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Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | ivyirwin: I really liked the intuitive nature of your design work space. Rarely do you see a DIY graphic/layout space that is easy for the general end user to use. I was trained as a designed to use Illustrator and I feel like most online tools try to emulate the Adobe work methodology. But with your approach you have ... |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | callmeed: First off, I think your concept is brilliant and there's a lot of potential. To me, this is one of those markets that should be targeted at women/moms (see the recent HN post on Ravelry). My wife and her friends were actually just talking about this very need yesterday ... they were looking for ways to put tr... |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | sp4rki: Hi, love the idea. Although I do like the design as a whole, I do agree that the colors should be more "neutral". Also the site is a little on the busy side and I think it would benefit from some more whitespace and less "this is ALL we do!!" in the homepage.Oh and btw, I'm on Firefox 3.5 on Leopard and you ve ... |
Best Unix Tricks? | apu: readline is amazing, for bringing consistent shell-like behavior in a variety of programs, including the shell, python, mysql, etc.You configure it using ~/.inputrc...here are the commands I use: set completion-ignore-case on
Tab-completion will ignore case if it's not ambiguous... set show-all-if-ambiguous on
... |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | mitko: Please add support for foreign language characters. I tried to make a design using Cyrillic characters but they didn't came out properly.There could be a market for your service among the many bilingual and emigrant people in USA. |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | joez: Great domain name.A few ideas:You should run a contest for the coolest design. Winner gets cash and free print(s). You'll get some really cool designs that way.The rotate feature should show what degree it's at. I can just see scenarios where this is useful. Two quick ones is if you accidentally rotate something ... |
Best Unix Tricks? | apu: Add this to your .bashrc to have much more intelligent tab-completion: case $- in
*i*) [[ -f /etc/bash_completion ]] && . /etc/bash_completion ;;
esac
In addition to the usual filename completions, this will do command-dependent completions. A small sampling:ssh: tabs complete hostnames in your ~/.ssh/conf... |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | amohr: I love it - I have been looking for exactly this service for a while now. I have a bunch of ideas for these types of items that have never really gotten off the ground due to the overhead.I opened a store front (http://www.customizedgraphics.com/alexophile) and the main thing I would suggest is having more cate... |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | DirtyAndy: Firstly great site and great idea. But you are not (hopefully) posting here to get your butt kissed but for some constructive criticism and ideas, so here goes:1. The site is a little busy and lacks a real call to action. "Start Designing" kind of disappears2. I think you need two sites. One for the business... |
How do you wake up? | avinashv: I have always had a lot of trouble getting up in the morning, and when I started working at a company where I'm expected to put in normal hours, I changed my wake-up routine quite drastically.I use my computer as an alarm clock. This has a few benefits:(1) It's on the other side of the room. After 10 years of... |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | kajecounterhack: Hey I love it so far -- question: do you think you guys will have laptop stickers anytime soon? |
How does your site income break down? | Pistos2: 100% from donations, 0% from AdSense. Donations facilitated by http://pledgie.com/ . |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | timmaah: The total width and height of what you are buying is not clear at all. |
Do you think this is a good business idea? Rent your luggage | yan: Slightly off-topic, but why isn't every major purchase not rentable? Like zipcar for everything from vacuum cleaners, video projectors, to lawn mowers and everything else you use very rarely.I don't like owning stuff; I find it to be a burden. How come I can't rent things that are expensive and needed rarely? I do... |
Do you think this is a good business idea? Rent your luggage | RiderOfGiraffes: I always travel without checked luggage. My wife and I did 6 weeks in South Island New Zealand in winter having travelled hand luggage only.The discipline is difficult, but worth cultivating. If you can't be bothered, perhaps this service is for you. |
Hotel Booking Hacks? | rick888: priceline.com?I got $120/night hotels for $40/night. |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | phreanix: The front page does seem a bit busy. The amount of copy is a tad overwhelming, but once i slow down and start reading each one, it makes sense.I would maybe have an easy start page (your "start designing" button could link to it tho I find that button rather small), with leading questions like:
1. What would... |
Do you think this is a good business idea? Rent your luggage | ankeshk: I am very intrigued by this idea. But I'm not sure if people would rent clothes or not.I know one thing: the company will have more success if they joint venture with just one specific chain of hotel - at least initially. Will allow them to scale with grace. And will get the hotel to promote their services ... |
Do you think this is a good business idea? Rent your luggage | byoung2: I would think most of the bulk in a checked bag is clothes, which people aren't going to rent. I'm not sure what else they had in mind to rent.I think the virtual closet would be a great idea though if you split your time between two cities. |
How do you wake up? | jamesbritt: I make myself smile, which in turn triggers a good mood, which in turn makes me think about the interesting things I could be doing if I were up and about. |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | rjurney: Holy crap man, that is the most beautiful design, with the most clarity that I've just about ever seen on the web.Reminds me of a friend's Atlanta startup, http://ezprints.com/ It scaled pretty well. |
Have you been harmed by a behavioral ad network? | rizzn: I'm looking for legitimate gripes with behavioral ad networks. I know most of the arguments from both sides about why they are necessary and why they might be evil.I'm looking for concrete examples of behavioral ad network privacy violations.Any discussion is welcome, but that's mostly what I'm digging for in t... |
Preferred hosts? | ankeshk: My recommendations:Unmanaged hosting = slicehostManaged hosting = liquidweb |
Preferred hosts? | noodle: slicehost. the only problems i've ever had with any slices are problems i've inflicted upon myself. it is exactly what is advertised. |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | paul9290: If I am not mistaken your site's concept mirror's http://ltlprints.com. Competition is always good and a form of flattery, as ltl has been around for more then year.Also, a site completely in flash? I am surprised the flash haters here have not made any comments - yet. The design is awesome, but why flash... |
Hotel Booking Hacks? | rms: http://airbnb.com ? |
Thought tracking (fuzzy) | rms: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5784740380335567758You can skip the ~10 min intro. |
Preferred hosts? | byoung2: I use everything Rackspace Cloud offers:1. Cloud Sites - managed cloud hosting. Code it and load it and it scales automatically - storage, databases, the works. They have clusters for PHP, MySQL, .NET, MSSQL, SSL, and you can even run .NET and PHP in the same folder, and they can access the same databases (g... |
Review my start-up: Customized Graphics | zeynel1: Nice site. Is this cheaper than buying the same product from a local store? |
Do you think this is a good business idea? Rent your luggage | run4yourlives: Hrm, not sure.If I'm travelling somewhere for a short duration that requires a hotel/change of clothes, it's easy for me to just bring a carry on. 9 times out of 10, I have to bring my laptop anyway, so it's not a huge deal to carry a small travel pack with a laptop, change of clothes and a toiletries ki... |
What do you think of GitX? | jayair: I use it and like it. Keep up the good work! |
How do you wake up? | Travis: Fun trick my dad taught me. It's inconsistent, but when it works, it's pretty cool.Before bed (when you're done reading and ready to flip out the light), close your eyes and visualize a clock (old kind, with the arms). Picture it at the current time, then slowly rotate the dial until it's your wakeup time. R... |
Help us validate an idea by completing this survey | imajes: Hey- we're working on an idea and would like to get some more validation about it. Please help us out by completing this survey-- will really influence how we go about what we're doing :DThanks YC! |
Is anyone running Ruby 1.9 in Production? | jcapote: Ive been running 1.9 in production for about 6 months now, no issues. Generally if all your code works, you're good to go. |
Help us validate an idea by completing this survey | imajes: Also- please feel free to fill it out for as many projects as you care to tell us about: we're keen to learn about all kinds of styles! |
Thought tracking (fuzzy) | whimsy: http://orgmode.org/ maybe? |
Help us validate an idea by completing this survey | Mystalic: Interesting that you use the term "validate." What if the results of this poll don't sync with your expectations? Does that mean you change your game plan, drop your idea, or march forward? |
Help us validate an idea by completing this survey | murrayh: How long is the survey? |
Help us validate an idea by completing this survey | rwolf: I've got to say, I can't handle polldaddy. The whole "multi-page wizard" feel is awfully corporate. |
Help us validate an idea by completing this survey | ashishk: are you willing to share the results with the community? |
Best Unix Tricks? | pbhjpbhj: altgr-sysreq-r, then -e -i -s -u -b (spells busier backwards). This will do a safe shut down and reboot including sync, even sometimes when ctrl-alt-del won't work. Also you can use altgr-sysrq-k like ctrl-alt-bksp to kill the window manager. Try altgr-sysrq-h from a console to see a terse help message.Note a... |
Best Unix Tricks? | mattiss: Not really a trick, but something not everyone knowsappending & to run as a background process./some_app & |
Your primary source of inspiration? | zaidf: Anytime I hear a friend whine or experience a major inconvenience, I am inspired to find a solution:)I rarely succeed. But most recently I hopped across my new startup idea through this process. |
Your primary source of inspiration? | rw: If you ignore the pomposity, http://www.ted.com can be wonderful. |
Your primary source of inspiration? | riffer: What would you do more of on the web if it didn't take so long, and wasn't such a hassle?Now make it fast and easy. |
Your primary source of inspiration? | lacker: My prime source of inspiration is promising other people I am going to do something cool really soon. Then I feel obligated which forces me to become inspired. |
Your primary source of inspiration? | edw519: Work.The software sucks so bad, I know I can do better.And I have.And I will continue to. |
Help us validate an idea by completing this survey | ryanwaggoner: Should be: "Help us invalidate an idea." You're always going to think your ideas are awesome, so look for weaknesses, not strengths :) |
Your primary source of inspiration? | elcron: Find something that is pathetic and make a good version of it.Find something that you feel should be done and do it.I recall reading somewhere that the best way to find problems is to act like a brat and complain about everything, write down your complaints and start working on the first one you feel needs to b... |
A question about historical stock data. | jacquesm: You can buy datasets, or you can go for free stuff, for instance:http://biz.swcp.com/stocks/ |
Preferred hosts? | msie: I chose Linode because they offer 32-bit kernels. This means that Rails processes use up less memory. Their documentation isn't as good as Slicehost's and they currently don't have a backup service. |
Your primary source of inspiration? | swannodette: Learning. Even when building, I'm mostly inspired by the possibility of learning. Because usually the first time you built it kind of crooked. The next time it'll be a little straighter. The next time perhaps there will even be a touch of elegance in one miniscule part.I find programming very much like pra... |
A question about historical stock data. | lsc: uh, there's some perl CPAN modules that do that. a long time ago I wrote a little thingr to simulate 'if my program had been buying/selling stocks in this manner from date x to date y, at commission z, how much would I make/lose?' - I used the CPAN modules which pulled from yahoo, I think. it was pretty simple ... |
Help us validate an idea by completing this survey | midnightmonster: Filled it out 3 times for the 3-ish different scm+teams I work with. |
Your primary source of inspiration? | jhancock: inspiration? or motivation?I find that inspiration mostly makes me daydream of all the wonderful things I'm "going to do".I find I usually need motivation to get them done. I find that precursors to motivation, for me, are be happy and get a good nights sleep.[EDIT] let me add more to the "be happy" issue. ... |
A question about historical stock data. | djb_hackernews: You are going to want to buy the historical data wholesale. Then augment it with eoddata or some such. |
HN on the iPhone? | nirmal: http://mobilehackernews.appspot.com/#_homeThis is my version. It proxies the articles and applies the Readability JS from arc90 to make articles easier to read on the iPhone. |
A question about historical stock data. | lowkey: For Python there is also the excellent http://www.goldb.org/ystockquote.html |
Help us validate an idea by completing this survey | Pistos2: Overall, I think the survey needs a bit more polish. Add another option each for Q4 ("less than monthly") and Q5 ("None"). Possibly have Q5 allow more than one answer. Perhaps rephrase Q7 to "How long do your branches typically last?" if that is really what you're asking.I also agree with the others that th... |
Your primary source of inspiration? | spaghetti: Making things that are beautiful, fun, and other people enjoy. Currently I'm making a game and taking my time with the artwork, sounds etc to make it as enjoyable as possible. |
what do you use to calcluate sales tax? | udekaf: I do it low tech - by spreadsheet. |
SEO gems? | mcav: SEO? |
SEO gems? | JacobAldridge: Yahoo Answers?Surely nobody actually goes there intentionally, creating a website dedicated to giving the incorrect answer (but with an awesome page rank and truly unique rants) to your every Google Search, and twice-weekly providing the Fail Blog with material. |
SEO gems? | rwebb: crackberry.com is another great one |
Anyone else play Magic: The Gathering? | noodle: no, although i also used to play a while ago, ending around 2000 or so. won a JSS in my prime. |
Anyone else play Magic: The Gathering? | rms: I certainly played. I also played online (7 or 8 years ago?) with http://www.magic-league.com/.Looks like the programs to play online are http://www.magicworkstation.com/ or Apprentice: http://www.magic-league.com/download/apprentice.php |
SEO gems? | nreece: StackOverflow.com |
Anyone else play Magic: The Gathering? | cdr: I'm pretty involved with the tournament operation side of Magic - it hasn't died down, it's done pretty much nothing but grow. It's always bigger than it ever has been.Magic Online is actually quite worthwhile, especially if you don't have much access to physical Magic. You can redeem.Magic Workstation hasn't been... |
Do you keep a journal? | frossie: I am sorry you are having a rough time.I think writing a journal, especially a private or anonymous one, is an exercise in introspection (where it is not a short-term venting exercise). While that can be fruitful for certain kinds of problem, the danger is that you fall into a self-reinforcing thought pattern.... |
Anyone else play Magic: The Gathering? | andyjdavis: Played a fair bit at highschool. That was before this Interweb business came to town so have never played online. Still have a box of cards in a storage container back home. |
Thought tracking (fuzzy) | frossie: Have you tried mind mapping? It's not plain text files, but I think you are asking quite a lot of a flat linear format. |
Do you keep a journal? | bootload: "... How many of you have kept a private journal or an anonymous blog in the interest of getting through difficult situations? ..."Sure do, start here ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/collections/7215762118... |
How does your site income break down? | petervandijck: Adsense: 99%
Donations: 1% |
Buying a domain with equity | pclark: wow, what domain can be that valuable to your business? |
Buying a domain with equity | SwellJoe: Madness. I've paid as much as $1000 for a domain name (and would probably go a bit higher for one that I really felt like I needed)...but I would never give away equity for one. |
Buying a domain with equity | bgm: why would one go to purchase a domain via equity, even the domain is worth millions.Bad choice. |
SEO gems? | onreact-com: To be honest it's not advisable to rely only on search traffic. I say that as a SEO. Returning visitors and often even type in or direct visitors are much better.Many spammy sites rely solely on Google/search traffic.http://hubpages.com/ for instance. |
Anyone else play Magic: The Gathering? | kenver: I used to play. I've got some good memories of playing on Monday nights after school, at the pub I shouldn't have been allowed into! |
Buying a domain with equity | ScottWhigham: Have you checked http://docstoc.com ? They have tons of equity agreements so maybe someone has uploaded something like this. |
User Testing Tool | ScottWhigham: Well, just going through my bookmarks, I found a few places that might help:http://feedbackarmy.com/
http://www.usertesting.com/ |
Anyone doing Google Code Jam? | brown9-2: I'm curious if anyone would be willing to share their answers (or post a link to someone who has)?I'm trying the Qualification Round now just for fun and practice, and my output certainly seems like it should be correct for problem 1 (I match the sample OK), and it's a little frustrating to just be told "Inco... |
Hotel Booking Hacks? | KClough: Step 1: Find a hotel or bed and breakfast with a horrible website.Step 2: Offer SEO work, fixing typos, implement webervations or custom online reservation tool, general clean up in exchange for free nights.I've found most proprietors of mom n pop hotels/bed breakfasts have no clue how to find a good designer/... |
Please advise on my Twitter clone idea | jasonlbaptiste: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfes_law |
Please advise on my Twitter clone idea | brk: I don't mean to be harsh, but I think your idea is bad.You want to become the 251st clone of an unprofitable website with no clear revenue path? Your spin is that by asking a different question (and ignoring the fact that 98% of the posts on Twitter aren't exactly answering "What are you doing" anyway) you will s... |
Your primary source of inspiration? | GotToStartup: I find a lot of inspiration from other really well built apps. Often finding something that somebody has clearly done RIGHT motivates me to do the same. |
Please advise on my Twitter clone idea | jacquesm: On the one hand I'm tempted to tell you to forget about it, it's a bad idea for many reasons.On the other hand it would help to have an object lesson in how not to do something like this, so if you do go ahead with it please keep a careful diary and do it online so that in the future if someone wants to do so... |
Is the OS stack a factor when developing deployable apps? | ScottWhigham: Hmmm - very scant on the details but overall I'd say yes, it's a factor. Like you said, if you deploy on RoR and I don't have it, I'm not likely to buy/use you because it means adding some "system" that I don't know into the mix.That being said, here's an example of a company who has taken such a problem ... |
Is the OS stack a factor when developing deployable apps? | Tichy: Bigger companies often have a policy allowing only certain languages. For example I think Google only allows C/C++, Java Python and Javascript (source: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2007/06/rhino-on-rails.html ) |
Stock data question (again) | byoung2: Here's what I found:Courtesy of Yahoo finance, it is possible to bulk download historical prices data. This script, borrowed from pycurl retriever-multi.py example, fetch series for several tickers at a time. It uses urllib to fetch web data, so it should work with a plain vanilla python distro.http://code.act... |
Anyone else play Magic: The Gathering? | iterationx: http://mtgrares.blogspot.com/2007/09/mtg-forge-20.html is an mtg ai project, unfortunately it doesn't have fireball or ivory tower for some reason :( Firemox and incantus are the major projects i'm aware of. Personally, I like playing multiplayer. |
Anyone in New York City? | indexzero: I'm in NYC. Right by Shake Shack. There's a monthly HN meetup that's always good |
Stock data question (again) | tirrellp: Opentick used to provide this information for an EXTREMELY competitive price point (something like $5/month/exchange), but they are refactoring their business and are out of commission for the moment.http://www.opentick.com |
Outsource or build it yourself | Stasyan: I come from family of software developers: my mom's job -> they outsourced some of the development. It was the biggest mistake they've ever made. They paid hundreds of thousands of dollars and they got something that did not work.Outsourcing is tricky.
You are not dealing with developers eye to eye.
Plus the... |
Outsource or build it yourself | ScottWhigham: Hmmm - I've tried offshore development deals and, after my 3rd or 4th one, I finally got a decent one. The problem is that I blew through about $1500 first (which was a significant amount of budget at the time). I'd say that there are cheaper labor costs offshore but not "cheap labor costs offshore". Howe... |
Outsource or build it yourself | byoung2: I own an outsourcing company with a staff of 20 in Cebu, Philippines. They handle web design, programming, data entry, etc., for small businesses, including my own projects.I would say that depending on what your project is, you'll find that there are some things that work well with outsourcing/offshoring, an... |
Outsource or build it yourself | ankeshk: Outsource. But outsource smartly.Hire 2 companies / freelancers. One to do the work. And one to audit the work.Outsourcing will save time. And if you select the right people, money too. (I am based in India. Can help you find the right people over here if you so desire.)Re: learning coding on your ownDo ... |
Please advise on my Twitter clone idea | zeynel1: Thank you. This is the type of advice I needed. |
Outsource or build it yourself | floozyspeak: The problem with outsourcing is all the unknowns, language barriers, weird stuff, and the fact it can be awkward and uncomfortable and its harder to tell if anyone is gonna take advantage of you or not. Having said that, if you've done it, and earned your chops its a kick ass way to make stuff. BUT if yo... |
Anyone Heard of Joseph A. Cordi | vdibart: (Edited title after posting)
LinkedIn URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephcordi |
Anyone Heard of Joseph A. Cordi | byrneseyeview: It doesn't quite sound like spam. If you're a spammer, you don't sell investment banking deal-flow; you sell herbal supplements, or something else that most people will want.It looks more like he sent a cold-email. If he wants better results, he might want to customize it a little more. |
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