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Any good books on graphing/charting/visualization? | dmlorenzetti: A colleague says great things about Cleveland's "The Elements of Graphing Data." It talks about how to leverage the way people perceive graphs in order to convey information. I've flipped through it, and it's on my to-read list. Sorry I can't say more about it. |
How to turn my web application into a lifestyle business? | eliot_sykes: Clickable link http://weekplan.net/ |
what SaaS do you currently pay for? | eliot_sykes: DNS made easy, Get Clicky, couple software development related ones |
How to turn my web application into a lifestyle business? | adammichaelc: Start charging. 3 plans -- good better best. use the money to hire another developer. maybe eventually build an iphone app; charge $5 for it. build an iPad app. charge $15 or $20 for it -- you're still selling to early adopters who have money so they will buy. i think the Getting Real book would be a goo... |
How to turn my web application into a lifestyle business? | nudge: pedalpete is right about the number of other online todo lists available, so you need to be quite careful about your monetization, but I think it can still be done.The Covey model is more than a todo list anyway, right? It's kind of like todo plus. It's already a premium entity. It takes more effort to use, but ... |
founder dating website | JarekS: I'm actually looking for the same thing :)
It's such a great idea for a startup btw - at the moment we have "job search" like co-founder directories/searches.What we need is "dating site" like services. Co-founder is like a husband/wife isn't he? |
founder dating website | puredemo: Partnership site, not a dating site. ;) |
founder dating website | DanielBMarkham: Lots of those around.A better question would be "How do potential cofounders date?" ie, how do you do small things to try to figure out if you're going to be good working together?Solve that one and you're on to something big. |
iPhone/iPad online app-development | wallflower: Check out:It might make more sense to buy your own Mac, after all.
I initially assumed this service rented Mac Minis."We are a mac mini colocation service. In other words, we place your Mac mini in a high-end data center where you can use it as a server. We provide you with a menu of services including redu... |
When did Stack Overflow become Attorney Overflow? | tmorton: "How do I pick a deadbolt lock, disable an alarm system, and arrange transportation for a big TV? I'm just wondering! This is theoretical! Stop lawyering!"In other words - you might be doing something legitimate, but it sounds fishy. You can't expect people to help you without further explanation. |
When did Stack Overflow become Attorney Overflow? | rcfox: Down-vote those answers and carry on. Maybe add a bit about not wanting legal advice. |
When did Stack Overflow become Attorney Overflow? | nudge: Yeah, those answers weren't incredibly helpful in technical terms. The problem for you is that what you want is actually very, very difficult to achieve, if indeed it is possible, and this is exactly because, for the most part, the only reason to do this kind of thing is for sinister reasons (e.g. phishing). For... |
I am unable to start my startup because of its scale | brk: Most of the startups I've participated in have been more on the scale of what you're describing here (FWIW, I like these kinds of challenges more than something that is "just" software in the cloud, but to each his own).I'm more of the business-guy than the hacker guy, but I've been known to make a double-sided PC... |
I am unable to start my startup because of its scale | vorador: Are you sure of the worth of your idea ?
And seriously, people are not out to get your idea. It's okay to post it here. |
I am unable to start my startup because of its scale | byoung2: "When accompanied by and development platform and strong contracts with major market players this can easily reach the scale of an iPad market and buzz"I would try to be more realistic about it. Even Microsoft or Google sometimes have trouble building the type of buzz that Apple does. A more practical approa... |
Web typography app | garrickvanburen: Are you looking for a snippet of CSS for the @font-face declaration like this http://kernest.com/fontconf-com.css ? |
Any good books on graphing/charting/visualization? | gourneau: Has anyone had a chance to check out "Beautiful Visualization: Looking at Data through the Eyes of Experts"(http://j.mp/9SxXza)?It was just published today according to Amazon. |
I am unable to start my startup because of its scale | Travis: I applaud you for aiming high, and for the confidence you exhibit with your idea! Best of luck on it.However, you definitely have a problem with the scale / scope of your product. As byoung2 points out, there's only 1 ipad, and there's really only one company in the world that could produce it. So it's not o... |
How to teach HS students HTML & CSS in 1 hour? | jqueryin: I'd keep it fairly brief, trying to explain the difference between block level and inline elements. I'd focus on a standard header/body/footer type layout with usage of an H1, body, span, and p tags. You can throw in an em or strong for the sake of demonstrating more tags, but you've only got an hour to try ... |
I am unable to start my startup because of its scale | Mankhool: "One way is to use standard non expensive (and perhaps far less shiny and integrated) hardware plugged some peripherals and write a quick demo for it."
"Few days ago, I actually tried the concept on two "potential" customers, by using some hardware peripherals I managed to put together, and a very basic softw... |
Web typography app | faramarz: I think you'll find http://www.typetester.org helpful |
Any Enterprise Rails application you know of? | nudge: Github |
Any Enterprise Rails application you know of? | aaronbrethorst: Skytap Cloud: http://skytap.com/ |
How to turn my web application into a lifestyle business? | ig1: Ads, you've got a valuable source of information, a list of thing people want to do. Give them relevant ads related to their todo list and you'll get a much higher click-through rate than usual.People are in an "action" mode when going through thier todo list, take advantage of that ! |
Review my start-up Add yours while your at it. | pinksoda: Clickable link: http://www.sinkfloat.com/ |
Review my start-up Add yours while your at it. | meowmeow: Really cool actually. Good luck! |
Review my start-up Add yours while your at it. | pizzaking: I added my site, thanks! |
founder dating website | aren: This exists, name and all! Though it's more of a real-life networking event than a website right now, it's still great and they pull some amazing entrepreneurs. I know, I've been to some of the events. Check out founderdating.com and sign up for an event near you. |
ASK HN: From lit major to Computer Science Masters? | porter: How about the Master's in Computer and Information Technology at UPenn?http://www.cis.upenn.edu/grad/mcit/Looks like it's designed for people like you. Not sure how this would be seen by employers - perhaps some others can answer this.For anyone on the hiring side of a web company: would it be better for a non... |
How to be a responsible single founder? | jhancock: "damn thing looks and works great"If this is the case, don't worry so much. If your app uses a well-understood (by you), proven (by others) software stack and you've been testing well enough, your worries may be for naught.Some folks around here recommend tools like pingdom. Get something like that if it he... |
How to be a responsible single founder? | pedoh: You've got two questions here, I think, and they both deserve careful consideration.1) How do you monitor your site to alert you of problems?2) How do you prevent your site from going down in the first place?In my opinion, #1 is more straightforward than #2, and the more uptime you need for #2, the more you're g... |
Subscriptions on lots of apps/services starting to add up | pedalpete: I haven't gone to using free sources, but I do consistently look at a number of services, and don't sign-up because I recognize that many of these services are going to add up to a lot of money each month.I also suspect that I would be more likely to sign-up if one service offered everything, as it would end... |
What do you guys think about this term sheet? | fdschoeneman: Get an advisor, ASAP, who has been through something like this. |
Review my start-up Add yours while your at it. | sidmitra: Added our site http://teaspiller.com.The added sites need a little bit more info about them. Maybe twitter-like short description to keep it simple? |
How to be a responsible single founder? | shadowsun7: Hi matth,Not in a single-person startup, but there were some useful HN-linked articles in the past. In particular, I found patio11's article about running a software startup as a single-founder (and on 5 hours a week) particularly useful: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1206649I think he's made some rea... |
How to be a responsible single founder? | andrewljohnson: We use site canary for www.trailbehind.com.It ran smoothly for months, and then we had a bit of a problem, but site canary alerted us right away.Also, site canary was recently made free, so set it up! It will email you when you have an issue. Should definitely have some sort of uptime tool like pingdom ... |
How to be a responsible single founder? | marcamillion: Pingdom is pretty cool. So is http://aremysitesup.com/
Here are some others too: http://sixrevisions.com/tools/12-excellent-free-tools-for-mo... |
How to be a responsible single founder? | marcamillion: Also, no affiliation with these guys, I have been watching a company that has an interesting offering. If you run Rails, or can run a ruby script on your server, this offering looks very interesting: http://scoutapp.com/ |
Ecommerce Shopping Cart Recommendation | caswabi: I used foxycart before.http://www.foxycart.com/ |
Ecommerce Shopping Cart Recommendation | samratjp: http://www.shopify.com/ |
iPhone/iPad online app-development | samratjp: Obligatory Obj-C+iPhone Tutorial: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/ |
How to turn my web application into a lifestyle business? | adamtmca: Two ideas, one is straight forward and one is probably crazy. Either way I think it's going to take a variety of strategies to make it work.Definitely figure out if people will pay, but don't "Rework" yourself into thinking that business models don't have any room for creativity either.First, and it's been sa... |
Ecommerce Shopping Cart Recommendation | abdulqabiz: http://www.prestashop.com/
http://www.magentocommerce.com/ |
How to be a responsible single founder? | TotlolRon: I've been doin this for a while now. The problem is more mental than technical.The first thing to accept is that this is by definition an irrisponsiable thing to do...;)Then you need to flow with it. The main thing is not aiming at fixing everything as fast as possible but rather in a way that will be as rel... |
Ecommerce Shopping Cart Recommendation | oomkiller: Shopify +1, if they fit your needs, you can't go wrong. |
Ecommerce Shopping Cart Recommendation | aeontech: http://spreecommerce.com/ |
What do you guys think about this term sheet? | minalecs: i think you sort of answered the question yourself. If you truly believe you can get over the hump yourself, why give up equity for funding you may not need. |
Ecommerce Shopping Cart Recommendation | ApolloRising: If you told people what you were selling that may help ex: Downloads, physical goods, etc |
k-nearest neighbour search with circular dimensions | cperciva: Where's the problem? Just adjust your distance metric accordingly.Or if you have a kNN kernel already available which takes inputs in Euclidean space, just map a dimension t into two dimensions, sin(t) and cos(t). |
Rate my startup www.2dparts.com | WalterGR: 2dparts.com> Connection was reset while loading.<refresh>> The page isn't redirecting properly> Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.> This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept cookies.Screw it. |
Rate my startup www.2dparts.com | apsurd: Sales and marketing 101: show don't tell.Maybe I am not your target market since I don't know what a dxf file is, but it would be universally appealing to see a gallery of products you've cut. A sort of "what's possible".I don't have a dxf file so your website is one giant brick wall to me. |
What do you guys think about this term sheet? | sajid: You've got a term sheet, which means you've got something worth investing in (social proof).But, the investor is trying to screw you.I've been in a similar situation before. Trust me, what you need to do is speak to other investors before you make your decision.If you don't know other investors then a good place... |
founder dating website | alexwyser: I was thinking the exact same thing. I made a post here before I saw this.http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1270235I personally feel that this would be perfect, since it would allow some very talented people come together to build something great.BTW, if any of you are about to start a startup and need a g... |
How about a Co-founders Search Site? | vital101: I think that it's an interesting idea. But why wouldn't someone just put out a call for co-founders on Hacker News like you just did? |
monkeyswithrings.com or monkeysrings.com? | vital101: I'm not sure from an SEO standpoint, but from an end-user standpoint I wouldn't click on a site with the domain "monkeyshats.com". It looks too much like "monkey sh*ts". |
How about a Co-founders Search Site? | david927: People are loathe to register the ideas they're working on, for obvious reasons. Here are a couple sites that I know of:http://findmycofounder.comhttp://programmermeetdesigner.com |
How about a Co-founders Search Site? | bgnm2000: I think you should learn to code. Check out ruby, and ROR - pretty easy to pick up. |
How to be a responsible single founder? | patio11: Oooh, this would be a great topic to go in depth on for a blog post. I'll get something done for you this weekend because this is a topic near and dear to my heart. |
I am unable to start my startup because of its scale | ig1: Do you have experience in running this sort of project (i.e. for your previous employers, etc.) - if not you'll have a hard time raising funding just with an idea. There are a lot of complications from running this type of project, even when you have someone experienced running the show, so getting funding without... |
monkeyswithrings.com or monkeysrings.com? | hotmind: Choose a domain name that is exactly as some one might query it. Google gives a bonus for exact matches. You'll jump up a few positions in the SERPs.P.S. Avoid hyphens :) |
monkeyswithrings.com or monkeysrings.com? | gfhfghf: If monkeysrings.com has "far, far more queries", then choosing that domain is a clear optimisation. |
Rate my startup www.2dparts.com | hotmind: Here's what I recommend my clients do before spending a dime on sales and marketing: make a Facebook profile of your ideal client. Fill in everything: age, location, education, favorite movies, interests, etc. Find pictures of this ideal client.Once you have this profile completely filled out, lock your crossh... |
monkeyswithrings.com or monkeysrings.com? | patrickk: Monkeysrings.com. Treat most casual web surfers as having ADD and that they are only itching to click the back button; so the easier and more memorable the name the better.You might consider having a clear, camel notation heading at the top of your landing page to make the website name clear. |
How to be a responsible single founder? | petervandijck: http://pingdom.com is great for monitoring, they can send you an sms message when your site is down too.As for automating restart, are you running on AWS? Then you can automate that. For that part of your question, you have to give some technical background on your setup etc... |
Rate my startup www.2dparts.com | sidmitra: Clickable - http://www.2dparts.com |
How about a Co-founders Search Site? | symbiotic: You might want to check out: http://builditwith.me/I posted an idea on there a while back and got several responses from interested developers and designers.In the end I decided that I wanted to work with someone who I could meet face to face and who I had a previous relationship with. I think it's hard to s... |
How to be a responsible single founder? | Tawheed: I'm a single founder as well, and here is what I've done:1) Look into chef to automate 99% of your sys-admin tasks (setup, tear up, tear down, deployment)2) Set up pingdom for monitoring your servers externally3) Set up hoptoad (http://www.hoptoadapp.com) to monitor for exceptions and errors internally with e-... |
Rate my startup www.2dparts.com | HeyLaughingBoy: Have you looked at BigBlueSaw for ideas?Look into RC car/plane hobbyists and people on Make. Probably a lot of potential customers there. |
How about a Co-founders Search Site? | Serene: A few more sites that help to find co-founders:http://founderdating.com/
http://startupsquare.com/Why don't you start a meetup group like this one?
http://www.meetup.com/Co-Founders-Wanted-Meetup/
Briefings from the meetings:
http://aurametrix.blogspot.com/2010/03/bay-area-startups-loo...
http://aurametrix.bl... |
what Twitter apps do you use regularly or recommend? | monkeygrinder: I use Hootsuite, instead of Adobe's TweetDeck, because it's a web-based app and I'm a pointy clicky type of person.I don't have an iPhone, but if I did I'd use Tweetie.It really depends on how you use Twitter, but Mashable have a great guide include a list of their picks of best apps. http://mashable.com... |
Anyone interested in co-hosting a weekly podcast? | j_baker: I think you may want to be a bit more specific about what ideas you're thinking about having in this podcast. There are a lot of areas that fall under technology/startups. :-) |
How to be a responsible single founder? | gte910h: Automation, Automation, AutomationHire part time or temporary first, then full time.Get a phone with push notifications. Setup a second system to constantly check for failure in the primary system. Get the second system to notify you in case of failures. Better yet, if you can, have the second system be a fai... |
Anyone interested in co-hosting a weekly podcast? | dugmartin: I'd recommend just going for it solo and make a short one to draw interest. That said, I've been doing one for a while with a co-host at http://foundercast.com/ and it has been a lot of fun but it's a lot easier with another person. Good luck. |
How should we approach remote code interviews? | samratjp: You could do an iChat/Skype combination with Google Docs/Etherpad. All you need to know is in the face, so a webcam can be fine to see how they react and such. |
Anyone interested in co-hosting a weekly podcast? | Tawheed: If you're focused on entrepreneurship and startups, possibly themes around debunking startup myths (e.g. you HAVE to get VC) then I'd be interested! |
founder dating website | samratjp: What you need is HireLite: http://hirelite.com/ It's speed dating for hiring |
What do you think of the domain industry right now? | madprogrammer: I think it's cool |
Worries about a cofounder | mnemonik: Sounds like you have already made your decision. |
What do you guys think about this term sheet? | jamesshamenski: Welcome to the poker table!Take this social proof and run around to other VC's. Having other people interested is the only way you can improve terms and push anyone to close.The best option is to say you dont need their money and would rather boot strap operations (even if that is a bluff).As a rule of ... |
What do you think of the domain industry right now? | kbrower: I think the market for keyword based .com, .net, .org, and .us is still healthy and growing.One data point:
I was lucky and was able to purchase a .us domain with 135k exact match searches a month for $200, when the .com, .net, and .org were all asking 30k+ and not budging.What domains are you sitting on and w... |
Anyone interested in co-hosting a weekly podcast? | mapleoin: will it be about Dwarf Fortress? |
Anyone interested in co-hosting a weekly podcast? | dannyr: I think it would be interesting if the podcast is about the stories shared on Hacker News (ala Diggnation). (e.g. Discuss the most upvoted stories and comments) |
Worries about a cofounder | bg4: An emphatic yes and the sooner the better. I was in the same situation and it cost us dearly because we let it drag on for way too long (a co-founder systematically not completing work and talking often of short term sell/profits). |
Worries about a cofounder | chriseidhof: Do you really need him? If not, ditch the guy: it's already hard enough making good decisions with the two of you. It sounds like there's quite a lot of negative energy going on: I would focus that energy on building your product, not on dealing with partners who are only in it as a no-risk sideproject. |
How should we approach remote code interviews? | briandoll: see[Mike]code was written for exactly this problem. I haven't used it for remote interviews yet, but we tested it out at the office and it seems perfect for what your describing.http://i.seemikecode.com/ |
Anyone interested in co-hosting a weekly podcast? | braindead_in: If you need a tool for recording podcasts then check out our Skype recorder. https://callgraph.biz. If you'd like to go a bit further then check out our Podcast Publisher Program. https://callgraph.biz/podcastpublisher |
Worries about a cofounder | maxdemarzi: "could sell for a couple hundred thousand dollars"Start-ups are high risk, high reward and ton of WORK endeavors. The PM is treating it like a high risk, low reward, no work endeavor.Has he put in a ton of work into this?
Did he pass up opportunities to do something else because of this?No? Then he doesn'... |
I have a concept for packaging of a popular product. And some questions | nudge: If you publish a description of something, it immediately becomes unpatentable, by anyone (including you). This is because you cannot patent something that is in the public domain, and if you publish it, that's where it is. So that's patents. You may not have the money now, but later on when you do have the mone... |
How should we approach remote code interviews? | FreeRadical: With caution. |
Need advice on an idea I started (craft beer related) | binarymax: I like it! One note: if I am not logged in, and I browse to a beer, and click the 'I drank this!' button, it just kicks me back to the root, where instead it should probably show a login/register dialog.[edit] Sorry I missed the original point of your post and did a re-read...your site seems to be just anot... |
Need advice on an idea I started (craft beer related) | adelevie: Pandora for Beer. |
Need advice on an idea I started (craft beer related) | maxdemarzi: I think you have a great thing here. I like the polish of the "Unidentified Location Object" and there is plenty of GUI "Ajaxiness" going on.Maybe a Map feature? What high rated beers I haven't tried are near me (you can add high rated beers as rated by users who are similar to me aka recommendation engin... |
Need advice on an idea I started (craft beer related) | qtvali: Advertising? Beer advertising in banners? Joining with a beer review newspaper? |
How to be a responsible single founder? | imp: I use Binary Canary to alert me for down-time, which is about the same thing that Pingdom does.Just do whatever it takes for you to fall asleep at night. I recently bought a smartphone (N900) that allows me to ssh into my server from anywhere, so if a small fix is needed, I can do that quickly. Before I had that... |
What do you think of the domain industry right now? | csomar: I think it's not getting a buzz anymore (just people no longer talk and write about it). Actually, the domain industry is still alive and many people are making some decent money with it.However, it won't make you a millionaire; the domain rage has ended. You can monetize your domain (rank high, place ads, make... |
Less features with new releases. Have you done it? | qtvali: I think that some operating systems have gone like that way - features are not always removed, but some feats are harder and harder to find; other parts are replaced with automatic parts, which will have hardcoded or automatic answers to questions, which were asked before; some tools are removed, because things... |
Need advice on an idea I started (craft beer related) | timdellinger: First: recommendations are a Must Have.Geolocation: craft beers often have limited distribution, and are only available in certain states, or in areas where the distributors decide to carry them. Reviews of craft beers that you can actually find in a store / bar near you are more valuable than finding th... |
I have a concept for packaging of a popular product. And some questions | cjlars: I understand the basic process of licensing a product is this:1) File for a provisional patent (cost $110), this will get you a year of weak to moderate legal protection2) design, mock-up and create a sales page for you product3) attempt to license the product to a partner, in this case, a packaging or manufact... |
What do you think of the domain industry right now? | andrewtj: Have you ever considered leasing domains (with an option to buy) out of your portfolio? |
what Twitter apps do you use regularly or recommend? | benashkan: Personal Use: Tweetie desktop and iPhone.
Business Use: Tweetdeck.From time to time I use Seesmic web. |
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