twanlass

Link to the site?

Not starting your new company with 250k in debt sounds great. It will be interesting to see how fast this takes off.

The nicest / most surprising thing to me was the instant image preview. In less than a second I had 'uploaded' a huge image and was editing. Nice work.

+1 for a static jekyll blog :)

I felt like Backbone.js (when I was actively using it) had really clean and complete docs. Couple that with the fact that the source is incredibly readable and debugging anything strange was never that tough.

I'm with everyone else - give LinkedIn access to the contents of my email? No thanks.

Agreed, though as others have noted, if you're capable enough to build the static site in the first place you probably get the zip & deploy stuff.

Forge is probably better off selling this to designers or agencies and giving them some multi-site controls.

I think you're pretty spot on in your analyses though. We use static sites for our landing pages (currently using Jekyll, Grunt & S3) and I can't see a real reason to switch to something like this.

From a business standpoint I worry Forge will have a really hard time building a sustainable business off of $10 / month / user. That's a lot of users they'll need to build something profitable. There is likely room here though for add-on services or some unique features.

Curious to learn more about TurboJS as well.

Ahhh the hatin' HN crowd. For what it's worth - I've built this bit of CSS over and over but seeing so uniquely presented was great. Thanks for that.

This sounds awesome. Can I ask how you go about getting shipping details, etc from the sender if they simply give you a name? Is there more to it?

As a fiduciary you'll need to add a lot more content to your landing page to build trust. While the idea sounds great you're asking someone to put a lot of faith (and there paycheck) in your hands.

I'm also curious - what's to stop a client from never releasing payment? Who resolves disputes?

Just wanted to chime in and say this is awesome. I'm already finding some great new music.

One question - are artists paid for streams or just track / album purchases? I'd likely pay a monthly sub if so!

I think you're pretty spot on. A PR agency might pay 10x times this, but for a one off use by a startup or SMB a monthly charge doesn't make sense. Maybe offer pre-paid credits as well?

Maybe stop changing frameworks? At least in a given project...

Have you considered a sale of the business?

Nope. Get going.

Probably want to avoid that as well - https://sifterapp.com - #1 Google result for sifter...

Hey guys send me an email - twanlass at gmail.com

How many signups have you see / are you expecting? In my experience, it's much easier to open the flood gates and close them if need be than the other way around. Remove all friction and just get users in.

Good luck!

Seriously awesome. I have to say though, you're not charging enough! Find a reason to add another tier!

I'd be happy to give feedback on your email and provide a quote - twanlass @ gmail.com.

What sort of inbound traffic numbers are you getting? I have to be honest - I was completely turned off the landing page. Further more, the content structure reads like a blog to me - I had no idea it was service at first glance. I'd be happy to give you some action items / critique over Skype or Hangouts if you're interested.

Drop me a line - @twanlass.

Hey Jared,

Great work thus far. I'm curious, do you have any paying customers yet?

Why is the screen nearly square???

Emmanuel,

I can't help you get back the money that PayPal has frozen, but I can help you keep selling it and ensure you keep what's yours.

Email me - tyler [at] simplegoods.co

It's just semantics. They are giving away the first dyno. Would you prefer they took that away when you purchased one for real? 2 for the price of 1 seems pretty nice.

That and fundamentally (as you noted about being optimistic) you're paying $100+ a month for an app that gets zero traffic. That seems to be the core issue.

Very little. A lot of people automate waaaay to early (it's the engineer in you). Of course this is very dependent on your situation (startup vs agency/shop).

I always suggest a digital assistant first. Pay $4-10 an hour and let someone else do it. Wait until that cost becomes a thorn in your side.