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Please review my startup - Accounting for Google Apps | portman: This scratches an itch for me. You had me at "accounting for Google Apps".However, I tried to sign up with my Google Apps domain. After authenticating with Google, and redirecting, I received this error:https://app.rhinoaccounting.com/gaccount/callback/?Internal Server Error
A server error prevented this page ... |
Rate My Startup - LetMeGo: Let lodgings bid for your stay | pbz: I won't repeat what others said above, but I will add that I feel the home page is too gray / dark. The "search" page has a better color balance than the homepage. The way it is now it's rather depressing, and less inviting. Pretty nice otherwise. |
Detecting prototype mobile browsers | TallGuyShort: It's really all in the User-Agent string, and maybe a few other headers. All browsers have certain quirks that you could look for - but that wouldn't necessarily give away anything secret. The User-Agent string can very easily be cloaked however. Konqueror, for instance, let's you customize it by domain.F... |
Please review my startup - Accounting for Google Apps | qeorge: Some small things:- I'm not sure what you mean by "for Google Apps." Do they provide a platform like Zoho that you can plug into or does this simply mean you use their Google login and take advantage of Docs, Gmail, etc? This may be obvious to most, but not to me.- It would be better to use an obviously fake co... |
What day to launch, how to get press coverage? | aaronblohowiak: Do you need to "launch" ? |
Is hiring a PR company a good investment for a startup? | krav: PR agencies are what corporate managers hire to justify their marketing budgets. You're a startup. Be scrappy. Be creative. Think outside the box. You'll come up with ideas and ways to market far far more effective for your market than most PR agencies. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | teuobk: Have you considered going back to finish your degree? If you think you might want to finish it at some point, the sooner the better, because it will only become more difficult to go back to an academic environment. Also, school could give you a chance to step back and "relax" while you figure out your next pl... |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | anonceo: I had a similar experience. I'm also 26. Are you in the Bay Area? It doesn't matter, though I'd love to meet in person.Drop me an email at M8R-c9rbgg@mailinator.com and let's talk. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | aditya: What do you want to do? You can definitely go to one of the bigger companies - which is a great way to network till your next startup idea hits, and there's also the EIR gig that's been talked about here a little bit slightly better than being an associate. |
Kindle v/s ipod touch | pw: After getting one for Christmas, I've started doing almost all of my reading on an iPod Touch.I think the form factor is perfect--you can read in any position (I've always struggled to read books while lying in bed on my side), and the short lines of text make for easy reading (notice that the screen is almost exac... |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | maxklein: Go back to school and finish what you started. It will be harder later, and you don't want to spend your life justifying why you don't have a degree. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | andrew1: > ...can I go to the big guys (Microsoft, Google, etc?). Can I go become an associate at a VC firm?If you're interested in these kind of jobs then why not try and get one. If you want to work at Google, apply to Google. If you want to work at a VC company, get in contact with some of them and discuss it with t... |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | jeffmould: Not sure on Google, but I know first hand that Microsoft will hire without a college degree. All depends on what your skill set is and how well you can sell yourself to them.On the other hand, I would recommend going back to finish your degree if you can afford to. While getting a technology job without a d... |
Is hiring a PR company a good investment for a startup? | medianama: No. You can do a much better job yourself |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | biji: Contact me. bijan.pourriahi@gmail.comI have an idea for you |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | msort: Google will value your startup experience. As long as you can prove your problem-solving and programming skills in the job interview, you will get a job offer as a Google software engineer. |
best way to quicky prototype/pilot Stackoverflow kind of website? | davidw: * Build it yourself with something that's fast for development, like Rails or Django.* Pay the guys who work on the clones to add features.* Pay a contractor to work on the open source clones.* Work on the open source clones yourself.* Get lucky and find something better than what you've found so far.My guess i... |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | dhouston: I've known a few people in this situation. If you're feeling completely burned out, you might want to chill out and travel around for a few weeks (or whatever) to clear your head. After that:- If you want, go back and get your degree (it only gets harder as you get older)- Do an entrepreneur-in-residence gig ... |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | dnsworks: Once you've failed at one VC-backed startup, it's usually fairly easy to get funding for an infinite string of other failed VC-backed startups. I have quite a few friends with no less than 1/2 dozen startups under their belts over the past 12 years which never profited, and often never brought in revenue. T... |
API limitations for Web services | aditya: The thing with Twitter is, that they don't really want to kill their app ecosystem, but really just want to keep growing because of their app ecosystem, they only want to be the transport layer so it is highly unlikely that they would come out and kill your project by duplicating it.A perfect example is the com... |
API limitations for Web services | PanMan: Twitter has kinda relaxed limits for search. I have done 1 req every few seconds, and that was fine.
Their normal API has more constraints, but it's supposedly not that hard to get your limit lifted to 20K queries/hour.. |
API limitations for Web services | pierrefar: Depending how often your searches update, you might be able to get away with using the RSS feeds from search.twitter.com. |
Rate my startup: beepl.com | jparicka: Bonus: http://twitpic.com/xyyd0 |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | thafman: OK; twitter for enterprise, nice UI, not really seeing how you differ from Yammer.Side topic; has anyone succeed long-term with get[name].com? Or do you always end up buying your dot-com name? |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | roundsquare: Very interesting. You can really just click and get started it appears.Question (and this is probably going to show my ignorance): How do you make money on this. I thought most web startups made money through ads or selling stuff... you don't appear to do either. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | maxklein: I find it difficult to understand why you would want to do this exact thing that a lot of other companies have done and you are not even innovating. It looks very similar to twitter or yammer - could you not have used them as a base to rethink communication even more?Your app can work if you do a lot of marke... |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | Murkin: 1. I didn't notice the "No signup required" at first. Shame.
2. After the interface is very clean and easy to use.
3. You really need an easier way to add people. (FB/Google Addr import/etc).Good luck ! |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | redwax: Why name it after 4chans admin ? |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | ivenkys: Pros : Very clean user interfaceCons :(A) User Login should be the first thing , rather than what are you working on. Simply because it gives me confidence that the app knows who i am.(B) If i cannot "Manage my domain(change settings)" without having to set myself up - then enabling that link on the side is ju... |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | wavesplash: You have plenty of options right now (the market is hot). Some thoughts:- Take a 2-3 week vacation somewhere else far away from the valley- Come back and see how you feel afterwards- http://founderdating.com (not quite what it sounds like)Don't do the EIR thing. Better to go moonlight for free for a week ... |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | koevet: Would be cool to have a video to showcase functionalities. Even with a free sign-in is kind of empty in there. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | bobjones: Very cool. Simple to use. I think that showing the billing model on the site would help a lot. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | markh: You should show your pricing up front. I'd never start a trial if I didn't know what the price was going to be after the 30 day trial was up. I'd be worried I'd like it but would find the price too high. |
Why is my submission dead? | thafman: Dude what did you submit? |
Book-project is a total failure, but what exactly can we learn from it? | ebook: uhm... clickable links:Blog: http://careeradvicebook.comSales Page: http://www.careeradvicebook.com/book/ |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | authentic: You will be doing another startup.My experience is that once you have worked for yourself/equity the mere thought of being employed by other people becomes impossible to bear. |
Book-project is a total failure, but what exactly can we learn from it? | DanielStraight: Wait, so let me get this right. You have had no customers. So where are the customer reviews coming from? |
Idea Management App | umbrae: Hey Ideahacker, I work at Kindling (http://www.kindlingapp.com) - if you want a free 30 day trial I can set you up with one. Let me know. |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | thedob: I have an idea and ongoing project that I'd love to run by you in case you're interested. Drop me an email at petkanics@gmail.com |
Why is my submission dead? | yummyfajitas: I'm also curious about this process. I also had a submission killed yesterday, and I can't see an obvious reason.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1065167(How Common Lisp programmers view other languages) |
Is hiring a PR company a good investment for a startup? | charleyrock: Thanks for the input...very much. |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | andreshb: In short: Put prices upfront.First question was, I already use skype chatrooms, why do I need a twitter-like client internally?
And I got the answer right away on the home page. Good job.I then went to the pricing and saw that its a 30 day trial, and after that, who knows how much Ill be charged. This deters ... |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | davidw: If you want something 'universal', Knuth's books might be a decent place to start, although you won't be doing anything practical for a while.I think the field is too new, changing too rapidly, and has too many people with widely varying goals (computer science vs make a small web site in PHP) to really have mu... |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | jacquesm: That's got to be the most difficult to answer question ever here.It's like asking how to climb Mount Everest. The flippant answer of course is 'by taking the first step'.What you learn first is different for everybody, just like that first step on to the path that leads to the summit of Mount Everest is diffe... |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | petervandijck: If you want people to actually use it, drop the 30-day trial thing. I'm not gonna try out a new tool with a 30-day trial and no further pricing info.If you can't decide on pricing for now, just say "free during beta". Drop the pricequote thing too, you're not selling expensive enterprise software (if you... |
Why is my submission dead? | davi: Email the admins, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1064973 |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | charleyrock: I know nothing about programming (maybe that is obvious from the odd question). If someone had an interest in learning, where would he start? Are the paths so varied that even the basics are not universal? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | icey: I switch languages a lot in the course of a week, this will be very useful to me.It seems really well polished - I like the look, and I was able to find everything I wanted to find. Well done! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | raju: I like it. Clean layout, easy to find what I was looking for (even searched for Clojure).But is this merely an aggregation of cheat-sheets off of the web? Is there any review process involved before a cheat-sheet shows up on your list? I guess what I am getting at is how is this different from me just searching g... |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Vindexus: Like it. There's a lot of content and it's well organized.It would be nice if there was more information on each cheat sheet before I clicked it. Maybe a list of things that are in it (Class Functions, String Functions, Regex Expressions for example). Or add more tags to each cheatsheet.Keep up the good work. |
Android development, revenue and compatibility | chrisb: Is anyone actually doing any Android development? |
Please review my startup - Accounting for Google Apps | SimonDorfman: I'm interested in trying it out for our group (gumbolabs.org, a non-profit corporation, a hackerspace). Can you suggest how one would use your site for these needs?:-manage monthly dues paid by members (each member is a client?)--breakdown of what i mean by "manage": mark each month as paid, be able to ea... |
Please review my startup - Accounting for Google Apps | kapauldo: Most small businesses have no idea what Google Apps is and why they need it. My advice is, let people try this instantly. Your registration asks for a domain. Hacker News folks understand this, but 99% of small business will abandon. I think you are in a great market and I think small business would gladl... |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | yannis: This is an excellent resource and done very professionally. I like the clean site look and nothing is more than two clicks away. Surely it will be a winner with developers.Let us know when your new year's resolution traffic is on target! Nice blog too:) |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | lpgauth: Funny, I read "Life Cheat Sheet" instead of "Lift Cheat Sheet". |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | joshfinnie: I loved your site when I first saw it... So much I submitted it myself:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1052937 |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | olalonde: Nice collection ! Community moderation/features would be nice. |
Android development, revenue and compatibility | dminor: Compatibility isn't much of an issue unless you are doing something low level with the NDK, or are using an API that has changed significantly between versions (most are fairly stable). Otherwise just follow the recommendations from the Android team for different screen sizes, etc.I haven't released my app yet ... |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | johns: You have a couple of cheat sheets of mine in your directory, which I appreciate. However, you directly link to the PDFs. It would be nice if you included a link to my site that lists the sheets I've made. Maybe on the source page for my name? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | rudle: Some user voting might be nice. This would likely create a canonical cheat sheet for each section.For instance, here http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/ruby/ the first cheat sheet isn't even ruby specific, and I think this is a lose.Otherwise, a great site I'll likely be using it in the future. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Maro: What I'd like is being able to type in a big search textbox sth like:"java try catch syntax"and it would automatically (without me hitting enter) fetch the sample code and display it in a nice syntax-highlighted manner. It should also offer auto-completion like Google (eg. after I typed "java try"...).Or:"php cla... |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | turtle4: I like that you can just log in and get started. But having to send a link and/or email to add a person works against that. Why can't I add people just by name until I decide to roll it out, at which point I could send the link/email. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | prabodh: Simple Interface..Some of the links to stanford seems to be broken.. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | jorisvoorn: Nice, clean & beautiful design, so the overview great :)Already bookmarked! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | tezza: Hi there Tim Church. Nice clean site.It looks like this is a well-named niche bookmark browsing site. I looked for more detailed About, but could only find the rather terse text mentioned at the bottom of each page. Do you personally do the maintenance and curation?I don't mind at all if you (Tim Church) do it, ... |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | rasikjain: Very clean UI. Like the collection of cheatsheets. |
An app to organize business-cards ? | csuper: Have you considered Evernote? You can input text or take photos. Then tag them all to keep it organized. |
Do BillingCircle, Spreedly, Chargify, Cheddargetter need Authorize.net? | marcguyer: CheddarGetter does not require a merchant account or gateway while kicking the tires or while you are in the development or testing phase. You will need a merchant account and gateway before you accept real money but the two processes can run concurrently. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | stse: If you are looking to evolve the site here are some suggestions: Create an online editor in javascript or flash that lets your users create and edit cheat sheets online. Leverage a CC license so your users can print and spread the created cheat sheets (free advertising). Sell prints (photos), mousepads, booklets ... |
An app to organize business-cards ? | Scott_MacGregor: I use Outlook with Business Contact Manager. It was a pain to get it set up just like I wanted it, but now i am glad I did. I discard hardcopies of business cards and just manually put the info into Outlook along with any notes I want to make. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | lionshare: great. bookmarked. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | chewbranca: Very nice! Already useful for me, thanks! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | trusko: Very handy, good job! Bookmarked. Thanks. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | davidw: (Nitpick: It's Tcl, not TCL) |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | hariis: Good job pulling together all these cheatsheets and a nice site too!Next step would be for something like a cheat sheet wiki where the information has a clear time stamp and has the possibility of being kept accurate.This is a problem with these pdf cheat sheets. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | DanHulton: Goddamn that's slick. That goes straight in my bookmarks.Any chance you could get an XNA section? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Adrenalist: Very useful, but the :: separators are distracting. I think that most first-time visitors are looking to scan your collection for a particular technology (that's what I did).This view [http://devcheatsheet.com/?view=tag] is more readable. How about using the 'tag' view layout, but add categories to make bro... |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | zokier: Seems that you are currently hotlinking the cheatsheets from other sites. imho it would be nicer to host the files yourself, to prevent link rot and to not "steal" other peoples bandwidth. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | CWuestefeld: Nice, it's bookmarked now. Good organization, looks pretty complete.(Why are so many cheat sheets needed for SQL injection?) |
What do you use for bookkeeping? | tubaman: I use a combination of a quick-n-dirty double-entry accounting django app, and web scraping scripts for my bank/credit bards online accounts so I don't have to enter stuff in manually. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | thinkbohemian: This is really convenient, very well done. Is there any way we could network a text editor such as TextMate, to pull context help depending on the file/language you're currently using? So you press F1 and it would send you to the appropriate PDF...? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | AdamN: There seems to be no understanding of 'version' by the search algorithm. For instance with Python:http://devcheatsheet.com/tag/python/Version 2.4 is near the top. Even if that was the most popular cheat sheet, there should be some way to have references for newer versions at the top. I know it's a tough probl... |
Please review our startup: Moot - simple, real-time collaboration | WonkoMeatJimp: Visualize failure, and then don't do that. I suggest you immediatley start creating innovative features that will set you apart from the rest of the crowd. You only get one real chance at a flash point and potential customers need to see what sets you apart from everyone else. I would focus all my tim... |
Career path for founder of a failed venture backed startup? | CoreyReese: I did a three year stint as an associate at a venture firm. Drop a line: c.reese@gmail.com if you'd like perspective. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Sukotto: http://www.viemu.com/a_vi_vim_graphical_cheat_sheet_tutorial...Is in the "vi" section but not the "Vim" one. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | lpolovets: Great implementation!Most of your visitors will be coming because they want to learn a language from a cheat sheet or have a quick reference. This seems like a great target audience for Amazon links. If you had 2-3 books you recommended in the right sidebar for each category, I think that might fare better t... |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | fakir: You should add a button that says "Report broken link". For example the My UNIX cheatsheet under ssh is broken. What do you think? |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | fuzzythinker: Browsers would be nice. Best organization I've seen! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | evandavid: I like it. Though I feel that some of these guides don't really qualify as cheat sheets. I consider a cheat sheet to be a quick reference with helpful commands, syntax, examples etc. Some of these documents are just condensed howto guides. For instance, most of the SEO ones. Something to think about anyway. |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | pasbesoin: Unless you have a strong, raw intellectual motivation in the endeavor, start by learning whatever allows you to accomplish tasks of interest to you. This is a strong motivating factor. If you like it, you'll keep learning more in order to accomplish more.Tasks that save you time and effort are a good place... |
Review my location tracking site | Vindexus: I like the clean simplistic design. I also like that you have a short "privacy policy" right on the page.I'd so some testing on the "Where Are You?" button because it might confuse users into thinking that they have to put where THEY are when they click that button. Maybe "Send Question" or even just "Go".I d... |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | adamzochowski: Concepts, typically most important are: . variables
. code
. conditional code (if statements)
. repeating code (loops/while/until/for)
. code grouping (procedures/methods/functions)
. variable grouping (records/structs)
More advanced concepts then become . boolean logic (extension to co... |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Skriticos: Any chance for a QT entry in the Libraries & Frameworks section? That's defiantly a framework worth noting, but I'm not sure how much cheatsheets are out there for it. They are kind of hard to find. |
What is the hierarchy of programming? | charleyrock: Wow - great input. Thanks very much. |
Review my site - readit.me | kungfooey: I started out with Java, but I've worked in PHP for a few years now. I dabbled with Django, but this is my first attempt to build anything useful in Rails. It uses the Amazon API to gather book data, and obviously authlogic + facebooker for Facebook Connect. |
Review my site - readit.me | azeemazhar2: Hey that is really nice. Will it show me recommendations in some way? |
Review my site - readit.me | hajrice: First of all, when I arrive, I have no idea What the app is for, how it helps me, etc. I suggest you add a paragraph or two explaining what it does and how to get started.
But overall it's a pretty cool site. Good luck! |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | johndoe77: Excellent work. I'm telling all my friends about this great resource. |
Review my site - readit.me | CWuestefeld: Is this just a way for me to log what books I've read? I'm not really getting the point, I'm sorry to say. |
Review my site - devcheatsheet.com | Concours: excellent work, just bookmarked it. The only thing I'll recommend you is to improve that adsense there or look for a new revenue model, you won't earn much from it at the place it is, maybe sell ebooks later: kind of the "devcheatsheet book". |
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