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Good communities like HN | mixmax: If you happen to be into finance you can check out http://www.newmogul.com/It's based on the same code as HN and run by nickb (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=nickb) |
How did you get started with your first start-up? | hwijaya: Not sure i understand your question correctly. For our case, i just started it with a long-time friend of mine. I did talk some part of it in our blog. Maybe you can find it relevant in addressing your question. http://blog.blindoptimists.com/2009/01/23/hello-world/ |
Simple, simple, simple editors for Linux. | indrax: Joe (Joe's Own Editor) which IMO has better on screen help than pico/nano.Although if the app is well designed, a GUI editor should be entirely keyboard controlled as well. Hit alt-f(ile) or alt-e(dit) in whatever text editor came with the install. If that works, find out how to disable the button bar to free u... |
Good communities like HN | TriinT: I really like Nuclear Phynance:http://www.nuclearphynance.comA lot of high-caliber people in there. |
Good communities like HN | buckler: Past Discussions (search for more):- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=576677- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=199103Suggestions:- http://similicio.us/search.php?url=news.ycombinator.com&...- I was also going to suggest stackoverflow.com, but you got that down- http://episteme.arstechnica.com/Usual hacke... |
Simple, simple, simple editors for Linux. | caffeine: I'm pretty sure they sell "e-mail typewriters" for this - a typewriter that you hook up to an e-mail account, and you can see emails come in on it and you can type them back out - and that's it.If not, it can't be hard to customize a linux distribution to do that.EDIT: Or get a typewriter & a fax machine with... |
Review My Site - Studylance.com | justlearning: i like the logical separation of the page using light colors. I think, although you may be tempted to add more rows to the "top tutors", it looks good as is at the moment - may be couple of rows more. The pound sign beside the top-tutors is very 'diggy'. may be small image size? may be you should think th... |
Good communities like HN | zimbabwe: Stick to sites that use flat displays rather than threads. Threading almost always leads to crap. Flat displays have disadvantages but the linearity of the conversation leads to there being some focus in the community.Metafilter and SomethingAwful are my two drugs of choice. I'd argue that SA's community is b... |
Review My Site - Studylance.com | ashleyw: You should probably do it in US dollars rather than British sterling.Firstly because more people know dollars, but also because it's a higher number, which I'd think would attract more answers; £10 vs $16…only to Britons would they seem the same amount. |
Missing needed skills for startup | lacker: If you have no db experience, it seems likely that actually your idea does not require that complicated of a database. Why don't you post more specifics and HNers can see if there's an easy solution. |
Review My Site - Studylance.com | quizbiz: Why use this when I can type my question into Google and get ranked answers from answers.com?But I do like the design and interface, a lot. |
Missing needed skills for startup | anamax: > I have a business idea, which will require a non-trivial database.Non-trivial in what sense?If it's non-trivial in size and you're worried about scaling, just build the simplest thing that will provide the desired functionality and start shipping.Why? Because you'll have money to solve scaling problems befor... |
Review My Site - Studylance.com | mgrouchy: Honestly, I think the idea is pretty neat. The website looks pretty good and for general answers I think this model may work. That being said, if a university student posted an assignment question on here and then answered that question exactly as on an assignment, that is tantamount to cheating. I know when ... |
Review My Site - Studylance.com | kevinherron: It doesn't like my password, but I have no idea why. All it will tell me is "Enter correct Password. ". Maybe some hint on why my password doesn't meet your password constraints?Edit: Apparently I can't have an exclamation point in my password. That's absurd. |
What tools do you use to manage contact with your users? | bjclark: getsatisfaction |
Review My Site - Studylance.com | known: Can you name studylance.com competitors? |
Wireless Video Streaming to Justin.tv? | doodyhead: For anyone who's interested, looks like I'll be combining a USB extender:http://www.lindy.ie/usb-extension-cat5-usb-extender-up-to-50...With a Logitech USB Quickcam:http://www.amazon.co.uk/Logitech-QuickCam-Pro-9000-Webcam/dp...I'll update again if/when I get it working! |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | keltecp11: don't do it. legalzoom.com at the very least. |
Where to find socially conscious Startups? | mschaecher: Not sure about where to look for them, but you can definitely help them find you.I would be blogging, twittering, etc. about social entrepreneurship. Check out LinkedIn Q&A as well as Groups. Start your own group on there. Build your own community around this, start a Ning network.Attend tech conferences... |
Where to find socially conscious Startups? | jlees: I'd look at social enterprise coworking spaces and see who uses them, and look at social enterprise targeted funds or events (e.g. SIcamp) as well. |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | grellas: I have represented founders as a startup lawyer in Silicon Valley since 1984. I have done a short write-up on this issue focusing on the risks from a company standpoint of relying on early-stage verbal agreements (http://www.grellas.com/faq_business_startup_009.html).From your standpoint, without proper docume... |
Where to find socially conscious Startups? | maggie: I don't know where you're located, but in the RTP (North Carolina) area, there's a local meet-up group for social entrepreneurs: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=19139128576I'd check out local environmental non-profits and ask them to point you to people who are trying to start something up, or ask to give... |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | log0: Thanks grellas.
This is really great advice. I read your article. Really good one. I am aware legal actions seem to be less practical, and a bad direction towards and position to be in. And I agree it is a high risk, that so much I can sensed it.Thanks keltecp11.
I am still thinking. |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | TallGuyShort: >> How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts?In my experience? Pretty bad... A better financial decision is to make a bet with the other coders. $2000 says he doesn't pay up. |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | noodle: if you don't mind the clear and obvious risk, you don't need a contract. the second you feel like trying to secure yourself from risk or trying to ensure yourself profit/shares/etc., its time to grab a contract. |
Where to find socially conscious Startups? | rokhayakebe: If you are having such a hard time, it could be easier to help established companies incubated social programs and maybe spin them out when they become successful. |
Where to find socially conscious Startups? | sleepingbot: *faircompanies (http://faircompanies.com) aims to provide information and tools on sustainability. |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | anamax: > My worst case : Idea goes live. Initial projection of time dragged. But the organizer plays dishonesty and kicks me / other coders out, taking the whole share.More likely - organizer claims that your contribution is worth significantly less than you think that it is. (Perhaps he'll say something along the li... |
Anyone building (or have) a calendar suggestion tool? | abi: If I build it, how much would you pay to use it? |
Anyone building (or have) a calendar suggestion tool? | wschroter: $10 - $30 yearly. Of course if I worked at a company that used this (like a sales organization) I would probably have a whole ton of licenses. |
Is it possible to turn this into a Viral Campaign? | pj: advertising is about visibility and a square inch is nothing. How many people will see this ad? |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | pj: It's not worth it. Why not just get a contract before the company is registered? You can draw up a document that says what will happen after registration.Otherwise, don't start working until the registration is complete. |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | michael_dorfman: How bad? Bad. Very bad. Bad, bad, bad. Did I mention "bad"?I'm not allowed to talk (much) about it, but the short version is: been there, done that, to the tune of several million bucks that are currently missing from my pocket.So, the answers to your questions (in order):1) Worse than you can imagi... |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | pierattt: I've spent upwards of $9k in the last few months on legal fees because I didnt have a written contract with an old business partner.At the very very least, get a specific list of deliverables, your profit share percentage, and his ownership rights to your code on paper, then get him to sign and date it. Be as... |
Investments for kids (off topic) | callmeed: I would start with a 529 plan for college savings. It has tax advantages, a pretty high maximum contribution, plus its transferable. Also, I think they are pretty lenient on what it can be applied to once your kid is in college ... for example, you can put it toward a laptop and housing (even living at home). |
Review My Site - Studylance.com | rksprst: Your UI focus is wrong. For instance, on the question page the main things are category, post date, number of bids. These elements take up as much height space as the question itself. The question is also in a textbox which I have to scroll to read. The focus should be on the question (which should just be in ... |
Where to get promo stickers made? | socratees: You can try http://bumperstickers.cafepress.com/custom_stickers. Zazzle.com also makes stickers. |
Where to get promo stickers made? | rrival: http://www.stickergiant.com/ does it right (vinyl, die-cut).
http://www.printrunner.com/ does it cheap.Or if your timing is right, we (startupschwag.com) will get you 500+ free (using printrunner) and ship a few hundred to bloggers. |
Where to get promo stickers made? | there: http://stickerrobot.com/ |
Where to get promo stickers made? | clint: Another vote for Sticker Giant |
How bad is the decision to work as a co-founder without legal contracts? | ctb9: Also, not trying to be rude, but is English your first language? If not, and assuming the venture is located in an English speaking country, I would say that as a non-native English speaker you are more likely to be treated unfairly. |
Investments for kids (off topic) | ajross: My wife and I looked at 529's for our 9 month old, and most decided against them. Partly because over the 18-22 year time frame (assuming relatively conservative investment choices) the tax benefits really aren't that large. And some of it is a risk thing: there's a very large cost spread (both tuition and fi... |
Where to find socially conscious Startups? | mschaecher: also give crunchbase a try |
Where to get promo stickers made? | soybeanto: I think http://sticviews.com/ is probably the most affordable place to make custom stickers - you just upload an image file and choose a custom shape, dimensions, and material. They make laptop skins and stuff, too. I got one for less than $10. |
Where to get promo stickers made? | chedigitz: http://ltlprints.com Larger then life, they specialize in wall stickers |
Where to get promo stickers made? | freds4hb: And for something a little different
http://www.stickertweet.com |
Offshoring - At what point does cost trump productivity? | synnik: You offshore repetitive work, and/or work that is administrative and common to all companies. You in-house leadership, development, and creative work, and anything that is specific to your company. |
Where to get promo stickers made? | tripngroove: stickerguy.com is awesome - I've used them many-a-time.The website sucks, but they're cheap! |
College Graduate, Job Prospects | danek: you need anything that gives you a competitive advantage.1. getting professional help on writing your resume is a big plus. there is a huge disconnect between the things we programmers think is good to put on a resume and the things that people who read your resume think is important. Most things get ignored, o... |
Adding 2 + 2 on the Cloud ? | bshep: Maybe something using Amazons MapReduce and DevPay or FlexiblePayments?I wouldnt know how to set up what you want but maybe you can find something in their forums.BTW: I've used their EC2 and S3 services and I'm very happy so far. |
Adding 2 + 2 on the Cloud ? | wmf: This sounds like a paid AMI.Edit: In retrospect that's not what you want, since for paid AMIs the bill goes to the customer. |
Adding 2 + 2 on the Cloud ? | pskomoroch: What do you mean by "billed to me"? Do you mean you pay for the costs of user's computations, or users pay you to compute an answer? |
Offshoring - At what point does cost trump productivity? | nostrademons: These are tough questions, and I'm not sure I'd trust random message-board participants (like me ;-) to answer them. People pay operations-research consultants hundreds of thousands of dollars for this.Something to consider: good code is an asset, and it's a compounding asset. The better your programmer... |
Adding 2 + 2 on the Cloud ? | stcredzero: Someone should do this for render farms. We'd see more brilliant home-grown sci-fi film making like this:http://www.starwreck.com/They had a 3 PC render farm running two years to make the film. Most of the interior shots were green-screened with digital backgrounds, and they look gorgeous.(Finding attract... |
Where to get promo stickers made? | leahculver: I think the new GitHub stickers are from http://www.clubcardprinting.com/They're located in the Castro in San Francisco and the staff is super friendly and the stickers are affordable and have a very quick turnaround. I've used them for stickers for a side project and they had them done in a day.My friend f... |
Anyone building (or have) a calendar suggestion tool? | lowkey: Dude, you need Tungle: www.tungle.com
Montreal Venture backed startup who have taken on this problem and have done a pretty outstanding job. Have a look at their approach to the problem of scheduling meetings to see if it makes sense. Works with a browser, gcal, or Outlook. |
Where to find socially conscious Startups? | puzzle-out: http://clearlyso.com |
ISO of cofounder | ram1024: i had a similar idea for a web-rep system a while back. my idea included customizable avatars by which you could spend points on. a little extra incentive to participate positively on sites, and something you can show off.an extended idea would involve games that you could play using your avatar on various s... |
Is technology a neccessary and/or sufficient condition for development? | frossie: Can you go away and come back with an easier question?Seriously, there are two cases here. First, the idea that developing countries (I believe the term "non-developed" is frowned upon) need certain skills to "compete" in the modern world. Now this is in some way a political or at least philosophical position,... |
Online Shopping Carts? Is Satchmo any good? | MOdMac: Im in a similar situation, testing a move from magento to satchmo.
Still in early testing but it does seem like a really solid cart which is much faster.The thing that really helps satchmo is the django base and the huge number of reusable apps available.In magento if you need forum or cms you need to add bri... |
What are the killer use cases for key-value stores? | dantheman: I'm only really familiar with couchdb, and implementing things like tagging are very easy. Couchdb is document based with incremental map/reduce. So for blog tagging, you have a blog document. That has an array of tags or even just the tags on the string.To be able to pull up documents based on tags you c... |
ISO of cofounder | scottyallen: Sounds interesting. However, what's the value add here, and to whom? |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | brecht: Your site has to become cool before anyone is going to bother reporting on it. You don't get automatic reporter points just because you feel strongly that you should, or even because you work hard at it. As it stands, your site is Yet Another Portal or News Aggregator or whatever and it's just not a particularl... |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | _pius: First off, congrats on building a site that a lot of people use and respect. I've definitely heard of it and I'm not from Chicago, so it must have gotten coverage somewhere.The first question is probably a dumb one: Have you actually asked any of the journalists you work with to get you some coverage?Also, you ... |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | rms: Did you ask any of them to write about you? |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | patio11: I don't know that I would even want coverage from Techcrunch, for either myself or you. It warps your perception of what provides value and what your goals are. For example, you might spend months worrying about getting featured by fickle tech publications when you could be providing news to Chicagoans.It is... |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | jonknee: Maybe because you're competition (either real or perceived)? Local media doesn't typically cover other local media in a positive light. |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | mseebach: A few ideas:- Find a local journalist that does mainstream-tech stories (i.e. the guy that wrote the "Facebook owns your photos" story about half a year ago), and pitch your site as a sort of Facebook for Chicagoans (-ians? -ers? -aks?)- Make yourself the story. Pitch how you put you career and your home on t... |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | brlewis: This might or might not help you, but I think Chris Brogan might appreciate your thoughts on his latest post, http://www.chrisbrogan.com/wiring-a-city-and-the-internet-of... |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | sho: Hm. Well, the domain/site name is fantastic. But I don't feel any attraction to the place; it's like Digg with a filter that the stories have to mention Chicago. There is no consistency. The top 10 items go from sport, political gossip, and food reviews to tech CEO arrests and an article about an upcoming museum e... |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | sammyo: I didn't find the essay on a quick google but I remember a classic pg discussion that hiring a publicist was their best investment. Largest expensive also, but the right one knows how to get the mentions in the media. But don't worry about competition, traditional journalists will happily dig their own grave fo... |
Are you in Miami, FL? | khafra: The wufoo.com guys are here in Tampa, but I don't know of anyone else in the state. |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | 10ren: Don't know what you're doing wrong (if anything), but a suggestion:1. As a journalist, think back to the stories that were compelling to you, that you wanted to write about, that you knew were the great, newsworthy stories, professionally.2. Next, find a story like that, that WindyCitizen is somehow an essential... |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | thomasswift: Just a few ideas off the top of my head, have you tried submitting to masshable, I sent one email and got covered. Traffic was nice, but did die down, but the amount of people that recycle(copy) thier posts has a nice trailing effect. They are more keen to mention sites with more 'social' aspects.Have you ... |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | sutro: Splash a convincing photoshopped picture of Mayor Daley having sex with Mrs. Blagojevich across your front page. Problem solved. |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | qeorge: You need a more compelling story. "Cool new website" isn't a story that works on traditional media. Try to find a way that the Windy Citizen is helping the people of Chicago's real lives.Consider these headlines:Local Website Rallies Community In Search For Missing BoyMayoral Scandal Galvanizes Citizens Against... |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | wenbert: Have you tried IRC? (freenode, etc.) |
What are the killer use cases for key-value stores? | lacker: The killer use case is when your traffic is large enough that you have to shard across many machines. |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | TallGuyShort: Maybe I'm misunderstanding what it is you're trying to do, and I may be misjudging your approach entirely (so forgive me if I'm way off the point), but I would recommend trying things yourself more. That is, ultimately, a huge aspect of "hacking". It's also, IMO, a much better way to learn most of the ti... |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | pxlpshr: In their defense if they are active developers or entreps then they are likely extremely busy. As much as they'd love to help you, there are a lot of people like yourself asking for their time too, you're not the only one. So don't take their response too personally, you can likely try again later.Egotists asi... |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | edw519: "...surprised at the unfriendly responses I have received..."It's hard to comment on responses I haven't seen, but let me take a guess.Perhaps the responses aren't so much "unfriendly" as "tough programmer love". They already know something you may have not learned yet. That all the mentoring in the world wil... |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | ErrantX: As the others are saying it's not clear what your trying to achieve when getting in touch.For example if you ask a direct question in a field they have experience I am sure they would help!You talk about experience and skills: I assume your looking to learn such things from them. Perhaps your askign for them t... |
Buying a Website on SitePoint; Good way to bring in Monthly Income? | il: It's much better to develop a site yourself and then sell it on Sitepoint than to buy one. If it looks too good to be true, it probably is-maybe traffic has been declining, its been dropping in the serps, revenue is down, etc.
Spend that $4,000 on content and SEO, and you will have far greater returns. |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | abyssknight: Sure, drop me a line. All my contact info is in my HN profile. I might not be the most experienced, funded, awesome hacker but I can pull my weight in a few areas and answer things I know the answer to, or at least point you in the right direction.We've all been there. |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | raheemm: Learning new skills is hard work. But thanks to the internet - its easier now than every before. Find a good forum to ask questions. There are lots of video lectures (paid and free) on various technologies. If you want to get someone to coach you, then prepare to compensate them. That is why taking a class is ... |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | HeyLaughingBoy: I'm amazed that no one has suggested the most obvious answer: a lot of developers are just plain rude!Even if you don't want to help someone, there's a polite way of wording it. Unfortunately a lot of people in the SW dev community haven't figured that out yet.@Rayzar:
They're under no obligation to hel... |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | epi0Bauqu: If you are more clear on what type of thing you are looking for/working on, you might get help right here. I, for one, am happy to help where I can. |
What level of traffic do you need for ad sales? | noodle: depends on your definition of "decent money", as well as a lot of other factors.the short answer, though, is however much traffic it takes for you to convince someone to pay you what you want. |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | kyro: You won't get actual users by having TC write about how "you're a cool website." That's not what you want. Why? Because there's no real value there. The real value is to be found in stories where The Windy Citizen's name is attached. Let me explain. If I was someone interested in Chicago news and was reading a bl... |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | niyazpk: I have written a few articles in the web about programming topics and have published a few pages of source code too. Some of these articles are in the top results of Google for the right keywords. Now the problem is that I get emails asking about these topics, and I am surprised at the un-professional question... |
Buying a Website on SitePoint; Good way to bring in Monthly Income? | weaksauce: Before buying I would make sure that the $1000 was not a fluke and ask to see the logs. Also, the cost of one click could be more than the revenue generated. |
Buying a Website on SitePoint; Good way to bring in Monthly Income? | bkbleikamp: I used to buy and sell sites on SitePoint ~4 years ago.Selling: I would build a simple blog, drop in Google ads, and get some basic traffic with AdWords and then they would generate some clicks on AdSense. That would give me a few dollars a day in revenue, I'd post the site, and sell it for $500-$600 – I c... |
Learning From Failure and Iterating on Defunct Companies | Tangurena: >Are there symptoms of Clear's demise that signal another attempt to be unwise?Their primarly failed assumption is that DHS would trust them to clear their customers. There is no possible way that DHS would trust some outsourced security to do their job. This means that every "pre screen" supplier is doomed ... |
What am I doing wrong here? (PR/Marketing an app) | webwright: That's not a headscratcher. Get into their heads and ask yourself, "Why would I write/report on these guys?" I can think of one HUGE reason why you wouldn't-- because it's a better source of news with a bunch of links to stories from OTHER news entities. You don't see people reporting on Google News excep... |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | LeonSodhi: Stackoverflow seems like the perfect place to be asking these getting started questions. As people say, once you have something, bloggers will probably be more responsive. |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | plinkplonk: "Recently I have tried approaching a few good developers through their blogs about various matters including advice on how to go about some projects I'm undertaking but I am surprised at the unfriendly responses I have received."I have some experience in this, so let me try to explain a couple of things tha... |
Are there any good hacker mentors out there? | brianm: The best way to get this feedback, imho (and it worked for me) is to start contributing to an active open source project you use.Specifically, contribute to one you use, not one you think is cool or would be fun to hack on. If you have to ask "what would be something useful I could work on?" on the mailing list... |
Please review our startup Euraeka.com | aristus: Where do you get this data on millions of users?The name is impossible to spell.The misleading, engaging, etc filters are interesting, but kind of hand-wavy. It's not apparent why and how "Miami Heat's Dwyane Wade sues ex-business partner for libel" or "The SEVEN SECRETS of SMART PARENTS" are "misleading" (and... |
How to bulk transfer ~50 domains? (+ Registrar suggestions?) | vaksel: why not just get another godaddy account and transfer the domains between them? |
How to bulk transfer ~50 domains? (+ Registrar suggestions?) | quizbiz: I haven't had any issues with 1and1. |
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