For the SEO piece there is the Spiderable package. It uses phantom.js to build the page and send it back to crawlers.

Nothing too exciting. If I were more creative maybe I'd come up with something more clever than http://word.center

Location: Seattle, WA

Remote: Yes (would prefer not, but am willing to)

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Javascript, Node.js, Java, C++, C#, Ruby, RoR, MongoDB, SQL

Resume: http://www.kylek.me/resume.pdf

Personal Site: http://www.kylek.me

Email: kyle@kylek.me

Github: https://github.com/kkamperschroer

I am definitely a generalist looking to use some modern technologies (Node.js/Javascript and maybe even Meteor.js development) as my full time job. I have numerous ongoing personal projects and I constantly pick a new language/technology/framework for each project to experience that 'a-ha!' moment as I figure out some concept new to me. I am the author of this Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/musicality-music-p...

I'm looking for a startup that is somewhere around series A funding round in size, but I'm flexible. I want to be a part of something that makes a net-positive impact on the world instead of just feeling like a cog in a machine.

Dude , You are in MS. People kill for that job and you want out ?

I couldn't agree with you more. The bad parts of reddit are what push me away. Of course there are some smaller subreddits that actually value quality content, but if they somehow grow to 'default' subreddit status then things seem to go downhill quickly.

Hopefully you publish some of your findings down the road. I'm interested to hear more.

There currently isn't a startup idea I have. There's some random ideas I've thought about pursuing, but I'm still waiting for something that really inspires me to dive in. I have one small side project with ~11,000 users, but it's entirely free and monetization of it is quite tricky. It's a donation model now, which many would say has failed. $23 in three years.

So I'm still looking for an idea I love. I figured in the meantime it makes sense to orient myself in a startup. That way I can figure out the way things truly are and convince myself that building one myself is a possibility for me.

Thanks for your response.

Well you are already getting some good experience from the sound of things. :)

This is an important point. Change your passwords on all your accounts (after patching up that hole first, of course).

Good luck!

Maybe it's just my love for Tycho, but this is wonderful.

Great point. That was one of my concerns. I was hoping the screenshots were self explanatory, but that's probably a bad assumption.

I'll work on refining the title and description. It's really a quick-and-easy controller for online music players.

Thanks. :)

I know the permissions are overbearing. The reason it requests permissions for all sites instead of just the supported players is because of the way Chrome updates extensions. If I were to go that route and at some point add another player (which happens often), Chrome would disable the extension for everyone until they re-approve the changed permissions.

I believe there is a way to do it dynamically and allow the user to choose which players they want to allow access to, and then accept the changed permissions. However a majority of my user base will not care, and would actually prefer the one click install ease of use. At least that's my reasoning.

For those of you really concerned, you can download the source and modify manifest.json to change where the contentscript is injected for peace of mind. https://github.com/kkamperschroer/Musicality

Chrome forcing the user to re-approve the extension when it tries to access more data is a feature, not something to work around. That alone is reason enough for me to say "thanks, but no thanks"

I agree with you. As a privacy-conscious user of Chrome extensions, I'm glad Chrome does things this way. There are too many horror stories out there.

I'll continue to look into ways I can deal with this without blindly asking for everything. I haven't found a good solution yet, but that doesn't mean there isn't a better way to do it out there.