Hacker News: EGF

Introducing the first Current.com integration – payments for slack

EGF — Tue, 05 Apr 2016 14:28:08 +0000

Article URL: https://current.com/slack

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11430606

Points: 6

# Comments: 3

Kit.com – Products Recommended by People Who Know

EGF — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 15:45:15 +0000

Article URL: http://blog.kit.com/introducing-kit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10581768

Points: 16

# Comments: 3

Intro for iPhone – No Longer Supported

EGF — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 18:50:16 +0000

Article URL: https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/47196/ft/eng

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7197965

Points: 91

# Comments: 41

New comment by EGF in "Show HN: Product Hunt – Hacker News for Products"

EGF — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:58:57 +0000

I have been enjoying PH for awhile - congrats on the launch and getting the word out.

I would say that sometimes it is a little overwhelming to get through every service, and I look forward to a time where you are classifying/organizing the products that come through. Knowing there is a searchable repository of products would be a great resource.

New comment by EGF in "My experience hiring a developer on Elance to build my first iPhone app"

EGF — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:44:07 +0000

My starting conversation for someone looking for outside help on a project is always; Price, Quality, Time - pick two. This helps guide the conversation as there is usually some limiting factor to the "job" whether its budget, when they need it, or how good the quality has to be.

New comment by EGF in "Namebox - sell your unwanted or unused domains"

EGF — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:07:52 +0000

This is great and hopefully opens up domain listing from folks here on HN. Demand for domains is only increasing, and as someone that handles private buying/selling for startups I see more and more of this need.

New comment by EGF in "Left with Nothing"

EGF — Sun, 08 Sep 2013 22:04:57 +0000

This may not be the right place for this, but does anyone know who to contact about a similar instance? I have family members that experienced this and lost a house due to predatory lending practices, but there is little to no recourse or resources out there. If anyone has information about the Bank of America/Countrywide issues I would like to know about them.

Founder postmortem on Vitoto (video startup)

EGF — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:35:22 +0000

Article URL: http://www.abstract-living.com/why-vitoto-failed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5492880

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by EGF in "Disqus bait and switch, now with ads"

EGF — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:28:32 +0000

I learned about this before and this made me explicitly modify settings for blogs I have. I turned it on for two small projects and I would be happy to share results in a month if anyone wants to see (unless thats against TOS)

New comment by EGF in "Show HN: I crossed a thesaurus with a domain availability checking API"

EGF — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:24:24 +0000

This one is great too. Any others that are similar that folks know about? Leandomainsearch.com is pretty great too

New comment by EGF in "Show HN: Draft – A Design Feedback Tool for Designers and Small Teams"

EGF — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:40:21 +0000

I think the site looks great. Kudos for giving the actual use case of the app with showing instead of telling. I think its a great overview of what you offer.

I am curious as to why you have so many monthly price points - I would have expected 3 for simplicity (or even 1 if you were so bold)

I don't have perfect clarity into the "buyers" of these servies, and maybe its as simple as them needed this level of options.

New comment by EGF in "Announcing Photo Check Deposit"

EGF — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 21:22:16 +0000

Most do (some do not) but it was the lack of explanation and the fact that its $200 that stopped me in my tracks.

New comment by EGF in "Announcing Photo Check Deposit"

EGF — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:01:14 +0000

I had signed up some time ago and forgot that my invite showed up this past July. Upon going through the process of creating an account, the final step was to deposit $200-$500 into the account.

I understand the need to get funds, but with the time energy and passion devoted towards the ease of use of the form and the comprehensive FAQ I could not find the answer as to why this minimum was required.

All the comments here are interesting, and I understand that switching costs are high, but the $200 barrier without explanation made be bounce from the form.

I really want to give this a shot, but I want to understand the required funds first.

New comment by EGF in "Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft and others launch webplatform.org"

EGF — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 22:19:13 +0000

I was immediately reminded of the xkcd standards comic http://xkcd.com/927/

New comment by EGF in "Are APIs making Biz Dev obsolete?"

EGF — Sat, 15 Sep 2012 22:47:45 +0000

After reading this I went to find the post from Caterina Fake about Bizdev 2.0 (dead permalink here: http://caterina.net/archive/000996.html) but Chris Dixon summarizes it well by saying that good BD cannibalizes itself sometimes in this post: http://cdixon.org/2010/08/28/good-bizdev-cannabilizies-itsel...

Stalemate: Are you building a culture of silence?

EGF — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:42:55 +0000

Article URL: http://morgamic.com/2012/04/26/stalemate-are-you-building-a-culture-of-silence/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4163769

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by EGF in "Microsoft agrees to $1.2bn purchase of Yammer"

EGF — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 18:42:02 +0000

Did anyone else try out and use Yammer for awhile and then ultimately switch away from it or off it it in favor of another tool or just back to email?

Get to the "ask" earlier in your meetings

EGF — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:55:37 +0000

Article URL: http://www.ericgfriedman.com/2012/05/07/get-to-the-ask-early/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3939515

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by EGF in "Amazon studios"

EGF — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:53:56 +0000

Creation (via this studios play) and distribution (via Prime) are making Amazon well positioned in the content wars.

New comment by EGF in "Poll: Did you start company in 2011?"

EGF — Sun, 25 Dec 2011 20:40:55 +0000

Incorporated a newco this year (webvio.com) which is the first new entity in awhile. Its a labs project with our first launch of todayskicks.com so far.