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Do you have business advisers? | Travis: My company went through several iterations of advisors before we found a group that worked for us.First group was SCORE, who didn't work out (they would've been more helpful if we wanted to start a restaurant, rather than a tech startup). Then we tried a pay-to-play group that would help us with our b-plan, and put us in front of investors. Waste of money.Finally, we found a group of volunteers who meet with us every 2 weeks. We do a presentation every 2 weeks, usually on refining our b-plan and slide deck. Just hit the point where they're happy with our deck, and now they're putting us in touch with some PR and marketing connections to build out that part of our business.So, we don't pay them, although I expect 1-2 of them to be on our board. Can't speak to how we found them -- just beating the bushes and trying out groups until one seemed really professional, I guess.And I would seriously look elsewhere as soon as your advisers start asking to be paid. Your funds are limited, use them to build your market and product! |
Seeking cofunder, funding, and feedback | rcmorin: where is your contact information on your executive summary? |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | iterationx: When the cost of production exceeds the market value you are unable to profit. |
Is this all there is to life? | Psyonic: Yes, but it's not so bad. |
How do you manage money? | iterationx: I recommend Peter Schiff for investing ideas, here's a famous video, he's got some bestselling books too.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj8rMwdQf6k&feature=playe... |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | jrockway: As the author of a web framework book, I have to say that the example applications are not actually much less complicated than real applications in any significant way. The real applications are often bigger, but it's just more of the same stuff. The bulk of your application is going to be a web-independent model (read any software engineering book for advice in developing this). Then you add some thin glue to make that model look nice over HTTP. (This includes things like REST APIs or AJAX or whatever.)That's it. The glue to the book's Address Book example (or whatever) is not going to be any different than the glue of a complex app. All the good stuff in your program happens outside the domain of the web. |
What code editor do you use? | bediger: vim for everything, everywhere. Vim rules. |
How to learn to web dev for real ? | cullenking: Create an idea that requires you to do several things for which you would like to learn. This idea should ideally include offline processing of work, so that you are forced to read and understand many issues with executing jobs outside of the client/server request cycle (maybe this is image creation, video/audio transcoding, log file analysis etc etc). Then make sure your project can leverage some sort of key/value storage system like redis or memcached, or maybe a document store like mongodb or couchdb. Finally, make it something that people like so you'll get enough traffic to need zero downtime deployments.If you make a project like this, you will learn most of the high value systems/concepts being explored and demanded right now. Additionally, if you satisfy the last constraint, you may have a cool successful startup at the end of it. |
Review my site, nice-entity.com | mbrubeck: It looks great! A search box seems like an obvious useful feature (even though the dataset is small enough to browse through for the most part).Edited to add: Shouldn't " and ' appear somewhere? Yes, real quotation marks should be preferred in typography, but straight quotes are extremely common and sometimes appropriate (e.g. in source code) and it's necessary to escape them inside of HTML/XML attributes. And yes, I know ' has compatibility problems that should be made clear somehow... |
Review my site, nice-entity.com | tdoggette: Dashed URLs are internet ghettos. |
Any startups offering summer internships? | mmh: imo.im hires software engineering interns year-round: https://imo.im/jobs.html#softwareengineeringinternOur interns work in the same capacity as our full-time engineers in terms of being able to choose (and even propose) their own projects and work on all phases. Past intern projects include chat history, a collaborative whiteboard, group sms, and a user-driven translation system.Stipends range from $4,000 to $6,000 monthly depending upon education and experience. |
Review my site, nice-entity.com | ugh: I would change the hover color. This will not really be a problem for many users, but with the default OS X selection color – combined with your hover color – entity selections are very hard to see. Since many will want to copy the entities from your site this could be problematic. You could change the hover color to grey or something like that. (This is less a problem with your site and more one with OS X behavior: selection colors shouldn’t be hard to see, no matter the background.)One more thing: It really breaks my heart that this site – of all sites – uses wrong quotation marks. It’s “Find your character!”, not "Find your character!" (Whether or not it is appropriate to use quotation marks for claims like this is certainly also debatable.) |
What code editor do you use? | mdg: yawn && who cares |
Review my site, nice-entity.com | c_allison: Very nice. Points for cleanliness. I'm running Chromium on Win7 RC1 (SRWare Iron specifically) and I'm getting blocks for the quotes in the sub title “Find your character!”Also couldn't ignore your last name, Allisons win :D |
How can I access Java from Lisp? | grayrest: http://clojure.org |
How can I access Java from Lisp? | omouse: Don't worry about verbosity, Armed Bear Common Lisp is the way to go. However, I think you'll have to alter some of the code in it because when it loads up scripts, it places them in the armed-bear or script package (I can't remember which). |
How can I access Java from Lisp? | Shooter: Rich Hickey released a few things for Java-Lisp interop before he decided to start over completely with Clojure.See http://jfli.sourceforge.net/, for example.There are other approaches (JLinker, etc.) |
are you a freelance rails developer? | conorh: I'm a freelance Rails dev in NYC, with plenty of experience, but my rates are higher than you are looking for. I recommend emailing the ruby-nyc mailing list, good place to find Rails Devs - http://nycruby.org/wiki/ |
Review my Startup, Online Classified | wgj: People have diverse complaints about Craigslist, although it's free and in general, it works.My complaint with CL is it's not open enough. I truly wish Craig would drink the Jack Dorsey kool-aid, and have an open API for CL allowing independent developers to innovate around it.Having said all that... your site is even more closed than CL. I understand private betas, but it's a classifieds site, and you're competing with CL, and the message is: even if I logged in and created an ad, no one would see it.you no longer have to spend hours searching through postings.That is admirable, and I hope it succeeds. But the problem right now with online classifieds is centered around whether distributed innovation is possible. I'd love to place an ad in a way that doesn't result in one company controlling it exclusively. |
Review my Startup, Online Classified | RobinWinslow: This looks like something that could potentially reinvigorate the classified space.I, for one, am all for it. |
What code editor do you use? | hellotoby: textmate (only for os x though) |
Examples where you make something people want, but are unable to profit? | Mathnerd314: Free software. (but only if you confuse the two meanings of free) |
Beginning Photography | yan: If you're just interested in finding a hobby (and not 100% set on photography), check out this post I submitted a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=862139. |
Beginning Photography | volida: photo.net |
Review my twitter search app | marshallk: it's nice. would be even nicer if there was some way to cache tweets from my friends so I could search history. searching current can be done pretty well with Tweetdeck, I think. Google Reader is archiving a lot of peoples' tweets. See Dave Winer script to access. Nice smooth UI though. |
Review my twitter search app | dannyr: I like it. Been looking for an app like this.+1 for the Trends. |
validating that the cofounder is the right one | kloncks: Test him. Make sure he doesn't know he's being tested.See what he does. |
Review my twitter search app | mullr: In the video you're talking about what you store, but I don't quite understand. You store my tweets? All my friends' tweets? Why? Can I export them from your system? Delete them later on? What happens when I close my account? |
Beginning Photography | hackworth: Barbara London and John Updike's "Photography" is literally the textbook most beginning photographers get in school. i'd suggest looking at used book sites to see if you can get a copy second-hand, since it is priced like a college textbook, too. |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | dnsworks: This company used to appear a lot at LinuxWorld & Mac World touting rackmount enclosures for acoustically sensitive areas like recording studios.http://www.xrackpro.com/ |
Review my twitter search app | terryjsmith: I've definitely been looking for something like this. Just wish it had access to further history :) |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | staunch: Maybe your fans are old and you could clean them/lube them/replace them? Maybe you could disable the fans safely (might reduce lifetime or something, but maybe not kill it) if you watch temp. |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | Scott_MacGregor: It's a laptop, try using one of those little $100 fridges from Home Depot. Try putting it in there. That might work for you, plus you can keep something cold to drink close at hand too. |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | jsz0: Have you considered buying a silent computer? I think it would be cheaper than an enclosure. Depends what type of power you need though. Mac Mini is good for this or maybe ATOM if you can get by with it. An easy solution I've used before is to stack a small wall of books in front of a loud device. Don't fully enclose it just make a little wall between yourself and the laptop. It may not erase the sound entirely but it will definitely smooth out the higher frequencies. |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | rms: http://acapella.harmony-central.com/showthread.php?t=1578901 |
Beginning Photography | joshuarr: Buy the most expensive digital slr camera you can afford - probably canon or nikon (canon). Then buy or try out Adobe Lightroom. Shoot interesting things on the auto mode, get used to organizing and post in lightroom. Then start playing with settings.If you need motivation, try creating condensed weekend projects, like photographing a baseball in interesting ways, or moving vehicles. |
Rate our idea / site (Textbook Revolt) | jmathai: Clickable? http://www.textbookrevolt.com - yay :) |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | patio11: I think "my laptop is noisy" is the symptom, not the problem. The problem is that you have a server in your bedroom. You can address your problem by renting a cheap VPS or low-end dedicated server. You'll never hear it or worry about temperature again, you'll have increased reliability, and you'll spend less of your valuable time keeping the server alive when you could be doing more important things. |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | netcan: Put it in someone else's room. |
Rate our idea / site (Textbook Revolt) | mschwar99: I know that I would have loved to have a service like this that functioned when I was in school.Can't quite tell how you are going to go about it, but it seems like this type of venture might have the best shot of working by focusing on a single campus at first. A lot of groundwork marketing to social organizations, academic clubs, whatnot in order to try and build a local community whose needs overlap to prove the model and then scale out. Focusing on a single campus or two would make the "ball rolling" phase much more achievable as well.Also getting going before finals week when everyone is selling books for beer money so you have an "inventory" for the next semester or investing some money in common textbooks yourselves to lend out to get the ball rolling couldn't hurt.Site wise I can't really see much as everything seems to route back to the home page. I'd say your tag line could use an edit - "Cheap college textbook rentals just got better" isn't really a call to action or very descriptive of what the service the site preforms.Good luck! |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | rdj: Would it be cheaper to buy noise-canceling headphones? |
Review my startup, GetPlaylists | tptacek: Like the idea. Wanted to do something like this a few years ago. It's an actual pain point: I have thousands of albums, and it's a pain to mix them so that I enjoy them and listen to most of them regularly.Hate HATE the stock-footage girl on the front page.What's with "My cart (0)"? I went hunting for the thing that costs money. Is there one?I assume I can upload my iTunes playlist and you'll fit it to what's in your database, that being the value prop.I assume your key viral loops are Facebook and Twitter, broadcasting to friends portions of playlists. |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | WalterBright: I put mine in the closet, and run long video/keyboard wires to my desk. Works fine. |
Rate our idea / site (Textbook Revolt) | gojomo: My own thoughts:- what's the cost advantage over the usual buy-and-sell-back-to-used=bookstores approach?- do enough students want to hold the inventory and take on the risk of nonreturns/expiring editions/etc.? (If this is a economic winner, I would have already expected it to be done informally already by hustling undergrads... is it common?)- how much more lifetime does the physical textbook have?And if you've been at this since 2007, you probably know that various kinds of textbook exchanges are so commonly proposed (and go nowhere) that they're (in some circles) a running joke. Google [sethi "trade your used books"] for what I mean. |
Understanding the Mystery of Adwords QS | mstefff: linkshttps://www.demandbase.com/signup_freetrial_a.html
http://www.centraldesktop.com/l?sr=googs&sy=col_onl_np
https://www1.gotomeeting.com/t/gg/online_collaboration-Broad...
http://campaign.mindtouch.com/C/Download_MindTouch_Deki/4?co... |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | codemechanic: Try one of those plug computers like http://www.tonidoplug.com. It runs ubuntu though. |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | chipsy: http://www.silentpcreview.comMy reference for silencing computers. The guys there take their noise VERY seriously. I was among them at one time :) |
Review my startup, GetPlaylists | alex_c: Saw you demo at SF Musictech today - good demo, and very solid product.I don't think the stock photo on the front page is that bad - people who work with websites might cringe, but other than that it's not so bad.My one criticism is that it's not immediately obvious why I should sign up or that I need to download a client. This page [1] is an excellent explanation, but it took a bit of hunting to run across it - at a very superficial first glance, it looks like I'm supposed to buy the music from you. It should be a lot more obvious that it works with my existing music collection (maybe say that instead of "works with your digital music player" on the front page).[1] http://www.getplaylists.com/sync/download/?next=/playlist/11... |
Understanding the Mystery of Adwords QS | bemmu: Maybe it is based on whether the user immediately pressed the back button or not. |
Review my startup, GetPlaylists | dryicerx: Interesting idea, I like the site, although might want to clean the design, it's a tad bit busy.The only crticisim I see here is you only get 30 second previews instead of the entire track, and I don't feel like paying up $100 for a playlist... Grooveshark solves this by allowing playlist sharing and full track playbacks which solves that problem. Any thoughts about that? |
Review my twitter search app | Raphael: friends'
OAuth says, "Please come back later." |
Understanding the Mystery of Adwords QS | wildwood: The demandbase.com landing page is mostly pics, but they do have a lot of alt text for the pics, and decent meta data. They also have their phone number on the page, which Google is supposed to love.The centraldesktop.com and gotomeeting.com pages seem to have plenty enough text on the pages for Google's bots to make quality assessments. |
Rate our idea / site (Textbook Revolt) | manbearpig: Just want to point out Chegg seeing as no one else has brought it up. They're a similar site and pretty big. The difference is that they hold their own inventory, and students can sell their used books to Chegg. |
Rate our idea / site (Textbook Revolt) | patrickryan: Here is the problem I see with this idea.Why would students pay for a rental book that is nearly the same price as a used book they can buy elsewhere (half.com, amazon, etc.) and also own it? At the end of the semester, they can sell the book they own for some extra cash instead of returning the rental book. |
Review my startup, GetPlaylists | luchak: As other people have said, the stock-photo girl has got to go. It makes me feel like you're trying to sell me insurance or tooth whitener or a mortgage or something.My main issue after poking around the site for a couple minutes is that I still can't tell what you offer that I can't already get from iTunes and sites like Pandora/Last.fm/etc. The iTunes "Genius" feature works well enough for assembling quick 'n dirty playlists out of my current music collection. If I want to share my music tastes with my friends, I'm already on last.fm. If I want to share a specific playlist with my friends, I'll burn them a CD or something, since their collections don't overlap with mine much.Maybe I'm not your target audience, but, regardless, here's what I'd like to see: really interesting curated playlists. I can't find any on the site right now. The playlists I can find now are all very, well, functional, but they're not compelling. Ideally these playlists would be more like mixtapes than unordered jumbles of songs. It seems like it wouldn't be too much trouble (or too expensive) to get some good online or college radio DJs to assemble some quality content for you. You could also just use show track lists as playlists, but the results wouldn't be quite as nice.(It'd also be neat to get suggestions for playlists that contain mostly, but not entirely, music I already own.)That's the smallest delta from the current site that I would find motivating. I'd argue, though, that there's still nobody who really does music discovery "right", so there's a lot of room for innovation. I'm glad to see you're exploring the space. |
Review my startup, GetPlaylists | akc: 3 points for 2 cents:1. I didn't get within 10 seconds what you offer. Work on that.2. I agree with some of the other commenters; curated lists (from a trusted source) would be a great idea, if thats the direction you want to head in.3. It would be great if I could buy a track without having to create an account. You'd probably make more money too. |
Review my twitter search app | Tichy: Searching just friends should be useful, but I don't understand the requirement to give access to my twitter account. In fact, I ended up not trying it. |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | carl_: Search for 'kell systems' for a high-end option to address this need. |
The older you are, the more you want to see non-tech on HN? | wlievens: I'm fine with non-tech geek substance here, as long as it's not politics! |
What are your favorite speeches/talks? | JayNeely: Almost anything by Rives. All of his TED talks are supremely entertaining, and YouTube has further inspiring vids of him: http://www.ted.com/speakers/rives.htmlI've been finding http://www.mixergy.com to have fantastic startup-topic interviews; best of all, they offer audio-only and full transcript versions in addition to video.http://fora.tv is often what I turn to if I'm just in the mood to have speeches playing in the background. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | vorador: I don't need to answer in real time, so, in my opinion, checking from time to time is better. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | FreeRadical: I usually just check my karma, if it has moved quite a bit then I go and check the reaction to my comment(s). |
Review my startup, GetPlaylists | marltod: I would like an app that would scan my mp3s then generate a few Pandora stations from that. "Rap Music I listened to in High school" for example |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | ErrantX: refresh, luck and memory; usually if it drops off the main comments page I usually forget about it :) |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | iuguy: I tend not to, then now and again I'll look at my comments and see if there's anything worth looking into. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | cabalamat: Seeing replies to one's posts is easy, just click on "threads" at the top of the page. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | cool-RR: Here you go:http://hackernews.heroku.com/AndrewDuckerI have mine on my RSS aggregator. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | tokenadult: I usually use the "threads" link (what you call the "comments" page) to keep track of current conversations, but I also use site-restricted Google search, e.g.,http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com+b...on whatever subject is of current interest to double-check whatever threads may be attracting new comments. The interface here does require a lot more drilling down to follow my submissions than to follow replies to my comments, which I agree is an inconvenience. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | jsdalton: I've always wished Hacker News had a Reddit-style reply notification (i.e. something like Reddit's orangered envelope).It's not just that I want to see who replied to my comments. Sometimes I ask a question or hope for a response from somebody else, but it seems somewhat rare that the other person actually notices I have posted a reply on their comment. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | dctoedt: I tag the HN page -- or any other blog page with comments I want to follow -- at delicious.com with the tag "c" (for comments; the one letter is easy to type).I've bookmarked the delicious page for my "c" tags.Then I check whenever I feel the urge and want to spend the time.It's not as nice as the old co.mments.com site, but there you go.I don't really want email notifications of comments; I don't need yet another distraction. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | dctoedt: I'm not really a programmer, so I can't volunteer for this, but: Assaf Arkin, who ran the co.mments.com site, might be willing to let some true programmer work with PG to bolt his code onto the HN site somehow - his main site is http://labnotes.org/. |
Non-CRU sources for a global temperature record? | stonemetal: Nasa has one
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/But then there may be problems with that as well but they at least seem to be playing fairly.
http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0811-nasa_snafu.htmlThere is also the National climatic data center
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/ncdc.html |
Non-CRU sources for a global temperature record? | ZeroGravitas: See point five, here:http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/climate...He also has the sources and data available, see the links at the bottom. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | Sukotto: I just figured, based on the odd comment here and there by pg, that the comments section of these posts is deliberately user-hostile. shrug so if I happen to remember a news posting with interesting comments (or in which I made a comment), I'll occasionally go see how the conversation is going. Other wise, I just move on with my life.Just like how the site has the horrible url "news.ycombinator" instead of something sensible like "hackernews.com" ... it's just one of those things... |
If you didn't have to worry about healthcare, would you start a company? | wlievens: I don't have to worry about healthcare (living in a country with a pretty good socialised system) and I'm still too much of a chicken to go fulltime. |
Can I buy a soundproof box to stick my server in? | clistctrl: I had this same problem, except I didn't have a laptop making noise I had 5 Dell poweredge 2650's (yes i realize how outdated they are) plus 4 other home brew servers. I rewired my network, and placed them in a closet. I'm at the point now where the hum actually helps me sleep better.on another note, the servers keep the closet a comfortable 70º on average (I leave the door open during the day, so air circulates) which is the perfect temperature while my homebrew is fermenting, I'd like to think I have a wonderful nerd eco-system. |
Are hours spent dealing with billing, billable? | NonEUCitizen: I don't think you should charge him for that hour. You might instead try to charge him interest for being late (or add interest to payment plan).However, personally, I think it's better to move on and instead spend your time diversifying your customer base. A friend of mine says the nice thing about consulting is "you can fire your customer." |
Are hours spent dealing with billing, billable? | bdfh42: You do not say which country (and thus legal jurisdiction) you live in - so that probably means you live and work in the USA.If you were in the UK then you can't normally recover time spent in persuading your debtors to pay their bills. You can however start to charge interest on the outstanding balance after a reasonable period of time - and after giving due notice.Perhaps others can contribute answers that relate to other countries. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | scott_s: Your conclusion that "people don't care that much about conversations on HN" is mystifying, since HN is its conversations. I see no problem with having to explicitly check for new comments; I prefer to look at things when I'm ready than to be interrupted. |
How do you keep track of HN conversations? | tjr: Slightly differently, I would like a way to keep track of comments that I have upvoted. I often find comments to be more interesting than the articles they are attached to, and sometimes vote up an article I don't particularly like just to make it easier to find the comment later.Sure, yeah, I could maintain my own separate file of comment links, but even so, I think this would be a nice feature of the site. |
Review my startup, GetPlaylists | bvi: 1. Looks like a pretty good product.
2. Clean up the page. Make it simple! It looks so cluttered, I've no clue where to look. Way too much text, and too many moving flash images. |
What to do when some users want a feature back that was bad? | barry-cotter: Make it an annoyingly difficult to get to option. This won't work since it's an iPhone app, but some analogue of having a Page that's not linked to from anywhere, like if HN had a "secret" controversial list at xx/controversial.People who want to give you money are asking for something. Consider cooperating with them for said money. |
What to do when some users want a feature back that was bad? | tdoggette: If it's low-effort, make an easter egg. People that really want it can have a fun time finding it (if they know it's there). |
What to do when some users want a feature back that was bad? | clawrencewenham: I think it's better to do what's right for the product, even if it means annoying a minority of customers.When it comes to features in apps in general, I've noticed that no matter how bad a feature is, or how awkward the UI, there's always somebody out there with lifestyles (or senses) so bizarre that it was the killer feature for them.Notice how many still want a stylus to click buttons when the screen now works with fingers. There are even some who've trained their voice to. speak. in. the. cadence. of. their. voice. recognition. software and resented it when a newer version came out that could handle natural speech. |
What to do when some users want a feature back that was bad? | Dmunro: In this situation you really have to look at 1) how many people are asking for this, 2) how vocal are they, and 3) how much development effort do you need to put into adding an option in the menu to change the laser sounds?Sorry to answer your question with a question (or three), but comparing your answers to these questions will give you a good context for choosing a solution. |
Single person working on a web app. What platform to use? | tsestrich: Might not be an expert, but I'm in a similar boat in that I have a firm footing in PHP and want to develop a web app on my own. I chose to go with PHP and Symfony, as it seems to be a pretty powerful framework with great documentation (they have a complete guide on how to set up a job posting board, for instance).I had started out with raw PHP, and I'm pretty much scrapping my initial work since it can be done so many times faster and with better quality using Symfony |
Single person working on a web app. What platform to use? | Scott_MacGregor: Personally, compared to PHP and RoR, I am not a big fan of JAVA as far as loading speed for the user on big sites.PHP is said to be more scaleable than RoR, (we use PHP with Zend Framework) and like Eclipse/Zend Studio, but many say RoR is easier to learn.If it is not something that needs to be scaleable RoR seems like an intelligent choice, but if you are looking to build industry skills too, you might want to figure out where the demand for coders is greatest.PHP has been around for quite a while, RoR is more of the new kid on the block. Either will produce a fine user experience for the customer. |
Single person working on a web app. What platform to use? | weaksauce: If it is for a pet project I'd go with rails. It should be quicker to finish the project in that. Don't worry about scaling from the outset as if you get that big you can scale it when you need to. |
Single person working on a web app. What platform to use? | sidmitra: I'm not from a serious Java background but have you tried http://www.playframework.org/I would recommend Rails too than Drupal/PHP. Since you're a beginner on Rails, i would recommend you try out Django/Python too. It won't require much effort to catch up to speed on the basics and maybe you can use those skills to run the application on Google App Engine for free too. |
Is there RSS/newsreader software that groups related stories together? | JayNeely: So, http://techmeme.com for all topics, but sources limited by what you're subscribed to? |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | keltecp11: Anyone have any ideas? I was thinking maybe taking the content from the group and making a 'Rules for Calling Shotgun" Pocket book (that people could keep in their cars). Everyday I get a facebook message from 1 or 2 people who want me to put their information on the 'group details' page... but anyone know of anyone or have any other ideas?Thanks. |
Ham sandwich theorem | weaksauce: Clickable link:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ham_sandwich_theorem |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | ivankirigin: Make a pamphlet, sell it on http://www.lulu.com/Make an app to gift it, so friends can criticize eachother's shotgun habits with a social gestureIs the goal monetization? Because if not, you might already be done. |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | csuper: Write the book and sell it to them...http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/2009/12/08/no-more-excu... |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | tsally: Christmas/Holiday gifts seem like the obvious choice. I would definitely buy a poster for my brother with the rules of shotgun on it (if it was funny). Not sure if you can put it together in time. |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | staunch: Maybe you could let people create their own customized "House Rules" reference card for their car, maybe as a sticker they could attach to their passenger window or something. $12 * 100,000 * 0.05 = $60k |
Ham sandwich theorem | RiderOfGiraffes: Was this submission inspired by the earlier one here:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=982247??And why is the Ham Sandwich Theorem "ridiculous"? It says that any N sets in N dimensional space can simultaneously be bisected by an N-1 dimensional (hyper-)plane. Giving it a visually evocative name doesn't make it ridiculous.What about Hall's Marriage Theorem? Is that "ridiculous" enough? |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | Shamiq: Perhaps fix the link at http://www.shotgun.com |
Is there RSS/newsreader software that groups related stories together? | macwarlock: Haven't had a chance to try it out myself, but Fever (http://feedafever.com/) has attracted some attention the last few months and looks promising. From the makers of Mint, 30$ a month a believe. |
I have a FaceBook Group with 100,000 People In It...now what? | GiraffeNecktie: I suppose there's already a shotgun iPhone app. Or twenty. |
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