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Do You Twitter? | ericwan: http://twitter.com/ericwandon't twitter often, but try to understand its appeal and user dynamics. |
What's your favorite HTML Web presentation tool? | apgwoz: I used Slidy this past week. I needed to show some code examples, and it worked out well. However, I spent a lot of time customizing the look of it. I didn't look for "themes," before hand and ending up wasting a ton of time hacking CSS to get it to look the way I wanted it to. |
Looking for a good name for a new url snapping service O_o | password_woops: nameboy.com showing me these are available:rocketsnap.comsnapgoblin.comsnapalistic.comfreesnapper.com |
Looking for a good name for a new url snapping service O_o | suggestions: What about snappr.com ?
then ..hmm... snapsta, snapaholic, websnapr, thumbaroo, snapzoo, thumbjungle, pans, webshoot, thumbrowse, thumby, snapmonster, snapfree, photoshoot, snap2snap, web2snap, |
Would you rather work for Microsoft or Amazon? | vaksel: Can you give a general idea of what kind of "team" at MSFT? is it internet related or software related? |
Would you rather work for Microsoft or Amazon? | icey: Do you feel that you want to be a career developer or do you think you'd prefer starting up somewhere?If you think you want to be a career guy, go with Microsoft; it's golden on any resume and it has the benefit of treating its employees very well.If you think you want to be a startup guy, I'd say that you hear a... |
Do You Twitter? | wheels: I was slow warming to twitter, but really I've found that there's a pretty huge overlap between my LinkedIn contacts and my Twitter followers. It's largely my online-geek-entrepreneur persona and it's a nice way of letting other folks in the world keep tabs on what stuff we've got coming down the pipe and doin... |
Next Step for Monetizing our Site | seunosewa: Seriously, if you have that much traffic, just use adsense.And kill your downloadable product - it serves no purpose business-wise except to tempt you to take steps that will reduce your traffic and by extension your ad revenues. |
How do you manage new feature requests for your application? | rdrimmie: I think it depends a bit on how relevant community is to your application. If there's a community of users that is built up naturally by using your app (like there is at say Stack Overflow, which uses UserVoice) then you'll want to provide a place for the community to talk about features.If your various users... |
How to Catch Bad Bots? | CalmQuiet: I appreciate your raising the question here, as maybe we can hear from people on front lines. There are, meanwhile, some interesting starting points at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDoS#Prevention_and_response |
How do you do your user-facing documentation? | mattculbreth: Wow great timing, was about to ask the same thing. |
How do you do your user-facing documentation? | limmeau: For #2, I recommend Sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ ) as an alternative to DocBook. You write your documentation in reStructuredText (yet another extensible Wiki markup language) and generate HTML, PDF (via LaTeX), Windows help files, Eclipse help plugins etc. |
Online Dating ROI? | yummyfajitas: It can work, but it's not for everyone.I know a short bald guy in his 50's who currently has three 30-ish girlfriends (russian golddiggers, I think) he found over the internet. However, I think his entire life (outside of work) consists of chasing women over the internet. He also claims great skill at wri... |
Do You Twitter? | lsemel: I'm at http://twitter.com/semel, I'm also cofounder of the 'Oscars for Twitter': http://shortyawards.com. My feeling is that Twitter is what you make of it. People use it for professional networking, sales, customer service, keeping in touch with friends, organizing events, letting people know what they're d... |
Any upcoming web conferences worth attending? | bscofield: My general experience with the Future of X conferences (I've been to FOWA, and had coworkers go to FOWD) is: they're very well produced, but are more about the present than the future. In other words, I've been underwhelmed by the amount I've learned at them. |
Any upcoming web conferences worth attending? | noodle: SXSW. that way, even if you don't learn anything special or the event is somehow a bust for you, you'll still be in a convention where there's other stuff outside the tech realm to see and do. |
Online Dating ROI? | physcab: I've been interested in this as well. I've joined Plenty Of Fish because it was free and I have nothing to lose (except my dignity maybe?).I'm a big proponent for joining things outside your comfort zone. Take an internship, join Habitat for Humanity, get into a running club, or do some type of intramural spo... |
Good, cheap hosted customer service ticket management? | pclark: tried zendesk? it's awesome. |
Online Dating ROI? | omnivore: It's difficult everywhere for different reasons. If you're in a city, the 'quality' folks aren't generally using it and you'll waste a lot of time, money and silly dates to get anywhere. Especially now. Six years ago, you could make great friends in Boston on craigslist, for instance. Now? Enjoy that healthy ... |
Essential books for starting/running a web company | rms: Check out some books from Nolo Press. |
Essential books for starting/running a web company | omnivore: Lucky or Smart by Bo Peabody |
How many of you are coding today? | nostrademons: Maybe later. Was out with friends this afternoon. |
How many of you are coding today? | deepblue: oh definitely... no GF so a nobrainer ;) |
How many of you are coding today? | aristus: I wasn't going to code until I needed to give my SO a gift... so I made an export-to-CSV feature she had been asking for. |
How many of you are coding today? | bscofield: Worked a bit on some iPhone dev, but mostly I was busy cooking |
Essential books for starting/running a web company | pg: The essays I've been writing about startups are most of what will eventually be roughly what you're looking for. |
How many of you are coding today? | tdavis: I went to the gym, watched a TV episode, coded, had a few beers... so, yeah, the same thing I do every day.One way or another, if you were coding today, you made a conscious decision to do that instead of an alternative -- There's no point regretting it. |
How many of you are coding today? | mofey: how do you like my "poem"? :) |
How many of you are coding today? | lpgauth: Why not? I still don't get the purpose of Valentine's day. If you want to make a girl feel special take her out randomly, be unexpected. Theirs nothing more boring/generic then flowers/box of chocolate on Valentine's day. |
How many of you are coding today? | jcapote: I am, http://github.com/jcapote/theman/tree/master |
How many of you are coding today? | CaptainMorgan: We celebrated last night with a simple dinner out; we figured better to do so a day before, and beat the rush. Otherwise, I share the same sentiment(and so does my SO), that Valentine's Day has no purpose, other than a commercial purpose.Today's schedule: Woke, coffee- extra bold, studied advanced maths... |
Essential books for starting/running a web company | anthonyrubin: Founders at Work by Jessica Livingstonhttp://www.foundersatwork.com/ |
How many of you are coding today? | shadytrees: We'll see who gets the last laugh when I finish implementing love. |
How many of you are coding today? | silencio: coding with the boyfriend, couldn't stand the movies we were watching. :) |
How many of you are coding today? | CalmQuiet: Coding is the Valentine I give to myself today - and how I make sure I have something great to give to my Valentine tomorrow! |
How many of you are coding today? | endtime: Yep, spent the entire day coding. Big demo on Wednesday, no time for feeble human emotions. |
How many of you are coding today? | cubicle67: I am, but it's Sunday.(Did yesterday too, but we've got our wedding anniversary soon, so that's our valentines day :) ) |
How many of you are coding today? | tlb: I'm checking HN while my code compiles. Since there's nobody to swordfight on desk chairs with. |
How many of you are coding today? | Todd: Yes, like nearly every other day. That doesn't mean that I didn't find time to spend with the people I care about. Both are a matter of priorities. |
Good, cheap hosted customer service ticket management? | ScottWhigham: I've tried Kayako and Cerberus and they are both fine. Kayako is hosted for $30-$40/mth for unlimited users, I think. Cerberus is about the same. Where these shine is in their knowledge base - you can have a both public and private KB.http://www.kayako.com/http://www.cerberusweb.com/My thoughts are that h... |
How many of you are coding today? | marram: Long weekend, so coding on a moonlighting project is inevitable. |
Good, cheap hosted customer service ticket management? | elviejo: fog bugs is free for startups.
they also have a hosted version.
Definitively worth checking, IMO |
public code reviews? | akkartik: One option: http://refactormycode.com |
How to make a test suite? | davidw: Use whatever Python/Perl give you. |
How to make a test suite? | makecheck: Look for "doctest" and "unittest" in the Python standard library. You can run pydoc on either of those names for more, and find tutorials online. |
public code reviews? | arjunb: The http://stackoverflow.com community might also be helpful for this. |
Do You Twitter? | vicaya: No. It's my opinion that people who twitter are either egomaniacs or who have something to sell. I have much higher respect for people who actually maintain strictly technical blogs these days. |
Essential books for starting/running a web company | curiousgeorge: When you are not profitable you pay people as little as possible and deal in cash. Give work to friends and friends of friends at below market rates. Do not give out equity or anything that requires paying lawyers to do things. Don't make promises you cannot cash.Don't get trapped by socialized norms of ... |
Wireless text-mode thin client? | noonespecial: Just pack a usb (or bluetooth) keyboard along with your eeepc and change /etc/inittab to start in level 3 (text mode). |
Any upcoming web conferences worth attending? | RobGR: I have generally found tradeshows and conferences to be only marginally worth it, or a waste of time. The most recent events I felt I got my money's worth out of were the Austin Game Developer's Conference several years ago, and Defcon last year.The Game Developer's conference was only worth it because it was f... |
Good, cheap hosted customer service ticket management? | RobGR: I recommend RT:http://bestpractical.com/rt/If you have a linux host, you can download the open source package and install it yourself. There are directions in the wiki on how to do stuff like have it handle the support email even when you are using Google Apps.Another option for installing it is to setup a linu... |
Wireless text-mode thin client? | RobGR: I don't know where you could get something like that these days.However, TI used to make a real portable terminal:http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/ti-tymshare-100/...That one is considerably larger than the smallest models. The smallest onse were about the size of an eeepc, but thicker, had a built i... |
Best cheap hosting for a low traffic local business? | pg: Why not Weebly? |
Tool like Google Analytics to track keyword search ranking over time | tontoa4: I usually just check weekly. Progress is not always a straight line upwards. Add Google analytics to see how many people visited the keyword in question. This is probably most effective. |
Can Google AdWords help local pizza? | earl: well, yodle and reachlocal, amongst others, are trying to answer that questionIn general, though, it's hard to do well. Problems include the fact that many people don't turn to google first thing for pizza, that google still doesn't do a good job looking up businesses by name, that even with geo-targeting food d... |
Best cheap hosting for a low traffic local business? | mikeyur: I tend to point any clients that want low cost hosting towards GeekStorage.com - they have a $35/yr plan. Another is A Small Orange, but I have had much more problems with ASO than I have with GeekStorage.If you're looking for something 'beefier' - I'm currently with WebFaction.com - awesome guys, great if you... |
Best cheap hosting for a low traffic local business? | silvestrov: Whoever you choose, make sure you always have an up-to-date local backup of everything on the site. Cheap webhosting is prone to loosing customer files when something goes wrong. |
Best cheap hosting for a low traffic local business? | pclark: A Small Orange are great :) |
Best cheap hosting for a low traffic local business? | mseebach: Don't let clients anywhere near their own domains and hosting.Before you know it, you're drenched in trouble, trying to get some hack-cheap-registrar to unlock domains or whatever, while the client is desperate because his e-mail doesn't work, or figuring out why the website broke, only to find out the boss's... |
Running your web app on top of a python http server | seunosewa: I use CherryPy too, but it runs behind nginx. ( http://www.nairalist.com/ ) |
What agreements and legal structures should you have in place for a startup? | sharpn: If you have no presence in the US, you'll need to fill in W8BEN forms (available online) to avoid being taxed by both UK & US. There are other considerations too, as you mention, but I'm not familiar enough with them to advise. Hope that helps. |
What agreements and legal structures should you have in place for a startup? | alabut: From the Ycombinator FAQ:"Don't incorporate, though, if you can avoid it. Especially as an LLC. It's much more complicated for us to deal with existing paperwork than to start from scratch."And as a personal note, I've found the same logistically - tinker together with friends on a project, see how you gel toge... |
Tool like Google Analytics to track keyword search ranking over time | mkitb: Use IBP (Sorry, Windows-only) to track rankings of of search rankings for keywords: http://www.Axandra.com/go.to/kaiser/4 You can automate this, so it generates lists of rankings/keywords/searchengines regularly. No, it's not free, but it's worth the price as it saves _lots_ of time. |
What agreements and legal structures should you have in place for a startup? | imp: It's probably best to talk to a lawyer. There will be paperwork at some point, but at least consult with one now so that you know exactly what you'll need to do and when. It could also be complicated because of your different countries. Only a lawyer will know all of the important details. |
What are the top 3 entrepreneurial resources you read | pclark: http://news.ycombinator.com/newswhy not empower us lot to deliver you quality content? |
What are the top 3 entrepreneurial resources you read | davidw: The Economist... not for 'entrepreneur' kinds of things, but just in general. |
What are the top 3 entrepreneurial resources you read | rogercosseboom: http://ecorner.stanford.edu/Stanford has a wonderful Entrepreneurial Archive with hundreds of podcasts, lectures, etc. all related to entrepreneurship. And its sponsored by Draper Fisher Jurvetson.It's been my #1 resource. |
How do you manage your learning? | RiderOfGiraffes: I set aside an hour a day (on average) to "do stuff" that is of direct relevance to a project I want to complete. If I'm learning a new language, I have a small project to perform a small but non-trivial task. Then I make sure I spend about an hour a day on that.Same goes for my reading. I allow 30 ... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | jgrahamc: I've modded this up because I'd like to hear what other hnusers have to say about this topic. I've just been through this process and it was very, very painful.In the end way came up with a company name via a lot of lateral thinking. I spent a long time writing down all the attributes of our service and the... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | tjic: There's a ton of info on the web. Google things like "picking a brand name", etc.From a trademark perspective, you don't want to be "books.com" - it's too generic.From a mindshare perspective, you also don't want to be "wrejiorgsdf.com".The sweet spot is just off-center of the topic. E.g. Amazon - the world's b... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | pclark: http://www.domainpigeon.com/ |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | JustAGeek: Voted up bc I'd like to know, too.I'm also in the process of finding a name and so far it's been both painful and fruitless.
I've tried to look for Greek and Latin names but most of those I tried were already taken.I even used a Hawaiian online dictionary: http://wehewehe.org/
but again haven't come up with ... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | neoneye: brand name != product name |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | Zarathu: Man, that's one of the painful parts. Lots of time, lots of thinking, and lots of reading through dictionaries for Greek/Latin origins of words.Then, the name just hits me. |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | jasonlbaptiste: TJIC's comment was everything I'd suggest and more. So here's a list of not what to do (somewhat sarcastic, but everyone knows a ton of people do this)Drop the E, Add an RIf the domain with a c isn't available use a KFind obscure country TLDs to represent the last two lettersDoublee the lastt letterr i... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | huhtenberg: This one is a running joke in designer circles. It's called a "Name My Design Company machine" -http://www.breadlinedesign.com/naming_machine/index.htmJust something to keep in mind when trying to avoid naming pattern cliches. |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | jackchristopher: I would broaden the question to, how do you name anything properly? Or even more abstractly, how do you categorize anything intelligently?Names are delimiters; In your case you're delimiting your product in someone else's mind. And while names may be arbitrary, humans understand things in terms of thin... |
Best cheap hosting for a low traffic local business? | theklub: I use Apisnetworks.com. You can add as many domains as you want to one account. Servers are fast and I haven't had any problems with them. |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | jhancock: I was once told there are two ways to get a beautiful woman: "charm the pants off her, or buy her.". When it comes to domain names your only option is to buy.I am not a "domainer" but by necessity of having tried to find some goods ones over the years I've accumulated around 50 that I hold on to "just in ca... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | auston: I usually take 1 of 3 approaches:1. Look for a metaphor - like for instance, "digg" because you're uncovering stuff, or "YCombinator" because it's a company that spawns other companies2. Be descriptive - like "RemindsYou" or "SalesForce" or "FriendFeed"3. Kind of like JasonLBaptiste said - drop some or all of t... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | paulsingh: This may not be the smartest way to do it but here's what I did: I gave myself 30 minutes to brainstorm a bunch of names that I liked. (I did this with a pen & paper to avoid getting bogged down in needless WHOIS lookups, etc.)Then I opened up Google Translate and converted the words to Italian, Spanish, etc... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | Maro: The process is pretty simple and a lot of fun: think of and write down some words that describe or are related to your project. These are the seeds, or starting point. You should be able to write down 10-50 such words. Try to write down words that are related to the way your product differentiates itself from its... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | tlb: Also, taken != unavailable. If there's no actual website there, or if the website looks neglected, or if it's one of several names for the same thing, you might be able to buy it. Several YC startups have bought .coms for between $1000 and $5000. If your company is serious, that's a worthwhile investment. |
Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search | amirnathoo: I really like this but I want to be able to setup alerts for new events that are added matching particular locations and keywords. Otherwise although I like the site and I found a few useful events, I'm unlikely to come back just because I won't remember to.Would also love to get you a custom version of Web... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | GeneralMaximus: Another tip: Use a markov chain to generate random words and pick some out of those.Here are some words I just came up with using a random word generator script I once wrote (in Python): zenthanooo, uroratou, arerent, malimanged, wastsal, matiri, rasanto ... you get the point.They might not be the best ... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | jacquesm: Here is more or less how I do it:- write down a list of words closely related to the subject- get thesaurus and add the words I find as synonyms to the list- make a list of permutations that make sense- ask my registrar to do searches on all of them for .com, .org and .net- rinse and repeat until I find a goo... |
Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search | 100k: I used it to add the next Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting:http://editconf.com/events/348:ruby-users-of-minnesota-febru...Nice job on making it really easy to add events. Hopefully you have a plan for spam.EDIT: I noticed you have at least a few duplicates, like these:http://editconf.com/events/220:railsconf-2009h... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | dreur: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=370258 (Ask HN: How do I choose my startup's name?);) |
Best, Simple, Free Web-based Bookkeeping/Accounting | ngerber: Please check out our SAAS small business accounting -http://www.numia.biz.Simple and free. Always working on making it the best with your feedback. Thanks. |
Best cheap hosting for a low traffic local business? | redrobot5050: Make sure the client knows what they're doing with regards to a web presence: E.g. they can manage e-mail / hosting set ups. If they don't, they're likely to get burned, even with your advice.I would advise getting a small VPS from Slicehost. Set it up so that it automatically backs up (they charge like $... |
Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search | sant0sk1: I LOVE the fading red around the "Add Event" button. Makes me want to add an event even though I don't know of any!I haven't reviewed the rest of the app yet. That button is like the Hypnotoad. |
What agreements and legal structures should you have in place for a startup? | pg: The main things you have to do are incorporate the company, appoint a board (presumably you two), issue stock, and each sign agreements with the company saying that your work becomes the company's IP.You should probably vest some or all of the founders' stock (the usual time is 4 years) as a way of deciding in adva... |
Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search | dpeq: Very clean and intuitive Jonathan!From the design perspective I would:1) change to text color of the header (black on dark gray is not easy to read)
2) You have two search inputs - kick one and move the events section up.
3) To see event details you just have to click the row/div and not a link which is good - sh... |
How do you manage your learning? | grouchyOldGuy: I completed my BS degree several years ago. I carried a full-time school load and worked full-time. I got 90% of my school work done on the weekends. During the week I was too tired from work to do much more than the absolute minimum required of me for school. Not having a wife and kids helped too--no di... |
How do you manage your learning? | DanielBMarkham: Segment your time into tactical learning (in your case Java), strategic learning (for you, Haskell), and brain-recovery time (cheap fiction, meditation, whatever)Trying to learn different languages at the same time, unless you are a Jedi, is going to be tough. But you could probably find some good funct... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | lassej: If you want a completely silly web 2.0-ish name you could try my name generator thing i did a while ago: http://lajo.org/names/ |
Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search | callmeed: Very cool ... I'm going to do something similar for the photography industry this week.One thing I would really like to see: a link/menu on the home page that lets me choose my state. Then show all the events in said state ... seeing all events around the world is cool, but the ones I could drive to are espec... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | Andi: A way I tried is with Google's translation API: I wrote a script which translates a word (which has some meaning for your project) to different languages and then shows all translations in a list. Then I remove all translation which do not sound good or are incorrect. In the end I have a bunch of exotic words and... |
Tips for coming up with a new web startup name | macco: A lot good things already posted. What helped me a lot was this ebook: http://www.igorinternational.com/process/naming-guide-produc...And one thing: Be brave with your name. |
Rate my startup: EditConf - wiki style tech events, aggregation, and search | fauigerzigerk: I'd like to be able to filter by region, maybe by pointing at the map. (By the way, I don't like the moving map at all, but that's probably just my personal dislike of things moving on my screen)The second thing I noticed is that not all events are found when I search for them. There's this Black Hat DC ... |
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