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Re: Cross Over to the Dark Side with Flowdark

Melvin Ram — Mon, 04 Apr 2016 13:00:17 -0000

Readability is just terrible overall. I removed it this morning after giving it a shot. I love the idea but the execution sucked on this.

Re: Cross Over to the Dark Side with Flowdark

Melvin Ram — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:58:22 -0000

The time on the right is hard to read

Re: Cross Over to the Dark Side with Flowdark

Melvin Ram — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:57:47 -0000

Dark-ish green on dark gray sucks for readability.

Re: Cross Over to the Dark Side with Flowdark

Melvin Ram — Fri, 01 Apr 2016 19:57:26 -0000

I wish the text for the thread/comment I'm on get brighter when my mouse was on it

Re: 280 Itself | RubyTapas

Melvin Ram — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 02:18:55 -0000

The first though that came to mind was: "Why can't I just use 'self'?" As it turns out, self is not a method or at least it's not callable via #send or #public_send. Next quest: explore what 'self' is and how it's implemented.

Re: Jimmer Fredette has green light from Pelicans coaches

Melvin Ram — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:05:19 -0000

We were one of the worst run teams in the NBA. Key word "were". I agree with the rest of your comment.

Re: Custom fields in Rails using PostgreSQL

Melvin Ram — Mon, 24 Feb 2014 09:21:59 -0000

How would you look up all Contacts that went to university "LIU", "USC" or "UCD"?

Re: Stefan Wrobel - rvm implode

Melvin Ram — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 00:57:08 -0000

Why did you decided to go with a whole different set of tools?
Why not just delete all gemsets and let rvm take care of ruby?

I'm not saying you should have done the latter.
I'm just curious about the thought process.

Re: Heroku | Bamboo Routing Performance

Melvin Ram — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 02:43:57 -0000

Are you saying that the problems outlined in RG's post were only limited to Bamboo stack apps and that Cedar apps still have intelligent routing?

Re: Fail Series: “I was losing $1 million every week” – with James Altucher

Melvin Ram — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:44:23 -0000

I've watched probably 75% of Mixergy interviews. Best one of the ones I've seen.

Re: LivingSocial’s Founder: A Multimillion Dollar Hit Is Not Enough – with Tim O’Shaughnessy

Melvin Ram — Sat, 14 May 2011 04:23:59 -0000

Thanks for the interview Andrew. Unless you're already uber success or highly connected, hearing this type of openness and thought process would likely come a number of years after the hay day of a company. Getting to hear it now is a privilege. .

Re: LivingSocial’s Founder: A Multimillion Dollar Hit Is Not Enough – with Tim O’Shaughnessy

Melvin Ram — Sat, 14 May 2011 04:20:08 -0000

Arbitrage is all about squeezing the difference between the buyer and seller. This can be quiet profitable if you're able to command a significant enough margin, such as with retailers and even the daily deal sites.

The primary two leverages that allows you to command higher margins is the volume of products/services you can move as well as the value you add to the life of the product.

The type of arbitrage that he seemed to be talking about really added very little value so this meant that overall, their cut of a transaction would be low and they would have to rely on heavy heavy volume to get to the $100million/month target they seemed to had set.

Now with the amount of data they had, they may have had the volume needed to make it into a significant business... but as a business model, it's weak because you're always counting on the assumption that the buyer and seller have some kind of inefficiency and you're bridging that inefficiency. Usually this bridge is by ranking highly on search engines. This means your entire business is at the whims of Google. In addition, Google has demonstrated an angry eye for arbitragers time and time again.

This leaves you with a low margins, high risk business. NexTag and company may be doing fine now but if Google ever gets pissed at them, guess who else will be pissed? Yep, their investors.

Re: Month Two of TSF: 140,000 page views, $500 in revenue, and how I screwed up

Melvin Ram — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 16:46:49 -0000

On the bounce rate, you might consider thinking about time on the site as an indicator of bounce-rate as well. If someone spends 5-10 minutes on your site reading 1 article, would you really consider that a bounce? Clicky doesn't count those as bounces but Google Analytics does. Just some food for thought.

Re: Multi Party Video Calling

Melvin Ram — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 18:44:05 -0000

But it works

Re: Multi Party Video Calling

Melvin Ram — Sat, 06 Nov 2010 15:39:40 -0000

You might want to look at Adobe Connect Pro. It does what you want it to do.

Re: $80,000 A Month In App Sales By Outsourcing EVERYTHING – with Mike Moon and Quoc Bui

Melvin Ram — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:26:26 -0000

Damn F**kers :D This is awesome. Part of me is envious and part of me is very inspired. I've been fortunate to have a lot of work over the last year, increasing dramatically every month for the last few months... but it's both a blessing and a curse. I've been working like a mad man and it's almost like trading sanity for money and just not sustainable for me. I didn't get too much specific learning from this one but I am fired-up and committed to push out a product built 90% through outsourcing by January 1, 2011. I'll still probably do the UI design work myself since I'm too much of a control freak to let that go.

Re: How A Japanese Salaryman Became An Entrepreneur – with Patrick McKenzie

Melvin Ram — Tue, 04 May 2010 04:09:24 -0000

Finding out about VisualWebsiteOptimizer.com was worth watching the interview by itself. All the other information and mindset was pure bonus.

Re: How SEO Book Earns A Profit By Selling Content That Helps The Little Guys Take On Giants – with Aaron Wall

Melvin Ram — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:34:13 -0000

Agreed that it's very frustrating to have the poor quality of transmission when the quality of the information is so high, though you I wouldn't say you should end your adventures just to please us. Hope you out the connection problems.

Re: How SEO Book Earns A Profit By Selling Content That Helps The Little Guys Take On Giants – with Aaron Wall

Melvin Ram — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:29:53 -0000

Aaron's membership site is my other most visited sites of 2009 and it's paying off big time in increased traffic and revenue. Highly recommended for any serious entrepreneurs who are looking to build a strong, best of it's kind business and looking to prosper from search traffic.

The best advice I got on Aaron's forum about SEO was actually a question: "Why does your website deserve to be above ALL other websites for that phrase?"

Re: How A Driven 16-Year-Old Built A $100 Million Net Worth By The Time He Turned 25 – with Gurbaksh Chahal

Melvin Ram — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:26:46 -0000

Worth my 50 minutes. Thanks Andrew.

Re: This Is Why I Want To Have A Paid, Premium Section Of Mixergy. What Do You Think?

Melvin Ram — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:32:26 -0000

Oops, didn't mean to like this. I was trying to hit reply.

I don't understand why everyone keeps suggesting creating additional stuff and then they'll buy. Why not pay for that Andrew is already offering? Isn't it worth it?

In the 20 or so interviews that Andrew publishes per month, don't you think you think you'll get at least 3 solid ideas that will make you at least $100 - $1000?

Re: Current WordPress plugins v3

Melvin Ram — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:35:54 -0000

How about a good backup one: http://www.webdesigncompany...

Re: It’s Time To Build A Community Site. Who Wants To Help Me Lead And Build It?

Melvin Ram — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:32:18 -0000

Doesn't seem like this is the right post to discuss that topic. Maybe this post might be better suited for that disucssion: http://mixergy.com/feedback...

Re: It’s Time To Build A Community Site. Who Wants To Help Me Lead And Build It?

Melvin Ram — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 01:17:20 -0000

+1 for normal forum

With that said, I'm willing to try out StackExchange and see how it flows.

Re: Want To Inspire People To Join Your Mission? Start With Why. – With Simon Sinek

Melvin Ram — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 15:14:54 -0000

Simon, THANK YOU for your thoughtful feedback. I will incorporate, test in a split test and get in touch with you afterwards to explore how I can help spread your message for you.