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I teach a class at Arizona State University and one of my students asked why my laptop screen was pink. I then proceeded to give the class a 10 minute sales pitch on f.lux and how blue light inhibits melatonin production. It still surprises me what a profound sales channel raving fans can be.

I think it's relevant to point out the potent anti-depressant effects many people experience with natural supplements such as sam-e and 5htp. It's unfortunate that these drugs are rarely prescribed (in the U.S.). Few clinical studies have been done on these and there is little economic motivation for drug companies since these are un-patentable substances.

I'm curious of the different impact between normal sleep deprivation and primary insomnia. It's common that insomniacs don't feel sleepy during the day as compared to a normal sleeper that simply didn't get enough.

We charge the equivalent of 2 hours from a professional developer.

I would say 1 hour, i.e. $99/hr, is a more accurate statement. This would also help make the product appear more affordable, and as a better investment.

I, too, experience this. I believe it is related to cortisol spikes similarly to the increased daytime cortisol levels seen with insomniacs.

Thanks for the tip. After reviewing Ryan's logs, it turns out a software security layer, Sentinel, was detecting the load test as a DoS attack since LoadImpact was sending all traffic from a single IP.

Hi Ryan, my name is Sean. I'm the GoDaddy product manager in charge of WordPress hosting. Thanks for including us and I'm glad we could surprise you with some fast speeds. In the past few months we've really made some huge strides in reducing page load times and are at some impressive speeds across the board right now. However, seeing your response times fall off a cliff surprised us too. There's been a big email thread going on this weekend to nail down exactly what happened so we can fix it :) I'd love to talk more and share some of the details around a new WordPress experience we're delivering in a few months. My email is in my HN profile.

This is a great example of the innovator's dilemma.

I used Laravel for a small project for the past couple months. Although I started web development in PHP, I am strictly a Ruby/Rails developer right now and I have to say working in Laravel felt very natural and right at home. I'm not saying that being Rails-like is merit in it's own right, but I had that same feeling with Laravel as I did when I first started using Rails. I'd highly recommend trying this framework and hope with more projects we can see some solid documentation grow.

To your latter point, it's certainly possible. You could replace "Ford or GM" with a large 90s computer manufacturer, e.g. HP, but Apple eventually decided they wanted to via Apple stores.

Hi! One of the creators here. We're creating an easy way for you to track and get notified of your JavaScript errors in your front-end heavy apps that use Backbone.js, Ember, etc. We also are developing a method to engage your users when an error happens so they don't feel lost (you'll see the model popup). I'm applying to YC with this concept and would love to know your thoughts!

Are you running a Cedar or Bamboo app? Ruby 2.0.0 only works on Cedar.

Having started a job board before (orangeslyce.com), one recommendation I have is to pre-seed the board with jobs to help get over the chicken/egg problem. You can hustle analog and get some posts or even copy quality postings off other sites. Sure they won't be paying customers, but it's kindling for the fire and gives the appearance of social proof.

I tried to register 4+ times with a password that included special characters, but each time it said my password didn't match. Once I changed it to an insecure password, it went through. I could have been bad typing on my part 4 times, but... you may want to test this.

Also - It doesn't appear that the profile visibility dropdown gets repopulated after form submission failure with the previously selected option.

Darn, I was going to say I was flattered.

I couldn't help but realize the remarkable design similarities to http://www.blogic.com. I'm curious if it inspired you.

Founder of Blogic here. We did a "Review my startup" on HN a few weeks ago. Based on the feedback and requests, we pivoted to generate WordPress themes instead of just hosting our own custom blogging platform. I hope this provides as much value as I think it will.

Sorry if I came off as overly critical or attacking, I didn't mean to. I actually didn't know which was the case. To be honest, I have done similar "clever marketing" pages and spent much more time than I should have on them. Unfortunately for me, my goal wasn't to get HN traffic, nor did I even think about it. I just thought my users would like my startup better, but I realized they would like 1-2 days spent on the product even better.

Personally I think this is very clever and a great hack. However, I'd like to know how long it took to create this and point out that the time would probably be better spent directly building the product given the startup's stage, rather than superficial pages. Then again, maybe the intention all along was to get traffic from HN, in which case I'm sure it was worth it.

My hypothesis is that the popularity will rank as listed.

Thank you everyone for the quality feedback and bug finding :)

To address the most common feedback, we have decided to create a theme generator for WordPress and are in the midst of development. Other platforms will likely follow. We actually decided this a couple weeks ago, so it's reassuring to hear this.

If you'd like to be notified when the WP generator is ready, shoot me an email: sean [at] blogic [dot] com

This has been a challenge for us. Some types of businesses have no real need for a blog, or run on a comprehensive platforms such as Shopify or a CMS.

An ideal customer would be a SaaS business with a small staff (5-20 employees) that is big enough to be able to afford throwing a few hundred bucks at a blog, but small enough that the developers/designers don't have the bandwidth to work on a blog. Businesses this size probably have a full-time designer that could design the blog, but there is a sweet spot where it's not worth it to spend their time on anything but the revenue-producing product. Our best example is http://www.transferbigfiles.com (http://blog.transferbigfiles.com). They have a full-time developer/designer, but he simply doesn't have the bandwidth to also maintain a blog design. Is this market big enough? We think so, but there are several other potentially larger markets for our theming technology that we could easily expand into.

We definitely agree this is annoying. What you experienced is not the goal or intention. It actually solves a technical problem but has this undesirable side effect. Some websites have JS to force break-out of an iframe, if the site is loaded in one. Since the iframe is core to the selection process, we added this to prevent the automatic break-out. Unfortunately, it applies to everything including trying to close the browser. We'll figure out a better solution eventually, but we don't want anyone to think that this was added to increase conversions or anything in that nature.

Glad to hear this because we are working on a WordPress theme generator, with others to follow. It was the biggest piece of feedback we received from TechCrunch Disruptor.

That's great feedback, we never thought about it like that, but it makes perfect sense.

Really sorry for that failure, it's definitely on our end somewhere, but appears to be unique to your site. That's the beauty of the problem we're solving - unknown inputs. Can I email you when it's fixed?

Hey everyone, I'm one of the founders. We started Blogic to cure the headache of recreating your website's theme on an entirely separate blogging platform such as WordPress. It was a huge pain with my last startup, and inspired me enough to solve it. Please email sean [at] blogic [dot] com with any suggestions or feedback.

I also decided not to register based on this requirement alone. It's not that I mind sharing my political view, or am perturbed that you asked. I simply do not identify with either party and was frustrated that I would be forced to classify my world view into a completely inappropriate selection. If you had listed libertarian, I would have selected that and not thought twice. Of course, there are plenty more political views beyond those 3.

So does Devise, one of the most popular authentication Ruby gems.

I'm in a seed incubator this summer. We're building a product that will instantly setup a blog that matches the style and navigation of your startup's website. Instead of custom designing a matching theme, our hosted blog will figure everything out and pull in the header/footer for seamless navigation.

If you are part of a startup that blogs, I'd love your input .