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This is really great - refreshing to have something that's instantly useful, with no need to signup/login. Really fast, immediately helpful - this is wonderful.

Thank you!

I completely agree with this - those flashing lights, music and big reveal is all optimised for a dopamine hit. It feels pretty manipulative.

Clickable: https://www.toucan.io/

Interesting to note that the average founder age is 30.27 (median is 29). Not that that's old, of course - just that I imagined it'd be younger.

After installing the extension, open the extensions menu, find it and click "Inspect views: background page", then check the JS file that it references.

Submarine has a slightly different approach to Highrise - it focuses on minimising data entry, so emails with a contact are automatically stored without having to remember to bcc the app. Similarly, it also auto-archives conversations you have with contacts over Twitter, which I don't think Highrise does.

It's got quite a big focus on search too, so you can run reasonably complex searches like "journalist twitter followers > 2000 covered:yes last emailed more than (1 year ago)", which will show you (as you might expect) all the journalists that have more than 2000 twitter followers, who've previously written about you but that you haven't spoken to over email in more than a year. There are other commands too, and I'm planning on adding more over time.

Finally, I think the Chrome extension is pretty cool - the image on the homepage does a better job of showing it than I can explain, but it gives you a little button in Chrome that, when clicked, pops up with a contact's details if you're on their website (or Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc profile).

Thanks - I agree with you, and you're right, finding an elegant headline is tricky. I'll keep thinking.

Thanks - it's built with Ruby on Rails, and it probably took around 5-6 months, working off and on on it alongside client work.

Hi HN - I've just shipped the first iteration of Submarine, a CRM that's built to store all your team's marketing contacts. It auto-archives conversations over email and Twitter, and has a Chrome extension that brings up contact data if you're on a contact's website (or Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, G+ or Pinterest page).

I'd love some feedback on the landing page, and on the app itself (there's a free 30 day trial, and you don't need a credit card to try it out).

Noted, thanks for the headsup - I'll look into that and fix it. I've not spent much time yet making it responsive, so haven't done much iOS testing, but I will.

According to In The Plex, that deal was actually very close to going through up until that moment. Excite's VCs pushed to get the new CEO on board at some point during the negotiations with Google (and up until that point, Excite's engineer-led founding team had the most control). Strange to think how different things might be if that deal had gone through.

I've been using Atom as my main editor since the beta rolled out. I love it - it has the (very) occasional quirks and glitches which you have to forgive as it's in beta, but once you get used to navigating around, it's really fast and fun to use.

Saying "you will go with the Xiaomi offering every time" based on just three factors (price, screen size and camera quality) is over-the-top, hugely simplistic and ignores phenomenally important elements like marketing and the actual software on the phone.

Really really love the design - great work. Could be useful to add a search function (it'd be interesting to headlines that mention "coffee", for example).

I'm getting a 404 right now - HN may have killed it.

Here's Google's cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5Z5fsU_...

Last year, I gave a talk to a group of online marketers, ecom specialists and site owners. I asked them if they ever - when shopping on sites that weren't their own - opened a new tab and searched Google for "[brand name] voucher code" whenever they hit a checkout page and saw the promo box. Literally everyone put their hand up.

I'm not sure why this thread has so many people saying that it's a complaint that has no merit. Do you open a new tab and search, or do you just ignore it and carry on with the purchase?

To be fair, they have to start somewhere and Starbucks are extraordinarily widespread. Don't forget about all of the other things Google are doing to get Internet access to everyone they possibly can (for example: http://www.google.com/loon/)

Always, always have a contract in place before you start any work.

AIGA have a very useful, free-to-use invoice you can use for design projects: http://www.aiga.org/standard-agreement/ (although it's perhaps a bit more heavy-handed than what I use for consulting agreements).

I'm using one of the new MacBook Airs and I've yet to experience this (although of course, I'm just one data point).

I'm guessing when you see a nsfw.in URL, you'll know it's not safe for work (unlike bitly or alternatives).

Actually, that's a good point - a Sell HN thread could be an interesting experiment. Should we go for it?

Thanks for the kind words - sure, adding an atom feed for projects shouldn't be too difficult (although I can't promise I'll roll it out soon, but I will add it to the todo list).

Pro accounts with custom domains are planned for the reasonably near future too - that one is quite high up the todo list.

Thanks - hadn't seen Apptopia before (which, at least on the surface, looks really good).

Thanks for the feedback - yep, I didn't make it clear but improvements to search and an activity feed are all high up the to-do list (the activity feed - which showcases blog posts from people you follow, and from the posts that they recommend - is actually mostly built, but needs to be implemented elegantly). Search could definitely do with some improvement, I'm not happy with how that works/looks at the moment.

Thanks again for the feedback - really appreciate it.

Looks like the link above is to /hn which then redirects to /login.

From a quick look, it looks like it's reasonably simple to add resizing back in. The CSS on the textarea has resize:none - removing that and removing the max-width should add that functionality back in, should you want it.

If you're looking to start freelancing - keep in mind that you'll need some money in reserve as it can take quite a bit longer to be paid (i.e. if you do a month's work and bill at the end of it, you can't rely on them immediately paying that invoice).

From my experience, invoices that say "Payment due within 14 days" have a greater chance of being paid quickly than invoices that said "Payment due on receipt".

Also, the general rule of thumb is - if you're not sure you're charging the right amount, you're almost certainly undercharging.

The translate concept got me thinking - I wouldn't be surprised at all if Google didn't buy Quest Visual/Word Lens: http://questvisual.com/us/

You're right, that does need to be fixed. I've been looking for some simple, elegant solutions to that. I've added a very slight text shadow that helps it stand out a bit better (but I'm still not quite happy about it).