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Does the Following Service Exist | sharpn: If you just want to test static pages in different browsers, you can use this site for free - it's what I used to test my site (there are probably others):
http://browsershots.org/ |
Startup vs Girlfriend | AlleyRow: If she's a part of the startup, then you all should spend time together working. If can work together as a couple(especially on a new venture), then you can probably last a lifetime. I'm sure French lessons don't last all day. Spend the evening as a date night. (I am female btw) |
YC-like in Europe/Germany? | falsestprophet: Take out the MBAs and you have a valid business model. |
Help us sell servers to raise money for our startup. (Radisys and Dell) | schizoidboy: I asked a similar question about a week ago, and the responses I got were:1) "I think because of [cloud computing and the recession], server hardware isn't worth what you think it is. Go lower."
2) Use traditional channels such as eBay, Craigslist, etc.
3) A few people that were interested provided their d... |
Boston Startup Community? | bgnm2000: Welcome to boston! http://www.webinnovatorsgroup.com/ |
Startup vs Girlfriend | ivankirigin: I have a kid. You can spend time on things outside your startup and focus on work at the same time.Ditch the day job, not the other parts of life unrelated to work. |
Boston Startup Community? | poslathian: a stricter definition of AM? 10? 9? 430? |
Startup vs Girlfriend | walesmd: Go with the girl, go with your startup - give up everything else.I, as well, had extremely long hours working on a startup. But the girlfriend, now my wife, was always there to back me up and lift me back up when I was doubtful of things (and believe me, you will be). Your french lessons won't do shit to bring... |
Help us sell servers to raise money for our startup. (Radisys and Dell) | JimmyL: Mugasha is great, for the record. Here's hoping you find some money, keep it going, and get a full launch. |
Who has a really good paid signup form? | SwellJoe: Wufoo do most things well, including the signup process. |
Drupal or Joomla? | mikeytown2: I actively develop for Drupal (boost module). This 10 min demo should give you an idea on how fast sites can go up with it: http://acquia.com/what-is-drupal. I recommend Drupal. |
YC-like in Europe/Germany? | david927: There was YEurope but it seems to have died. The German web start-up scene is hot; there's a lot going on. I wouldn't just call it copy-catting.I think the only two places you'll find seed funding in Europe are London and Zurich. So although we're a Prague-based startup, our biz dev is in Zurich. |
Help us sell servers to raise money for our startup. (Radisys and Dell) | gradish: we are looking for a new backup storage and internal server setup for a video production company. If this is still available please write to tomer@millennialproductions.com |
Boston Startup Community? | KB: Not directly startup related, but the Boston Ruby group is pretty active. http://bostonrb.org |
Boston Startup Community? | eob: Thanks for the links everyone! I'll stop by to check things out. |
Review my app - SimpleStats.net | bdmac97: I would like to suggest you try out the free HN promo I am running for my service, launchly. You'll get feedback there on your new app.Promo Code: HN_LAUNCH
Launchly: http://www.launchly.com |
how to track replies to your own comments on different blogs | inerte: Aha!This is something I've wanted for a long time [1]. No, I don't think anyone built it yet, sadly.Basically I was thinking about a browser extension/plugin that would understand that I am posting something on a webpage, and then it would monitor/crawl this webpage, and let me know when a reaction (say, a repl... |
how to track replies to your own comments on different blogs | makecheck: I guess I've always posted only on HN and not individual blogs, mainly because I hate to spend even a few seconds signing in to these various sites.The disadvantage is that the bloggers might not actually see what's said here; but I've found that a surprising number of them do. (And "threads" at the top of ... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | lionhearted: Okay, you got a tremendous many comments. Some good advice, some bad. Mine might be a bit more unorthodox.Here's my experience - driven men don't become less driven. You need a woman who is filled with excitement and joy at the thrill of being with a driven man. You'll never have peace with a girl who does... |
Startup vs Girlfriend | lionhearted: Just saw your edit.> Her argument was a sort of "given that you aren't going to anywhere with me, I want to quit of the startup"I have a friend who runs a very successful IT company in Tokyo. When it was first going, his girlfriend came over to his company and helped make it work for less than she was bein... |
Drupal or Joomla? | aasarava: If you'd find it helpful to read up on what features Drupal offers, so you can compare with what you know about Joomla, I just wrote an article on this last night:
http://returncontrol.com/what-does-drupal-provide-out-of-the...In the article, I actually address the same point you make about Drupal being a "fr... |
Well Designed Sites using the Twitter API? | blazamos: I'll toot my own horn: http://www.strawpollnow.com |
Revision control for non-hackers | Adrenalist: You can set up shared folders using Dropbox, but I'm not sure if version control is set up for that (I don't think it is, but couldn't find any information on getdropbox.com)How about Google Docs? Super easy to use (Just like MS Word, only better!) and has great version control/sharing/collaboration feature... |
Well Designed Sites using the Twitter API? | roachsocal: My friend Travis built Twittangle. Helps you organize tweets.http://www.twittangle.com/ |
Revision control for non-hackers | mgunes: There's also the option of simply using a wiki. MoinMoin can render pages to the DocBook format, through which you can output to many formats, including TeX. |
Review my app - SimpleStats.net | chaosprophet: Okay, here are my observations:1. That screenshot on the homepage should be click to enlarge.2. The bar wth the home, about, help login etc. should be bumped up in text size by atleast one point.3. It's nice that you are offering a way to track people who have javascript disabled, but what features/data w... |
What websites do you regularly visit? | chaosprophet: Apart from HN:- Engadget- ReadWriteWeb- Venturebeat- GigaOm- Mashable- Coding Horror |
how to track replies to your own comments on different blogs | mschaecher: I believe Disqus is what you are looking for. |
Startup vs Girlfriend | startupdude: I would say french lessons are not important you can spend more time on your start up. I have the same situation as you are right now, I have a startup and a day job but one difference is that I have a awesome girl friend who supports me a lot. She knew that I have spend lot of time in building the product... |
how to track replies to your own comments on different blogs | konsl: We (BackType) track hundreds of thousands of blogs, as well as sites like HN, digg, reddit, etc. In addition to claiming your comments, you can use BackType Subscriptions to follow activity on the posts you contribute to. There's also an option to auto-subscribe:http://www.backtype.com/ |
Standard employment agreement for startups? | ScottWhigham: Check out http://docstoc.com if you haven't already. You can find a lot of agreements/contracts up there for inspiration. |
Best practices with elance? | ScottWhigham: I've used elance for 6-8 projects in the past. It helped me - I can't say I'd use it again today but, at the time (2004-2006) it was a good choice. Today I'd likely opt for local talent via referrals or craigslist. I'm not sure if it's because my budgets and needs are different today or whether it's becau... |
Who has a really good paid signup form? | ScottWhigham: I like http://crazyegg.com |
Who has a really good paid signup form? | Skeuomorph: box.netBoth the start point on the home page and the start point on the pricing page. |
Bay Area .Net Devs - Stigma on .Net | peripatetic: I work for a startup in sv. successful. we are all linux, python, ruby. we are building our infrastructure from the bottom up, (no previous decisions we are locked into). The idea of doing _anything_ with microsoft is just completely alien... its like another world that is just not relevant to us. could... |
Boston Startup Community? | theorique: DART boston does podcasts and meetups with a focus on young entrepreneurs
http://dartboston.com/ |
Is the Google OS announcement merely a reaction to Bing? | TrevorJ: No, it is apples to oranges. If they feel like reacting to Bing, it will be a more direct approach, such as adding realtime results to Google searches. |
Is the Google OS announcement merely a reaction to Bing? | TallGuyShort: I don't think so. What they've said about Google OS is completely consistent with the rest of their stated philosophies. In any case, there's already way too much speculation going on about it. |
Is the Google OS announcement merely a reaction to Bing? | michaelawill: Do you mean the idea of creating their own OS? Or the timing of the announcement itself?Obviously they've been working on this for at least some time now if they are releasing the code in a few months. |
Does the HN article ranking formula need to be adjusted? | jacquesm: I think it's fine, as far as I'm concerned the decay could be a lot quicker than it is right now. This is one of those aspects of a website that is hard to do right to please everybody.And to make it configurable on a per user basis would probably be quite expensive in terms of server usage. |
Does the HN article ranking formula need to be adjusted? | cjg: I would really like to be able to see all the articles that were submitted since I last visited ordered by their votes. That way when I don't visit HN over a holiday or a busy weekend then I know that I won't miss anything important. |
How to get diggs? | jacquesm: Why bother ? Seriously, digg is just about the worst place to promote anything serious.You're much better of finding niche sites that are really looking for your stuff than to try to make the homepage on a site that everybody and their little brother is trying to game. |
How do you establish hosting for sites you build for clients? | sarvesh: Why don't you give your customers both the options? If you host and manage charge them a little more than what the hosting company takes in yearly fee, for maintaining it and don't order it using your credit card. If they rather buy hosting and manage it on their it is still good for you since you don't have t... |
Does the HN article ranking formula need to be adjusted? | kirubakaran: When I browse the comments of people I follow, sometimes I find totally great discussions that I missed as I was doing something else and didn't check HN for 12 hours. So I wish I could browse front pages by date. Everything that hit the front page and with over 5 points should be listed for each day. I us... |
How do you establish hosting for sites you build for clients? | jacquesm: I have a single box for 'friends', if they can support it themselves they're welcome to use it, if it costs me too much time or if they do something commercial I ask them to take it to a party they pay for that.Another thing I did was to set up a free hosting environment using 'drupal' in order to get them to... |
Is the Google OS announcement merely a reaction to Bing? | dannyr: According to Robert Scoble, this may be a preemtive strike by Google since Microsoft has something to announce on Monday.http://ff.im/4WvjM |
Does the HN article ranking formula need to be adjusted? | TrevorJ: I think the turnover rate is fine. |
Does the HN article ranking formula need to be adjusted? | pj: I'd like to see some filtering so that I can clear out posts I've seen, or not show anything from particular domains. |
Does the HN article ranking formula need to be adjusted? | jacquesm: Serious abuse of the moderation system in this thread, this is not a poll, it is a discussion, if you don't agree with somebody say why, don't mod down. |
How do you establish hosting for sites you build for clients? | gexla: Suggest a hosting provider / plan for your clients. In some cases you may even insist on certain hosting or charge more for dealing with horrible hosting. If a potential client were to find purchasing a hosting plan based on my suggestions too challenging, then I'm not sure I would want to work with that clien... |
Who has a really good paid signup form? | cullenking: Checkout github; from any non-payed account they make changing to a payed account easy. Definitely worth looking at. |
How do you establish hosting for sites you build for clients? | Travis: Heck, that's what reseller accounts are for with most hosting providers. Part of your business model should be to (re-)sell them hosting; it'll give you recurring (monthly) income for the lean times.Plus, there really aren't any one-and-dones. Down the road they'll want changes; if they host it themselves, it... |
Do we really need every article to be about Chrome OS? | jrockway: Interesting observation, asterisk-word-asterisk in the text above results in the <i> tags, but in comments it results in italics. |
Facebook Connect & Google Friend Connect as only way to register & login | dpnewman: have u checked out rpxnow.com or maybe clickpass as additional options for offering multiple logins?provides pretty close to universal coverage login-wise, easy to implement. |
How do you establish hosting for sites you build for clients? | oomkiller: I always set the customer up with their own account, that they are responsible for paying for. I might lose $10/month, but I save at least that much in my time worrying about collecting, plus it reduces my responsibilities.
Mosso (Rackspace Cloud now) has a nifty little feature that lets you setup clients... |
What sort of online career options does a mathematics expert has? | RobGR: I know of people who have hired statisticians for regression type analysis from sites such as scriptlance.com or guru.com. If statistics and probability is your area, send me an email and I can pass your info along. |
Please help review this site: tippleBox.com | hotshothenry: From a strictly design point of you I'll give you my initial thoughts (mind you these are quick things from the top of my head after a quick glance at the site)...1. Logo looks rought around the edges, probably a transparency issue with PS or whatever image editor you used, might want to correct that beca... |
Do we really need every article to be about Chrome OS? | rewind: If people didn't find it interesting, it wouldn't be on the front page. It's not like it's not newsworthy. And it will be there today and gone tomorrow. I thought we were beyond complaining about what makes it to the top page. |
two-factor authentication solutions? | Tangurena: By two-factor, do you mean things like SecurID tokens or do you mean the pictures and questions (what is your first pet's name?) that most US banks use? |
Which press release distribution service? | mg1313: How about www.prweb.com? Seems to be very used... |
US based iphone developers (companies or individuals). Anyone? | vaksel: US based iphone developer = you'll be paying out of the ass for a simple app. Unless you are expecting your app to net you at least 6 figures, it's pretty much not worth it.You should do a sponsorship instead. Throw up a figure, and let a developer who isn't an iphone developer do the job. The developer gets to... |
US based iphone developers (companies or individuals). Anyone? | ujjwalg: What kind of application you want to develop? We are NY based company developing iPhone apps. We have currently 24 apps on the appstore. You can click on my nickname for more information. |
Becoming a credit card "aggregator" or avoiding it? | callmeed: We do this with one of our products (nextproof.com). We process print orders on behalf of photographers, take a %, then disburse funds to photographers on a weekly basis if their balance is > $100. Most transfers are done via ACH but we do mail checks to a small number of people.We use BrainTree for all this ... |
How could this forgery detection script be optimized? | gorramit: As the author says, the script is rather adhoc.The script errors out for me, but from the comments, the basic procedure is to break up a low-resolution version of the image into blocks, and then cluster these blocks on some criterion.Let me see if I can cook up something for you after work :) The simplest spe... |
Becoming a credit card "aggregator" or avoiding it? | pmikal: Third party payment aggregation is neither cheap nor easy. The card associations do not at all like it and if you are able to find someone to underwrite your business, your pricing will be many percentage points higher than cost.More importantly here, people aren't understanding your question....Authorize.net i... |
Becoming a credit card "aggregator" or avoiding it? | jacquesm: Sign up with an IPSP, this is one of those things you really do not want to do yourself. The demands that VISA/MC and so on place on you if you want to do your own processing are so high that it really doesn't pay off if you roll this just for your own site.And if you do roll it yourself get out of whatever b... |
What would you do about identity theft? | jacquesm: SSN / Name does not yet constitute an 'identity' and I certainly wouldn't be changing my name over something that silly.The better way to go about this is to ask the SSA for a new number because of fraud, they do that directly, do not deal with any 'middle men' offering this service.http://www.ssa.gov/ |
What would you do about identity theft? | ScottWhigham: First thing is to put credit freezes on his credit accounts. Call up the major credit reporting agencies and explain what happened - they will tell him how to put the freezes on and those freezes will require manual confirmation by telephone for any loans (asking sensitive questions like, "What year was y... |
Which press release distribution service? | ScottWhigham: Search the old YC posts - comes up about 1-2x a month. http://searchyc.com |
Please help review this site: tippleBox.com | ScottWhigham: First thought: nippleBoxSecond thought: Sites like this need tons of marketing to gain traction. I hope they have investors with deep pocketsThird thought: design looks a bit weakGood luck! |
How to make Numbrosia 2 and 3 descriptions more comprehensible? | ScottWhigham: Cool looking game - am DL'ing now. The first thing to me is that you should NOT have both on the same page - that is confusing as hell to me. Each version should have a separate page/section.Okay - DL'ed and am playing. Tutorial is very well done - that is, until I got to the first Math move explanation. ... |
Is a patent app a product killer? | noonespecial: I discovered a patent application filed in 2002 that definitely encompasses the concept of my product.Only one? Look harder, you should be able to find dozens, all overlapping and contradicting each other.Can he even license it before a patent is granted?Anyone can license anything at any time. Its just a... |
Is a patent app a product killer? | imp: Your only option is to talk to a lawyer. This sounds serious enough that you should get a professional opinion on this. They should be a patent attorney that would look over the specific details of the patent and compare that to what you want to do. There could be a tiny loophole that allows you to do what you ... |
Is a patent app a product killer? | vaksel: patents are pretty useless, most of them are not enforceable due to prior art.Hell HN is probably in violation of a number of patent applications for stuff like hyperlinks, submit buttons, displaying usernames etc.Just do it, noone is going to sue you when you aren't making money. And when you are, you'll be ab... |
Is a patent app a product killer? | gherlein: I am not a laywer, so this is not legal advice. It's just an informed opinion. The short answer is maybe, but probably not. Applications are not worth much. How far along is the app? You can get some public information. Go to http://www.uspto.gov/ebc/index.html and scroll down to Public PAIR. Enter the ... |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | icey: A more robust search would be welcome. I live in the desert southwest, so most of those plants wouldn't survive here. I assume someone living in Maine would have similar problems.It would be nice to be able to search by all the categories you have listed on each plant (growth rate, growing zone, sun preference).I... |
Is a patent app a product killer? | zacharye: You guys are awesome, can't thank you all enough. It looks like I definitely need to talk to a patent attorney (I've already had a preliminary conversation with one but this was prior to learning of the existing application).My issue is that I am not independently wealthy and so to make this happen (technical... |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | vaksel: your footer is HUGE |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | fossguy: Link:http://doleaf.com |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | justlearning: Nice, Clean app. So the feedback.Help link doesn't workThe info overlay on the photos are excellent. But I would prefer it to be more visual than the black-white - eg: Full Sun - Yellow Bright sun, indoor - a green house?, for the growth- something that stands out - may be a creeper(of course colored)... ... |
If ideas are overrated... | ram1024: because there's always the chance that someone can execute it better than you?who would be so bold as to assume they're the best at developing a product.or that someone could take your idea and run with it and just get luckier than you. |
If ideas are overrated... | tdoggette: It's just other peoples' ideas that are overrated. Mine is pure gold. |
If ideas are overrated... | jeffspost: Yeah, I think a lot of it are delusions of grandeur and fear that people will mock the ideas. Note--stackoverflow.com was very open all along, very successful, and as far as I know virtually no competition. |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | ScottWhigham: I like the look and feel. I was confused. I went to buy Lungswort (http://doleaf.com/listings/11-lungswort) and it costs $6. What do I get for $6? Clearly too expensive to be seeds so it's a plant. Do I need my own pots? How will it be shipped?Those were a bunch of questions in my mind |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | greenagain: I think it'd be sweet to have some kind of wishlist feature. Not like the Amazon wishlist where you link to items that are for sale, but where buyers can declare what they are looking for with the hopes that sellers will fulfill it. Nothing fancy, just maybe something that sellers could access when workin... |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | tyohn: As I was looking over the site I was thinking - I know you're just getting started but there is a real lack of plants. And then I got to thinking why can't I sell my plants on DoLeaf? Just my two cents - but what about making a "sell your plants" section?edit: I found your "Sell With Us" link. But I guess I w... |
If ideas are overrated... | pg: Partly paranoia, and partly because overrated doesn't mean worthless. I occasionally advise startups we've funded to keep some part of their plans secret. (You never want to keep everything secret, or it just advertises you're keeping a secret.) |
If ideas are overrated... | alain94040: Very simple: everyone thinks their idea is the best thing since sliced bread. So they won't tell anyone, by fear of being copied.I have a scoop for you: people couldn't care less about copying your idea. However, once you are successful, everyone will want to copy you. |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | samg: Great idea.I'd work on the left hand navigation some more. Coming to your site without the background you give here, I don't know what "categories" means. Additionally, it's disappointing to click around and have some categories without any plants. I'd just drop these from the navigation until you have plants tha... |
If ideas are overrated... | fizx: I like the concept of ideas and execution being multipliers, put forth by 37signals (and surely others).http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch06_Done.phpOf course, the reality is non-linear, and the exact shape of the idea/execution/expected-profit manifold is quite up for debate. |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | bdmac97: Looks like a pretty clean, well designed app. I personally like the big footer.I would like to invite you to add your app to my site, launchly. Launchly is all about getting feedback and attention for new web apps. We track all aspects of your launch to help you see how you are doing and decide what changes... |
Is a patent app a product killer? | dctoedt: Some points to remember:1. Until a patent is granted, the applicant has no legal rights under the patent laws (although s/he might have rights under the trade-secret or copyright laws).(Exception: if any of the claims in a published patent application survives the examination process without amendment, and tha... |
Is viral marketing effective for sites/apps with high IQ users? | nostrademons: I get the opposite impression: smarter people are more likely to recommend a site/app to their friends, both because they tend to have broader circles of friends and because they like the ego boost that comes from knowing about a site that their friends didn't.They're just more discriminating: you have to... |
Is viral marketing effective for sites/apps with high IQ users? | IsaacSchlueter: There are some apps that I do recommend quite a lot. But I don't usually send an invite without asking first, and I'd never upload my contacts or let you log into my email to fetch them. I've sold a lot of family and friends on Aardvark and a few on Twitter, usually face to face.I'm not as likely to i... |
Best listserv setup? | joshwprinceton: ...anyone? |
If ideas are overrated... | johnrob: Guy Kawasaki said it best:Nobody wants your crappy idea, everyone is already working on their own crappy idea. |
Is viral marketing effective for sites/apps with high IQ users? | onreact-com: What do you mean by "high IQ"? Last time I measured mine at 16 I got an IQ of 120. So do you want to sell to intelligent kids? Or do you actually mean educated people, intellectuals, early adopters or similar groups?
Or do you mean nerds? High IQ doesn't mean much. You can be a serial killer with a high IQ... |
How many links to Chrome OS comments are enough? | kqr2: Usually best to proceed such questions in the title with Ask HN:Edit: The OP changed the title after I submitted this comment |
Review our public beta for DoLeaf.com | dylanz: Where do you get your Saguaro cacti!? You know about everyone running out into the desert, poaching them, and pretty much leaving the desert lifeless? Everyone wants them for their McMansion's in San Diego, and especially the central coast.On a side note, do you have any Lophophora Williamsii for sale? |
How many links to Chrome OS comments are enough? | michael_dorfman: What's most sad is how general the problem is-- the ChromeOS clusterfuck being only the most recent (and obvious) example. It seems that the majority of blogs are written by self-appointed pundits feeling they have to comment on every minor bump in the news cycle, instead of actually finding something ... |
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