Here's life after a Michael Arrington retweet on Twitter

Very good hustling. Takes a lot of balls, drive and willpower to refuse to stay in a comfort zone and keep putting yourself out there even at the risk of seeming "desperate".

cliffdailey6• 14 years ago

Thanks for checking out the site and your feedback! This experiment has been extremely rewarding.

marcamillion• 14 years ago

Definitely agree with this.

Many of us want to do it, but very few take that step to actually do it.

It's kinda douchy for Arrington not to even respond though.

davidb_• 14 years ago

So, you got a lot of attention, but the part of the story that is missing is whether or not any of it actually materialized into a job that you wanted (or VC funding or whatever else you were looking for).

Even if it didn't, you definitely seem to have made some good connections, so hopefully it works out for you. Good luck.

cliffdailey6• 14 years ago

Thanks so much for checking out the site. And for you feedback.

gingerjoos2• 14 years ago

This kind of thing is getting old and boring.

(1) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2840233 (2) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2843530

astrodust• 14 years ago

It's a gambit of sorts, it only works when it's unexpected, but pulling it off is always an achievement.

gingerjoos2• 14 years ago

I'm glad it worked out well for the OP. However, it isn't innovative any more. When the original hireme guy did it, it was audacious and innovative. It may still be audacious, but is no longer innovative.

nagarch• 14 years ago

If you some one looking for me I am there as well to be an EIR in Singapore! contact me for more details

snambi• 14 years ago

Nice story.

popovich_yr2• 14 years ago

If you're a 'web designer', why didn't you design the website yourself instead of downloading a themeforest theme and purging the reference line from the source?

visit: www.melaniebarnett.com (I found a site that uses the exact same theme!)

p4bl0• 14 years ago

Also, there is a temporal paradox on the webpage. It says "best viewed in Safari browser", but Safari didn't exist in the 90s and I believe web pages "best viewed in <some-browser>" disappeared in the early 00s.

cliffdailey6• 14 years ago

Definitely was inspired by a themeforest design. I didn't download the theme. The whole site was built from scratch in Apple's iWeb. It's not even exactly like. Pay more attention to detail instead of criticizing.

popovich_yr2• 14 years ago

You plagiarized the layout and design of the site (and maybe made a few modification) and didn't have the courtesy to atleast make a comment that the design had been 'inspired' by a themeforest template in your page source. Do you think your behavior had an iota of honor?

Here's life after a Michael Arrington retweet on Twitter

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