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Please review my new website | chaosmachine: I like the concept, but the site design is really over the top for something that should ideally be very minimal. An entire screen of real estate barely holds 3 "one sentence reviews". |
Resource-based economy. When, how, why? | tomlin: I am curious as well. We've decided that Capitalism is the answer. It is better than communism, sure....that about sums up how people feel about it. |
Please review my new website | petervandijck: Great idea.But: what I see there are not reviews, they're summaries. One-sentence reviews would be great, but a review should help me decide if I should see the movie, not summarize the plot. "Intertwining couples and singles in Los Angeles break-up and make-up based on the pressures and expectations of Valentine's Day." is not useful to me at all. |
Please review my new website | waxman: What does this do that Rotten Tomatoes doesn't do better? |
review our new thing! | icey: I couldn't enter the stock symbol for Sirius XM - SIRI.When I got to the R it seemed like it would autocomplete to a random stock.FF 3.5.8, Win XP |
Please review my new website | kaddar: Some of the reviews of movies were two sentences, unlike this review of your website. |
Please review my new website | boundlessdreamz: Is this the site you were asking about in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=622042What did you choose ? |
Please review my new website | patio11: "If it fits in a tweet, I don't want to see it anyway." |
review our new thing! | chaosmachine: I typed in TM, but didn't get Toyota. |
Please review my new website | gchakrab: This site reminds of MG Siegler's (the TC writer) site Reviews in Haiku: http://reviewinhaiku.com/While I like the idea of your site, I think the minimalist approach of Reviews in Haiku is ideal for micro-reviews. I was a little distracted by everything on your site.Good luck! |
review our new thing! | csomar: Here's my portfolio50% Google15% Nasdaq53% MicrosoftAfter 4 Years I finished with 14% increasing, going through picks of 60% and loses of %37.Good app and a very useful one. I don't invest, but I like stats and to play with numbers.The leaderboard is also useful to know combination that are successful.Just one notice: The %number are always in Red, make them in green when there's a win and Red when there's a loss |
Please review my new website | cookiecaper: I agree that the design is a bit overdone, but I don't think it's too bad.The most annoying thing to me is that several of the snippets are more than one sentence long. :( |
Please review my new website | natch: If your goal for now is to let us give you feedback, you should put in some reviews for movies that everyone has seen.I haven't seen those three movies, which makes it harder for me to gauge whether the reviews are any good.On the other hand, some of the music reviews are transparently bad.I'm not sure if the ratings apply to the movies, or to the reviews. And since the people doing the rating are probably also not sure, that makes the ratings less useful.Will you have the ability for multiple users to compete to provide different reviews, which then are ranked as they (the reviews, not the items being reviewed) get rated by the community?I could see this evolving into a cool resource, but it's hard to tell from what you've got so far. |
review our new thing! | petervandijck: Cool url. Loads slowly. Visually a little too shiny for my taste (can we bury the wet look already?). I'm not target audience so I didn't really know what it would be useful for. |
review our new thing! | daok: 1) At first, the Clear Button is at right and the Create is at left. When you click "Create" you have a popup. The cancel is at left and the Create is at right. You should try to put all your creation button at the same position... all right or all left and not changing them because it's confuse and error prone.2) Font is very weird here : http://goo.gl/wFyS |
Please review my new website | aw3c2: Those feature sentences are so complex that I would have less trouble scanning the information out of a paragraph of easy english.I love the idea though! |
review our new thing! | djb_hackernews: FF 3.5.8 Win7, can't add anything. Enter ticker, percent, click plus sign, nothing. |
review our new thing! | JoshTriplett: I went to all the trouble of creating an interesting test portfolio before finally getting told that this tool proves useless to me because it uses Flash. Please at least say up front that you require Flash, so I don't waste my time. Better yet, just like you created an impressive interface for creating a portfolio using only HTML, please consider making an impressive interface for viewing a portfolio using only HTML. |
review our new thing! | wildsalmon: Here ya go http://opinbot.com/reviews/show/agdvcGluYm90chwLEhVyZXZpZXdz... |
review our new thing! | JoshTriplett: Minor bug report: you can add the same stock twice, and it gets two separate entries rather than adding to the same entry. |
review our new thing! | ryanjmo: So, my first reaction, is I wouldn't use it, but I don't own stocks so that is not a surprise. My second reaction is who would use it and I get stuck there too.The front page is not that valuable, because it is relatively easy to add up to 100. The second page where it aggregates the portfolio into one graph seems useful, but in order for a user to actually use that page, they would have to commit to a portfolio on the front page. This confusing me because I thought the whole point was to get information while you were building portfolios.You should consider moving that graph of the combined portfolios to the front page under where you enter the stocks. This way when people are adding and subtracting stocks they can actually see what impact it has on the aggregate and then maybe your site can be useful for that.Overall, I am instinctually concerned about your site because it seems like you have put a lot of time and effort into something that doesn't do much, which is exactly the opposite of what you want to do with a start up. Generally you want to put very little effort into a site that does a lot! |
review our new thing! | tome: The .cx TLD has negative connotations for me. I don't know if this will be a relevant issue for your intended audience. |
Please help, I messed up badly - will the IRS go after me? | differentaccnow: Thank you all for responding - this is a great community! |
Please review my new website | shortformblog: Heh, it's a decent concept, but this site, however, is essentially MetaCritic with less staff.I actually have a regular feature on my blog (http://shortformblog.com/) that's got some stuff in common with this. I call it "One-Word Album Reviews."Here are a few samples:http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-we-for...http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-now-we...http://shortformblog.com/music/one-word-album-reviews-no-vam... |
review our new thing! | mortenjorck: Looking good. A couple of UI suggestions:- Look into making the percentage editable after you've added it to your portfolio. Ideally you shouldn't have to delete and re-enter to change that.- If the Timetric API allows you to theme the graph to light-on-dark, it would look a lot more at-home with the rest of the site.- If I'm not logged in, where are my temporary portfolios? I tried to name two of them "test" in a row and was informed there was already one by that name, but there appears to be nowhere to access these. I'd suggest simply not prompting unauthenticated users to name portfolios at all until they log in. |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | tyohn: I’d appreciate any thoughts about the giveaway and or the concept. Thanks! |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | CoreDumpling: Seeing that you require an email address, the first thing I looked for was your privacy policy. Unfortunately, the lightbox screen doesn't scroll in my browser (Opera 10.10) so I couldn't skim through all of it. |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | cj: This isn't a startup.I don't think you'll find many people willing to annoy their followers/friends with advertisements, even in exchange for some pocket change. |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | danskil: Hmm...i got a casino advertisement...to a news website doesn't seem too targeted. |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | sjsivak: Am I the only person that really hoped "unbig.me" was a weight-loss related app? And the banner at the top reads "Use unbig.me to to shorten your link and earn $". Obviously you should remove the "to to" and overall that just feels like someone talking in txt to me, which I hate. |
Please review my new website | nzjames: I'd drop the description on the Music/Movies overview page and add a recent/popular review. get the content of the site one step closer. when the user drills in then give them the description/synopsis.Have faith in your content! Thats why you want people to visit. |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | tyohn: If anyone is at all interested: Almost all the traffic from HN skips the ads via the "Click to close and continue" link at the top right - while the majority of Twitter users let the ad run for a full 12 seconds. |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | earle: There are also very specific legal requirements for running contests of any type. I would suggest contacting an attorney!! |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | ErrantX: I run Chrome with an ad blocker - the test link gave me a blank screen with a non-obvious loading meter in the top left (which said click to cancel on hover).Seeing as a large number of people use ad blockers that's not a great UI experience - quite a few people could even click back/close because they think it is the page their visiting loading. |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | olalonde: Can anyone explain me the value of URL shorteners? I never understood this "cool" trend... OK, they're useful for SMS (that's why it's so popular on Twitter), but what else ? |
Please review my new website | metamemetics: Way too complex landing page.It's like shopping in a grocery store. If you present them with 25 different types of strawberry jam, they become less likely to buy any at all. Because the mental cost of weighing options to make a decision outweighs the expected value.Same goes for employee savings plans. Employees given too many options for saving plans become less likely to choose a plan at all.View your user interface as a decision tree. At each level, don't make me decide between more than 5 elements at a time.Using this logic, I would chunk your Recent Movie Reviews and Recent Music Reviews into one Recent Reviews element to reduce complexity, to move decisions to a lower tree.But make sure they don't keep deciding between Music\Movies in a bunch of child nodes, they should only make that decision once: Do-No-Repeat yourself philosophy. |
Have ideas, not the skill (Yet) | krainboltgreene: post script Most of my ideas usually involve having see X service and writing down a bullet list of ways to improve it/make it easier. IE UX/UI stuff. |
Idea for improvement on HN reading. | krainboltgreene: This sounds like a great feature! I wonder how hard it would be to put together? |
Please review our startup | lostintech: This is just a startup asking help from members of the community |
What's that storybook reading site featured on here? | mbrubeck: http://www.astorybeforebed.com/http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=917235 |
Have ideas, not the skill (Yet) | pedalpete: It depends on what you want to do with your ideas.If you want to just give them away and see where it gets you, then go with that option.If you want to pay somebody or share the development of a project with somebody, then find that person, and do that.If you absolutely must get something done, then do it yourself.That is how I got started in programming. Every programmer I spoke to about a project told me it couldn't be done. I didn't believe them, so I learned how to code, and built it myself.It worked as a program, but failed as a business. Now I have the skills to not only build my own projects, but to help others. |
Have ideas, not the skill (Yet) | dget: It'll probably be most rewarding long-term to keep hacking away at them, especially if you've already taken the first step to begin.If you're getting stuck at specific blocks, it's likely that you'll be able to find some resource to get you through it. |
Best startup bank for Merchant account | barmstrong: It is definitely an annoying process. Particularly the reseller process with Authorize.net.I've heard some good things about First Data (the Spreedly guys recommended them - and they have lots of experience with merchant accounts). I don't trust paypal anymore.I put together this page on BuyersVote.com to get some submissions/votes:http://buyersvote.com/categories/the-best-merchant-account-p... |
Review my latest site, CocoaDocs.com | fragmede: I like it. Is there a way to see all recent comments? |
Review my latest site, CocoaDocs.com | barmstrong: Clickable http://www.cocoadocs.com/ |
Idea for improvement on HN reading. | vkdelta: It would be an excellent feature. I am in the same boat as yours. |
Help beta test my startup and possibly win $50 | vkdelta: 'possibly' |
Any API's to broadcast radio? (the old kind, not Internet radio) | vyrotek: I wonder if internet radio in cars will be here sooner than you think though. I already know of MANY people who use their iPhone or Android phone (me included) to stream Pandora or other radio and just output the audio to the car speakers via an FM broadcaster or Aux input jack.But, in regard to your idea... I wish there was that sort of API. I do listen to normal radio once in a while and would love to hear some indi stuff. |
Have ideas, not the skill (Yet) | antipaganda: Do it yourself, and learn the skills along the way.- If your idea doesn't work, you will at least have new skills to show for your time.- No-one will be as passionate or committed to your idea as you.- There are a lot of ideas out there. The ones that succeed are the ones which are backed by passion and commitment. |
Idea for improvement on HN reading. | moollaza: Your idea seems pretty cool. I follow engadget.com as well and on a related note, they offer an "apple-free" version of the site which can be changed to exclude whatever you want through the url. So perhaps thats an idea?Here's engadgets article on their apple-free version:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/30/do-you-hate-apple-news/ |
Can you update your YC application after the deadline? | pg: If you edit your application now it gets transformed into a late application, so I would not recommend it. I suppose I should add some kind of warning in case people try that.Edit: Don't worry if you submitted your application a little after the deadline. We don't switch over precisely at 10pm. Unless it actually said "Late" at the top of the application page, it wasn't treated as late. |
Have ideas, not the skill (Yet) | coryl: If you enjoy programming, keep doing it and learn it.If you don't, make friends with someone who does. And develop other skills along the way.Once you've made friends/networked with some people, you can present your ideas to them and see if they're interested in working with you. |
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Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | Concours: try some freelance boards, like elance.com, create a blog(no fast money here) , try meacanical turk...what language do you programm? offer your services for free to build some referals, and set a portfolio with those referals. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | joshkaufman: - Build a product worth $97 in value (I like teaching, so information products works best for me), then sell 3-4 a month.- Find other people who want to know what you know, then charge $97-497 a month to coach them.- Do NOT start a blog for advertising dollars or do mechanical turk - your ROI will be extremely low vs. the time and energy you spend. Instead, use a website to sell your products or services, whatever they may be. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | coryl: How legit does the money have to be? An easy way of making money is following on trends and outbuilding products.You can basically shadow interesting/scalable projects for sale on sites like Flippa. Occasionally, something good will popup, for example, a twitter spamming system that autotweets and adds followers.Then you simply clone what works, add better features, do better SEO or whatever, and VOILA! |
spring break projects, anyone? | dget: since I really can't avoid school... I was planning on making some software to help me choose classes. |
If you could choose 1 thing u knew u couldn't fail at, what would it be? | coryl: I'd choose being able to present clear and concise ideas and questions. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | DXL: Build a comparison site or two: look for a market where affiliate programs are ubiquitous, structure the data and write a small application that helps customers decide. Get traffic using some basic SEO. Then pocket the commission from sales.I did this for the personal savings market and "sim-only" mobile telephony subscriptions market in the Netherlands. It brings in a couple of hundred euros a month with only 1-2 hours of maintenance. |
Have ideas, not the skill (Yet) | Mz: Alternately: Spend some time wondering what you are "missing" and try to find a means to get that. For me, my health issues are a major obstacle. So getting well is my first priority. I have some secondary issues I am also working on, but I am clear that nothing will work as long as that personal issue remains a show-stopper. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | maxklein: Come and work for me - I'll give you $600 a month if you work 5 days a week. If interested -> max@cubeofm.com. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | petercooper: First, a Web service that "meets an unmet need." Back in 2005 I built a "code snippets" site using the then-nascent Rails in just over 24 hours. I then spent a second day making the design more "Web 2.0" a few months later, but otherwise did little except mention it here and there and add my own code into it. It made ~$800 a month from Adsense for a couple of years and then I sold it to DZone for $30,000. Perhaps the lowest time vs money work I ever did.Second, sell a killer screencast or e-book. You'd need to actually be good at making one of these, of course, and have a very good presentation. If you have domain specific knowledge, though, you may have something valuable. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | csomar: here's how I made $300 last month (working 4 hours a week)- Write articles (around $150).- Make something (script, firefox addon) for a client (around $100)- Google Adsense (around $50) |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | CoreDumpling: 1. Do highly-paid consulting work for 1-2 months.2. Move to your cheap country and take the rest of the year off.I hear Richard Stallman can actually pull this off in a not-so-cheap country, too. |
Accounting software for startups? | billturner: Do you have an accountant? More than likely, they would point you towards QuickBooks, as it's pretty much the standard.And if you don't have an accountant, you should probably start talking to one. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | patio11: If I said "I want the Wordpress theme from http://www.christmasbingocards.com done similarly except for St. Patrick's Day" and you were able to accomplish that without needing too much handholding, I'd be able to give you one project a month for $400 until you either got sick of doing them or decided to move upmarket. If this interests you, email me a link to your portfolio. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | kyx: Write exploit code for vulnerabilities :)Look at http://oss-security.openwall.org for some -- You could probably make around $500 to $5000 depending on your exploit / vulnerability.Just thought you'd check that out if interested. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | linuszen: If you program web i can give you a job too.
Depends on how much good you are $400 might be what you can get for working only 2 days a week |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | mikeyur: I used to do a lot of offline marketing of online products and made some good money. What I mean by this is selling sites/hosting/newsletter hosting to small, local businesses.I did this when I was tight on cash, since it can usually be done in a weekend: research a local group of businesses (ie. dentists or furniture stores) using Google Maps and grab all of their info. See which businesses don't have websites - and if they do check out how they look/work.For the companies that didn't, I'd write a simple sales letter offering a discounted website. Something like the client that originally bought the site ended up bailing near the end, but I got a deposit out of them so I'm selling this site for cost. Since the other customer already paid (say, $1000), and costs were $1500, I can give you the site for $500.That site is really just a cheap TemplateMonster design ($40-50) and once I get the payment I'll send over a word doc requesting all of the info they want for the pages and all the media they want uploaded. Probably a good 6-10 hours of work, for a decent profit (I typically charged them around $800 for the site).Once completed you sell them on hosting (grab a VPS for $30/mo. and charge them $50/mo. to host their site - I put ~10 clients on a VPS (comfortably) since the sites get very little traffic). You sell them on newsletter hosting, explain benefits of contacting customers directly about offers for almost $0 cost to them. Email is huge to local businesses, set them up with mail@theirdomain.com and many will worship you. So many people still use xyz123@isp.net for their BUSINESS email.For customers that already have sites, offer a redesign, better functionality (contact/quote request forms, email newsletter hosting, etc.).There's also lots of money in local business directories, if you know anything about SEO. Offer them targeted traffic/leads at $XX/mo. - even more if they want a banner on the site.So much cash offline, go and take it. It may be harder to do it based on the country, but I refuse to believe there isn't at least some need for it. If not - hit up craigslist in the US and start pimping your offerings ;) |
If you could choose 1 thing u knew u couldn't fail at, what would it be? | dawson: Motivation oriented towards others, and, an affective response more appropriate to another's situation than my own (Empathy). |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | maneesh: I earned about that much, completely passive, within 2 mos and it's been recurring with no extra work, doing some basic SEO and adsense work, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1merER1zVFg, skip to minute 2:40 to see my business model in work |
If you could choose 1 thing u knew u couldn't fail at, what would it be? | kasharoo: Spelling. |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | emmamc: I lived in New York for a year and it was really vibrant, I loved it. The only problem I had was staying...
I couldn't get the visa to stick.
Good luck with it |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | nlwhittemore: Hey - as a new SF transplant (from the East Coast), I definitely understand your excitement about getting over there. The visa issue is really tough - one I haven't had to confront with our company luckily.In terms of work, my honest answer is be good. SF has a ton of developers (front end, back end, and everything in between), but a huge portion of the contract work force is just really, really bad.If you are already a front end guy, I would think about how you could turn yourself into the ultimate web experience designer with graphic design skills, some background knowledge of user experience design, and the ability to hack it together. There are few people that meet that bill anywhere, imo.Another way to approach the visa question, depending on what else you have to learn, is looking into a program at one of the university. California College of the Arts is good, as is SF State, etc. Not sure what the financial situation is like, but that might be a way to get your feet settled and build even more skills in the meantime.Once you get here, just network like crazy. Meeting people is the best way to find great projects. Good luck! |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | ambiate: Oh, forgot the most important part. Stay white hat. If you ever venture into the dark side of online ads, you will probably get caught and have a wasted investment.Offline affiliate marketing is win-win, but in a cheap country it might be hard to pull off.<adsense>I know there are some issues with getting accepted for adsense in other countries. If you have problems, email me (profile link) and I'll give you one of the solutions.1. Find a notepad.
2. Write: "Things I can teach you:"
3. List everything you imagine you can teach a person
(This can range from simple math to programming to drawing to singing like an american idol?)
4. Hard part is over! Relax and decide on your mid-range topics (ones you're not a guru at, but with a little research could obviously teach someone)
5. Create little niche sites (google keyword tool -> show CPC -> Arrange by amount of hits (look in the 10k-20k views range -> google "keyword" (yeah quotes) -> if its less than 40k pages, and wikipedia is a top result, you probably just found a $9 investment (domain cost) that would turn into $20/mo.
6. Once you've spent 2 weeks doing this, you should have a feel for the idea and what grasps people's attention etc. Try some of your more guruish topics. Hell, make an ebook and offer it on one of your adsense sites.</adsense><articles/imgs>There are also tons of sites that pay you to write articles[1] or photoshop!</art/img><translations>You said cheap country, but I don't really understand the scope of that... but I'm going to assume you know another language. If so, start a site offering translation services or just scope out people. iPhone apps, etc need translations and shell out serious cash for them.</trans>my experience(I made money, got cocky, and lost too much):
http://sanguinity.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/money22.pngxutopia's recent story(6k/ebook)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1159445One final bit: when you research (blogs/sites) you will probably stumble upon keywords like 'mesothelioma, structured settlements, annuity payments, criminal lawyers, tax attorneys, asbestos, etc,' being the gold mines. Don't waste your time. $40/clk($5-15 your share) sounds amazing, but its another losing game trying to get ranked in search engines.[1: http://www.associatedcontent.com ] |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | switch: how many hours a month are you willing to work for $300-$400 a month.Or do you want to do x amount of work and expect to get $400 a month for life? |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | inovica: Hi thereI nearly moved in 1999 but because of family I stayed in the UK. Even though I've had success with what I've done, I think I would have found more if I'd been in San Jose (where I'd planned to locate). If you have a business idea maybe it would be enough to go for funding? |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | detcader: You could try Amazon Turk as a side-job. In a few hours you could make 5 to 10 dollars or more..It wouldn't serve as a main source of income, but at least you'll have money to spend on commodities that you won't have to take out of whatever actual main source you find.Tip: If you try this, when searching for HITs, only look for 5-cent HITS or above, and don't bother with $5 stuff, which no one ever gets. |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | maxklein: I'll wait till I make $2 million. I figure it will be an easier problem to solve then. |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | bufordtwain: Why do you think you need to move to SF? If it's a software startup couldn't you just do that now (on the side) instead of moving? |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | calicalicali: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctuary_cityJust come illegally. If you're white, you can probably get away with it for a long while, especially if you freelance. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | tomhogans: If your English is as good as your post seems and you've got any web development/coding experience at all I could easily find $400/month worth of things for you to do, probably more. My Skype name is the same as my username here, if you're interested. |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | axod: Reconsider.Why move when you can just startup something wherever you like? |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | KirinDave: Your best bet is to get a job at big software company. I know that my employer, Microsoft, has a legal department JUST for this problem. If you can get an in with a company like Google, Microsoft, or etc., then you can get into the area.After that, I think you could find a native co-founder and then rig it so your company employs you after you leave the big company. Set up the contract of the company so that you cannot easily be terminated (otherwise you'd lose your visa if there is a falling-out between you and your co-founder).The process of becoming an American sucks right now; everyone who is not a fear-mongering cave dweller knows this. It is especially irritating to us in the Valley as we Just Don't Care about nationality and it can be so difficult to find a qualified candidate. Good luck. |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | protomyth: If you know that you are going to be directly competing with a corporation, it is incumbent on you to minimize the risk said corporation can interfere with your business. A motto is not a promise or corporate conduct. |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | versesane: Worry only if you get successful ... It going to take a while. Make sure your code is easily portable in a hosting env. |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | vaksel: on the other hand there are a few advantages from it.1. if Google ever decides to acquire you, for them it'll be as easy as flipping a switch.2. if Google ever screws with you...think of all the press you'll get |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | eklitzke: I wouldn't worry about it too much. If you consider Google Apps, Google is already hosting email, documents, spreadsheets, etc. for a lot of businesses, including many that compete with Google in one way or another (after all, Google has an awful lot of products). Furthermore, Google is a pretty large organization, so it seems like it would be risky for them to try to spy on you (since it would involve a number of people in at least two or three departments). If they got caught doing this, it would be pretty damaging to GAE.I think a more interesting consideration is, how does this affect the prospects for your company to be acquired at a future date (assuming you're interested in selling out)? Presumably hosting on GAE would make your company an easier acquisition target for Google (since you've already bought into their infrastructure). Presumably it would also make you less attractive to a lot of other companies who might be competing with Google, since you're basically going to be stuck on the GAE platform, and those companies may be more paranoid.Just my 2c. |
Submitted startup looking for feedback | RiderOfGiraffes: Clickable: http://quarket.com/OK, some feedback - this will sound harsh, but it's how it happened ...I can't understand the first 10 seconds of speech because I haven't yet got used to the accent and tone. Then it's 52 seconds before I get any clue as to what it's about. I nearly gave up at 40 seconds.Then at 1:05 it looks like things I know, and it's 1:12 before you say that it's not something I know, it's different, and I still don't know what it's doing.For someone who's looking to invest, maybe they'll sit through it, but for me, I'm out. Probably it's cool and useful and interesting, but I've got other things to do.Finally, you might want to resubmit, putting the URL in the URL field, your request for feedback in the title, and then expand on your reasons and request in a comment. Then two things happen. Firstly, it's automatically clickable.Secondly, you don't get penalized in the rankings for not submitting a URL. |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | pg: Yes, I'd trust them. |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | FredSource: The level of difficulty for Google to do cross department sabotage would be high and I imagine the cost of damage to Google would be WAY higher than the value of taking down your service (unless you are wildly successful - and then it would be a lawyers party!)Focus on success first -- and think about your "exit paths" -- and the costs/benefits of being on GAE vs. another option as an independent decision. |
Submitted startup looking for feedback | ryduh: I would probably only use this application if I was traveling to some place where I am not familiar with the surroundings. I don't live in a metro area either so I know everything in town already. If you could clean up and simplify how I order food/movie tickets into one screen, I might be interested in checking this app out again. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | gommm: From what you said you can do, I can easily give you some tasks for 400$/month (or more depends on how much you want to do), you can contact me at pm -squiggly sign- gom-jabbar.org |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | nir: I'd say ignore the evil/not issue and just assume that Google, like any company, ultimately serve their own interests. If you plan to compete with them on search/ads/maps/gmail/etc, you might not want to be too vulnerable. If it's on a less critical part of their business, the damaged reputation to GAE is probably not worth it to them.In any case, outside the ORM your code can be plain Django, portable to non-GAE hosts. |
Want to move to San Francisco/Silicon Valley - how would I do it? | petercooper: Do you have a degree related to your profession? If so, find a job and get an H-1B. Working "on the side" isn't technically legal but if you kept it low level to start with, it might work out.No degree? If so, I hope you're famous or rich and can get an O-1 (alien of extraordinary ability) to work someplace else, E-2 (treaty investor into a business - $100k bare minimum), or E-5B (wider scope of investments but at a higher level - $500k/$1m).If you have an existing company with staff and potential for expanding to the US (guessing you don't!), the various L-* visas could also be useful.Alternatively, and not entirely legal, go and study in the US (on an F-1 visa) and then do your startup on the side. Be prepared to show that you have money to support your living for this time though (or a source of external money).Want a story to read about the E-2 process? Well, TechCrunch ran one a year ago :-) http://techcrunch.com/2008/05/02/coming-to-america-getting-v... |
Accounting software for startups? | Scott_MacGregor: You will probably want to use Quickbooks. A lot of CPA's understand it. Do not use spreadsheets because spreadsheets do not have an audit trail.Talk to a CPA that has experiance in our industry and follow that persons advice. |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | bretpiatt: I wouldn't waste anytime thinking Google will be malicious to you if you're hosted on GAE and in competition with them.If GAE is the best platform for you to host, if it lets you get to market sooner, if it lets you scale cost with revenue better then use it. |
Where should I work? Facebook or Google Search? | samdk: You can make polls here: http://news.ycombinator.com/newpollThis is not really a decision someone else can make for you though. Especially given absolutely no information about you. |
Competing with Google while running on Google App Engine | mark_l_watson: If your app is written with Java + JDO, then with some effort it should be portable. I've seen JDO backends of relational databases, Hadoop Hbase, ODF, JSON,etc. I don't have a lot of experience with Python appengine development, but I believe that you can exit from that platform also, with some effort. |
Fastest way to make $300-400 a month online? | Judson: Creating something that is viral is very ideal. I created http://AskJud.com in a week or so and the viral nature and mystery behind it encourages people to click on ads that generate around $500-$1000 a month. |
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