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Plans for 2010 | zavulon: Not to self-promote, since I pretty much abandoned that site more than a year ago, but back in a day I wrote an article on this topic that was somewhat popular, and I think will be useful to a lot of HN'ers.http://www.alexanderkharlamov.com/2006/12/24/how-to-make-and... |
Plans for 2010 | patio11: Quit the day job. Use the 70 hours freed up and 15 hours of negacommute (weekly) to launch a new product, find a nice young lass, and do some travelling. |
Plans for 2010 | jasonkester: Launch this and get it paying the bills:http://www.fairtutor.com/ |
Plans for 2010 | ptn: 1. Become better at programming.
2. Write a killer webapp with Django.
3. Learn very well one of these: JavaScript, Clojure, Ruby. (Current level for all: 0)
4. Graduate.
5. Start contributing to an open-source project, probably only casually.
6. Be insanely curious.
7. Read at least 5 SF books. |
Plans for 2010 | jorkos: - continue to get customer feedback
- launch trial service
- start charging early customer base |
Plans for 2010 | spudlyo: Finally crack the 100k a year barrier. This means either get that raise that I totally deserve or move on. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | cperciva: My goal for Tarsnap is the same as my goal for life: I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | ashishk: Ramen profitability. Stat. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | wensing: Month-over-month traffic growth. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | patio11: $45k in bingo card sales. $30k in bingo profits. Paying customers for something other than bingo. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | dan_sim: ~100K$ |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | aschobel: Faster iterations, better analytics, happier users. |
Plans for 2010 | martythemaniak: I wish they had derivatives with your plans as the underlying asset. I'd leverage myself, go short and make a killing.In other words OP, you'll fail and it'll happen because of your ridiculously ambitious goals. Let me break it down:1 and 2: If by "learn a language" you mean gain some proficiency in it and not just run through the introductory tutorial, then you're gonna have to spend a fair amount of time writing a reasonably big project. I would say, spread out, about 1hr a day every single day for each language, so that makes it about 2-3hrs/day.3. Unless you're already proficient in some instrument (preferably stringed), you're gonna need several hundred hours of solid practice to learn, so plan for about 2hrs a day,every single day.4. That would mean a serious workout, 3-4 times a week, so average that out to 0.5hrs a day, every single day.5. That's pretty vague, but I'll put you down for 0.5hrs a day averaged as well.6. that's too vague7. If you're speaking in the sense that Mathieu Ricard talks about, again you're looking at at least 1hr day.So in order to achieve your goals, you're looking at a commitment of about 8hrs/day. And that's 8hrs of hard work where you are pushing yourself, so unless you have nothing going on in your life and have amazing power of will, you will fail.You should instead pick 1 or 2 of those goals and follow up. Start working out and learn Clojure. You can manage that and a year from now you'll have 2 solid achievements behind your back, rather than 7 failures. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | maxklein: By february, want to reach $12000 a month, from about $8000 at the moment. Want to diversify and do something I can be more proud of and actually boast about, while increasing sales to bring in $30.000 a month = $1000 a day.I don't yet know what I can do to reach my target, but will work on it. Also, want to improve my management skills so I am more diplomatic but still get things done in the right way. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | adam_feldman: I want to launch the first beta of my news aggregator focused on promoting discussion of controversial political topics by February |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | zaidf: 1- Hundreds of happy customers.2- 200K in sales.3- Two full-time employees.4- Fewer mood swings! |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | messel: 1) Discovering the value proposition that brings in users by word of mouth to our social/semantic search page.2) setting up our own rock solid ad network + stats3) generating revenue from ads/affiliate links4) hiring our first consultants/freelancers (may shift to employees but we'll let it happen based on relationships with the folks that we work with)5) making a ton of connections across industries and skyrocketing my businesses chances of massive disruption to the ad and search markets |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | nicholasreed: Launch at the start of February
Expand nationally by the end of the year
Ramen profitable by 6 months |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | DenisM: When I applied for YC'10 I was told my plans are not sufficiently ambitious. One of my goals, therefore, is to grow ambitiousness of my (other) goals.And yours should be, too. Dare to aim high. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | nkohari: Other than keeping our customers happy, our goal for 2010 is growth. We just hit sustainability in early December. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | cookiecaper: Actually make enough money to live a comfortable life. I'm sick of being poor. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | uggedal: 50.000 free users: http://wasitup.com/stats/ |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | scootklein: pricing structure (please God). also, hands-off approach to marketing and sales with an affiliate force |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | callmeed: - Launch 1 new app in our industry- Launch 2 new apps in other industries- Hit 2M in sales- Get a provisional patent and some prototypes done for a physical product/invention I have in mind |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | DanielBMarkham: I would really like to see my current startup through to the end without getting sucked back into the easy money of consulting. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | axod: Spend far less time on hackernews/reddit/facebook/etc and far more time doing productive work. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | spencerfry: I guess I posted this in the wrong thread. Here are mine:Plans: (1) Add a few more members to the team. (2) Lease our own office instead of sublease. (3) Release the new version of our app. (4) Expand two more verticals. (5) Get more mainstream press. (6) Finish moving our core team to New York City. We're currently 2 of 4 in NYC. (7) Start our newsletter. (8) Do more charity work. (9) Start a meetup. (10) Get involved in local NYC art/design scene more than I already am. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | hkr: leave my not-so-technical job to discover a real passion |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | vinalk: revolutionize. Everything else will fall in place. |
Has the UI changed? | martey: It's a special holiday gift for you from pg!Seriously, I clicked on an internal link and freaked out a bit. I could not remember whether the previous page was similarly colored (and I just did not notice), or whether the change just happened. |
Has the UI changed? | randliu: Happy holidays! |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | og1: Making my side project a full time project. |
Has the UI changed? | RiderOfGiraffes: My title bar hasn't changed color because I've set my own. It does change color for submissions.I like the alternating colors on the numbers on the news and newest pages, etc. |
Has the UI changed? | jmonegro: Technically, the colors don't define the UI, so, no, the UI has not changed ;). |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | pxlpshr: disrupt an industry that overcharges their customers because their hardware and infrastructure requirements are out-dated; they haven't innovated since the 1990's. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | sammcd: Graduate College, Get Married, Launch Second company.Maybe that is too much :( |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | PStamatiou: goals in general:Market and grow to 50,000 users, find way to hire full-time developers.Keep experimenting with monetizing my blog and grow to $3-4k/month.Eat less red meat and jog more.Pay off more student loans.Buy a laptop/netbook for newborn nephew and get him hooked.Find a girlfriend again.Move my money around (read: ditch Bank of America). |
Which is a good Column Store database? | jarsj: If looking to scale and store massive amount of data over multiple machines checkout Apache Cassandra. Otherwise, BerkeleyDB should be sufficient. |
Which is a good Column Store database? | wheels: It might be better to say what use case you're looking for and then go from there.Column-oriented storage is basically an implementation detail for exploiting certain types of data-locality patterns; there may be things which fit your needs which exploit that in different ways. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | jarsj: Build a product that I (bold I) am happy using as an unbiased user. |
Which is a good Column Store database? | mattrepl: BigTable clones like Cassandra (http://incubator.apache.org/cassandra/) and Hypertable (http://www.hypertable.org/) can be used in a column-oriented fashion. Both use column families to group related columns. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | jsz0: I'd like to just put together an idea and see it through to the end. The success of the project isn't all that important to me really. I'd just like the experience of doing it. Maybe someday I'd have a really good idea and would be prepared to make it happen. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | richardburton: - Taken on two extra staff for my first startup and get it to the point where I just check the numbers once a week whilst providing three people a great income and me with an awesome, passive income.- Create an awesome new SaaS business with a really smart cofounder and see where it takes us.- Live the dream :) |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | toisanji: find a cofounder for my project |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | NathanKP: I think my top goal is to get at least 1000 customers. I currently have about 25, so scaling up will be an exciting process. |
Startups and student debt? | idlewords: Pay off your debts. You have a degree in a field where salaries are high, it won't take long, and you're likely to learn a lot about the dynamics of working in a larger team that will help you in your startup later.As you say, you can't risk other people's money unless that's what they signed up for. Get a job. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | Concours: Actually reach profitability with my News plattform, move the platform oto a reliable VPS , Make my mobile plattform service a standard for bloggers and implement a revenue Model for Bloggers in the plattform. By the end of 2010, the mobile plattform should be a must have for every site out there. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | SAHChandler: Start my business in some way shape or form. :D |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | keefe: launch my 3 year old web app to the public and watch the data flow from a pile of people using it. Get the code efficient enough that the pile doesn't break the bank in server costs. |
Plans for 2010 | ardit33: get laid a bit more often. Two girls a year is not enough. Seriously, all work and no play make no fun life.While I probably want something good for the long term, I have given up on finding it. Unfortunately SV/SF area is horrible place to find quality girls. |
How do I start angel investing? | pg: Come to Demo Day at YC. It will be March 25.How to be an angel investor: http://www.paulgraham.com/angelinvesting.html |
Startups and student debt? | ashley: When you say, "my family helped me get that money...I feel like I shouldnt risk their money," do you mean that your family helped to co-sign your loan or act as guarantors? If that is the case, then no, you really should pay off the debt. And idlewords is right, you can use the time to learn about working in a team. Or even network to find cofounders. From your statement "I've been thinking I might try for YC", I'm guessing perhaps you haven't found co-founders yet? Paul Graham's essays tend to stress the importance of good co-founders.But if they helped you get the loans in some way that doesn't involve their credit getting damaged should you fall behind on payments, maybe you should talk to a financial counselor about options, like consolidating loans or asking for a forbearance due to unemployment/hardship. That's going to make your loan principal grow very large though.So I also think that working for a few years to pay off the loans is the best idea because then you can focus on your startup without the stress of looming monthly loan payments on top of earning no salary whilst developing, but perhaps you should ask someone who can give more specific advice. Not to sound harsh, but it seems that by asking internet boards, you're looking for a way to alleviate your conscience, both to yourself (in terms of your life ambitions) and to your family (in expectations and finance). Don't worry too much Good luck with whatever decision you make! |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | jparicka: Launch this bad boy http://beepl.com - maybe in few weeks time.... |
How do I start angel investing? | mbenjaminsmith: Send me an email: mbenjaminsmith AT gmail DOT com |
How do I start angel investing? | vaksel: According to your blog, you are a 20 year old college student, even if you have the money(which I kinda doubt, unless of course parents), few will take you seriously.Think of angel investing as doing startups, before the big results...you have to spend 3-5 years growing your site, 1 user at a time. So take the next 5-10 years building up your credentials and contacts, and by then you'll have something to offer besides money. |
How do I start angel investing? | BerislavLopac: Where do you live? The simplest advice would be to join one of the local angel networks and join a more experienced member to mentor you. |
Plans for 2010 | roundsquare: 1. Get into and go to law school.2. Get into shape (again).3. Eat better.4. Learn economics.5. Learn more about algorithms. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | rdl: Launch one of 3 projects as an actual startup, quit dayjob.1) infrastructure/platform related to security
2) hardware device with social network features
3) consumer-focused webapp in data aggregation/presentationI've spent the last couple months since getting back from Afghanistan working on all 3 at early stages, finding potential cofounders, clients, funding, etc., and am pretty much at the decision point. Should be going full-time with one of them in January (I need to hit a vesting cliff of 12-31-2009 before doing so, counting down the hours...) |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | zackattack: 30. CustomerFind.comDisclaimer: Owned and operated by me. |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | fleaflicker: I think aol is positioned well for #3.http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/one-vision-for-the-new-... |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | flog: 21. xero.com |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | RiderOfGiraffes: Clickable: http://ycombinator.com/ideas.html |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | ajt: An editable google doc for this: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0Af5maeCRtjlnZGhndGt3bXZfMm... |
Has the UI changed? | NikkiA: The darker red is a lot more pleasing to the eye, at least IMO. It has a nice contrast with the orange 'Y' logo.However, the 'Hacker News new | threads ...' text really needs to be white for this new background, black doesn't have enough contrast. As a bonus, white text here will jive with the white Y better. |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | araneae: 8. OkCupidI have several friends who have gotten an endless series of dates from there. I've only met one person from OkCupid, but she was pretty amazing.All the other sites I've tried (otakubooty, aff, cl, some other ones that have already died) have been completely useless, except for some niche bdsm ones ^-^. |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | jmonegro: 17. I think Square (http://www.squareup.com) qualifies.
19. Heroku counts
23. Powerset
30. Builditwith.me (http://www.builditwith.me) |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | JeffJenkins: While I'm probably a bit biased since I work for one of their competitors (shopwiki), I'm not sure if TheFind counts as an answer to 20. As far as I can tell they don't have any shopping guides, or at the very least not ones which are being made obvious to a user who is trying to find out what they want. I'm not going to remove them since I have a conflict of interest, but I'm going to add Kaboodle which seems to be doing the most interesting work in the shopping space. |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | iamelgringo: #3: New newsI'm a news hound. And, I started http://Newsley.com to try and find a solution to the new news problem that I had. I picked financial and economic news because it's an interest of mine that will hold my attention. Besides, advertising rates are much better for financial and economic keywords than they are for funny videos or cute cat pictures.My hypothesis, social news sites have done a pretty good job of finding and highlighting interesting and new content (Hacker News, Reddit, Slashdot, Digg, Metafilter, etc..) But, I don't think that anyone has really done a good job of offering great news recommendations yet. The solutions we've seen so far are generally human editor (newspapers), moderators (slashdot), or collaborative filtering (reddit, digg, HN).My goal is to build a community of people interested in great financial and economic news and analysis, and then try to build a great personalized news recommendation engine for them.There are other sites working on the news recommendation systems. Twitter sort of fills that bill, MeHive has been trying a heavy indexing/algorithmic approach, but I haven't really been happy with what the recommendations they've been able to offer me yet.Also, if any body else is doing news recommendations, ping me. I'd be really interested in talking. |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | iamelgringo: 16. A form of search that depends on design.The Android app, Google Goggles is really worth checking out. It really is a phenomenal idea. I hope they work hard at refining it. |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | hga: 10. Auctions: http://gunbroker.com/, which was started immediately after eBay wimped out on auctions having anything to do with firearms. I've bought stuff on both and sold stuff on GunBroker.com and the latter is much better and has several ideas worth using on most any online auction site.One thing that might be hard to replicate: firearms, ammo, etc. are serious things, e.g. you can't transfer a firearm across state lines without going through a licensed dealer and getting a background check. In the cultural sense reputation on GunBroker.com is treated very seriously; I'm not sure how this could be replicated in other areas, including ones where prices of items are lower. |
How do I start angel investing? | losethos: Give it to me :-)http://www.losethos.com |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | rodyancy: 1. Avatar, or other movies that can't be fully experienced without 3D or other tech that is only available in theaters. For music additional offerings like I Am T-Pain. |
If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do? | patio11: Nobody pays you money because you solved a technology challenge. Solve problems for people who pay money for solutions to problems.Some time later, you may run into scaling issues. You can cross that bridge when you come to it. (Or you can pay other people to cross it for you.) |
If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do? | staunch: I'm not uninterested in building something like Skype, Google Talk, or Twitter because of the technical issues. I'm uninterested because I have no good ideas (or passion) about solving a significant problem with them.There are lots of things I'd do if you gave me technology that does not really exist. Stuff like speaker independent speech-to-text that's as accurate as an expert human could transcribe. Or language translation that was as good as an expert human. Or almost anything that let me have the power of a human brain for free (no, not MTurk). |
If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do? | SandB0x: Custom reality tv. Users pay to see a day/hour in the life of another user - possibly a celebrity, though other fun people would be popular - who wears a tasteful camera strapped to their head or neck.Witness an afternoon as Michael Schumacher. What's life like as an Oxford student? My name is Joe and tomorrow I will go free running in the city - join me. |
If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do? | nir: "two chicks at the same time, man" |
What are the current best solutions for the 30 YC 'ideas'? | quantize: 13. MIT Open Courseware |
If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do? | zpoley: Text to speech so that I don't have to consume realtime data like RSS, Facebook, Twitter, etc. while actively using a device. I'm just gonna wait for Google or someone else to solve that one. |
If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do? | cjoh: I'd take on shipping. It seems to me that UPS could be in-part replaced with intelligent routing of people's ordinary daily routines. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | ct: Make money by writing an algorithm for trading. I've tried the startup thing for so long now (over 20 yrs), and haven't succeeded and so I think I just don't have what it takes. Time to move on and try something else for a change instead of beating a dead horse. |
What are your goals for your startups in 2010? | dhpmx: Add 1000+ new members, find contributors/partners, make site the best it can be ! oh and make a couple of bucks too ! |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | uherr: http://designmylaptop.ro/inscrieri/022e4fbffba40d302f1b0225f... |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | yannis: Christmas came a bit earlier here, so I got a hangover!:), but I used the break to get my next Project to 95%, I am targeting release in January! |
Which is a good Column Store database? | frooyo: http://Vertica.com - it's founded by Michael Stonebraker who started Ingres, Postgres and now Vertica. |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | RiderOfGiraffes: I got CDs of the Brandenburgs, a desktop sundial, and a build-it-yourself 1/20 scale model of the Wright flyer.Also socks and some other stuff. But there are more presents to come tomorrow as we visit the in-laws. |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | DanielBMarkham: I had an HN-Christmas. I got stuff that I saw other HN'ers recommended over the last year.First was the CDs. Arvo Part Fratres. Arvo Part Tabula Rasa, Gorecki' Symphony #3, and Steve Reich Music for 18 Musicians (These are REALLY GOOD) I am enjoying the heck of of them so far this morning.Then, from another HN thread, the ultimate nerd game, Settlers of Catan. Can't wait to try it out later today.Finally some custom teas. Good stuff! I'm drinking a double-spice chai with milk and Splenda. Delicious.By the way, if you haven't figured it out yet, you can be bad and Santa still brings you cool stuff. I think this whole "making a list" stuff is just a big lie. If you ask me, the big fat man is a pushover. |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | cschep: The little schemer! I knew I forgot to ask for something. I seriously love getting books for Christmas. |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | ekpyrotic: Logicomix.
Paul Theroux travel books.
Borges short stories. |
If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do? | ntoshev: I've thought about making a real-time forum: basically the same thing as an ordinary forum software, but with presence capability and posts happening in real time without reloading. Or, if you look at it in another way, it would be a chat room with persistence, result is searchable, possibly threaded.The hope is that conversations in such a medium would be something in between regular chat and regular forums, and they could be compelling enough.The technology is not a big issue for building this, the Tornado framework has a chat example from which you can start. Text messages are short, they can be kept in memory and saved to disk once in a while either DIY or using something like Redis. |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | jasonlbaptiste: Logitech DiNovo Mini Keyboard. If you have an HTPC, this is a must have. I have it working with ubuntu plug and play. It rocks. |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | ccollins: A food processor! I can't wait to use it!http://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-DFP-14BCN-Processor-Brushed-... |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | PStamatiou: bought myself another 80GB X25-M SSD along with MCE optibay so I can RAID-0 them in my 17-in unibody macbook pro. Also a 32GB Class 10 SDHC card for my Kodak Zi8. And a UI stencil set for making website mockups http://www.uistencils.com/I got my family a 23andme ancestry DNA test and they LOVED it. Gave bro-in-law & sister a Flip MinoHD for baby vids |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | dryicerx: Suffering from a serious case of GAS (Gadget Acquisition Syndrome) :( Canon 70-200 IS 2.8 and a 17-55 IS 2.8. |
If you had ready to use real time technology, what would you do? | BrentRitterbeck: As of right now, I can find out a lot of information about a company by paying for the data from a data provider like Bloomberg or Reuters. This data, however, should be free and well-organized.I would like to build a search engine that indexes and organizes regulatory filings, investment message board posts, investment blog posts, the portion of a company's website dealing with investment relations, and economic news.You input the company's trading symbol to bring up all the relevant information about the company. Furthermore, there should be an API so that people can use the index in their own applications. I have no idea where revenue would come from. |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | AdamGibbins: Chocolate :D |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | aschobel: Sleep! Having family over is forcing me to take a break. Bah! :P |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | maxklein: I got the skin of a leopard. Completely unasked for, totally illegal and now I'm feeling very guilty, but unsure what to do. It's not good to have naive family members go on safari. |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | danudey: From my girlfriend: an Atari shirt (since I'm always lamenting that the one I have now is literally falling to pieces); a copy of The Bro Code; A bunch of amazingly delicious homemade chocolates; A stocking shaped like Kuribo's Shoe from Super Mario Bros 3 (http://bit.ly/kuribo).From my mother, a $25 sbux gift card and chocolates.Given that I don't actually celebrate christmas and didn't want gifts, it's a pretty good haul.I also got my girlfriend a sock monkey patterned after Rorschach from Watchmen (http://bit.ly/5h0nfB), which she liked (huge Watchmen fan and loves sock monkeys). |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | TrevorJ: 2 Books, a grease gun and shop light (I'm teaching myself car repair) A case for my new droid phone and lots of candy. |
So HNers, whatd'ya get for Christmas? | Mz: Four days off. :) |
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