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Please criticize my idea =) OMyBills.com | kublaikin: OwMyBalls! |
Copy protection for desktop software? | shin_lao: If your software is popular, it will attract motivated pirates.First question, can you be more precise about your target audience and what your software does? Is there any incentive to copy it? Do you want to protect from customers buying less licenses than they really need?In other words: what's your "threat... |
Hacker houses in Seattle? | blasdel: I'm also interested to know if any such place exists.I currently live in a sweet shared house/manse two houses up from Lake Washington (where there is presently a room open), but it's way the hell up at 123rd St. -- it can be a pain to ride home late after an event. |
Hacker houses in Seattle? | zackattack: http://www.airbnb.com |
Hacker houses in Seattle? | itshanney: http://metrixcreatespace.com/ |
Make Money From Home....? | jacquesm: - Specialty search
That's a job worth doing, basically a very extended search
results set filtering out all the nonsense and sending out
an abstract of the status of a certain subject A typical query would not be a few keywords but a full
description to guide the searcher.
For instance: the number... |
Copy protection for desktop software? | somecanuck: Have you checked out .NET Reactor and/or IntelliLock?http://www.eziriz.com/I had been considering them for a product of my own. There's a lot of positive feedback about them around. |
How good are freelance programming sites? | somecanuck: I have worked through Guru.com and enjoy it. The web site provides a lot of nice tools, including escrow payments, work rooms, and private message boards. You pay for it though -- around 7% fees on each project.The one complaint is that you have to lower your rates substantially at the start until you build... |
How's the world been treating you lately?Review my iPhone app:My day was | karam: I'm using all the proceeds to fund my startup: PicfitiPicfiti helps you leave virtual notes on real world objects and places using your phone camera.Take a photo of an object and type in a message to save it. When a friend comes along and takes a photo of the same object, they'll see the message you left for the... |
How's the world been treating you lately?Review my iPhone app:My day was | J3L2404: How about a promo code? |
How's the world been treating you lately?Review my iPhone app:My day was | karam: Promo codes you can use.JTT44H7RWFTM
TK6TKLHPMAMY
YAXXHMHNKNPH(Valid only for the US store) |
Make Money From Home....? | patio11: Freelance writing for content creation mills like Demand Media or TextBroker will work out to about $8 an hour for fluent speakers of American English who work efficiently. I do not think that full-time is in the cards for the overwhelming majority of users on those sites.Additionally, the variation in income... |
Is AppStore getting better? | ojbyrne: You should probably include the obligatory "Ask HN:" at the start of your title. |
Is AppStore getting better? | azsromej: They reportedly beefed up staffing over the holiday break. Approval times (for updates at least) were on the order of 1-3 days. Maybe new app approvals are faster too. |
Is AppStore getting better? | nonrecursive: My app, submitted January 1st, was approved a few hours ago. In developer connection, there was a note saying that approval could take around 2 hours, so this was a nice surprise. |
Is AppStore getting better? | pcm: I submitted an app ~1 year ago and it was approved in 4 days. I submitted a lite version of said app two weeks ago, the day before iTunes Connect went down for the holidays, and it was approved and available the day they came back from the break (about 1 week later).I will say that I got more feedback from the re... |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | patio11: MailChimp. Cheap, wonderfully featured API, pre-existing Ruby code that took my integration time to within 2 hours.If you're doing iPhone apps at the traditional iPhone price point, though, I don't know how any service which charges for a marginal email is going to be worthwhile for you. |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | nreece: CampaignMonitor - http://www.campaignmonitor.com is pretty good. |
review my startup, a planning/analysis app for cyclists | kbob: It would be great if you had more info about compatible GPS units. Are there specific brands/models that work? Are there keywords to look for (any XYZ protocol-compatible GPS)?
I saw mention of the Garmin 605 and 705 in the FAQ, but are those the only models? |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | apsurd: My honest advice: Think like a business.
DO NOT build your own email system. Why do that when you can use that time to evolve your app?If you can't pay a monthly mailchimp fee with your current model, then the model needs changing.edit: Take heed of Patrick's "marketing evolution" strategies below and realize ... |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | bretpiatt: The folks behind http://www.beanstalkapp.com also do http://www.newsberry.com -- we've used it for a few projects and had good success.They start off at Free! for < 100 subs, http://newsberry.com/pricing/standard-plans |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | kolosy: i was tempted to blog about this a while back. i've gone from java (back in the 'ole days), to c#/net only, to the view that platforms don't matter. or rather platform boundaries don't matter. i spent the last few months developing out a .net mvc framework for my dayjob. when it came time for us to build http:/... |
Has anyone ever set up a free conference call system? | adammichaelc: what about using twilio? |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | skippybosco: You don't really say, what is it about your evolving business that dictates a change in mail provider?That being said, depending on your volume and functionality you require, http://www.aweber.com is also an option to consider. |
Has anyone ever set up a free conference call system? | noonespecial: You can build it completely in the cloud with a service like twilio(1). This would be good to get a temporary setup going very quickly.If you need something a little more permanent and flexible, you can easily build it yourself with asterisk(2) or freeswitch(3). If you know what you're doing, you can turn... |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | barmstrong: http://FeedmailPro.com is great for RSS based email campaigns.The way I look at it, might as well make the email a blog post (for Google juice, so future people who look for it can find it, etc) and then just use an RSS to email service. |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | dbc: I don't have any advice for software to use, buy I do suggest you use something other than your production DNS domain and mail server for sending out these messages. Even if all of them opt-in, some of your recipients will mark your messages as spam and that mail server/domain will start to show up on blacklists. ... |
Has anyone ever set up a free conference call system? | admn_is_traitor: Once Richard Stallman himself came to my home office and configured everything. Then he was like "free as in beer, dude. now wheres my beer?" |
Great books you read in 2009? | adam-_-: Flat Earth News - Nick Davies: An interesting discussion about falsehood and PR in newspapers and the media generally.Hackers & Painters - Paul Graham: Read it this year and enjoyed it a lot.Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts: Awe inspiring "true" story about a convict who escaped to India. Really made me want... |
Great books you read in 2009? | rms: Two of my favorite books that are freely available online, both in the genre of post-singularity utopian science fiction:http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/http://craphound.com/down/download.php |
How many tech IPOs this year? | smallhands: yeah facebook most likely and ......boom we are back in the 90s |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | hikari17: We currently use Constant Contact for newsletters and email campaigns. It's served us well so far, but I could be easily convinced to ditch it -- the email templates, editing features, and analytics are decent, but hardly inspired or delightful. I'm looking seriously at both Aweber and Emma... and this thread... |
What's a math major to do? | marknyc: Look into quantitative finance. There are plenty of math majors roaming around there, and math people with good programming skills are in high demand.Recommended introductory reading would be Mark Joshi's 'How to be a quant' PDF (http://www.markjoshi.com/downloads/advice.pdf). It's been around for a little w... |
Best way to outsource web design and development? | jawn: byoung2 did a great writeup on the overall process of site design outsourcing. It's viewable here http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=813690 |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | brm: No need to build your own when things like OEMPro and Dada Mail existhttp://octeth.com/http://dadamailproject.com/ |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | waynem: I am using .NET for my startup app (nowhere near done yet so no link) which is a CRM/scheduler for service businesses. I was going to use Ruby on Rails like the other cool kids but I have more experience with .NET, my area is all .NET and I like a lot of the new things out (e.g. ASP.NET MVC), plus I am enrolle... |
What's a math major to do? | geebee: My first job after majoring in math was to work for a software company in hollywood. Have you considered working in something graphics-oriented? It doesn't have to be games, there's a lot of math-related work in the film industry. It will take a little bit of work to break into this field, but it's a really g... |
What does everyone use to send out newsletters, email campaigns? | 3ds: I've successfully used cleverreach, which is a german company, because a client asked me to. It worked really well, importing addresses from CVS, personalizing, campaign monitoring, click rates, etc:http://www.cleverreach.de/frontend/index.php?flang=enFor preparation I handcoded an html-table layout with some css ... |
Make Money From Home....? | turtle4: Transcription is still necessary, particularly in fields where accuracy is important, ie medical and legal. Automatic dictation just doesn't cut it quite yet.Most legal offices have their own internal talent, but a fair amount of medical transcription still gets farmed out to what amount to temp agencies. If... |
Latest thinking in best type of Corp and what State? | vaksel: my opinion is that it just doesn't matter. When you get big to actually benefit from those advantages, you can always reorganize in the state of your choice |
What startups here are focusing on developing on top of .NET? | tjmule: The start-up I work for (http://www.theport.com) uses .NET 3.5 / C# / SQL Server 2005. We've incorporated some open source projects (most notably SOLR, NHibernate, and SharedCache) and use a wide range of open source tools for day-to-day management of our team (SVN, Trac, CC.NET). We've found great success in g... |
Latest thinking in best type of Corp and what State? | grellas: Here is a lively discussion tied to a post I had made about why Delaware is not necessarily the best state in which to incorporate your startup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=674469. If you follow the thread, you will see various contributions from HN members discussing the pros and cons of incorporating... |
Please criticize my idea =) OMyBills.com | kublaikin: Ow MY BALLS! |
Best way to outsource web design and development? | Travis: I second the rec for byoung2's article.As I don't know your situation, it's difficult to give advice, but I'll throw out the generic stuff:
- if you're going to do a web startup, you probably should have 1 technical co-founder
- if you're just building a basic website, try some of the outsource sites like odesk... |
What are you working on? | jgrahamc: I am working on making 500 of these: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2008/03/building-temperature-probe-f... for schools in Uruguay. |
What are you working on? | timcederman: http://www.tripadvisor.com/restaurants |
What are you working on? | jasonlbaptiste: I'm interested/ been heavily exploring:PCs in the living room (everything from custom linux distro, XBMC Live modified, and windows 7). 140 million HDTVs sold in 2009 alone, hardware is getting cheaper, and content is readily available.Education space. ie- how do we provide easy access to all the mate... |
Computer Vision and AR project ideas | Shamiq: Can you make something that looks at what someone is wearing, and then alters colors, patterns, etc? So I try on a certain shirt type, and then it'll show what I would look like with other shirts of the same cut?I would also enjoy a gesture controlled UI for a simple computer. Maybe something that can turn sign... |
What are you working on? | cool-RR: http://garlicsim.org |
What are you working on? | dimarco: turned http://thatpoll.com into a twitter only site to create/answer polls. about to add a feature where if enough people respond to a poll with an answer that isn't included in the original answer set, it automatically gets added.the funnest part is the deployment method with git and capistrano. so fun that n... |
What are you working on? | _glass: Putting up boxes in the local area with free stuff to give away in it. This is one of the projects of the SocialBar in Hamburg, Germany.To separate this from my worklife no hacking is involved.http://www.zu-verschenken-kiste.org/search?lang=en |
What are you working on? | arctangent: I am writing a maze generator in Haskell. |
What are you working on? | seiji: Released http://runroot.com/ today. Give it some upvote love at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1032688 (apparently "OMG! AMAZING UTF-8 CHARS!" is more popular than my paltry attempt at making something useful). |
What CRM/PM/DM/TT application do you use? | Travis: You may have already considered it, but I believe that the zoho suite will take care of a lot of your requirements. They have different components, so you may have to pick and choose what you want your employees to use, but (based on the quality of their docs system), I'd imagine their overall quality is quite... |
What are you working on? | steveklabnik: My startup, CloudFab, is doing well. I'll have more to say about that in a few weeks.In my spare time, Hackety Hack is coming along, got a release out for Christmas, hoping for 1.0 early next month.Then I have one more small project that's still secret. |
What are you working on? | roschdal: http://freeciv.net |
What are you working on? | mtinkerhess: I'm writing an iPhone musical instrument with an emphasis on just intonation (as opposed to equal temperament).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Intonationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_temperament |
What are you working on? | javery: http://adzerk.com - first beta customer starting this month. |
What are you working on? | Gobiner: I've been working on a codepad.org clone for .NET languages: http://dotnetpad.netIt's been a ton of fun. I do CMS development in my day job and it's nice to build a site that actually does something instead of corporate brochure-ware :) |
What are you working on? | rman666: I have the following domains: http://blackhatsystems.com, http://bluehatlabs.com, and http://policyworkbooks.com. Does anyone have ideas for them or want to collaborate? Drop me an email. |
What are you working on? | terryjsmith: Been working on open sourcing a PHP framework I created a while back. Uses MVC, but the primary goals are to be lean and schemaless. It pulls columns from the database and assigns them to variables dynamically so you don't have to update the schema and then worry about the database (most frameworks requi... |
What are you working on? | misterbwong: quick project/task tracking app. something easy & simple so we can replace the current system we're using (sticky notes and excel ftl...). hoping to open source it. |
What are you working on? | tachibana: I'm working on an e-learning platform for low-income students in the United States. |
What are you working on? | khill: A Java library for Tumblr API access with a focus on making it usable for development of a Tumblr Android application. |
Best scalable way of storing sessions? | justinsb: As someone that ran a company for a number of years that sold solutions for session storage, the best solution is not to store them...Encode your state in cookies instead. Of course, that's much easier said then done, especially given the size limits, but if you can, then it's an awesome approach.A good way ... |
What are you working on? | rebelvc: mobile coupon site for local merchants. It will be live in two weeks on http://dealbk.com |
What are you working on? | samdk: I'm working on a collaboration tool built to help government agencies and aid organizations coordinate during emergencies. I helped start it this summer as part of the Humanitarian FOSS Project (hfoss.org).It was used successfully in beta for Thanksgiving-day feeding coordination and we're getting very close to ... |
What are you working on? | scotje: Although the holidays clobbered my productivity on it, I've been working on a management app for WoW raiding guilds: http://srsguild.com/But I did start hacking on a fully email based todo/reminder system over the break that I hope to have functional in another week or so. |
What are you working on? | jbyers: Working on Wikispaces. Thinking about how to make it even better for teachers and students. |
What are you working on? | ericclemmons: Besides a small SaaS (that I use internally, but making public to gauge interest), I've been having fun with namespacing Mootools (http://github.com/ericclemmons/mootools-namespace) and using Rhino to generate dependency maps for simple concatenation (which works on most frameworks' dependency scripts so ... |
What are you working on? | EGF: I have been working on a health\food tracking site www.eat.ly as well as one other unlaunched project.A simple blog project that has been going well is www.multiplayergames.com which is in need of some buddypress\wordpressMU and design help, but since it continues to perform well I am hesitant to change anything.O... |
What are you working on? | koenbok: Making our e-commerce platform http://www.enstore.com available to everyone. With a nice frontend built in Cappuccino/Atlas. |
What are you working on? | Ixiaus: I recently finished a decentralized content API for my own personal website and for a future community that is planned to be an article publishing portal. It is only a private console with an API, so there isn't much to look at.I tied up a number of loose ends with my own personal website, integrated the API fr... |
What are you working on? | hajrice: Workflo - A microblogging platform for your company.A "ask hn: rate my app" will be put up soon |
What are you working on? | forkandwait: Building support for matrix datatypes and operations (arithmetic, eigenvalues, and factorization) in PostgreSQL. I think I will use the Gnu Scientific Library, but I am still looking around at options with looser licenses. |
What are you working on? | chewbranca: I'm building an open source rails framework to create sub-communities on facebook that are focused on a particular interest, but also providing other views into the app, such as a standard web interface, phone interface, and iphone/android native apps. Facebook connect provides you with some interesting opt... |
What are you working on? | buckwilson: Working on http://herefilefile.com, an iPhone app that lets you access all of your computer's files from anywhere.Currently doing a UI refresh, planning a big marketing push including ads, contacting interested journalists, designing a web site / blog, planning the support workflow, and other fun stuff.Thin... |
What are you working on? | notauser: Expanding my startup, http://theplanis.com , out to another hundred users - although I'm facing a difficult decision between that and one which already has a well-paying customer and angel funding on the table. |
What are you working on? | Mark_B: I'm working on http://www.peekmaps.com/ Lots of fun! |
What are you working on? | orblivion: I'm working on my (as of now) experimental debate site:http://argumentclinic.net (see the about page) |
What are you working on? | imgabe: I'm working on http://greaterdebater.com a social news and forum website for link-sharing and debate |
What are you working on? | Perceval: I'm working on a dissertation linking the international balance of power to the characteristics of civil wars during three periods: pre-Cold War, Cold War, and post-Cold War. |
What are you working on? | jrgnsd: I can't stop trying to dev my own PHP framework. I must say that this one is the best by far:
http://backend-php.netI love the community of Hacker News, and I'd like to create something similar but for a South African community:
http://zacoders.net |
What are you working on? | pshc: Right now I'm migrating a Django-based newspaper website to CouchDB. Much nicer for storing articles.And I'm always working on my secret toy programming language. |
What are you working on? | michaelfairley: A lightweight Python implementation of MapReduce. |
What are you working on? | chris100: multitasking: customer support, new customer development, writing copy |
What are you working on? | slmbrhrt: I'm trying to get together all the right resources so I can start selling my notebook scribbles as full-fledged games one day soon. |
What are you working on? | sreitshamer: Backup software that just works http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/ |
What are you working on? | synnik: Brick and Mortar startup, with online enhancements:Currently in the process of purchasing an art gallery space in Denver, which we will renovate, and hopefully open in the fall of 2010. (Would be sooner, but we are having a baby in the spring.)I intend to have an exhibition every 3 months that will seek to blen... |
What are you working on? | bjelkeman-again: Fixing poverty through water and sanitation:
http://akvo.org/Which is also becoming an open source platform for development aid. |
What are you working on? | akeefer: Compiling our JVM language (Gosu) down to bytecode. It's slow going; the bytecode side isn't hard, but the language has been evolving for 7 years or so and has all sorts of obscure edge cases, as well as some looseness in the semantics that has to be tightened up in bytecode, so getting every little detail ri... |
What are you working on? | draegtun: Just got official go-ahead from client today to produce a MIS & reporting extranet app written in Perl/Catalyst/DBIx::Class with jQuery and Flash charting. |
What are you working on? | dangrover: Sheet music reader for the iPhone: http://www.wonderwarp.com/opus |
What are you working on? | khandelwal: I'm working on a travel website:"Planning a vacation is hard. You know where you want to go. But what should you see once you're there? Which monuments, parks, cathedrals and museums should you visit when you're there? How do you get around?My website helps you plan your vacation by providing high quality i... |
What are you working on? | tectonic: A quick toy: http://projectsuggestions.com/ |
What are you working on? | noodle: a novel poker-related web app. i say "novel" because i don't know if it will end up being popular, awesome and profitable, or crash and burn, but i think its neat. |
What are you working on? | elrodeo: Remindum (iPhone App, http://7mills.net/rem) -- lets you to create reminders in your Google Calendar fast and easy. |
What are you working on? | utku_karatas2: Same answer with the old thread. I'm working on a Python IDE for Windows. Recently released an alpha indeed. http://pfaide.com |
What are you working on? | redmage: I'm working on 0xCOFFEE, a compiler for a toy language implemented using Ruby, TreeTop and LLVM.http://github.com/meqif/0xCOFFEEIt's quite fun, but I had to fork llvmruby (the ruby bindings for LLVM), since it lacked some things, like allowing access to part of the LLVM API and raising RuntimeErrors instead of... |
What are you working on? | nonrecursive: I've been putting together a web site, http://www.learngrowdo.com . It's somewhat personal and came out of my struggles taking care of a loved one with a chronic illness. On the site I also plan to sell related software as I develop it.I'm selling my iphone app on it, which was just approved yesterday. "C... |
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