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How to make the most out of my domain name? | rrival: Why is no one talking about Fujitsu? =)http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/retailing/technology/hard... |
Please Review My Startup: BeBefore | ique: It seems like it could be useful and has a nice clean layout, big pictures, vids and useful links. I sort of agree with the "spam" feeling though, something doesn't feel right about it, maybe the lack of text, maybe with nothing but pics on the front-page it just looks like a big ad for random products.One functi... |
Please Review My Startup: BeBefore | daok: It tooks me few seconds to figure out what was the purpose of this website. No complete review, just a list of product with affiliate link. No About Page, no information about how to use the website. Not sure if it can be valuable since you can simply do a Google on the product and find more information. I think ... |
Please Review My Startup: BeBefore | jriddycuz: I agree with most of the comments here that it's not obvious what the site is supposed to do when you first land on it. Really, a simple "Be Before! gives you information on such and such in a way that no other site does..yada yada. <a href="/about">Read more about Be Before!...</a>" would be extremely helpf... |
Please Review My Startup: BeBefore | 27182818284: This might come off as a little harsh, but you've seen http://www.google.com/products before, right?At first, I thought that the site was going to be a cool place for information on the latest gadgets in a nice, clean layout. I inferred from the name that "Be Before" meant something like "Be before your fr... |
Review My App - CareLogger (A Diabetes Tracking Tool) | alexh: I like it!Unfortunately, the fundamental problem with diabetics, and the reason that the (now) 4 people who have commented here never created this app, is that diabetics are lazy. This needs to be soooooo easy to use. Which it is, to the extent that it is a webapp.This really somehow needs to get turned into a... |
Who's Hiring? | aquaphile: MileMeter, in Dallas, TX. See http://milemeter.com/jobs for details. |
Review My App - CareLogger (A Diabetes Tracking Tool) | iaman: Very nice. I agree with most commentators that a mobile app would be a big step forward. It will also greatly help patients to share their log data with their physicians instead of mere print outs as suggested on the web site. The solution for laziness would be complete automation as one poster suggested or the ... |
Review My App - CareLogger (A Diabetes Tracking Tool) | Vindexus: I have to agree about the signup page appearing out of place. I'd keep it in the same style as the rest of the site.The About page has "About HumaLogger" as the header. I'm assuming you guys changed names once or twice ;) |
Review my Startup - IntroSpectrum (Website Performance Monitoring) | shpxnvz: This is a project I've been working mostly alone on for quite a while. It's a hosted website performance monitoring service that uses live browser instances to test page performance and generate reports highlighting performance problems.Any feedback, tips, etc... would be greatly appreciated! |
VPS - Where should I go? | aidscholar: I'm happy with linode. Decent prices, good service. |
VPS - Where should I go? | z8000: Probably to searchyc.comhttp://searchyc.com/%2522ask+hn%2522+vpsI like Linode FWIW. Bandwidth pooling, good API, good resources, mostly-idle (hand-waving) quad-cores, 5 data centers, a very responsive IRC channel and forums, ability to grow/resize a linode at any time, etc. |
VPS - Where should I go? | spooneybarger: If you need backups by the company themselves that can be used to deploy more instances I would go with slicehost, otherwise linode. Slicehost has more features like a handy iphone app, but linode is cheaper and at least in my limited testing, performs better. |
Review my friend's app (launched today) | pedalpete: it is actually quite interesting, and has a strong underhanded 'lets get something done so we don't end up on meet or die'.But what is with 'Goolah'? That is a fairly ugly mascot, and I don't think he is adding anything to the site.
Maybe he should be eating money and time rather than just staring at me bla... |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | tbgvi: Hey everyone, we just ended our closed beta and launched so I wanted to get your thoughts. We’ve been working on Cashier Live for about 9 months– in beta for the last 4 or so. Even though it’s pretty polished now, it started off as an MVP and we’ve had our first two stores/users involved from the start. We’re pr... |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | misuba: Convincing people that broadband is stable enough to bet their income on is going to be a hard one. |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | tocomment: This looks great!My wife owns a dance studio so I'd love to get her switched over to this instead of QuickBooks POS. I hate it because there's this insanely complex process to get it connected to a regular QuickBooks install.To even bring up switching over these would be her requirements:1. Integrate with Q... |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | wensing: In that Flash piece at the top, I can't click ahead to "Manage your store" or "Secure data" or "Try it free". You have to wait for the movie to progress forward. You should change that. |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | whereareyou: Way to go. Web based POS's are definitely the future.An online demo might be a good idea. Best of luck. Maybe Intuit will but it :) |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | tocomment: Oh for the pricing. I'd make the free kinda sucky, and have the current basic plan be $5 or $10 per month.My reasoning is that the current free version would meet our needs, but I'm not comfortable putting a free web service into our sales process. When you pay for something you feel like it's going to be ... |
Review my friend's app (launched today) | growt: I was a little bit disapointed. I thought your friend had a revolutionary take at online dating :) |
VPS - Where should I go? | carbon8: linode, slicehost, rackspace cloud |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | cantastoria: You guys should look into restaurant POS. The existing systems are horrible and usually require a team to come in and set them up and cost a fortune.Oh and just a quick comment.. I would spell out Point of Sale and not use the acronym. It has a different meaning to most people. |
Is using humor in your pitch deck a good idea? | skennedy: Did you catch the superbowl commercials last night?Done well, humor can be a key component of a marketing strategy. |
Is using humor in your pitch deck a good idea? | robfitz: Humor helps if you're already doing well, and hurts otherwise. |
Is using humor in your pitch deck a good idea? | jolie: I think there's a hierarchy in pitch priorities:1. Clarity.2. Brevity.3. Uniqueness of product.4. Uniqueness of pitch....and so on. If you can make your pitch more unique with humor in a way that doesn't cross any boundaries of taste (and if what you intend to be funny is ACTUALLY funny), then go for it!For exam... |
VPS - Where should I go? | regularfry: Where are you? http://www.bytemark.co.uk are good in Europe. |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | mrtron: This system seems to be like early VoIP applications in terms of product evolution.Similar challenges: Stability/security/availability, perceived value to customersBut similar advantages: Zero chicken and egg problem (VoIP could do outgoing calls, you still perform the same CC txns), very low costs, ability to ... |
Is using humor in your pitch deck a good idea? | chime: I saw the whole presentation. I have absolutely no idea what lmframework is or does. All I see are words and no actual information: http://lmframework.com/page.php?id=lmfSure, humor could help with pitching an idea or hurt it if used unwisely. But lack of information about what you specifically do will certainly... |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | yumraj: While I understand the Flash hate etc. that some people have below, before you start doing anything about it do prioritize your features.Who is your real customer, I'm assuming it's small business owners etc. Do they real care about Flash/AdBlock etc. Do they even know about those things?Focus on the real featu... |
Is using humor in your pitch deck a good idea? | coffeemug: I'd say in a pitch, unless you're really good (judging from your question you're not quite there yet, and few people ever are) situational humor is OK, while all other humor should probably be cut completely. If something funny happens during the pitch, it's ok to joke about it. Planned humor usually doesn't... |
Review My App - CareLogger (A Diabetes Tracking Tool) | liminalist: Type 1 diabetic here. Maybe I can offer some unique insight. Or maybe, also being a hacker, that makes me overly critical, so sorry if this is too harsh.There are tons of tools like this out there (including software from Medtronic, the leading maker of insulin pumps, that they've clinically proven increa... |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | jeromec: I haven't read all comments, so apologies if something has been covered. I think you could make some serious cash if you execute this correctly as well as heed customer feedback. For the website, several things... The site looks great, but needs tweaking. I'd get rid of the Flash. The loading is irritating and... |
I love Nethack. Are there other great terminal games? | Falcor: The SLASHEM variant of Nethack has a lot of added awesomeness - rolling a Doppelganger monk is particularly rockin'. |
Review my friend's app (launched today) | ntulip: Changing the url allows you to see what other results people got. now that was a waste |
I love Nethack. Are there other great terminal games? | jacquesm: hunt the wumpus ;)the infocom stuff.hhgttg and others. |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | dasht: I'm very skeptical of this idea. I don't mean to spread "negative energy" or flame but, may I be frank?Walking it through:Let's start with the straw-man that I'm a small single shop and don't want CC processing. Cashierlive will take me as a customer for $50/month - but I can buy a robust cash register that wi... |
VPS - Where should I go? | godDLL: This is not HN material. Direct this question to http://serverfault.com/Other than that, here's a list that should do you good: http://djangofriendly.com/hosts/ |
Looking for interns / entry level? | amitk: Manymoon is hiring full-time engineers (http://bit.ly/9sdEmA) and an intern (http://bit.ly/b8yE8N).We're a small, funded startup in San Francisco that's already generating revenue. Manymoon is also a top-rated application for Google Apps.Please contact jobs@manymoon.com |
I love Nethack. Are there other great terminal games? | zephyrfalcon: We should write some... |
I love Nethack. Are there other great terminal games? | lepht: http://www.catb.org/~esr/ski/Ski is a super addictive SkiFree-like game for Terminal. |
Is using humor in your pitch deck a good idea? | dustingetz: i don't get it(read the whole deck, clicked around, watched 30sec of a video) |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | losvedir: Any reason the video with the smiling guy on the front page can't start playing if you click him? It looked like it should and I was initially confused when I pressed "play" and the video didn't play, taking me to a new page instead. |
Review our site Aylay.it | Vindexus: "Aylay is built on the collective intelligence of the Web. With Aylay Agile Search, start searching and get results simultaneously from the sites you know and trust, instantly. Refine your search and get results in real time without leaving the page."That's quite a bit of marketese. None of that really tells ... |
Review our site Aylay.it | bpick: Pretty cool site, unfortunately there were some strange side effects from searching.a. 20% was injected between my wordsb. I searched for "Income of women in India" and got the wikipedia entry for the United States.I like being able to decide which search I want to look at however - very cool. |
Review our site Aylay.it | lurkinggrue: Not bad, add reddit as well? |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | Raphael: Increase the font size. |
Review my startup: Cashier Live | stevenwei: Interesting idea. I've been around the restaurant POS space for a couple of years and have been wondering about the feasibility of doing a web based solution.To my knowledge there are a few other players in this space, although I don't know how big they are or how much traction they have:http://www.firesalep... |
Review our site Aylay.it | tdmackey: I find it disappointing in its current form. I assume you aren't doing much more than a few ajaxified api calls to the 5 or so engines you're aggregating which is neither technically challenging nor technically interesting.However, if you applied relative rankings for the individual items from each engine and... |
Review our site Aylay.it | mstefff: why would anyone want to use this? |
Review our site Aylay.it | andrewljohnson: You know you are heading down the wrong track with this when you say "searches Wikipedia, Twitter, and more..."Please tell me one search engine that doesn't search these. It's almost like you are calling out a weakness in your product.Google doesn't search Wikipedia and Twitter and more. They search eve... |
Review our site Aylay.it | taitems: Ideally you should develop a "velocity" kind of ranking similar to http://www.oursignal.com and merge in results, instead of simply displaying them in individual boxes. That way a user can work out which is the most popular/relevant entry overall, not the most relevant per site. |
Check out my YC app demo - rip away | freebsd_dude: Ive taken the site down. Thanks everyone for their suggestions. |
Review our site Aylay.it | dangrossman: Thanks. I searched for one of my sites, and found a "how to hack [site name]" video on YouTube I didn't know was there. It wasn't actually a hack, just a silly JavaScript trick to disable a upgrade nag graphic, but I never would've noticed that video otherwise. |
How do you use SSH? | sumeeta: Cool. Now what? |
Is using humor in your pitch deck a good idea? | jdietrich: It is a good idea - if you're actually funny.I don't know what your product is. I've scoured your website and I still don't know what your product is. No sale. |
I love Nethack. Are there other great terminal games? | throw_away: people seem to like dwarf fortress (http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/). I do not get it, though. |
Is it crazy to offer a freemium package in a "lo-fi" startup? | learnalist: What i Think your doing is dangling a "carrot on a stick".
Just the same as many mobile companies offering you free calls or sms. They/you want them comfortable with your product, used to using it. Then the barrier to going past the free quota is a little lower.I equally like to a point how your tracking it... |
Is it crazy to offer a freemium package in a "lo-fi" startup? | moconnor: I think it's more like a traditional trial model than freemium - the real benefit of your service is its convenience, not the ability to send letters at all. To benefit from the convenience you need to be sending more than two letters a month, so the free stamps just give people a way to try the service out b... |
Is it crazy to offer a freemium package in a "lo-fi" startup? | patio11: Psst: internal dashboard to track the number of stamps which non-paying users used this month won't take you five minutes to implement. It is a single SQL query, right? I know you'll have to discard a working Excel system to do it but from the moment you're done to the moment you die you will never have to u... |
Is it crazy to offer a freemium package in a "lo-fi" startup? | csomar: You are using the best strategy, but you should care about people leaving. Why do they leave? May be they were not satisfied with your product, or they just don't want to pay.There is a trick to make people pay, the same that Microsoft and other software companies are using. Give your service for free and start... |
Is it crazy to offer a freemium package in a "lo-fi" startup? | jdietrich: Why two free stamps per month? If someone uses your free service for three months, or six, or twelve, what are the chances that they will upgrade to a paid service? Why would this be more profitable than a plain pay-as-you-go plan with no free stamps, or one or two initial trial stamps? If I choose to sign u... |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | spokey: I've been working on Brightspoke (part-time and bootstrapped) for a couple of months and while there's a lot more left to do, I feel there's enough of the MDP/MVP in place that hopefully you should be able to see where I'm headed.For fear of tainting your first impressions of the site, I won't say a lot more ri... |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | danteembermage: I'm sort of a target user for your site (family of five, don't own a [working] car, bike everywhere, don't know much about bikes)I like what you've got; your site would be much more valuable with a lot more information. Things that come to mind1. Maintenance of all kinds, how to change a spoke, what is ... |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | apsurd: My first impression was that I accidentally typed in the wrong url and went to one of those fake-website landing page sites that just run ads all over them. I'm pretty sure it has something to do with your color scheme and blatantly stock picture. One thing that might help is to soften up the background with ei... |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | mwexler: Unclear if this is aimed at bike experts or bike newbies. Is this to help me find a bike? Then help me understand WHY the data points are important. Even your front search frame dropdown: alum vs. steel? I don't know, why should I pick one? This assumes I already know the reasons why these filters are im... |
What's the deal with Common Lisp? | sedachv: Bad corner of the Lisp world? Socket libraries are the Skid Row of Common Lisp.The reason it's hard to create a good library comes from an interplay of 3 things: streams, lack of standard character representation, and lack of standard foreign function interfaces. The latter two are sort of advantages in that i... |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | jdietrich: I just don't know what your product does for me as a user, at least not yet. As a serious bike geek, there's nothing I couldn't find at one of the better-stocked dealers, some of whom will provide very rich and specific data. I've spend stupid amounts of money on bikes, but they've all been carbon-framed, dr... |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | tonymorgan: You've got the quotation on the front page wrong, it's, "Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the human race.". |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | by: Some small observations :In Firefox 3.0 (Javascript off) the drop-down menus do not sit next to their labels properly. Perhaps if you get it to pass W3C validation http://validator.w3.org/
it will look better.It would be nice to browse the bicycles as well as search them.I didn't really know what information I was ... |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | pierrefar: I'm a big cyclist so definitely in your target market.The big problem I see right now: What is your site about? I opened the link with a bit of excitedness and literally I spent a few seconds confused as to what this site is and what it does for me. Some specific points:Your tag line "We love bikes", yes gre... |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | rythie: I think the drop downs should give totals of the number under that selectionThe colours clash and there a too many different fonts used.The Left hand side rounded corners on the white box don't look right. |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | Huppie: Since I am not very familiar with the english defintions for the handlebars I decided to click the 'Understanding Handlebars' link. Sadly there is an awful lot of text there but no images of the different types of handlebars. |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | Daniel_Newby: The "Understanding Handlebars" page should have pictures, not just a wall of text. |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | Huppie: "Our mission is to put more people on bikes by creating informed consumers."As someone who uses a bike as his main transportation (or maybe because dutch bike-culture is completetly different from american bike culture) I cannot understand how this website will put more people on a bike.If you want to put more ... |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | brown9-2: From the front page, it's not really clear to me what the purpose of filling out the "Discover Bikes" form is. Am I going to be shown search results of bikes to buy? Or just general information about different models? |
Please review my startup for bicyclists | silentbicycle: At risk of duplicating things others have said here -* If I didn't already know why I prefer steel to carbon, or aluminum, I wouldn't learn it from the site. It really doesn't give any rationale for different materials. It looks like you tried to explain the pros and cons of different handlebars, but it'... |
Deliberate practice to make for a better developer | techsansar: Intresting |
Deliberate practice to make for a better developer | andrewcooke: maybe you can, to some extent, exploit the nature of software? i'm thinking about how i have learnt, and how that ties in to the points you list above, and one obvious connection is that you are automatically guided to "highly granular areas for improvement" if you continuously refactor and revise (polish... |
Deliberate practice to make for a better developer | Arun2009: This may not be 100% relevant to your question, but am posting this FWIW.My last paid job (C++ and Java developer at an investment bank) required a 2:1 split between debugging and development work. I identified the following areas that could use improvement.1. Knowledge of our code-base. I spent downtime at w... |
Deliberate practice to make for a better developer | francoisdevlin: I think one of the best things you can do is start trying to solve something in a very public way. The faceless mob on internet will correct you, and you can quickly learn from your own mistakes.However, this method has its drawbacks. You need to be able to simultaneously take the criticism with a (la... |
Review my Firefox add-on idea | DanielStraight: If I had a nickel for every time someone had an idea for community-edited overlaid content on other web pages, I'd be a very rich man. It has never worked. What will make your idea work? That is your fundamental problem, not whether or not it's a good idea. How you will make it work is the problem. |
Deliberate practice to make for a better developer | beagle3: Do not ever cut and paste while writing code; type it again. When I learned programming in the ZX Spectrum / C64 era, magazines and books were also used as a software distribution media - and you'd have to type in the program to get the latest and greatest.I typed my share of programs (a few tens or hundreds o... |
Education level of successful tech founders? | icey: Education can help you, yes.... but I've never heard anyone who succeeded say that their degree was pivotal in their success. They've all pretty well said it takes some smarts, some guts, and more hard work than ordinary humans should be able to accomplish.(Of course, in some fields you must have a degree just to... |
collecting usage statistics | CoryMathews: Normally they are looking for what features you use most and how you use them.For example a program has a button on the main menu, after collecting usage stats they find out no one clicks this button. Thus they remove it from the menu. ect. Its normally all for usability. |
Education level of successful tech founders? | mos1: Grad school isn't just about in-class education, it's about making connections, opening doors, and demonstrating a certain level of seriousness about the endeavor.If you have an MBA from HBS and an MS from MIT, there will be a lot of doors open to you that simply won't be available without those sorts of connecti... |
What do you do for Asset Tracking? | portman: We use a SharePoint template named "Physical Asset Tracking and Management" that has been very effective for a 30-person company.http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/... |
How to code with a broken wrist? | olefoo: Hello. Go get the wrist taken care of. You are risking permanent damage to your hands. Coding can wait. |
How to code with a broken wrist? | rick_2047: Use dvorak. I know it sounds ridiculously simple but it works. And also it will help you learn new something for the rest of life. I say take this opportunity and at least try.My second advice would be to really type with one hand (if your regular hand, right or left, is not broken). I did my high school CS ... |
Review my startup: buriedTV | spulec: This is something I've been working on for a week or so. There is very little content. Any feedback would be appreciated.It was somewhat inspired by YCRFS 4. |
How to code with a broken wrist? | ZeroGravitas: Didn't xkcd have a perl based hack that mirrored a keyboard so you only needed to type on one side and it guessed when you meant the actual key or the mirror one.http://blog.xkcd.com/2007/08/14/mirrorboard-a-one-handed-key...Reading it now, the mirror shift is manually activated, probably a good job for a... |
Review my startup: buriedTV | JshWright: I don't trust the rest of humanity enough to make this worthwhile for me. |
Review my startup: buriedTV | steamer25: Interesting... There is a bit of value in not having to find and program your own content (e.g., Radio DJ vs. MP3). On the other hand, there are already a bunch of services that handle this in a more general sense (HN, Reddit, Digg, etc.) and specifically for video (YouTube, etc.).Your differentiation seems ... |
Press Releases - Are they worth the trouble/cost? | ericd: Anyone have experience with PRNewswire? |
Please review my project, Done.io | gridspy: Hotlink: http://done.ioYou don't even sell me on your product before you attempt to get me to sign up.How about- a features page (ala http://gridspy.co.nz)- a public demo todo list (perhaps anyone can make public todo lists)- the ability to create a list using only cookies and no sign upSuffice to say I didn't... |
Press Releases - Are they worth the trouble/cost? | jmonegro: I think it comes down to what it is that you're announcing and how big you are. I wouldn't bother if it is isn't a big deal outside your company. |
Am I crazy to port my Rails app to PHP? | tapostrophemo: More a note to myself than anything: check out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1112543 |
Please review my project, Done.io | hamgav: Your site is missing a "Take a tour" page. You need to at least include some screenshots of the product or a video. Also, how is your product different from other task managers like Remember The Milk? |
What's the best way to get search engine traffic? | spooneybarger: easiest but most expensive: buy tons of banner ads that get people to search to find out more about your product.hardest but least expensive: get people talking about your product so that others start searching to get more info about it. |
What web hosting do you use? | alttab: I've had great success and ease-of-use with Bluehost (bluehost.com) and its subsidiary Hostmonster (hostmonster.com). They are an affordable shared host that do all the domain stuff as well. Their support is great and they have the latest version of CPanel. If you wanted to make LAMP or Rails applications they ... |
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