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Gmail alternatives? | cnouri: I work at Rackspace and we see choosing our email solutions as alternatives... http://twitter.com/solevangelist/statuses/9028774642 |
Anyone developing for Roku or similar platforms? | pstinnett: Not Roku but I'm going to be porting a webapp to a boxee app soon enough. I'll share once I do! |
Should we give incentives ? | marilyn: This may be more theoretical than you are hoping for, nonetheless, I'd like to suggest Dan Pink's TED talk on The Surprising Science of Motivation http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.htmlPink explains how financial incentives often have the opposite effect on motivation than we would want or expect... |
Google Reader Alternative? | gr366: I use Feverº by Shaun Inman. It requires that you have a hosting account somewhere, but has an interesting twist to it:You set up your subscriptions as either "Kindling" or "Sparks". Kindling are your essential feeds and Sparks are your supplementary feeds. So Sparks just kind of sit in the background (though yo... |
Google Reader Alternative? | nfnaaron: I really like Brief, a Firefox addon. I like minimalism.It has folders. |
Gmail alternatives? | tybris: If find Google Apps for your Domain to be a good Gmail alternative ;-). |
Gmail alternatives? | Kilimanjaro: This is the right time for Mozilla to offer mymail@firefox.comMillions will flock to them. Instant win. |
Should we give incentives ? | JacobAldridge: Incentives to employees work best when they meet two criteria:1) They are directly linked to performance. Giving our random amounts of money (eg, Christmas Bonus because the business had a good year) can backfire because it sets the expectation that such incentives will be standard, not a bonus. Rewardin... |
Anyone develop MS solutions on a Mac? | cpr: Run Win7 under VMware Fusion. Excellent product. You'll have the best of both worlds. |
Gmail alternatives? | nfnaaron: Here's a comparison of web mail providers:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webmail_providersFrom that list I use fastmail.fm for outgoing (smtp). (Reasons of historical accident.) $5/year, no ads, satisfied so far.Another alternative is to go the shared host route. Plus: you'll get a shell account w... |
Anyone develop MS solutions on a Mac? | justrudd: I develop on a MacBook Pro with a Apple Cinema Display hooked up to it. I've tried both VMWare Fusion and Bootcamp. When in Fusion, the only thing running is Visual Studio. I turn off everything - Aero, sound, etc. It runs fine for the most part. I use a dark color scheme and sometimes scrolling through ... |
Review our startup: Unbig.me | theweirdzone: I've been using it and I love it. It's so easy to use and the stats are terrific.
The ads are clean too. i was frustrated with other shorteners displaying mainly soft porn and gambling ads!!
Only one sore point - no support. I have sent a few support requests and have not received any replies. and how do... |
What happened to Winamp? | sburgess: Was that an app that came with Windows 95? |
What happened to Winamp? | YuriNiyazov: Same here. I think the reason why we used Winamp was because it was the fucking cool edgy underdog. After it was sold to AOL (which is as uncool as can possibly get) and got loaded up on corporate features, we moved on. |
What happened to Winamp? | ctingom: I think Napster happened, and frankly had a great music player interface (for it's day). Then iTunes came later and (at least back then) it was light and fast. |
What happened to Winamp? | chaosmachine: AOL bought Nullsoft. After that, it was pretty much all downhill. It went from an mp3 player to a mp3 player / video player / web browser / digital media library / online radio / toolbar / etc... |
What happened to Winamp? | noonespecial: I still used winamp classic/lite right up until I accidentally switched over to vlc. I installed vlc to play videos and noticed that it was playing mp3's and rtsp's as well, and it was good enough that I didn't bother to switch it back. |
What happened to Winamp? | stan_rogers: Bloated, yeah, but I still use it. Straightforward, categorized, text-based music library management and the ability to play cut/continuous tracks without a hiccup even with other disk IO going on(which is why I rejected the other simple players I've tried) keep it on my machine. (I should mention that I u... |
What happened to Winamp? | sidmitra: Switched to Foobar2000. Easier to manage your library if it has more than 10K songs, and really light on memory. |
wind powered, power generating ships | jws: I doubt it. Compared to a fixed tower wind turbine you have hull drag losses, water turbine losses, and the problem of where to put the power since you won't have cables to shore.Some cruising sailors do use systems like this to generate their own power when under way. |
What happened to Winamp? | mrphoebs: Still use winamp with the enhancer DSP plugin. |
Gmail alternatives? | agravier: GMX is not too bad |
What happened to Winamp? | po: I heard that llamas everywhere joined into a class action lawsuit and filed suit for being whipped repeatedly. AOL, having newly acquired the company, decided to remove the llama whipping features, instead opting for non-llama-whipping ones. |
What happened to Winamp? | jrockway: Its interface did not really scale with peoples' music collections. Software with better library management eventually replaced it. |
wind powered, power generating ships | Someone: 'useful' is subjective. That mast would not have to be 'very large' to power one's GPS system, and having that certainly could be useful. At even lower power, a tiny impeller that measures boat speed could be very useful.If you are aiming for large amounts of power, I would expect it to be more efficient to re... |
What happened to Winamp? | nokya: Most colleagues at work listen to music from their iPod, not their workstation. |
wind powered, power generating ships | david927: Take a look at this; I submitted it a couple days ago and found it very interesting:http://thepowergeneration.blogspot.com/2009/09/hydrogen-chal...If you had other ships carrying away the generated hydrogen, it seems like a brilliant idea. |
Anyone develop MS solutions on a Mac? | macms: thanks for your responses. looks like i'm getting a Mac. |
wind powered, power generating ships | mbrubeck: My friend Craig, an engineer for an oceanography company, has been working on very similar ideas for a while. Here are two of his proposals:http://longshotcity.com/2008/11/17/flymill/http://www.paratow.com/ |
From desktop to webapp - where to begin? | kls: JavaScript, CSS, HTML and REST is what you should learn everything else is transferable to any back end language and servers you choose.Once you start building applications in this manner you can write you REST services in the language of the day and implement it on the server of the day. |
Review my app: Wappr | unignorant: Interesting! Perhaps I missed it, but I feel that you need some way to break down the suggestions into categories.Also, of course I don't know your long term intentions, but something like this would seem difficult to monetize. |
Review my app: Wappr | bearwithclaws: Wappr is my lil weekend side project (and also my first app!) that provides a votable list of app requests powered by Twitter.It's a simple app with the purpose of providing entrepreneurs/hackers/developers ideas & inspirations on what app to create, based on feedback from the public.I would love to hear... |
Review my app: Wappr | vinhboy: clicking "what is wappr" should toggle slideup slidedown, not just slideDown. |
Review my app: Wappr | dangrossman: I like the idea. I actively look for "I wish there was a [website, app, plugin, extension...]" threads in forums sometimes just to get some inspiration.In Chrome 4.0, there seems to be white "vote now" text running down the left side of the page, barely visible against the gray background, after I maximize... |
Review my app: Wappr | DeusExMachina: Great app!Some time ago I was thinking about creating something similar. I am one of those developers that finds figuring out what people want extremely difficult. But I did not think about it in terms of twitter, so it appears you implemented it better than I would have done.A possible way to expand it ... |
OS / Hardware choice for a software startup in Africa | yannis: >I'll be training them on Python/Django/etc and it just doesn't ...If you are going to provide the training the hardware does not matter. You can just extend the training to cover the OS. My preference - having worked in the Continent - would have been for Windows, since it can accelerate the training and intro... |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | spooneybarger: Our primary means of monitoring is to do fullpage requests to different parts of the application every 5 minutes and check the results. We have a historical record from multiple locations around the world that we can use to see if changes were made that had a negative impact as well as automated alerts w... |
Review my app: Wappr | epall: I'm seriously depressed by the number of requests for social networking aggregators (Twitter+FB+Wave+Buzz or whatever). |
Review my app: Wappr | mscantland: Your app should have a "how much would you pay?" field. The answer is probably zero for most of these. |
Review my app: Wappr | dconti: I think it's great. Having organization (so you can minimize dupes and easily sort through items) would be a great next project and would keep the utility high. Per the other post, i think you could do a little bit to make it an interesting source of leads for anyone who tries to solve one of the posted problem... |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | dpritchett: I have trouble imagining something more useful than Munin for a *nix server. Check out this screenshot - it only shows four of the tens of graphs available at any given time: http://dpritchett.posterous.com/test-driving-munin-service-s...Edit: Munin profiles services and responsiveness. You'll probably w... |
Review my app: Wappr | sahueso: I'm very impressed that that's your first app. I started programming my first serious web site recently, before this I just made small sites to learn how to use CSS,PHP, Javascript and MySql, however I doubt that whatever I make will come looking as good as that. What did you use? From what or where did you le... |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | dangrossman: A Windows 7/Vista desktop gadget. Actually, the gadget is just a tiny (400x300ish) iframe showing a webpage with some small text. It sits in the corner of one of my monitors where I can always see it.This webpage is a list of servers (front and back end) and their load averages.At least for all the webapps... |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | fseek: I would say all of them. Generally top + atop + the log files should be enough. |
Review my app: Wappr | lawn: The site looks good but I'd like it a lot more if it was unobtrusive (works without javascript). Not a biggie but still. |
Review my app: Wappr | tom_ilsinszki: A single sentence should be enough to describe what Wappr does. It probably could fit next to you logo too. |
Review my app: Wappr | lisper: I love it! I think you may be seriously underestimating the potential of what you've done here. |
Review my app: Wappr | adrianwaj: This is also a great app to find new users for any particular site that already fulfils a request. Thus, there could be a field where people can write the name of an applicable pre-existing app with a note, with that also being tweeted out to the requesting user. Then, bunch all the notes and source tweets t... |
Review my app: Wappr | stuntgoat: Don't stop at ideas for webapps. What about ideas for creating jobs or reducing environmental problems? I guess you could crank out other sites that used collective decision making fairly quickly, now that you have the template. Build a network of these sites and sell it to someone.If you had groups for peop... |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | rajuvegesna: If you are looking for some commercial solutions, there are ton of them like AppManager (appmanager.com). But then, some of these solutions monitor what you expose from your application.I don't know if there are any hosted solutions though. |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | dmytton: These are all important metrics but they're available from different things.You will have application specific metrics - errors, user counts, message queue sizes. These will help you understand what is happening in the app itself, let you fix problems and ensure that things are running smoothly. For this we us... |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | dryicerx: If you're addicted to every statistic possible, check out collectd http://collectd.org/ . It's a tiny daemon that polls every couple of seconds pretty much every server and services stat imaginable (cpu, mem, disk, snmp from routers, get vals over http from your app, apache, *sql, etc) without really any not... |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | imagetic: http://newrelic.com has been pretty critical, but we're a Rails only shop. |
What happened to Winamp? | keefe: Zinf ne Freeamp http://www.zinf.org/ also showed up as an open source player after all the degradation others already discuss, I'm using Rhythmbox right now just out of laziness basically. I dunno what is going on in the lands of windows these days. |
Review my app: Wappr | vais: Please add the ability to search. |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | sunkencity: Nagios - measuring that the application and database is up, and that disk and load are ok. (also ping but that is redundant).I use exception notifier for rails. Simple, but it works. Might switch to newrelic.From time to time I also use pingdom.com to see that the site is available from different networks a... |
Great tech entrepreneurs who saw success in their mid 30s? | keefe: Don't forget the venerable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_Sanders from my home-state who started franchising KFC at 65. How long does a successful startup take to build once you hit the proper idea, 5-10 years? You regularly see professional athletes working into their 40s, I find it hard to believe physic... |
Review my app: Wappr | iaskwhy: I'm a faviconist claiming that every site needs a favicon.Very nice and simple idea, I've been working with some similar stuff and believe there's a bunch of work to do with what people say. Given that it's free what people say on Twitter, etc, I'd say thinkers should start finding interesting stuff there, eve... |
Review my app: Wappr | maxklein: Do you do this with the twitter API? |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | ianmcgowan: It's early development (pre-alpha), but http://www.leemba.com/ looks promising. |
Review my app: Wappr | abraham: I still don't know what it does... |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | doriang: ScriptCanary - monitors Javascript errors |
Review my app: Wappr | thenduks: So how do the people wanting something (poster and voters) find out about it when it gets made (or told about it if it already exists)? Am I missing a feature? |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | wooster: For stats, I use Ganglia. The newest versions, which sadly have to be installed from source on most Linux variants, have support for Python modules. So, in addition to the out of the box stuff, I monitor a whole bunch of other stuff related to how my applications are doing (signups, item counts, etc).For daemo... |
What's your Google profile URL, vis-a-vis Buzz? | markerdmann: http://www.google.com/profiles/103110545840570448381 |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | chuhnk: 1. I dont actively use Apache extended status or req/sec monitoring because it slows down serving requests. Instead I look in the logs every minute and feed the count into ganglia.2. Again apache logs into ganglia. New Relic for rails. Firebug and yslow when testing.3. Exception notifier in rails, ErrorDocumen... |
Review my app: Wappr | techiferous: Some design feedback:* "What is Wappr?" -- the font size and style should be the same for the whole phrase.* The slidedown should be much smaller. Wrap it in a differently colored box with rounded corners (perhaps a background darker than the page background).* Add another color besides the light blue.* I... |
Review my app: Wappr | resdirector: Awesome. Should get more and more useful as we approach the singularity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity :) |
Review my app: Wappr | fname: More importantly, is anyone working on an app they see suggested here already? |
Review my app: Wappr | diN0bot: how do i post an idea? would be nice to have an input box on the website. |
Review my app: Wappr | ddemchuk: Oh man I was loving the css work on the site until I hovered over What is Wappr?...please please tone down that blue drop shadow when you hover, it looks like a bad mistake because of the amount of blur.Otherwise, great design! |
Review my app: Wappr | stralep: It's a nice site!My JavaScript was turned off... When I clicked "what is wappr" nothing happened. Could it be a nonJavaScript friendlier (just a little :)Nice work!EDIT: JavaScript in my browser... |
What do you use to monitor your web application? | JangoSteve: For all of my Rails apps, I use a combination of Munin (for trending and profiling over time), NewRelic (for daily and weekly profiling and optimization) and AreMySitesUp (for 15-min pinging). |
What's your Google profile URL, vis-a-vis Buzz? | SlyShy: http://www.google.com/profiles/mkbunday |
Review my app: Wappr | nandemo: This is interesting and hope HNers will use it. Frankly I'm puzzled by attempts to do startups that are basically targeted at other geeks.However, there's potential for a lot of "abuse". The top suggestion now is:I wish there was an app where you could report a car whose alarm has been going on for hours, and ... |
Review my app: Wappr | rendezvouscp: It’s a nice little app. Its purpose was fairly obvious to me once I read two tweets and the design is nice.Do things automatically get voted up on Wappr if someone retweets a tweet on Twitter?It’d be cool if you could subscribe to a particular want or desire; for example, I’d want to subscribe to anything... |
Review my app: Wappr | nathanh: This is a great concept, but it might be more useful if it aggregated problems people have instead of apps people wish for. From a technical perspective it would be harder to pull off, but we all know that end users rarely know what they're looking for. |
OS / Hardware choice for a software startup in Africa | mahmud: I shipped laptops to Africa (Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda.) Forget starting an Apple shop, or a Linux shop. Most IT people there get trained in MS stack technologies, and most techies you will be able to hire will be familiar with them.If the purpose of your startup is profit and not some other altruistic or fun... |
I want to cancel my Gmail. Alternatives? | nicko: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1121269 |
You're not allowed to comment/ reply on your own submissions? | jacquesm: That's because it's (rightly) dead. |
Where do you find leads? | jeffmould: Can you be more specific as to what you are looking to buy/sell? There are a lot of resources out there, but it really depends on what you are looking for specifically.The best leads though come from your own marketing efforts. Just avoid spamming to obtain leads. Creating a blog, social media marketing (Twi... |
what do you think are ebay's weaknesses? | jmount: I think most of the features are irrelevant- you need to find some way to break the "network effect" (large number of buyers attract sellers, large number of sellers attract buyers) like Craigslist did.A cautionary point is your idea also has to something that is not true for Amazon (else Amazon would have alre... |
Relationship between HN and Scribd? | jmount: I think Scribd is a Y-combinator funded startup (hence the Hacker News connection) and some of the Hacker News admins by-hand edit other people's posts. I am very against copying PDFs into a walled-garden like Scribd, but this isn't my website. |
Relationship between HN and Scribd? | tptacek: I don't like Scribd, but I also don't like it when I click on a link and a file appears on my filesystem, which is what happens when I click PDF links in NetNewsWire. |
Review my app: Wappr | necrecious: Have you heard of appswell? It is a voting system for iPhone app development. |
How to know if hard disk failure is imminent on a Mac? | minsight: Install SmartReporter. It will give SMART diagnostics which can indicate if (and how quickly) your disk is trending towards mechanical failure. |
What websites do you visit daily? | russell: HN! /. <blush/>, Charlie Stross, Lambda the Ultimate, New Scientist, Huffington Post, Fantastic Fiction (well weekly). |
What happened to Winamp? | vkdelta: Thanks for input guys! |
Relationship between HN and Scribd? | akkartik: If anything, HN scribd posts seem to turn into straight pdfs. I think the admins search for posts with [scribd] in the title and link to a pdf version instead. |
How to know if hard disk failure is imminent on a Mac? | minsight: You can also try running hardware diagnostics from the disk that came with your mac. That will do a test to see if something is currently broken. |
Relationship between HN and Scribd? | sundarurfriend: The consensus here seems to be that it's an effort to promote Scribd, but I had always assumed that it was an attempt at trying to be helpful to those who prefer to remain within a browser, and to those who hate opening PDFs. At least, it serves that use case to me. |
Gmail alternatives? | voltolibro: Dear Fastmail,I hate Gmail and desperately want to find another email/webmail service. I want to switch to something that feels more secure, something that does email well without any of the extra junk they have been adding to my Gmail account. I don't seem to be alone.I consulted several friends with mor... |
Review my Startup | fnid2: To be frank, I can't imagine signing up to use this service. It is too easy to build into almost any shopping cart system.Why go through the process of integrating with a 3rd party and all the logistical and viability nightmares that come with such a decision when it's a trivial problem to solve in the real worl... |
Review my Startup | coryl: It looks interesting, but I'm REALLY confused as to what I'm looking at with the graph, countdown timer, lowest price, etc.What is all that junk? Why does the graph show a price in $000 but the price per unit is $2.00 |
Review my Startup | forcer: I don't know if its just because its late here and I am bit tired but I didn't get the concept yet.I understand what group buy is but not sure what problem your website solves? |
Review my Startup | zackattack: you have way too much text on your site and not nearly enough pictures |
What's up with performance? | romland: Maybe we take unrestrained pleasure in news for hackers on Valentine's Day. :)Hmm. But no, it's not just you. |
Review my Startup | gridspy: Okay, so from my vantage as an electrical manufacturer the point of syncfu is to help me achieve economies of scale. The more people that purchase, the more I can lower my price.You don't currently obligate buyers to make an actual purchase, so the price that the other buyers pay might be too heavily discounte... |
Review my Startup | akamaka: This is very cool idea, but the whole thing gives me the impression that it was developed without customer feedback.Is anyone using it? Group buying is something that can be done without any special tools. If people are already doing it, then there are probably group buying forums out there that could use yo... |
Relationship between HN and Scribd? | diN0bot: how about we submit pdf's inside google's pdf viewer?https://docs.google.com/viewerjust mention the real domain in the post title |
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