App Store"

Hard to take an article seriously when it unironically and somewhat derisively references Flappy Bird knock-offs considering Flappy Bird itself is a pretty direct knock-off of Piou Piou:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=air.pioupiou&h...

Which itself is more arguably a knock-off of Helicopter Game, which is a dumbed down 1 button linear-rails horizontal version of Lunar Lander... and so on.
it's not a "non-apology". it's simply not an apology. are you so used to people kowtowing to indignant internet hordes that an authentic voice explaining his position just confuses you?

and why should he issue an apology? he seems to think similarly to around 50% of the population. why on earth should he apologise for that?
Denying people equal standing in society just because of their sexual preference is completely unfair.
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good idea - might use that for the early stages when there's not a lot of usage. thanks!
Amazon had a crazy long term focus: http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/04/why-amazon-... . Their lack of a profit seems to be intentional, in that Jeff Bezos is willing to sacrifice short-term profit for a long-term vision. So the traders are actually making a rational choice here.
Hopefully because they'll no longer be able to justify - even to themselves - why they thought those views made sense in the first place.
You appear to be asking a rhetorical question on HN. Here is why it will not succeed ....
Founders need to balance the amount of time it takes to acquire traction on the cheap, vs. via through the acceleration having a larger marketing and dev budget provides. Stagnation can kill and smaller founder equity is better than dead.
StartCom/StartSSL thwarted a recent hack attack, according to:
http://www.informationweek.com/attacks/how-startcom-foiled-c...

Their due diligence on verifying who is requesting the cert probably helped; but I've seen some people complain that it's not a quick/easy process:
http://danconnor.com/post/50f65364a0fd5fd1f7000001/avoid_sta...
Thanks for the detailed response! Do you think there's any chance that these electric planes will used for cargo/passengers? (Or do you think they'd mainly fit into the recreation/tourism/short-hop flights? Are there other current/future plane uses that I'm not thinking of?)
[ ] No one really believes that your IDE is faster than:
[ ] Eclipse
[ ] You have reinvented Eclipse but worse

I doubt it
> 1. Would be nice to have some sort of 'hint' or 'solve' button.

Did you see the CSS documentation on the right sidebar? It took me a while to notice it was there.
I don't think 'safe mode' is an Android thing. Are you referring to a Sony device? They seem to have some sort of safe mode.
Yeah, it does come off as contradictory. Let me provide some rationale...

The idea here is that for many people, maintaining a Linux instance on which to run Sandstorm just isn't feasible. It's too expensive (you don't really need a whole VM just for yourself), requires sysadmin expertise, and is time-consuming. So for those people who don't want to do all that, the next-best option seems to be to get a cheap managed instance from someone else -- maybe the Sandstorm group, or maybe a friend.

I don't want Sandstorm to be something that only developers and Linux sysadmins are able to use, even if the early adopters are likely to be mostly from these groups.

Another option might be to sell physical devices pre-loaded with Sandstorm, although speaking for myself I really do want my cloud services to be in "The Cloud", not on my home network.

In any case, I want to make it as easy as possible to transition from a managed instance to a self-run instance, so if you ever decide you don't trust your host anymore (whether that host is us or someone else), you can easily leave. That's definitely not something you can do with most web apps today, even with Google Takeout and whatnot, because they don't let you transfer the software that makes the data useful.

Bottom line, the pieces needed to run your own personal instance will always remain open source. But not everyone actually wants to do that.
"DFJ got in early, contributing the whole $1.5 million Series A round in 2006, and participated in every round after to build its 25.5% position. The Wall Street Journal says the latest $100 million round was at a $2 billion valuation, which implies Box will likely be valued higher than that at IPO."

Cuban invested $350K in the seed, so it was just his call.
Sometimes they just lose their digits.
The marketing page for a Rails app is usually the index action of a controller I name "home" for me, but I don't mind pushing marketing changes to a repo.

I've seen others write up a really basic CMS for their marketing pages: have a "page" object with a title and body, and render the page named "home" on the home page.
Looks like the magic rule that no Scala thread is complete without a nut-job trying to bash and hate it has once again proven to be correct.