SEEKING WORK -- Content Writer
Location: Bulgaria
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Maybe
Technologies: Markdown, Latex, Microsoft Office, any CMS of your choice
Email: axython AT gmail
I've worked with multiple startups and helped them improve their websites readability and increase user comprehension. I'd love to do that for you, too.
I've spent two years in Carlisle, UK for studies and I am back in Bulgaria for the moment. I design and write blog posts, website copies or technical documentation. Thanks to my life experience and current location I can provide great quality and affordable prices.
I really, reallly wish there was an AdBlock software with a proper acceptable ads. Get a few people to inspect websites with lets say 10-20-30$(cheap for any website which actually wants to make money) application fee to cover the cost of the inspection and whitelist that website. OF course give us plain and precise information about what is acceptable with a few levels of control from the user, plus a button to report a website that is actually not doing good. Once you lose your privileges, you pay double/triple or more to apply again.
This is actually what I do for myself, have over 300 sites which i visit semi-occasionally, that have disabled ads because I like those websites and those ads are actually something worth my connection, a nice way to pay out to the website. If AdBlock had done this, I really believe it would have been so much better than as it is right now.
Can anyone please explain to me why a YC company is making such a terrible name for themselves at a website which is literally FULL with people, who they should aim at building positive image with. I am pretty sure that over 70% of their users have at least a username in this community. I hardly have ever seen a worse way to respond to a marketing crisis.
edit: Now the answer of the co-founder(you can find it below) is way better and it should have been the first reaction to this post. Hopefully there can be a happy result to both sides.
YC doesn't run your company for you, but a big point of YC is that they provide advice and guidance. As they say in an article [1] linked from the YC FAQ:
Most people don’t do YC for the financial investment—they
do it because they want the advice, the help of the
network, the benefits of the program.
Heck, for a long time YC only invested something like $20k and got something like 7% of your company. From a money point of view, only a complete idiot would have taken that deal. What made it worthwhile was getting access to the YC people for advice.
Now YC gives $120k for 7%, so it is no longer completely idiotic from a purely monetary point of view, but even at $120k most of the value is in the access it gives you to the YC staff and the other people YC puts you in contact with.
Because of this a lot of people have higher expectations for YC companies.
Yes, but I had the same thought; along the lines of "does YC really have to do a dinner where someone comes in and tell the batch's founders not to try to make examples of customers/users that are annoying them, because they will look ridiculous at best and, as in cases like this, actively malignant at worst"? Is that really a lesson YC needs to teach?
It doesn't need to be a dinner, but a nice blog post would possibly help. It's not as if this is the first boneheaded response from a YC funded company, and it's YC's name that gets linked to this sub-optimal behaviour.
That "break the rules" post got around. Maybe there needs to be a "but don't be a massive jerk to ex customers" follow up post.
People have crazy unrealistic expectations of YC in this regard. They invest in 30-40 teams per batch, based on an application and a very short interview. That's a good thing for founders, and whatever else you might think of them, YC is the probably the most founder-positive force in the entire technology industry.
I really did not wanted to blame YC. My mention of them is mostly because they are the biggest incubator, so people who get in should have at least minimum amount of marketing skills. They literally make fool of themselves in front of their main "customers" and apparantly we are still talking about one of the cofounders. You are trying to run companies worth millions and do such stupid mistakes, it is just beyond understanding for me.
I think it's because that doesn't scale to seventy companies without being a hinderance. I'm sure the skills are there, the problem is unless the founders ask UC doesn't know where to deploy them.
Founders of Amazon, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Linux, Oracle, Tesla and probably many more have been famous for childish or angry stuff. It's not very uncommon.
Something like a wysiwig editor. I didn't tried markdown, but it didn't look like supporting it. Small change was pretty easy to make but I didn't play with bigger changes or dropping something more heavy.
I guess we will see when the demo is back online or you can install it somewhere to try it out. It looked pretty good.
Android? And also your About page is not working. Otherways seems like a nice idea, it really depends on the type and quality of the content which is provided :)
I am not sure about Live JS, but I have used Anchor CMS / http://anchorcms.com / and I have been pretty happy with it, with a few exceptions. It is small and lightweight, can easily be self-hosted and has a nice selection of themes/ http://anchorthemes.com / and you can easily make your own design. It powers my own personal blog and visiting anchorshowcase.com will show you some more blogs powered by it.
The thing about it that I don't like that much are :
1. Really weak plugin ecosystem. If you want something specific, you will probably have to make it yourself, as the CMS doesn't even have a plugin support, you have to edit things in the code.
2. Written in PHP. I know Python, not PHP so making changes for me is especially hard so anything complex for me is a no no.
3. It has been in development for a bit and the development has slowed while they are trying to build the 1.0 version.
Big phones --> Smaller Phones --> Smaller Phones --> We have the technology to show NSFW content on the phones --> The screens start to become bigger and bigger.
One of my goals for the next few years in my life is building a proper personal knowledge system, combined with everything that is needed for something like that to work. Mostly online, but there might be access from desktop/mobile apps. Included system like Anki. Wiki-like website for everyone with good tagging/linking between each posts. You can then make each piece of content accessible for everyone, behind a password or just accessible for you. Additional features like daily journal, todos, short/long range goals, asking you for permission to open all your content to the public if something happens to you/or you decide to not pay(small monthly charge for hosting and maintenance), of course if you want you are free to not allow that.
I feel a lot of people on HN have great and organized knowledge system and open sourcing the system with the knowledge/the knowledge part is important/ would be great. Of course it will take some time and effort, but I would love to have access to such system of some users like patio11 for example and gladly will pay money for something like that.
P.S Feel free to copy the idea, I am pretty sure that it is not unique anyways, though I am not aware of something that has done a good job in this area. Think of it like an open source knowledge system with a hosted version.
He is not demanding. He is pleading/asking politely. "Please". It is totally up to you whether you want to do what he asks for you.
Granted, I agree with you to a point and I don't see any reason you are downvoted/beside the obvious "don't be so negative" point, though I will upvote you, I feel this conversation is important/. At the same time it is extremely easy for you to use these articles/posts even in your CV and in building in your brand. Of course, you might not need that, but there are still a lot of uses including showing them to your future kids or thinking about how your writing changed someones live.
Leave that, there are specific content, which I have no issues being behind a paywall. You might put it behind a paywall/e-book/, show me that your content is useful to me, I will pay you in a heartbeat. Of course this is something that will take even more time.
To your point above spending time with new things or friends/family/working, I don't think that the author wanted you to stop doing them. Again he is asking you politely, do that if you have free time AND you are willing to help some complete strangers online. It is not something everyone would want to do and this is completely okey.
I've worked with multiple startups and helped them improve their websites readability and increase user comprehension. I'd love to do that for you, too.
I've spent two years in Carlisle, UK for studies and I am back in Bulgaria for the moment. I design and write blog posts, website copies or technical documentation. Thanks to my life experience and current location I can provide great quality and affordable prices.