People keep asking the OP about his apps, and their answer is very a very vague "the account has 2 droplets which serves 2 mobile apps and does crawling 20-30 sites hourly".
My question is what do the apps do? That could easily be where the violation of the TOS is happening. Child porn? Fraud?
The lack of clarification is making the OP seem shady. Whats to hide?
The branding is a bit silly. But. You can open your eyes and it remains pitch black--zero light leakage. I started using them on flights, now use at home when I really need the extra z's.
Im no neuroscientist or psychologist, but the stress of being sized up by other monkeys based on superficial first impressions that you know you dont happen to be very good at making, is WAY different than the stress that gets produced when a "cryptic" system needs fixing.
For me the former situation leads to lots of bad feelings including irritation and incredible anxiety. I have often considered the latter type of situation fun times. For a lot of programmers difficult puzzle solving stress is good stress.
From what I have witnessed from current in-the-box hiring practices is a lot of extroverts get hired who are good at spin and presentation. Quite a few managers never detect that they are actually not great programmers because they are brilliant at sucking up and putting on a show. Those skills dont always hurt, but they shouldnt be considered a deal breaker for a programmer who actually gets good work done.
Best practice I have ever encountered is when interviewers give out interview questions in advance to allow to the interviewee a while to think about the problem in quiet.
I love the idea of short term contracts for both parties to suss each other out.
I was only in India for a month and I am not joking or exaggerating that the constant threat of sexual violence also gave me what people could call PTSD.
Even making eye contact with men was perceived as an invitation. I could do nothing right. I tried adopting local garb, covering, being a shadow basically. I wasnt even alone; I was with my boyfriend the whole time!
I dont know how to talk to people about my experiences there without sounding like a complete grump. I would never have been able to imagine how brutal India was for everyone, including women, without going. Thank goodness I could leave!
Can you offer a bit more info? Did you get an error? Did you click on something and it not go somewhere? Did the page look borked? Aliens take over the screen?
Can't fix it w/o a bit more info as it's working on our end (including processing payments).
Just some first impressions about your pricing. Seems steep to me for something that I can whip together fairly fast myself (and I imagine most with JS skills could). Maybe I am not your target audience though. Its a great idea nevertheless!
The little widget...maybe. But all the reporting...that takes a good bit of time to get right. And the reporting (ie. what all that data means) is really what's valuable here. So, I'm not worried about it.
Plus, when people say "I could easily whip that up myself"...they rarely actually do. :)
