Do you have any recommendations for how to find good mp3 blogs? What you describe sounds like exactly what I'm looking for, but I haven't had much luck with blind searches.
It's frustrating to keep hearing this come up as someone living in Germany. Europe is a big place, and Spotify is available in only a handful of countries; namely France, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Netherlands, UK.
It's shorthand for agreeing with the original idea. It saves space and allows a much quicker scanning of the comments to find people who have something unique to say.
If everyone wrote a short paragraph on their agreement with the original idea it would be very hard to find the comments where people were either dissenting or had something original to say.
Hey! I'm the developer behind Philanthroper.com, and would love to see some discussion here and answer any questions you have.
We've gotten some good press so far [1], and we're completely thrilled to finally be live.
Today's featured NPO is particularly great; Computer Aid International refurbishes the computers you would have thrown out -- or, at least recycled -- and distributes them throughout Africa and Latin America (over 175,000 since they started in 1998).
Seems like just the sort of thing HN would be interested in!
Your page doesn't function well as a landing page or give enough information straight away about how it all works. The comment from Ben Thacker (facebook comment) is the kind of thing you need to get to the user quickly:
"For US bank-account-holders only, an interesting idea. Choose whether or not to donate $1 per day to a variety of charities pre-vetted by Philanthroper. Religious/personal appeals are excluded, and the website makes its money from ads, not by taking a cut. The only fee is a 1% charge for the payment processing."
https://www.banksimple.com/ has a pretty epic page/intro, open source too. Do some testing anyway, but it's a good idea you have got going there. Congratulations on your launch.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll definitely be thinking about the best way to draw in new visitors and give them a clear understanding of what the site's about.
According to my experience with non-profit web projects the "About" page is even more important than on other site. Maybe you want to make it even easier to reach and add some more information, pictures... to build trust and make sure that real people are behind this and that it's not a scam.
It seems to me that programmatic evolution is often like biological evolution -- namely, it moves from "simple but works," to "Wouldn't it be cool if..." :)
We're an internet startup shaking up the HR industry in Germany (and eventually, the world!), and we're looking for:
* A front end developer
* A UI/UX designer
* Junior ruby developers
* Senior developers
Some of our technologies: ruby, backbone.js, jruby, mongodb
Some of our open source work: http://github.com/mongoid/mongoid, https://github.com/bernerdschaefer/postscript
I'm one of the lead devs -- drop me a line if you want to know more!
Email: bernerd.schaefer@1000jobboersen.de