I launched an app to share articles,thoughts on a topic you are good at. eg:- "Fixing a refrigerator" to "Python for kids" and share everything you know and learn under it. How do i reach out to more people and build audience?
I think cold email only works when the email is to the point and has a personal touch to it. eg:- You tell the receiver how you adore his work or why this is the right thing for him to do. It requires you to be particular,honest and also needs a personal touch point. Otherwise I doubt cold emails will work.
I don't understand one point. Bakeries and petty shops are not the places where people sit or spend more than a few minutes. Even if you were to,you are busy grabbing a coffee or a cigarette. Even though the number of people is very high, I dont see myself going to a petty shop ,buying a token and using the internet.Would love to know your counter.
The website says the token is valid for 24 hours, if the user is going to have 2-3 coffee/cigarette a day he doesn't have to get a token every time. Also If this token is valid across all the Bakeries and petty shops then the user can go to any shop for a chai and use the internet. Soon people might give you a token as change ;-)
The grandparent already said it: yes, you need to check and sanitize stuff.
It depends on what you are doing. You have to be more specific about your use case. There are lot of sources out there regarding these topics, but maybe I can give you some hints.
Do you think of HTML forms which are send via POST?
If yes, what type of backend are you using? If you are using, say a simple MySQL behind a PHP application, have a look into prepared statements, which help you store data in a more secure way by preventing SQL injections.
If you want to display comments, the easiest way is to handle them as plain text and escape/strip all html when reading from the backend, to prevent injection of javascript into the site.
If you want to allow styling of the comments, make sure, you just use allow specific whitelisted html tags like <b> or <i> or <strong>.
As you can see depending on your use cases there are different requirements. I would recommend starting with the easiest solution (only allow plain text) and start working from there. Also have a look what your frameworks provide, if you use any.
I like the idea but i think you can do better with a different revenue model. I think you should go for a yearly subscription model. That way users can pay a very small amount yearly and if you hang in there for very long, you will be in benefit .If you shut down early , users wont be pissed off.
I think this is a good idea. Also, I'm not sure I'm particularly sensitive to a price difference between $5/year and $5 once. Particularly since we're talking about a tech thing that could fade from relevance a few years from now.
Very true. I figured it was a low enough fee that if Twitter cut me off/it became irrelevant, it's not the biggest loss for the paying user (obviously sucks, but didn't feel it warranted yearly subscriptions)
I think that's fair, I just also think that the price to me feels about the same ($5/year or $5 for some unknown number of years), and would give you some ongoing money rather than a block at once then regular maintenance, while at the same time limiting the runway you'd need to give people while still fully providing them with the service they paid for / you could always refund the last year and it wouldn't wipe out everything.
well, it DOES list everything (in the 'new today' tab I think). But by default it shows the ranked list of products. In that sense, it works similar to HN where only top Show HNs are displayed in the homepage.
