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Are you a single founder ? | ahi: 1) off/on since ~20072) not really a fit for my goals3) nope, see 24) Launching April 1st. |
Meetup in SF for YC rejects | p6: All the YC rejects should pool their money, pick the best rejected idea, and start a company. |
Where to find open source libraries? | johkra: I usually use Google. This will cover blog posts or forum postings, too, which surprisingly often feature announcements of good libraries without any presence on sf.net or similar. |
Are you a single founder ? | eliot_sykes: 1) 2007, maybe earlier2) No plans to apply to YC3) Bootstrapped4) MissedConnections.com |
Dealing with abusive users | ananthrk: Patrick's (patio11) advice in dealing with such frustrations from long back:http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=666171 |
Is functional programming really worth it? | dmfdmf: I think its like asking if French is better than English. Both will get the job done but some people claim French sounds better and is the "language of love". So the point is there may be tasks for which one language is more suitable. I have used both and learning FP after learning IP was a bitch. But I am an ... |
Are you a single founder ? | milofelipe: 1) Since July 20092) Did not apply to YC3) Self-funded4) http://www.signappnow.com |
Are you a single founder ? | sreitshamer: 1) Since mid-2006, with a few pivots on the idea since.2) Did not apply to YC.3) Self-funded.4) http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/Arq is online backup to S3 for the Mac. |
Are you a single founder ? | zeynalov: 1. 15 months 2.not applied, 3. self funded, 4. announcing soon (in 3 months) |
Are you a single founder ? | waleedka: 1) Since Feb. 2008.2) Applied 3 times. Didn't get in.3) Didn't take VC money (yet). Received funds from fbFund and an angel investor.4) http://facebook.com/networkedblogs |
Are you a single founder ? | epi0Bauqu: 1) 2+ years2) Never applied3) Nope4) http://duckduckgo.com/Btw, a lot more single founders left comments here (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1045694) and on the associated blog post (http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/01/will-single-foun...) |
Who got rejected in earlier cycles of YC application and made it anyway? | charlesju: My company is a YC-reject, we're doing ok. With that being said, I still love YC and it makes sense for a lot of companies and I agree with pg that it just wasn't right for mine.Here are a couple things I have learned about funding in my last 2 years building my startup:1. Funding is mostly a security blanke... |
Are you a single founder ? | spokey: 1) Just under 6 months (part time).2) No, didn't apply.3) No, haven't tried.4) http://www.brightspoke.com/My goal is to put more people on bikes by creating educated consumers and helping them discover the joy of cycling.I did a "rate my startup" post a few weeks back at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1111... |
Are you a single founder ? | brandnewlow: 1) 2 years. 2) no. 3) no 4) http:// windycitizen.com |
Are you a single founder ? | NickNYC242: Yep - single founder1) 2 years since action / 4 since idea
2) Nope - haven't applied
3) Not yet
4) www.sketchl.tvI'm crowdsourcing a sketch comedy show - anyone can submit, rank, vote - it's like Saturday Night Live, but with the best writing around that week, no writer's room inside jokes and stale humor. ... |
Are you a single founder ? | matt1: 1) I've been positioning myself to work on a startup full time for about two years and have about another two years until my situaiton will enable me to do it. I've been working on Preceden, a platform for building timelines, for a little over four months.2) Haven't applied, though I'd like to one day depending ... |
Are you a single founder ? | TAGMentor: 1. ~12 months
2. I applied to Startl (same concept as YC, but focused on companies in the education space). I'm waiting to hear back (interview was last week).
3. No, TAG has not raised institutional money, although I'm strongly considering going down this road soon.
4. http://www.theascendancegroup.org |
Are you a single founder ? | bgnm2000: 1) current project - 1 month
2) applied last summer with a different project - rejected. Current project will not be applying.
3) that previous project had raised $30K. Current project is more of a proof of concept.
4) I'll post a review my app link in a week or two. |
Viewing dead links | kobs: Anyone can view dead links -- replace "item" in the url with "edit". |
Are you a single founder ? | fookyong: 1) one year or so2) no, never applied3) no4) http://seashellapp.com and http://peashootapp.com - I run these two SaaS apps and thoroughly enjoy it. Would like to add a third at some point, then just spend time iterating and growing the customer base. |
Are you a single founder ? | benologist: 1) 1 year
2) no
3) no with a but
4) http://www.swfstats.com/3's but is I've had private offers from some of the leading companies in my little industry. |
Are you a single founder ? | peter_severin: 1) 2 years
2) no
3) no
4) http://wireframesketcher.com |
Are you a single founder ? | sosuke: 1) 2.5 years, 1 year live2) No, not seeking to be accepted3) No, not seeking to raise VC4) http://diveintothepool.comI'm trying to make a modest income from this and a few other ideas. I got the idea when the leader of the free online dating sites said that there was no more room for anyone else, anyone that sa... |
Are you a single founder ? | evancaine: On a side note, I wonder if a lot of the services listed here are really startups. Some of them have an amateur feel to them - there's nothing wrong with that - it's just that startup doesn't seem to be the best description for a lot of the services listed here (and not because they don't have any VC funding... |
What accounting appz do you use? | rlpb: All I do is maintain a general ledger. Everything else I need falls out of this data. I use gnucash. |
Are you a single founder ? | thinkbohemian: 1. ~1 year2. No, but an accelerator in Austin would certainly be nice3. No4. http://whyspam.me |
shouldn't there be a way to undeadify users? | barry-cotter: There is. If they notice they can email pg. If they don't notice they're not going to be contributing to the conversation anyway. |
How would you invest $50,000? | oomkiller: You could loan it out over Kiva, or at least a part of it. Just be sure whatever you choose, for any of your investments, that they at least beat the rate of inflation, else you are better of spending it. |
Nonstandard Masters Entry | hga: I would suggest he focus on finding a professor at a university who tell the department "admit this person to our graduate program." |
How would you invest $50,000? | ckeeler: lottery tickets |
How would you invest $50,000? | shin_lao: Enter in contact with other angel investors, sometimes they group together in a fund and they will be happy to help you invest the $ 50,000. |
Are you a single founder ? | hotinstartups: 1. Little over a year2. No3. No4. http://www.hotindianstartups.com/ |
How would you invest $50,000? | FreeRadical: I would make a list of lesser known sites that I am impressed with, then sequentially contact them for an x% stake. If all say no, I would try and join the angel list on venture hacks. If they didn't let me in, I'd go to the angel investment network. |
Are you a single founder ? | JangoSteve: 1) since 2007 on one startup, and since 2009 on another project2) no, and I don't have any plans to apply for any of my current projects. while I definitely like YC's model and I think they do great things, I don't feel like the process matches my goals with any of my current projects. I'm more in it for th... |
How would you invest $50,000? | benologist: Find a startup that interests you personally enough that you'd go on board as a founder who conveniently has $$$. |
How would you invest $50,000? | dlg: Be careful: If you're in the US, to do most angel investing, you must be an accredited investor, per SEC regulations. To qualify, you must have a net worth of at least $1M or have made >$200K in each of the last two years (>$300k if married). Almost any company with a good lawyer will require that you sign somet... |
How would you invest $50,000? | NEPatriot: I would post on HN and ask for people to share with you what they're working on but for the love provide some sort of template or format you want to be pitched with. Whether you want to see wireframes, a demo, or a slide deck with 5 slides etc.Pick what you like best and dive in - in whatever capacity you ch... |
How would you invest $50,000? | HockeyPlayer: For #1, are you looking for a 1 in 10 chance of a 5x return, or a 1 in 100 chance of a 50x return?For #2, if you don't want to spend the serious time and money (because you will lose some money while learning) becoming a angel investor, consider investing in a fund that does angel size investing. David ... |
Are you a single founder ? | dmillar: 1) A little over a year (Founded March 2009)2) Didn't apply. Could use the advice, but not the money.3) No, and not sure we want to. Got some solicitations last month from a few firms on the East Coast. This prompted me to contact Sequoia to gauge interest. Amazingly, got a sit down with Michael Moritz, and h... |
How would you invest $50,000? | thinkbohemian: There was an idea floating around the blogosphere a few weeks ago about investing in individual rather than an specific company. Where you would pull in a percentage of that persons net income for the rest of your life...could be interesting. |
How would you invest $50,000? | ivankirigin: http://www.secondmarket.com for private company stock that you expect to go public within a year or two. I haven't tried it. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | ordinaryman: Why not build one..* Within a few minutes,* Online,* Over Google App Engine and* Without Python/Java coding.Check out :
http://ifreetools.blogspot.com/2010/03/building-simple-bug-t... |
What accounting appz do you use? | apowell: Quickbooks. Best feature: my accountant knows it. |
How would you invest $50,000? | dfranke: Here's something you can do even with small dollars and without being an accredited investor: find some public firms with lots of "toxic assets" on their books, e.g. mortgage REITs. See if you can find some that most people are afraid to touch, yet you think they'll pull through. Buy their stock.I have a lot... |
How would you invest $50,000? | cjoh: 1. Excluding angel investing: If I were you, with 50,000 and unlimited risk tolerance, I'd buy a foreclosure. If you take some time, do your homework, and make the right investment then the payoff could be quite good.2. I understand your frustration. There's just nothing out there for the beginning angel. As you ... |
Are you a single founder ? | ianpurton: 1. 1 Year.
2. No.
3. I've never applied for funding.
4. http://serverpulsehq.com |
How would you invest $50,000? | switch007: Invest it in something that will directly and non-financially benefit at least one other person, not including yourself. I guarantee that it will give you the greatest ROI. You already sound much better off that 99% of the population. Good luck with your investment! |
How would you invest $50,000? | joshu: I imagine that becoming an angel is difficult.1. You need to be situationally positioned well to get decent dealflow.2. You need to invest in many deals; I have been told that profitable angels do 10+ deals a year.3. Low-end slices are typically $25k and up. It's a lot of work for companies to wrangle a large nu... |
How would you invest $50,000? | gamble: I was/am in a similar situation. The rule of thumb financial advisors tend to use (and you should take any advice from them with a few grains of salt...) is to put around 10% of your portfolio into high-risk investments.The 'typical' route you'll be steered toward are real estate investments. There's a whole wo... |
Ask HN:Any HN folks developing products in SAP area? | ordinaryman: I work on a smaller sub-space : CRM, over App Engine. |
How would you invest $50,000? | petervandijck: Though one. Are you willing to spend significant time on those angel investments? |
How would you invest $50,000? | mortenjorck: Think about how you can differentiate yourself in the angel market. What do you believe in the potential of that you don't think is shared by a lot of more established names? What do you think everyone else is missing? I bet there's something.Track down the most talented people you can find working on that... |
How would you invest $50,000? | epi0Bauqu: 1) I wouldn't, but you could do real estate, franchising or futures/options trading.2) If you want to consider angel investing alongside me, email me. |
How would you invest $50,000? | jasonkester: Simple:- $40k into an Index Fund tracking the S&P 500- $10k into a Six Month Trip Around Southeast AsiaChances are you're not going to hold onto that Single, No-Mortgage thing very long. If you haven't done much traveling, it's probably best you get out there now to see what you're missing.You definitely ... |
Where to run away to crank out my web app? | adrianscott: Panama. Panama. Panama. I moved here 5 years ago. 2MBps for $29/month. Much more affordable living than SF (where I used to live). |
How would you invest $50,000? | ankeshk: Invest in a small tech firm from a country where labour is cheap. India. Ukraine. Philippines.$50,000 = annual salary of 3-4 employee team.Get them to make iphone apps, android apps, facebook games.If you go with a 4 people team, the division should be: 3 developers and 1 marketer. And one of them handles ... |
How would you invest $50,000? | clistctrl: I'm a programmer I typically make ~72k a year. But for 50k, I'll work for you for 1 year. The catch, is you have to let me work on whatever I want (provided you agree it has profit potential) we can discuss further details if you're interested.hey its worth a shot :) |
How would you invest $50,000? | samd: Find somebody who wants to start a company in the hardware business. They don't have the luxury of building something for free and $50k might be enough to get a prototype. |
Where to run away to crank out my web app? | tjarratt: I had some good success running away to Tahoe. Good internet access can set you back, but I prefer to work locally.If you can find a decent location with enough space, bring enough food to last for a week and you can blow steam up on the mountains, or rolling through fields of snow (whatever floats your boat)... |
How would you invest $50,000? | jrw89: Nothing beats Greyhounds: http://www.thedogs.co.uk/Ownership.aspx. |
Good, lightweight bug tracking system for small team? | kchtest: http://www.getdonedone.comIt's great for small teams where you don't need a ton of reporting features - and it's focused on real-time responsiblity (who needs to respond to what right now). Google docs/excel aren't efficient because there's too much extra noise (sifting thru bugs that don't pertain to you, no... |
How would you invest $50,000? | djm: Have you considered becomming a creditor? You can lend via sites like lendingclub.com. Annual returns are approaching what you'd expect to get on the stock market in the long term.I haven't tried this investment myself yet (insufficient funds) but I'd be interested if I had the money spare.Warning: I'm not sure ab... |
How would you invest $50,000? | runT1ME: Err, the first question we should be asking you is "why don't you have a mortgage".Unless you were given a house and have a chest full of gold bars, you are probably living off the income of interest, so you're still paying income taxes.Get a mortgage. Its a tax write-off, along with the fact that RE is a pre... |
How would you invest $50,000? | marshallp: Buy/get a dataset, such as images or audio or biological data, and spend the money on computing time to do machine learning/genetic programming to create a classifier from it. Sell/rent out the classifier for big bucks.For example, label smiling/unsmiling faces on 10,000 images using mechanical turk, run an ... |
How would you invest $50,000? | chsonnu: I would invest half of it in low risk mutual funds and then take the other half over to my friend Asadulah who works in securities... |
How would you invest $50,000? | Keyframe: All on black. |
How would you invest $50,000? | kimfuh: Give it to charity. Sounds like you have more than enough. |
How would you invest $50,000? | jorkos: 1) bootstrap a company....get products out the door.....try to find product/market fit2) best starting point is to go through the cycle yourself....if you haven't, refer to response to 1)....this investment in building a company will pay off down the road when you want to invest in other startups (and have accr... |
How would you invest $50,000? | shareme: Right now you don't have funds to be an Angel, usually it requires $250,000 or higher in income and proof of yearly investments. That means you barely made the minimum requirements.However, you could join an Angle VC investment club where they pool resources including doing fact checking on deals.An alternativ... |
How would you invest $50,000? | donna: I'd ask myself how much time I'd want to spend in growing the $50K. An angel requires time to help cultivate an idea. Do you have time? |
How would you invest $50,000? | Kilimanjaro: Buy 50 servers and start leasing VPS for $19 a month. 1000 clients will leave 20k a month enough to pay a sysadmin and pocket some cash while you monitor everything from hawaii. |
Are you a single founder ? | jeffy: 1. 18 months
2. No
3. No
4. http://www.browsera.com |
Are you a single founder ? | BlueSkies: 1. Part time since May 2008. Full time since June 2009.
2. Never applied.
3. Not yet. Hope to seek Angel funding soon.
4. http://www.social.comWould actually be interested in a co-founder. It's hard to get everything done by yourself :) |
How would you invest $50,000? | maigret: Invest in green tech - but I'm not speaking stocks. Install solar panels on your home, or maybe a vertical wind turbine. Insulate your home better, research if it's financially worth it. After doing that, you can even reuse your experience for others - for charity or profit, as you like. |
How would you invest $50,000? | JabavuAdams: Invest in New-Space, or "Space 2.0". There's a private space travel revolution happening in Mojave, and Texas.Look up:XCOR AerospaceScaled CompositesArmadillo AerospaceMasten Space SystemsUnreasonable RocketBlue OriginSpaceXCheck out the arocket-list mailing list for detailed engineering discussions on ama... |
How would you invest $50,000? | simon_: I'm in a very similar situation - I don't have any great advice, but I'd love to discuss "offline" and hear whatever conclusions you come to. |
How would you invest $50,000? | eliot_sykes: Not so much an investment...Come up with some crazy idea to do with the money, do it, then write a book on it.Anyone remember the guy who sold everything he owned, went to Vegas and put all the cash he had on black, then wrote a book. Might have been a documentary too.Then there was KLF who burned a millio... |
How would you invest $50,000? | faramarz: What's your definition of a home-run.1x return a success or multiples?
and in what time frame?Invest in me :) |
What is the best way to get an unavailable but unused twitter name? | telemachos: I believe that it's no longer possible to get names freed. I wrote Twitter support recently about releasing a name that was created over two years ago and used once to send a single nonsense tweet (twice in a row). It's never been used since.The support person was very clear and wrote back quickly to say, a... |
What is the best way to get an unavailable but unused twitter name? | yungchin: Did you try direct-messaging the accounts? They might (by default) be configured to email-notify the person who's registered them... |
What is the best way to get an unavailable but unused twitter name? | subpixel: Glad I did this when it was easy. Someone was using my site's name, I emailed Twitter, 5mins later it was mine. |
How to open a U.S. bank account without stepping foot in the US | andreshb: Apparently, with Citibank, HSBC and Wachovia, you can do this onlinem via the phone and e-mail. |
How would you invest $50,000? | mattblalock: I'd say come join my company.We're operating in a $15 Billion industry with no real market leader (yes, there are still a few of those around). We've made ourselves profitable in less than 6 months with about 3,000 customers.This is my ninth business, I'm tech and marketing oriented, and a fourth generati... |
Are you a single founder ? | Mz: I don't know if it is accurate to say "yes, I am" or if it would be better to say "I'm a wannabe single founder". Only it's not really as simple as that either. My two adult sons are kind of in this with me, only they don't plan on being cofounders for my plans. They plan on founding their own company. Still, t... |
How do down votes work? | Mz: I think you acquire the right to downvote when you hit 200 karma. (I didn't have it at 199 and suddenly did have it at 201 -- so that's what I'm guessing.)There's links somewhere to guidelines. Hopefully someone more HN-savvy than I am will pop in and supply them shortly. |
How do down votes work? | jacquesm: > Is it once your karma level hits a certain level?yes, 200 points.> Are you ever able to down vote submissions?No, but you can 'flag' them and if enough people flag an article it will be killed. If not enough people flag an article before it reaches 10 points it would take an editors action to kill it.> Last... |
How to deal with unwanted coworker requests? | patio11: Thanks for your comment Dave. The performance of that web page is not high on our list of priorities at the moment, but I'll be happy to revisit the issue after we clear the critical blocking issues off our plates. If your team has an urgent need for a repriorization of this please feel free to send a reques... |
How would you invest $50,000? | mostly_harmless: I would say: get your pilot's license. It seems that you pretty well set, it should be pretty fun to fly. Also a cool conversation point |
How would you invest $50,000? | johnl: I just wrote a program to trade stocks. The testing makes around 30% annually. I don't believe it since I know myself too well but can't see where the error is. Put your money in an account, let me trade for 6 months live and see what happens. I can send you "testing proof" except the code for review. Would auto... |
Where is my dream monitor? | rdl: My current favorite for "productive work machines" vs. games/movies is 3 portrait-mode 1200x1920 monitors. These need to be thin-bezel, and IPS panel, so they have decent vertical (now horizontal) viewing angles -- Dell U2410 work great. I could deal with higher resolution, but that physical angle works great at... |
Review My App - TwitBet | erickerr: I built this service in about a week as a full time student. The $5k prize is guaranteed if 5,000 people fill out the 1st page of the survey.I'd greatly appreciate any feedback on the product as a whole and if you think a Twitter-based system could do well as a generic sports betting/following platform.Thank... |
Review My App - TwitBet | jackowayed: The bracket is well done.So you're trying to buy exposure, what are you going to do with it? And whatever you do, you need to do it fast. I'd go ahead and assume that unless you have something else to show people during the later part of the tournament when they check how they're doing, everyone will forget... |
Review My App - TwitBet | CoreDumpling: Heh - is TweetForACause coming next? |
HN Email Subscription? | nreece: You can use the Hacker News RSS feed (http://news.ycombinator.com/rss) or create one for any other page using Feedity (http://feedity.com), and subscribe the feed with something like FeedMyInbox (http://www.feedmyinbox.com) |
Review My App - TwitBet | qeorge: This is awesome. Great idea and really well executed. I'll fill my bracket out tomorrow.WRT getting people to come back, I'd leverage your stats. Some ideas:* Tweet during the tournament. e.g., "63% of our users correctly predicted Georgetown over Tenn."* Tweet / show on the site the percentages of people who b... |
What's your startup's URL ? | lambdom: There was the same question some time ago. |
How do down votes work? | NathanKP: The best way to use your new downvote powers for good is to read the HN commenting guidelines:http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.htmlIf a comment doesn't satisfy those guidelines then downvote it. Some people also downvote comments that they disagree with, but I typically avoid that tendency, and only dow... |
Review My App - TwitBet | Raphael: The survey frame has no scroll bar showing, plus it's taller than my screen. And it seems rather scammy. |
How to deal with unwanted coworker requests? | rue: "Patches welcome."Edit: That is, if you work with professionals. |
Review My App - TwitBet | mathewgj: Just revoked Twitbet access to my account after it autosent a Tweet for me without any [edit: enough] warning or pause for approval. Please don't do that. |
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