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Harry Dry

@harrydry

last of the young and famous writers - marketingexamples.com
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Joined October 2017
Marketing Examples is a gallery of real world marketing examples. Since it launched eight months ago I've written ~50 case studies and grown the email list and Twitter to 12.9k and 24k respectively. Watching an email list grow is nice, but seeing a Stripe account grow is more motivating. My lea...
So I run a website where I write about Real World marketing Examples. I'm after some super simple tips for twitter. Always give credit. Any amazing simple marketing you've seen recently?
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Trying to rotate some circles using JS + CSS. I've tried for a few hours but really struggled. I've set this JS Fiddle with an example img + proper instructions to explain properly: https://jsfiddle.net/harrydry/z0Lycnv7/40/ trying to set up my personal site, would massively appreciate a hand!
supreme sold bricks elon musk sold flamethrowers both worked anyone know any other funny products which tool off?
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Firstly a bit of context. 5 months ago I made a dating site for Kanye West fans (yeezy.dating) Went viral and got: 14k Email List, 6k Instagram, 5k Users But cause it was a website and I was average at coding the site struggled to actually add value and people lost interest. But clearly there wa...
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this is the website https://bound2.app it comes in with a decent score on pingdom. And the page size is just 1.1MB. But the "wait" phase is nearly 15 seconds. And I can't work out why. Perhaps an old version of webpack / node config problem? This is a link to my github => https://github.com/cr...
The easiest way to visualise what I want want is by taking a look at this image => https://s3.amazonaws.com/bound2/example.png Basically want the images to "bounce" round the website similar to this => http://next.plnkr.co/edit/HTHkXaD2BCFWTCK5tROi?p=preview&utm_source=legacy&utm_medium=worker...
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I've noticed that the replies to big famous social media accounts do pretty well. Often the top reply racks up well over 300 likes and gets followers etc ... Whenever Kanye tweets I want to autoreply with the link to https://phonemekanyewest.com and maybe yeezy.dating just to help spread the wo...
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On Medium you'll notice there's the fixed applause button and social media icons. When image width is wide they fade out and fade back in when there is no wide image: Example here: https://medium.com/refactoring-ui/redesigning-laravel-io-c47ac495dff0 (If you scroll down you'll notice, the fixe...
Quick Recap: Made a dating site for Kanye West fans. Went viral. Then took out Billboards saying, "Phone Me Kanye West". Ended up on the phone with the CFO of YEEZY. There's 7 different sections, from coming up with the idea, to coding, to going viral, to billboards etc ... And each section is...
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So the original yeezy.dating is built using: a) Node b) Pug for templating c) Mongo DB (database) d) Passport for Auth I'm fairly solid in React so have decided on React.Native to replace Pug for the app. Other than that could I just stick with the same stack? a) Node b) React Native c) Mo...
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starting my own site. trying to grow an audience ... any good places to post. I know of Indie Hackers, Reddit, Hacker News, Twitter (and that you should vary headlines to cater for each different audience) Is there any more tips / options out there?
picture a simple app with logged in users. each button click / form submit I’m just changing a value on the user database schema. what I’m currently doing is each time i render a new component i run component did mount and fetch the data i need from the backend api. then update the state and di...
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wierd question. but ive used react/ redux a couple of times for projects and think they are pretty shit. (this is probably cause im a noob) simple things like displaying a modal can be made into nightmares and you end up having a reducer for them!!! can anyone give me some guidance on when rea...
Mine would be understanding that in most cases you should "build an audience before you build your product"
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Hey WIP, Bad day today. My Heroku console has 1803 critical errors :( Are critical errors common? Looking at the specifics: a) I'm using 1X professional heroku dynos. Surely they can handle this level of traffic? b) I made a big mistake with images. Trying to write them to Heroku. Hopefu...
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Currently using Heroku and serving the files like so: app.use(express.static(path.join(__dirname, "public"))); I've looked into reverse proxy servers before but always found it complicated. . But from what I've read it would help out a lot. Maybe its time to make the leap. How simple is Nginx ...
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This question might be incredibly stupid. But I was just wandering if anyone had any interesting insights on this. The current exchange rate means $10 === £7.14 But does one amount sound less? Perhaps its better to charge dollars, because the pound is very weak at the minute and most people...
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Making a dating site. It's nearly done, except I haven't sorted messaging between users yet. I've got two / three choices: a) NOT live messaging. Messages POST to backend. Requires a page refresh to display new messages. b) LIVE messaging! Making use of web sockets. I would also have to sav...
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Making a dating site. Imagine James "hearts" Sally's profile. I want a simple notification for Sally next time she logs in. Like Indie Hackers, where a little red number by your profile. My current idea is having both: {hearts: [james, fred, george]} {notifications: [james]} objects in th...
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i've got 10000 emails in a mongo database. whats a simple way to email all these people. any app/site recommendations. looking for simplicity. obviously don't want my emails to end up in "promotions" or "junk" either, but that might be hard. thanks
Any cool companies which have reinvented themselve to stay modern when the stuff they used to do got swollowed by technology
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Currently we have loads of designers / developers but also people with niche skills (logo makers, seo experts, illustrators...) as well as helping people with motivation / advice surely makers could help each other with skills which they lack. could a wip jobs telegram group be cooked up? a...
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Feel free to add your own.
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My idea is a list of startup ideas. I've already coded a simple, upvote / comment system allowing the best ideas to rise to the top. I've come up with two options. a) "IdeaList" — Discuss your own ideas before you decide to build them b) "Please Someone Build ..." — A list of ideas which OTHE...
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Doing some work for a new startup making a payment app. I've got to build the development team and map out how they should work together. I've always worked solo before. Would be really grateful for for a crash course on how a proper dev team works. Private/Public GitHub Repo to share code? D...
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Anyone any advice on goDaddy domain buy service? Working with a startup who want to purchase a four letter .com domain? For the sake of argument the domain is lima.com. Any idea of what price we come in at? Or any tools which help estimate price of domain names?
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So Mr Levels got things started with the 100 days of shipping awards. But could we do some more maybe once a year. Could do: Product of the Year (New Badge) Honorary Life Member (New Badge. Free Patronage) Maybe a few more Just an idea.
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Working on a manual here: https://consumersbook.herokuapp.com/ If you skip the initial animation and click on to page2 the page reloads quickly then gives you the new page. I'm trying to get the React Virtual Dom affect. So no 'reloads' Is the best thing to do to trigger "display: none" / "d...
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I use Zondicons (which is pretty sweet) but would love any other recommendations ?
I'm trying to figure out how the scrolling effect on KanyeWest.com works. onPageLoad a video pushes down the content and well ... it looks quite cool. I've got something working: https://jsfiddle.net/harrydry/ubkz71wb/18/ But I haven't managed the neat scrolling effect. Grateful for any advic...
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I build several well designed, premium website templates for musicians. 

 Each template is designed differently. 
Maybe one has a shop where an artist can sell merchandise, 
Another is minimal design etc …

 Then I set up an online store where musicians can purchase these websites.
 Crucially ...
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My mum is asking me, "Harry, What Do you want for Christmas?" haha I also got three brothers to buy presents for. Was thinking of asking for "Offscreen". A magazine Marc recommended once. Any other product you'd recommend? Something maybe which helps with Shipping.
I’m sure something can be done.
People are starting to realise that Facebook is making them more stupid and lose self esteem.

2. Dating. For people who aren’t on Facebook. ? 
 4. Real Life. For People who aren’t on Facebook. (lol) ? 

Any other thoughts? 

I dunno. I’m just seeing the 1/2/3% ...
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A 'Classic' Question. But certainly helpful. Especially for the ones who are about to repeat all the mistakes of the older people.
If a person isn't behind the computer to reply, ideally the message would get sent in an email.