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Something that I haven't mentioned in the article is that for me, Hacker News is a big motivation when doing this kind of small week-end project.

Obviously a site can get popular without HN, but having an audience to launch to plus immediate feedback feels much more gratifying to me.



Yes, that is one of the many virtues of HN. The wide audience. Not only that, but the type of audience that can and will provide constructive input.

Nothing quite like it.

Also, congrats on the project.

Do you have an email to where I could contact you?



I'm wondering how you manage to constantly get so many up votes for your projects (besides creating super quality content of course). Any tips on this?

Btw: I love the toolbox, super awesome site! It seems to be a little slow for me though, are you hosting this on a shared server?


Sorry, I don't have any specific tips on getting upvotes… I guess just do cool stuff!

And sorry about the slowness, it's hosted on PHPFog but I think I need to tweak some WordPress caching options to speed it up.


Yes, a caching plugin would definitely help out there! Your site was featured in the last webdesigner depot newsletter (which has around 150K subsribers I think) and when I clicked the link I could not reach your site for 5 minutes...

Have you had a look at the W3 Total Cache plugin already? This drastically speeds up sites when configured correctly.




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