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I launched a new site about a week ago – Ribbot.com . It allows you to create better discussion forums online. If you’ve ever used Hacker News, Reddit, StackOverflow, or 37Signals Answers – these are all examples of a new breed of forum that has emerged online and tends to be much better than than traditional [...]
Bitcoin Wallet for Android
6 Jul 2011Tonight a buddy of mine (who works at Google) and I released an open source application. It’s an Android app for Bitcoin that allows you to have a digital “wallet” on your phone. Here are a few screenshots: Simply put, the app allows you to send and receive bitcoins from your Android phone. If you’ve never [...]
Find a model at TheBookr.com
In: Business Ideas
17 Apr 2011Thebookr.com is a site I was contracted to build last year, and it has finally launched! Joyce and I met up at a hacker meetup in Mountain View, CA last year. She was looking for a developer to make the idea a reality. I liked the business idea and technically it was somewhat similar to [...]
The term “disruption” gets thrown around a lot in entrepreneurship circles. Entrepreneurs like to talk about disrupting an industry or its incumbent players as a buzzword for innovation, and there is even a startup conference called Techcrunch Disrupt. So what does it mean to disrupt an industry? On the one hand it means you are making your [...]
Something I coded up for fun…
22 Feb 2011I put this website together over the last few weeks that I thought you might like. It’s quite simple. Basically you can hold a “photo contest” and see which photo your friends like best. Here are a few examples… 1. Choose a photo of yourself. 2. Choose artwork or travel photos. 3. For downright silliness. I’ll [...]
Selling Bridesmaid Dresses Online
In: Business Ideas
15 Jan 2011My friend Ilana recently launched a startup selling bridesmaid dresses online. It’s called WeddingtonWay.com There are a few reasons I like her chances with this business: Amazon doesn’t sell bridesmaid dresses (at least not well). A good start for any e-commerce shop. People don’t buy bridesmaid dresses like most products. The bride has to choose [...]
How To Track Your Keyword Rankings
In: Business Ideas|How To
9 Jan 2011Remember Seoaholic.com? It was an SEO tool that my friend Chad DePue contracted me to build while I was living down in Argentina. Chad has since rebranded it (with what I must say is a much better name :) and relaunched it as InboxSEO.com. There are some new features, it’s faster and more reliable, and [...]
Something About Wednesdays
20 Nov 2010I thought I was imagining things. It seemed like on Wednesdays more tutors became paying customers on UniversityTutor. So I ran a quick query and it turns out it’s true. So….tutors are more than twice as likely to start paying on a Wednesday vs a Saturday? Seems like such a big difference I hardly believe [...]
Punishing Nigerian Scammers
8 Nov 2010I started getting complaints recently from some tutors on UniversityTutor.com that they were receiving scam emails. I looked into it and the scam is the same one you commonly see on Craigslist and numerous other sites. It usually goes like this: Someone contacts you pretending to be interested in your services (tutoring in this case) [...]
Buying a new car still sucks. In person negotiations at car dealerships feel out of date and are unpleasant for many consumers. And websites aren’t much better: while there are a plenty of good car research websites, you can’t actually complete the transaction online. In fact, the state of the art in online car buying [...]
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