djtidau

Have you given pglite a try?

I love seeing kids involved in projects like this. The excitement that goes alongside building these kinds of things is likely to keep them interested in similar projects in the future.

Does anyone know of any similar initiatives?

Looks great, this is an area I have always thought surprisingly lacking by the payment providers themselves. I'll definitely be giving it a try when I get a chance.

It might be worth providing a bit more of a breakdown of your product (especially screenshots) as I found your sell sheet a little brief, just a little constructive feedback.

The brevity of the page displaying just the roadmap and live demo is honestly quite refreshing.

It's great to be able to just look at what is there and see where the strengths and weaknesses are (at least with some face value).

Great work on this, I can't wait to see how it matures.

I think the basic idea behind the assertion is that someone coming out of Techstars should know better, either due to the fact they have smart/savvy enough to be accepted in the first place or that they have been provided with enough information to make decent decisions like shutting a site down when the business has folded.

Techstars may not market themselves as a measure of credibility, but i'm sure it is something they care deeply about. If an incubator constantly spat out startups making deeply questionable decisions like this one they would have far less startups knocking on their door.

Though many won't see any sort of advantage to switching, it would be very interesting to know what kind of effect this has on both Github and Bitbucket. There doesn't seem to be any major drawcard that will have people chomping at the bit to change over that I can see. I'm happy to be enlightened though.

On another note, is it just me or has Amazon really been ramping up with their releases lately? It feels like there is something new each week at the moment.

This is true, information overload is a serious problem that much greater minds than mine work to tackle. Though personally I want to have a little more control over my stream.

Google+ had an attempt at this with giving a kind of ranking to certain circles depending on how noisy you want them to be. For me that is a much better approach as I am more involved in making such a choice. Though then comes the issue of giving the user too much work.

There are two sides to each coin I guess though in this case I do feel it is weighted more toward boosting FB's share price rather than truly looking out for their users.

Whilst I understand Facebook's position on this and can see that they are trying to clean up news feeds (whilst maximising revenue), it has always rubbed me the wrong way that they DECIDE what I see. If I like a page, I want to see the information from that page, if I didn't I would remove them from my feed.

It's this kind of mismanagement of information I am subscribing to that will surely have people looking elsewhere.

Will Facebook soon filter out friend requests from people they don't see as being suitable?

I too don't understand such negative responses here. As far as how it looks the site seems just fine to me. Not being too familiar with this market I'm unsure of the feasibility of the business but the idea seems sound.

Is there any reason why you are cash only at the moment? You really should look into adding some kind of online payment integration (Stripe is very easy to get up and running if the allow it for this market).

Just a heads up, on Chrome/OSX your example boxes popup is created three times, one on top of the other.

Good luck!

Hey guys, just thought I'd throw this out here. This is an ongoing weekend project that allows people to import/format their social media posts into WordPress.

I'd observed that many people were putting a lot of time into creating content on social media networks, leaving their blog to go without. This is a way to remedy that without changing existing habits.