scottkrager

Nothing like encouraging parents to snitch on teachers, kids and other parents

pets.com is owned and redirected to PetSmart, sort of proves your point but sort of not.

It takes all of 2-3 workouts to get used to a mask. It is not a major inconvenience. It is minor.

I take screenshots often as reminders, to annotate, etc. I setup a double-tap as an action to take a screenshot. So much faster then the older methods. You get some false positives, but really handy productivity hack.

The joke one is so much more concise and just better. I know what the product is about instantly.

I ordered a Pebble Time 2 on Kickstarter and a Core hoping to find the perfect smartwatch and run tracking combo. When the Apple Watch 2 came out, I figured I'd hedge my bets and get one of those, then keep whichever one I ended up liking more. Well, the Pebble + Core is never arriving (thanks for the quick refund!) - and I've really become found of the Apple Watch.

Built in GPS for run tracking is awesome, and with wireless airpods, I'll be able to run and listen to music/podcast with minimal extra weight.

A few other minor things I've liked about the Apple Watch 2:

- Setting a timer with Siri (use multiple times a day now) - Weather on the watchface - Check banking balances from watch - PagerDuty notifications on watch vs. phone (my wife very much appreciates this!) - phone now stays out of the bedroom

I'm sad there isn't a good open source watch OS out there (with any decent looking hardware) - but until then, the Apple Watch 2 has been a pleasant surprise. I did have pretty low expectations going in, so that could be part of it.

Totally agree. I look at how I used to think and communicate, and "tool" is spot on. Software is so incredibly hard, it took me years, and many mistakes along the way, to learn this. And I'm still learning.

Author here. I wanted to share some of the early mistakes I made as a solo non-technical founder building a software company. I started learning to code after these early mistakes and it's been incredibly helpful. I can't thank HN enough for encouraging me to learn.

Dang....they just raised $7.5m in February? http://venturebeat.com/2014/02/10/calpont-renames-itself-inf...

Curious if they are returning money to VC's or just really burned through that much in 7 months...

This is great. Signed up right away.

If anyone in Seattle wants to play some basketball near greenwood / phinney ridge area, I'm hosting at 7pm tonite at the Greenwood Elementary outdoor courts! Event is public on this app.

Interesting. How can this truly be unlimited (albeit 15 minute) tasks?

I worked from worksprogress for a few months when I first moved to Seattle, good space and location and Jessie and Marnee are great.

In talking with them about the childcare side of things, they ran into a lot of regulation that just proved too much at the time.

Childcare is highly regulated and childcare and workplaces even more so apparently. They said that many of the laws they were running into were meant to keep larger industrial organizations in check back in the day. Companies used to offer very sub-par "childcare" for line-workers and if a child was having a problem (sick, injury, etc) it wasn't in the best interest of the company to inform the parent (who would have to leave the production line).

I didn't think those laws would apply to a co-op type office where everyone is working for themselves.

When I left in December, there was no childcare running, just the co-op workspace (which I would highly recommend).

Neat. I love http://requestb.in/ which you guys recently acquired? Can you share more about plans if any for that service? Thanks!

No source code, but the tool uses a number of different APIs, some paid, some free. The Moz API, which has a free tier has a good repo for getting started here: https://github.com/seomoz/SEOmozAPISamples

I've slowly been learning PHP the last 6 months or so, and finally spent a good few weeks hacking this backlink discover tool together. It's kinda the tool I always wanted for PR, SEO. It's just the first version, lots of improvements needed!

I was able to chat with Joel a few weeks ago (he has open office hours over skype! Talk about awesome) and I really think Buffer is the next SEOmoz-like company that does things the right way and shares along the way.

Loved the layout of the competition slide.

Actually the EMD update targeted EMD with low-quality backlinks to them. EMD that didn't have low-quality backlinks didn't seem to get hit. The goal of the update wasn't to penalize people with keywords in their domains.

I think it was mostly viral due to the speed at which the ad was placed. I think it was something around just a few minutes, which for a major brand, is insanely impressive.

Hmmm...I'm not an engineer and I love Google Tag Manager. It's not the most intuitive interface, but after a few hours, I can't imagine ever managing scripts anyway else. No need to bug my CTO just to add a conversion pixel? Heck yeah.

I would totally agree that the best SEOs can code. But still stand by my 99% number : ) Most SEOs are not coders (knowing how to customize a Thesis is not coding in my view)

I should have said "hacking" not "hacks". Hacking implies coding (at least to me), and a growth hacker uses programming skills to drive growth. I just don't see many SEOs doing that. I love SEOs, I think most are fantastic people, but when I think Growth Hacker I don't see the SEOs I talk with all the time.

Growth Marketers? Sure. Growth Hackers? Very rarely.

I love your posts John, but "Hacker" implies a level of coding in my opinion, and I think most here on HN would agree.

As someone who talks to a few dozen SEOs a week, 99% of them cannot code in a fashion needed to be a "Growth Hacker". It's not that they can't contribute to growth, it's just that the traditional methods SEOs use (content, technical fixes, social) would not be considered hacks, but just solid online marketing.

What about existing startups using braintree that haven't hit that level yet?

BSG should be required watching for all future military leaders. Just in case.

I see them as a competitor to Commission Junction, Linkshare, and ShareaSale. The big old affiliate networks with interfaces and customer service that make me gauge my eyes out. We're looking at using Refer.ly to handle our affiliate program because: #1. It's free for merchants right now (though I'm sure that will change) and #2. I like my eyes.

This is a massively huge deal for attribution of organic search.

The queries you can download from webmaster tools are just 1 column of data....nothing to tie queries to conversions or any meaningful metric.

If it was everyone who was losing this data...I could understand the change but if you buy adwords ads, you still get the referral data even in https Google.

Yeah I mean, sure SEO isn't exactly rocket science...but it's a little more than making a URL crawl-able....

(not provided) is lame, but I don't think that will hurt how this service tracks who's Googling you. It looks like they look up the IP address to see who is searching for you.

BTW - I run notprovided.com and have had 100% days of (not provided) keywords referrals....at least I have a good idea of what they were searching for : )

Well crap.

I really liked this product and had enjoyed the free beta...it was great for sending out updates to advisors/potential investors. I would have paid to keep it going.

Congrats to the team, but bummed the service is going away.

I agree with you there.

I would think Google penalizes the sellers, and only if they can nearly 100% confirm that the site linked to initiated the link, then the link buyer.

In the past Google would just take away PR from link sellers, but not de-index them.