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ReferralCandy | Singapore | Onsite | Full time | Front end + Full stack Engineers

ReferralCandy helps ecommerce stores increase sales by getting shoppers to refer their friends. Our SaaS app accelerates word-of-mouth referrals for online stores around the world.

We are currently hiring for the following positions: - Backend engineer (ideally Ruby developer - https://angel.co/referralcandy/jobs/83839-mid-senior-fullsta...) - Frontend engineer (Javascript/React - https://angel.co/referralcandy/jobs/84624-mid-level-frontend...)

Generally, we have a phone/in-person interview with a co-founder, followed by a technical screener exercise, and a onsite to meet the team (half a day to one day).

If you’re interested, drop us a line at zachc+hn at referralcandy dot com

If what you say is true, Justfab isn't a scam company, and most of the customers know about the monthly fee, they should have no problems making the fee explicitly clear on the checkout page.

Why hide it like you are doing so now? In the sidebar, where ads are usually placed (and ignored), and in non-emphasized font.

Good advice for those that know what their passions are. But in my experience, the hard part is in finding out exactly where their passions lie.

Ideabing is a website that aims to share ideas - http://www.idea.ideabing.com/about/

Doesn't make sense to me. This sounds like the opposite of what John Stuart Mill said about Socrates and the fool.

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."

- John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism (1863)

i'm interested too.

Don't know why they hide their pricing plans but you have to sign up to get to see the pricing plans when you try to add a website to your account.

There is a free plan for less than 30k pageviews per month and 3 month data retention, $4.95 for 100k and 6 month retention all the way up to 179.95 for 10,000k pageviews and 36 month data retention. There are added features for the more expensive plans too.

> It will certainly not be Chinese, since the world will utterly reject China’s incredibly clumsy and stupid writing system. China is the only country in the world (as far as I know) that does not use an alphabet in its writing. Instead of having to learn an alphabet of some two dozen symbols, the Chinese have to learn thousands of symbols to write their language.

Really? This just seems like bigoted drivel.

> Google doesn’t have as much insight into my personal life as Facebook has.

This is debatable. Off the top of my head, Google has my search history, gmail (my facebook alerts get piped here as well), gtalk, google reader, calendar... and the list goes on.

There are so many things they changed for the 2 different test scenarios that I don't think that we can get anything out of the test except B is better than A.

This experiment doesn't really tell me much except that maybe it helps conversions if people learn about my product more rather than just asking them to sign up right off the bat. And that is a BIG maybe.

If they ran an experiment which all they do is to change the text from 'Get instant access' to 'Watch a video' and the results are significantly different, then we probably would be able to draw more from the findings.

Hey, I took an engineering degree and it was able to teach me how to be a person as well (despite it not being a liberal arts degree). =) My experience is somewhat similar to your experience. I went to college because I did not know what else to do and it was "the thing to do". And it changed my life. Lifelong friends, outlook and maturity.

Swapping experiences aside, I'm glad that someone is taking up the college side of the argument. I like to think of college as a purgatory for people who don't know what they want to do in life to hang out in. And hopefully, while they are there, they learn more about themselves to the point that they know what they want to do outside of college. To me college is one of the best places for people who are unsure of their life direction to learn about themselves (costs and other factors aside) because of the variety of new experiences and people that they encounter there. Once they learn what they want to do in life, it is trivial to analyze whether continuing with the college degree is worthwhile.

Merry christmas HNers. This is from a fellow HNer half the world away in Asia that feels more connected to the greater global tech scene because of HN. Thanks HN

Thanks Deviatore. Used your invite code to get an account.

I was a little skeptical about the idea, but when I saw my own timeline after they pulled information from my social accounts, I must say that I was impressed. Actually seeing your timeline laid out in an easily accessible manner is a powerful (and more than a little nostalgic) experience.

One thing though is that they put the same emphasis to all my posts/tweets/facebook events etc. And there is a lot of 'junk' in my timeline. I wish they had some way of figuring out what is important to me and have display emphasis on the important nodes (mirror the way I think). Pretty neat in it's current beta stage nonetheless.

The Google Chrome Notebook does not work like a normal desktop and is probably not supposed to. It's not surprising that he wasn't used to it. What's insightful that he expected it to work like a normal desktop and couldn't get his mind to work otherwise. This is something that google probably has to overcome.

Apple's iPad did not have such teething problems probably because it looks and feels so different from a conventional laptop. No one expected the iPad to be used like a normal laptop. Google can probably take a page out of the iPad chapter to see how to manage expectations of their notebook. A simple start would probably be to name it something else other than a notebook. The Chrome webBrowser. Browserbook. webBook. ok, i'm probably not good at names, but you get the idea.

I've been dreaming of true computer switching portability for a long while. What I mean is that my primary work machine, my travel machine and portable machine are all identical and store the same state whenever i switch from using one to another, except with varying levels of computational power (hardware). Imagine working at home on a powerful machine and you feel like going out to work. Take your portable machine to the coffee shop and everything is there like your powerful home machine, except with lower hardware specs.

It is hard to imagine working without local files on your computer and Chrome OS still needs to work out how to handle interfacing with other hardware (hard drives etc) but this seems like a step in the right direction.

Maybe replacing textbooks is not what the iPad is not aiming to do. For those who are not in the know (pun intended) check out http://kno.com/ which is actually aiming to replace textbooks.

Heck, if this really works, I would take a personality profile test for free to save me from the pain of annoying customer service reps and save companies the hassle of trying to figure out my personality type. Go ahead.. stereotype me..

Subjective opionion but - http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/ - Their task management app is pretty 'beautiful' imo.

I have to agree with your comment. The more I read the more I was drawn into the article. He had a previous post that was on HN a while ago that I found pretty well written too - http://www.41latitude.com/post/557224600/map-comparison

> many apartment dwellers already live in tiny spaces.

True that. People in Hongkong or Japan are already living in teeny tiny house/apartments. And some go to extreme lengths to maximise their space. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lg9qnWg9kak - Apartment with movable modules in Hongkong )

Should the "top friends" be "top retweeted accounts"? Other than that, it seemed to work, but it did not give me that surprising results though (since I am the person who wrote my tweets).

Why the focus on "know thyself"? I would think that the bigger value in this tool would be to discover what top words other people used.

That's what entrepreneurs are or have to be, optimistic. =)

All the best though. Would love to see you turn it around and make it to what you want it to be.

I think there is some correlation between early adopters and how rich they are.

I would definitely buy more early products if I was rich just because I have the financial backing to withstand the risk that an early product has. E.g. I'm waiting to buy the iPad now in hopes of a better iPad version coming out soon. But if money was no issue, I would buy the iPad now and the new version when it comes out.

But of course, there are some people that would be early adopters despite not being rich. It's just that the statistics of how rich early adopters are would be skewed by the newly rich being more willing to take more risk and spend their money on untried products.

Most company blogs are giant ads. What matters though is this article still provides value despite being an ad. I agree that this is wonderful marketing.

Ah thanks for clarifying. To me, those metrics were ones that should have been tracked from the beginning. But I understand that it is painful (and difficult) to admit when something you've built is used for something that you did not intend it to be used for.

If you actually do have paying non-adult-content customers though, the battle may not be lost. I'm saying this without much knowledge on your revenue model, but instead of suddenly alienating the adult-content customers, it might be possible to let them continue to use your site while you slowly focus on giving more value to your non-adult content customers. In this way, you may be able to steer the direction of the company and substitute the revenue base in a less destructive manner.

> "It turns out that that 5% of the cams coincides with 60% of the traffic and close to 80% of the sales!"

The traffic that each camera gets should be pretty easy to track. The site also has a top 100 cam list so it apparently does track hits to cameras. Seems to me that they should have known that 5% of their cams coincided with 60% of their traffic before hand (and whether those were adult only cameras or not).

I just want to point out my own (different) experience with college. College was a life changing experience for me. I went there to learn and get as much out of it as possible. And I did! It definitely was not overrated for me.

So college might be suited for some people, and not others. But just because it doesn't suit some people, it doesn't mean that the statement 'College is overrated' is true per se.

This sounds great for productivity, but I'm wondering about the 'settling' in time after your break ends.

When it's time to start working again, do you start work immediately or does it take some time to get back to where you stopped?

Or do you have to design your work to be in chunks of 50 mins for this to be effective?

Thanks for the advice. Were the first 8 months of 14 hour days in a start up environment? And, if you don't mind sharing, what changed to prompt you to transition to 'normal' hours?

I transitioned from an office environment at a big corporation to telecommuting for a small startup recently. Working from home has been great so far and I'm loving it.

One thing I have observed is that my home life is slowly merging with my work life. While I am at home, I am working almost 90% of the time. This has been great for my productivity but I'm worried that it might be detrimental in the long run. As it is, I'm starting to feel slightly guilty when I'm at home and not working. (especially since my co-workers seem to work 24/7!). This doesn't concern me so much now as we have too much work to complete, but at some stage I think I'd need to figure out how to stop work and home life from merging completely.