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Serial hacker, with interest in data mining and machine learning.
For many years, I used Feedity for generating RSS feeds from webpages without one. They've since renamed to New Sloth, and also have a nice although basic feed reader. I like its article grouping feature, and use the whole package (feed creation and reading) for my research work on a daily basis.
Looks good. I've used WebScraper.io (running in Chrome on AWS EC2 instances) before for many projects. It's quite poerwful and free. http://webscraper.io
See if you can create a custom feed for the Github page using Feedity: https://feedity.com
Nice tool, slick UI. It worked for some pages and not for others. Currently I'm using Feedity: http://feedity.com for all business-centric data extraction and it has been working great (although not as flexible as kimono).
In my case, worked for some pages and not for others. Currently I'm using Feedity: http://feedity.com for all business-centric data extraction and it has been working great (although not as flexible as kimono).
I built Flixeye: http://flixeye.com for watchlist notifications of streaming movies. Not sure if it's the coolest, but still useful.
Scratched an itch with Flixeye: http://flixeye.com
Checkout my beta app Flixeye - http://flixeye.com with support for IMDB watchlists and Netflix and YouTube notifications (more coming soon).
It wasn't that hard to explain and we didn't feel that the people we talked to had much difficulty understanding it.
This blog post touches that subject: How to Integrate Siri with your App? - http://blog.roveb.com/post/11855331044/how-to-integrate-siri...
Start sending emails, get on the phone.
We were thinking on similar lines, for an offline marketing strategy, which by the way, we haven't utilized at all.
Thanks.
True. Thanks for your viewpoint.
Althought our service is completely automated, still internal process automation has been our core initiative. While we haven't been able to achieve as much as we wanted, but we did streamline a lot of our processes.
Thanks!
While I can't share specifics of our operations due to privacy concerns, I can share some general thoughts ...
I've had a series of 'startup setbacks', but this time, I guess the one main thing we did differently was: to build something that people are not only willing to use, but also willing to pay for. We saw plenty of examples where people loved to use stuff for free, but didn't find much 'value' when it came to paying for it. If someday Gmail went paid, a vast majority of users will not pay and move to other free email services. So our challenge was to mould our idea into a 'product', not just a fancy application.
I guess the other reason we saw some success was because, although our product has atleast 10 competing services, but we focus on simplicity of use, which I think attracts a lot of Web users these days.
And yes, we didn't give up, even when things weren't going well. I kept saying to myself: whatever happens I'll not pull the plug.
We still have a long way to go.