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Love this idea! Have felt the problem myself and have seen my mother/MIL/wife struggle with the same thing.

It's clear that you both have extensive experience in the space, too.

How can I help / get involved? :-)

https://knife.ai, which is an email analytics tool.

I'm proud of it because it's something I've always wanted to use and create.

It's possible the prices will fall. Food is a commodity and commodities want to be cheap. Drones, robots, delivery systems, etc. How much of the current cost is labor that will be replaced by software?

I live in Baltimore (after NYC, SF, Boston). Love it here. Downvoted your comment because it is uninformed and adds nothing of value.

Anyone else find it ironic that this article has Adsense / Doubleclick ads on it?

If the internet is becoming democratic, what explains the increasing number of new, massive and independent internet businesses?

Congrats Justin!

Interesting. Did you eventually get the account re-instated? Seems odd they'd close it without a warning. Did they disable the sites or the entire account?

Sorry to hear this. What were the properties? What was the full reason for the closure?

pretty awesome accomplishment. are your users in india as well? how are you monetizing?

How are OS limits/configs (such as open file limits, connection limits, etc.) handled? Can these be specified in the web panel?

https://www.google.com/adplanner

Ahh. Weird.

You should make it open. (or approve my request to join :)

If you're interested in a web-based calculator, I've found this one to be useful: http://www.usereffect.com/split-test-calculator

Third, if you include Vidly/Tweetvid.

Sorry, I meant to downvote (not upvote) you.

Man I'm jealous. Anyone interested in doing this in Boston?

Thanks!

Do you mind sharing how much commission you pay your ad sales person?

Could you elaborate on your experiences of building out an ad sales program/team?

How much traffic did you have when you started selling ads? What type of CPM are you able to see?

The reason I ask is that I run a niche community site that gets a decent amount of pageviews but I'm not sure how much I could make by selling ads against it.

Yeah I should have clarified. I actually do have a handful of smart advisors that have helped me out a great deal. I probably wouldn't have any chance of succeeding if I didn't have their help along the way.

I also have competitors' SEC filings, my usage/conversion stats, etc. that guide me in the right direction at a granular, day to day level.

But I've been reading PG's essays for some time, and wanted to see what he'd think. I definitely don't think a 5 min convo would have an adverse "affect" [sic].

Thanks!

looks cool, though i feel like etherpad (now open sourced) solves this problem

Yes, but instead of waiting for a response, the answer arrives in your IM window seconds later

It's good with niche questions that only a human could help with. I've had luck with social questions ("where's the yscraper located?") and tech questions ("why's my jscript [code here] breaking in IE6?"). It's like stackoverflow, but "real-time" and not limited to coding questions only.

I'm interested to see how this develops. I'd hate for google to drop the ball (a la dodgeball, omnisio, etc.). Vark is such a unique, useful service.

wow what a great idea! nowhere close to getting married, but i'd love to have this at my wedding.

Would this be considered a public stock offering? I remember learning in class that this sort of stuff (seeking funding publicly on the web) may result in some legal trouble. I may be wrong though.

I think the issue is that often tech company founders / management have preferred shares and therefore greater voting rights than general common stock shareholders. So even if a large group of common shareholders wanted to see dividends, they wouldn't have much authority.

I may be wrong though, I'm just starting to learn more about corporate finance.

From a design perspective, I would suggest the use of softer colors. The current blues and greens used look like (cheap) neon lights.