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What analytics service do you use? | patio11: I don't like how the numbers on GA don't jive with my server logs.If that is going to get under your skin, analytics is going to cause you a lot of mental anguish.I use CrazyEgg, Clicky, Mixpanel, GA, and some homebrew stuff. The great thing about tracking things five ways is you get five chances to get the n... |
Your opinion. | huhtenberg: > I've been thinking and the idea sounds good.I think the idea is bad.1. Shoveling ads down your visitors throats is a sure way to drive them away. Consider how Google does it - they display ads unobtrusively, in a way that helps you. If they were forcing you to read through the ads before showing the searc... |
What analytics service do you use? | jacquesm: I like your style. 'Don't jive' is in my case 'seem to be multiplied with anywhere from 8 to 15 depending on the weather'.Contender for the understatement of the year prize ? |
What analytics service do you use? | ErrantX: Server logsGAhttp://www.getclicky.comhttp://www.woopra.comNone of them are perfect so a mixture is good.I agree GA's numbers are the ones with the largest margins: I simply use it for the Adsense integration stuff. |
Your opinion. | iterationx: I wouldn't use it. I think the business opportunity in music is discovery, not distribution. |
My site's popular. How would YOU monetise it? | parterburn: The layout is bit odd to show the content; I prefer a site like fav.tweets: http://www.sixteenseven.com/fav.tweets |
How did you get your product idea? | nkohari: Mine (http://agilezen.com/) was born out of the having to deal with over-complicated project management tools that were bloated with features that I didn't want to use but still had to pay for. Feeling the pain myself helped me recognize the need in the market. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | mrlyc: I wrote a bulletin board in 1984 on a Commodore Vic20. It had public and private rooms (message areas), private mail and an online game, all in 9.6K of BASIC. Users could start their own rooms and make them public or private. I ran it on the Vic for six months then rewrote it in Turbo Pascal and ran it for ei... |
How did you get your product idea? | zeynel1: I asked a similar question recently. There have been many nice discussions about this topic. This search reveals some:http://www.google.com/search?q=product+idea+site:http://news...Ideas are cheap, development easy, so why aren't we ...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=733804Ask HN: I want to build/sell a p... |
Ruby or Python for a Startup? | tptacek: If you care enough about library maturity to mention it in your question, and Python has the more mature libraries for your application, then you don't have a real question. Use Python.Any Python developer can write solid Ruby within 3-4 days. Any Ruby developer can write solid Python within 3-4 days. |
Ruby or Python for a Startup? | jamesk2: Go for the library support. I chose python because of existing functionality I needed now. Writing it from scratch would have been very time consuming.As for non-web services, Python has some good GUI tools and some workable ways to make windows apps.It also didn't hurt that google is behind python. The speedu... |
Could you build a startup around this "crowdfunding" model? | callmeed: OP here. Read about this company on TC and found what they did interesting. Just wondering if you could build a simple startup around this model. I have a friend in finance who has access to accredited investors ... we were thinking we could charge them $1k a year for access to invest in startups who are in o... |
Ruby or Python for a Startup? | figured: I know you are asking about ruby and python, but I don't think their strengths lie in interfacing with bluetooth, gps hardware devices, and running background jobs. You might want to look at some more industry standard languages. |
What is something impressive you have built or achieved? | mrlyc: Rewrote 2,650 lines of C as a seven line shell script. The previous programming team had written a data transfer program using their own implementation of ftp. I just used the one that was already on the computer. |
How did you get your product idea? | cperciva: I was just wondering how did you stumble upon the idea for your product? Was it born out of a problem, or?Yes -- I needed good backups (I had seen people lose data and was having nightmares), needed them to be secure (as FreeBSD Security Officer I have sensitive information which I don't want to have released... |
How did you get your product idea? | PStamatiou: As a long-time blogger with a decent readership, I felt the need to post on a regular basis (to keep my blog active and readers happy). But coming up with stuff to blog about always proved to be a challenge. I did not want to blog about stuff that everyone else was talking about ("echo chamber" as bloggers ... |
How did you get your product idea? | michaelfairley: I have 10 or so large-ish problems that I encounter on a weekly (if not much more frequently) basis. I would gladly pay money for a solution to these problems, so I can only assume that others would pay money to me if I solved one of them. Bam! Idea!The hard part is finding the time to implement said id... |
Please review my concept | vicaya: Is this a mylivesignature.com knock off? |
Could you build a startup around this "crowdfunding" model? | tptacek: They're only accepting money from Regulation D accredited investors, meaning people with 7-figure bank accounts. This isn't substantially different from seeking angel funding. |
Ruby or Python for a Startup? | mossplix: python has a better designed interpreter. it has a big sugar daddy behind it (google). it all depends on what you are into.depending on which you might consider some forgotten languages like earlang and lisp and simply use python as a glue language. |
Ruby or Python for a Startup? | varikin: Since you will be interfacing with bluetooth, gps, etc, do you for see needing to write stuff in C at a later point for greater control or performance? Is it worth considering how well Python or Ruby can work with bits written in C? I know Python handles this well, but I don't know Ruby enough to answer that.A... |
How did you get your product idea? | Shooter: A couple of my companies were based on solving problems that I personally had and that I wanted to see solved. That's supposed to be the gold standard of idea generation in entrepreneurship - solving a problem you've experienced PERSONALLY. Interestingly, the two companies that were my "solve your own itch" ... |
Business movie suggestions? | ca98am79: You should watch the documentary startup.comhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256408/ |
Business movie suggestions? | tptacek: Ghostbusters. |
Business movie suggestions? | socratees: I might be wrong but I like the way Scarface (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086250/) does business. There's a lot to learn from him. |
In-memory Webserver | jacquesm: I'm using apache+varnishd, I've heard good stuff about http://nginx.net/Good luck! |
In-memory Webserver | yrashk: nginx+memcached or nginx+ramfs? |
Business movie suggestions? | falsestprophet: hustling:
The Entrepreneursome business history:
Pirates of Silicon Valleybusiness culture:
Barbarians at the Gate, Rogue Traderwealth:
Bonfire of the Vanities |
In-memory Webserver | cperciva: Other suggestions?You're thinking way too hard. As long as you have enough RAM, your operating system will cache data; so you don't need to do anything fancy at all. Set up whatever web server you like, in the default configuration, and measure its performance; odds are that you'll find that you don't need ... |
Business movie suggestions? | edw519: "Executive Suite" - The essence of running a business is captured beautifully in William Holden's speech to the board at the end."Glengarry Glen Ross" - great depiction of salemen selling a commodity on commission :-("Wall Street" - 20 years later and they're still cheating as much as ever."The Godfather" - not... |
Business movie suggestions? | bgnm2000: Wall Street,Boiler Room |
What materials things do you covet? | philwelch: A recent computer, a mattress to put on the floor, some books, and an efficient means of transportation.Of course, I already have those things. What I covet is having enough money to fill my belly and my mind without having to work for it 40 hours a week for 40 years. |
Need help classifying my software | noodle: software development productivity tool? something generic to describe something that does a lot. |
What materials things do you covet? | jacquesm: I'm tempted to write 'my son', he is after all 'material', but that's stretching it a bit, so I'll settle for a tenor saxophone.The trick I think is not to covet the next thing that you haven't got but to be happy with that which you do have and to treat anything that comes your way over and beyond that as a ... |
How did you get your product idea? | sjs382: Solving my own problem. Unfortunately though, after I've already solved it fot myself, I've been lax about polishing it for public release... Someday, maybe! |
Web Based data flow diagramming tool ? | seanstickle: You might find Gliffy (http://www.gliffy.com/) to be useful.Or LucidChart (http://www.lucidchart.com/) might strike your fancy. |
Need help classifying my software | ismarc: So it's just a web based commit tracker? Unless there's a large number of menus/menu items not shown, there's nothing new, fanciful or in need of "categorization". If you call it anything but a "web based commit tracker" to people who work with code very day, it's not that they "don't get it"...it's that they... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | qhoxie: To start, we are hiring at AboutUs in Portland, OR. We need more Rails hackers to help us scale outward and develop new aspects of our application.We are a top 10 Rails site and get to deal with intriguing issues every day. Solving massive scaling challenges while pairing with people like Ward Cunningham (our... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | nostrademons: Google is: http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/index.html |
How did you get your product idea? | jrandom: No one's making the product I desire, so after years of searching and waiting I have decided to just make the darned thing myself. |
Where do you work besides an office? | dpnewman: in san franciscocafes:
sugar lump,
philz,
mission creek cafe,
coffee bar,
martha'sco-working spaces:
citizen space,
sfcube |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | apike: Apple is. For example, in Vancouver BC: http://jobs.apple.com/index.ajs?BID=1&method=mExternal.s... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | haseman: Gravity Mobile of San Francisco, CA is hiring talented mobile engineers. We prefer Java/C/C++ programmers with experience in Java ME, WinMo, Pre, or BREW but would consider iPhone developers with a track-record of published applications. Here's our website (http://www.gravitymobile.com)We're a small boutique... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | arram: Justin.tv is: www.justin.tv/jobsSend us an email - it's a great place for developers and we always love getting news.yc applicants. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | jreposa: We're hiring interns at the moment. Internet marketing, designers and developers. Anyone that has a basic background and is will to learn is considered.http://www.mybanktracker.comCurrently sorting through 100+ candidates, but HN readers would clearly go to the top of the list. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | healsdata: ReminderMedia in King of Prussia, PA is hiring for in house positions: We need developers with strong software design skills to add features to our PHP-based custom CRM and we also need someone to write functional specifications for our developers.http://remindermedia.com/careers/?state=PA or send your resum... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | vlourenco: Twitter is hiring: http://twitter.com/jobsA lot of different roles for engineers, come join us. |
What analytics service do you use? | schammy: You won't find any analytics service that gives you numbers anywhere close to server logs. This is because log analyzers include all search engine / robot / spambot activity. All hosted analytics (e.g. ones that use javascript and don't have access to your logs) will only report human activity, and seeing 50% ... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | al3x: Twitter is: http://twitter.com/jobs |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | keyist: Citrusbyte http://www.citrusbyte.com is hiring software engineers. We're based in Los Angeles and build custom web applications of all types. While we mainly work in Ruby, we believe in using the best tool for the task independent of language. On previous projects we have written custom ejabberd modules in Erl... |
Where do you work besides an office? | mannicken: I work from my home. It's the only place with a huge armchair that could fit two people, and a 26 inch monitor that I can plug notebook into. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | tomfakes: Offbeat Creations is looking for a great Flash programmer to do client/server work interfacing to our Rails backend, and a great Rails programmer to build backends for our soon-to-be-awesome Flash front ends (we also do web front ends too!)Any experience with mid-size scale would be great too!We're in the Sea... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | crxnamja: http://GetGambit.com is. YC & Facebook alum. One of the leading companies monetizing online games today. We are profitable too:OLet me know what you'd like to be developing, noah [at] getgambit.com |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | markbao: Hi! TickrTalk is hiring a Rails developer.http://startuply.com/Jobs/Ruby_on_Rails_XHTML_CSS_and_Javasc...I'm also hiring sales reps for another one of my startups, Classleaf.http://startuply.com/Jobs/Part_Time_sale_Sales_Professional_... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | amanfredi: Gilt Groupe: http://www.gilt.com/company/careersSee our profile at http://www.crunchbase.com/company/giltgroupeWe run 36-hour sales of discounted luxury goods.Contact me at amanfredi@gilt.com |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | zcoelius: Triggit is hiring. We are looking for engineers, online ad sales people and account managers. We are in San Francisco CA, venture funded and profitable. Come check us out |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | elq: Netflix certainly is hiring http://jobs.netflix.com/cojobsFlix.asp?Region=LosGatos |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | bkrausz: TripAdvisor is always looking for good people, my team is especially awesome, and it's a great place to work. We're based outside of Boston and work in Java or PHP.http://www.tripadvisor.com/careers/jobsFeel free to get in touch if you have any questions. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | DaniFong: My startup, LightSail Energy, Inc. is an exciting, well-funded startup in the $100 billion field of green tech energy storage. We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are seeking to fill several Mechanical Engineering positions. Applicants should have at least 5 years experience in product design of ... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | GraffitiTim: We're hiring here at Graffiti in San Francisco for a new project (unrelated to Graffiti) called Interests. It's a huge endeavor that's challenging and rewarding to work on.We're looking for an extremely talented software engineer. We're a three person team and you would be our first full-time employee.Emai... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | kscaldef: Gilt Groupe (www.gilt.com) is hiring for a wide variety of technical positions. We have a rapidly growing revenue stream and interesting technical problems to work on (building a distributed commerce platform which can absorb 100x request rate spikes, peaking at Amazon levels). Most of our systems are in Ru... |
Techniques to go around IDS systems? | zaidf: Now that I think about it, currently each time my bot starts(every few mins), it logs in and gets a new sessionID which I then use to retrieve the data. I'm going to take the error message to heart and save the session ID between bot runs. Not getting a new sessionID should technically mean that I am not logging... |
Techniques to go around IDS systems? | cperciva: How do I fool this sucker?Don't. Attempting to circumvent access control measures could not get you thrown in jail. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | sh1mmer: There are some jobs at Yahoo! e.g. (http://careers.yahoo.com/jsearchresults.php?key=&jcat=8&...)I've seen some awesome positions recently such as front-end developers for Flickr and engineering in our cloud teams.Feel free to email me if you are interested. My email is on my profile and I'll make sure someone ... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | photomatt: Automattic runs WordPress.com, Akismet, Polldaddy, IntenseDebate, Gravatar, and more. Here are our open positions:http://automattic.com/jobs/And information about how we work, which is a lot like an open source project:http://automattic.com/about/how-we-work/If you apply mention [HN] in the subject it'll mak... |
How did you get your product idea? | winstonwiener: i used my brain |
How Much Money is Enough... What's your Number? | winstonwiener: $69 million |
'Do what you want'... Does it really matter what you want? | delano: It's sufficiently difficult to answer your question(s) so I'll offer a different perspective.Consider this question: are you enjoying your time? If the answer is no, are you working towards something that will allow you to enjoy your time? If the answer is still no, then you may want to reconsider what it is th... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | IsaacSchlueter: Yahoo has an opening on for their application platform team.Expert javascript a must, PHP and/or Java a plus.It's a tough role, but rewarding. I've held the position for the last year and half, and it's been a good experience. (I'm moving over to YUI.)Great team, lots of interesting problems to solve. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | jmintz: Bump Technologies is looking for Java or Mobile developers: http://bumptechnologies.com/jobs.phtmlIf you don't know Bump, our technology let's two phones connect by bumping them together. Currently we let users exchange contacts and photos (but more is on the way). We are YCS09, featured in Apple's most recent... |
Are you a founder? | cullenking: Co-founder of a route mapping and performance analysis site, http://ridewithgps.com/ aimed at cyclists. Currently at 1100 users, 4000 user submitted routes and 1300 uploaded trips. Looking to upset the market leaders in a very lucrative industry that is void of innovation.There are three of us, Zack and I... |
What materials things do you covet? | pavelludiq: Honestly, its hard for me to answer your question. I like stuff, but i don't really need any of it. But it would be nice to learn to ride a motor bike, or play the guitar, and for those activities you need a bike and a guitar, so as a means to those goals, thats what i need, but i don't need objects just be... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | brianm: Ning is hiring http://about.ning.com/openings.php |
How did you get your product idea? | varikin: I asked friends and family what problem they need solved until I got a problem that I couldn't list any software that already solves it.So I am currently working on something, and hopefully it will pan out. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | schof: Dakim, Inc. is the leading provider of brain fitness among America's senior living providers. We help seniors use rigorous cognitive exercise to prevent or slow the development of dementia. At least, that's what our marketing people say. I say it slightly differently: "We help seniors remember their grandchildre... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | 3pt14159: FreshBooks is hiring a ton of people right now. Some that are not even on the hiring page. I can attest that it is a very awesome place to work.http://www.freshbooks.com/careers/(tell 'em in the email that you found out about the opportunity from Hacker News, the founder loves ycombinator) |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | earl: Scribd is hiring in SF/somahttp://www.scribd.com/jobsor email directly to me, either way{rails|flash} engineers |
Techniques to go around IDS systems? | Travis: If other students are relying on it, why not have them pass their credentials into the app, then have your app use their login to acquire the data? If you are secure about it, you should be able to avoid the uni's wrath while still keeping your service alive. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | metallic_cloud: Anyone from Australia hiring? |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | dhouston: Dropbox is hiring -- we need great Python (ideally C/C++ too) hackers. YC '07, later backed by Sequoia and Accel, growing like crazy (almost 2 million users, up from <100k this time last year)jobs@getdropbox.com, please put "HN" in the subject |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | konsl: We (BackType) are looking for an engineer to join the founding team:http://backtype.theresumator.com/apply/DNFiF7/ |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | BenS: Cold Brew Labs (based in Palo Alto & NYC) is a 2-person startup building mobile shopping applications.We're hiring, and just closed our seed round with some great folks from mobile, consumer internet, and retail. Our first app is in review, but we have a lot of things to build, so definitely looking for good engi... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | smanek: We're looking for an Android and/or iPhone part-timer or intern (we'll likely offer you a full time job in about 2 months, but we frankly can't afford it right now). It's fine if you don't know ObjectiveC+Java+Clojure+JS+Lisp. (although, ideally, you should know at least one of them).Technology: We have a fairl... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | asm: Children's Progress, a small New York City based data-driven-education company, is hiring.http://www.childrensprogress.com/about-us/softwareengineer.s... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | msort: Google is hiring. |
What email client do you use? | tallpapab: KMail |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | acgourley: Loopt is hiring. http://www.loopt.com/jobs |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | mustpax: salesforce.com (public on NYSE: CRM) is hiring search engineers in San Francisco. Email me your resume and I'll pass it on. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | taitems: A 14 year old startup from Melbourne, Australia is hiring:- Software Test Engineer- .NET Developer- Front End Developer/Designer (proficient in HTML/CSS/JS)The front end developer job is not yet posted, but they're trying to find another me. Activity on HN and similar shows a commitment and interest in the fie... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | tptacek: Matasano is hiring.NYC or Chicago: security research consultant. Abuse software professionally. Strong programming skills req'd.Chicago: Rails/jQ front-end developer, for our product work.tqbf-at-matasano-dot-com. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | jackstah: Yelp is hiring: http://www.yelp.com/jobsWe're in San Francisco.We're hiring just about every engineering position. The ones we list on the front jobs page are:- Web Developer- Mobile / iPhone Developer- Search / Data-Mining Engineer- Back-end EngineerBut if you don't fit into any of those buckets, that's pro... |
What materials things do you covet? | fburnaby: I want a house. One with a really nice kitchen. With plate-racks. Grad school was a bad choice in this regard. |
Where do you work besides an office? | byoung2: At the moment, I'm sitting in my car (not driving) typing this. The most exotic location I've done work is on a beach in Boracay, Philippines. Since everything I do is web-based, all I need is a smartphone (HTC Touch Pro), an internet tablet (Nokia n800), and a laptop. |
Business movie suggestions? | nreece: El método - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427582/ |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | danmanges: Braintree Payment Solutions is hiring Ruby developers in Chicago. http://jobs.37signals.com/jobs/5405 |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | thinkcomp: Think is hiring LAMP developers and designers.http://www.thinkcomputer.com |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | mikecuesta: CareCloud http://www.carecloud.com is hiring software developers. Our offices are located in Miami, FL and we are developing a Web-based Healthcare platform. We need Java, Groovy/Grails, Ruby on Rails and Flex developers preferably with strong enterprise/soa knowledge.http://startuply.com/Jobs/Ruby_on_Rails... |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | schlegelrock: LinkedIn is hiring like mad. Web developers, ui designers and java engineers.
http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=jobs_open |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | agotterer: CollegeHumor is hiring two PHP / MySQL developers. We are located in New York City. If your interested email techjobs@connectedventures.com for more info. |
Who's Hiring? (take 2) | jhammerb: We're hiring here at Cloudera.We're especially interested in web developers who have built and deployed large, extensible applications into production environments. An interest in data visualization and analysis doesn't hurt. We also have some deep distributed storage system hacking problems.We have a strong ... |
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