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Email : leon {at} rocketmailmerge [dot] com
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I found a bug, when you generate a wallet you can press the clear and reset button and the generate button remains enabled. This allows the user to generate a wallet using an empty string.

This is using Chrome 31.0.1650.57 m

All tips greatly received : 1Li2Dq9L49mJmCYcEh4n2eSQ9B6eWKCgBv

Fuck you PayPal 13 years ago

This is why I went out of my way to find an alternative processor to Paypal for my most recent startup. Monthly fees were definitely higher but chances of this happening, much lower.

That's an awesome idea, though maybe you should consider mixing up your marketing as a 'take revenge' kind of way instead of the 'pranks' target you seem to be going for at the moment.

'Upload the face of your enemy' instead of 'Upload your friend's face'.

I read that you spend 0 time on marketing, but how do people find your service in the first place? Is it all organic searching or did you slowly gain traction since 2007 and spread by word of mouth?

I've got an online SaaS I just launched (a month ago) and am struggling to figure out how to get people to even sign up for a free trial.

You mean setup a service similar to stripe to be all all in one service, or the kind where your clients still need to open a merchant account with a bank and you're just the interface?

Yep, I totally agree about the term Mail Merge being pretty unknown so I'll get some feedback from friends on what it could possibly be changed to.

I'll be trying direct marketing first to the businesses that already do mail merges so if that fails I'll fall back on search hits and make it more new user friendly.

I've been working on a side project for about 6 months. It grew out of a need I saw in some friend's primary businesses and thought it was a worthwhile project. I essentially worked on it about 2-3 weeknights a week and about 4-5 hours on Sat and Sun as time permitted.

I stayed focused by setting small goals, achieve this function by the end of today, then call it quits. Before I knew it the code was finished to my satisfaction. I finished the code at the end of January and have some ideas for the next project.

I try to get one side project (One SaaS app I can sell to subscribers online typically) a year completed. This one took about 200-300 hours I think, thought that's just a rough guess.

The screenshot is nice, but do you have a live demo of some business's testimonials, even if they're fake? I'd like to see how it sort of works and what my customers would be seeing before I create an account.

Looks like a cool idea. If you can solve the chicken and the egg problem by filling it with some useful snippets before launching you'll be able to pick up a user base quickly.

Edit: Another startup from Brisbane, nice! I live not far from there.

Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the presents; Ah the Christmas theme. Just one of the small things that escape you when you're very busy. Have updated that now. I'm still not quite happy with the design of the TMR page. The whole thing needs to be scrapped when time permits and redesigned, fortunately people like the software beneath so it hasn't been the highest priority lately.

I just looked up your landing page for Tiny Piano. It's nice and informative but the grey background is a bit striking for the black iphone. The contrast would be better with a lighter color. You can pickup some really nice templates from themeforest for a few $ if you're not a designer at heart.

Best of luck cracking 10M downloads! I'll add an extra download to your totals shortly.