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Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | anuraggoel: Great ^ Job.Some suggestions:Add 'in progress'/'started' as a project status. This would affect some other features as well, for example filtering the project list. But it would allow people to find new projects more efficiently.Also add a field for 'time to finish' once the project is done.Allow sorting or... |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | mtw: awesome. if you have a group feature, i'll be using it for a hackers meetup here in montreal. we meet monthly and need a tool to aggregate hacker projects. (or maybe use tags?) |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | villiros: This is really cool. Taking one look gave me quite a few new ideas.I'm slightly confused about its focus, though. How is it different from those sites that list webapp ideas? Nothing is stopping me from taking one of the ideas described on this site and just doing it myself... |
Feedback on our app: groupieguide.com | carlosrr: Convenient clickable links:http://seattlehackers.groupieguide.comhttp://www.groupieguide.com |
how can I generate youtube style id? | HeyLaughingBoy: What's wrong with starting with '0' for the first item and incrementing up from there? Guaranteed uniqueness. |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | niels_olson: hmmmm . . . I wish something like this could get tied into the larger network of meetups. For example . . . how would one get 2600 people to be aware of a system like this? |
Any book recommendations for Geek Humour? | RiderOfGiraffes: Terry Pratchett.http://www.lspace.org/books/reading-order-guides/the-discwor...Specifically for geeks I would start, perhaps, with "Going Postal". |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | gourneau: My description for tweeting: "Clusterify.com is to coding as pickup games are to sports." |
How necessary is a TOS? | RiderOfGiraffes: Personal opinion, based on limited experience.Essential, unless you want to endure endless complaints about there being no rules, so how can they be banned because they didn't do anything wrong, because nothing's wrong because there are no rules.Be blunt. Say that people are expected to behave well, a... |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | ashot: this should be a feature of github |
Feedback on our app: groupieguide.com | pedalpete: A nicely laid out and clean looking site.
I'd recommend doing a demo of how the site works.
People will spend a bunch of time creating a group, so showing how it works would likely help convince people to use your site over other solutions. |
Any book recommendations for Geek Humour? | russell: Charles Stross, The Atrocity Archives and others in the Laundry series. Not foolishness, but a good sense of humor. For foolishness, try Robert Asprin's Myth Adventures. |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | davi: Cool.You have Clusterify as a 'completed' project at:http://clusterify.com/projects/completed/But not as an idea at:http://clusterify.com/projects/proposed/So when a project is completed, it gets pulled off the proposed page? Or you just didn't populate the proposed page w/ the Clusterify project?Maybe projects ... |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | gojomo: Neat idea. Get a favicon! |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | Maro: Your tagline is "To assemble ad hoc teams for short coding projects".You could come up with a semi-unique name like "codelets" ("hacklets", "hackies", "projectiles", ) for these "short coding projects". This would be a unique term specific to and identifying your site, similar to "tweets" identifying messages pos... |
How necessary is a TOS? | releasedatez: I have the same concern too. I tried googling for some generic TOS template but nothing good so far. I've decided to let that part go for now because I figured it's more important to get the site working and functional first.I guess when the site does make some money, I can always find a legal copy writer... |
Feedback on our app: groupieguide.com | kamme: It looks very nice, the only thing I (personaly) dislike is the large 'header'. I'm on 1280x768 and minimized the waste area as much as possible. When people visit your site and they have to scroll down, that's a shame...But you have a nice and clean layout, responsive website and a good idea, I'd say: continue ... |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | nihilocrat: Needs more games. Of course, that's a community issue. :)The development time for games tends to be longer, so "a few hours" is more like "at least 2 days, if we are binge-coding". |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | tectonic: I'm interested in using this to meet hackers near me. I'm also interested in doing summer YC if anyone is interested. |
What do you use for tracking misc data? | joubert: How about using a spreadsheet? You could use Numbers... |
Review Clusterify.com - small coding project meetups - creators met on HN | pixelmonkey: I think this is a great idea. I have always thought hacking and open source development could be more organized :-) This looks like a great first stab. Here are some comments:On aesthetics: although I like the StackOverflow nod, I think the color scheme is a little too 'grey'. Background is grey, header... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | fnazeeri: Brilliant! My advice is to stay in cash (or equivalent). Have patience. Wait 2-4 years and see what happens with the economy. Forget about the cash in the bank (I'm assuming you're well below normal retirement age). Set aside an amount of "play" money. Go play golf or hike Kilimanjaro or whatever works ... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | oldgregg: 1) Stay liquid (ING or loonies-in-a-shoe-box)
2) Wait until the markets bottoms
3) Buy MinnesotaA year or two from now people with cash reserves are going to clean up. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | mrtrosen: You could invest in a nice consulting company, http://www.lab305.com, a couple guys trying to get things moving with some very good prospects in the works :) Then we could all be cashing out for another 2 million next year? |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | vaksel: Go take a vacation and start thinking about your next startup |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | vaksel: You should avoid telling the people you know about this, since everyone will hound you for a handout if they find out. At the minimum under value the thing,2 mil = you can afford to buy the person a car and you are an asshole for not doing it.500K = you can tell them no, since you "need" the money to buy a hous... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | inerte: Here's what I would do if I got 2 millions reais (I am brazilian ;)- Pay some debt close family members have (parents, brothers)- Buy an apartment, in the same price range I've been looking for in the last couple months (150k tops). Would not buy something more expensive, "just because I can";- Put everything e... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | smanek: I'm a fan of the Taleb approach to investing. Put most of your money (~90%, I would say )into bulletproof stuff (Savings Account, CDs, etc), and put a little into risky things. You should be able to get at least 5% ROI on the safe stuff (in the long run, obviously considerably less than that right now), which s... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | xenophanes: buy some government fixed interest rate, fixed duration bonds (say 1-2 year duration) if they give you a better interest rate than ING.don't change your lifestyle too quickly. make sure all changes pass two tests: 1) it feels comfortable 2) you think its rational. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | len: buy gold. bullion if you can instead of futures.no currency is stable at this point. hyperinflation will wipe out a lot of wealth. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | cperciva: The $1M-$10M range is difficult -- it's more than most people know how to manage themselves, but it's not enough to allow you to hire someone to be your full-time money manager.Based on what you've said and not said, I'm presuming that you (a) have set aside money to handle any income taxes which you'll have ... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | micks56: I would put my money into Federally insured bank accounts until I figured out what to do.While it may be unlikely that ING will fail as a bank, there is no reason to take that risk. Divide your money among banks to stay below the maximum Federally insured limits.Once you 1) learn what you want to do with the m... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | sak84: I am confused. Why are you asking people what to do with your money when we know nothing about you?Do you want to just hold on to this money and live off the interest?Do you want to make more money by working?Would you like to invest in the stock market?Are you risk-averse?Are you willing to move?Are you charit... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | access_denied: I'd say being a land-owner is a good move for various reasons. Seriously, do you think the situation in terms of foods and water supply is going to get better in the next decade?
http://www.kottke.org/09/02/fruits-and-vegetables-getting-le...
(I don't say, put all your eggs in one basket.) |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | Fuca: Any hint on how you made it?Congratulations anyway |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | kbob: Four chicks at once. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | mattmaroon: Well, avoiding the deeper money management issue and addressing your savings comment, I don't know what sort of depositor's insurance you have up there, or much about Canadian banks at all (other than that BMO owes me $100) but if it's anything like the US right now, I'd spread it out. I think our FDIC limi... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | mikeyur: First off, send me some cash. If you don't know what to do with it, give it to me (I'm a fellow canadian, eh).Next thing would probably be to spread it around in some high-interest bank accounts and make sure you don't go over the insured amount. But I'm not an expert.Congrats on the sale and good luck figurin... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | maximumwage: My advice: don't listen to suggestions from random people on the internet (though I like a lot of the suggestions in this thread). Talk to other successful sellers and a diverse selection of wealthy people and find out what they did with their money. Also, Gurbaksh Chahal's book "The Dream" has a good ov... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | bullseye: Congratulations!I had a loosely similar experience, and here are a few things I would recommend based on what I did, and wish I had done:Tell as few people as possible, preferably just your immediate family. Resist the urge to talk about it with friends and associates. This includes offering to buy every acqu... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | smanek: I would highly recommend Philip Greenspun's investing and early retirement articles, which explain how he dealt with a similar situation.http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/moneyhttp://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/ |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | gojomo: Go to AngelConf!http://angelconf.com/ |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | auston: Invest in startups? |
What's the best way for outsiders to get a startup team together? | bullseye: I cannot stress this enough... do not go into a partnership with someone that you barely know. You can't gauge someone's work ethic, business ethic, or personal history, based on a few forum posts. Case in point... I have an acquaintance who formed a partnership with someone they barely knew. The other part... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | jyothi: Buy gold. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | tigerthink: http://singinst.org/ |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | hedgehog: 1. Congratulations!2. Ignore financial advice from random people on the internet (feel free to include me in this category). Also beware advice on complex schemes that will eat you alive with management fees.3. Spend your time doing what makes you happy.4. If you need time to think about life and the next pro... |
What's the best way for outsiders to get a startup team together? | moxy: Have you seen this?
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=485813 |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | stuntgoat: If you ever want to help the most people per dollar spent, take a look at micro-nutrient need in developing countries. Several smart economists ran the numbers and found this is the most cost effective way to help the most people. Check it out:http://www.copenhagenconsensus.com/ |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | pj: Do absolutely nothing for a year. Assume your life is just as it was.$2M can really mess with your mind. It's not really enough to live forever. But it is enough to live on for a long time. If you are careful, you could invest it and live on the interest. If you aren't careful, you could invest it and lose it.... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | smanek: I like mint.com to manage all my accounts, and keep track of my spending (I do all my spending on my credit card, so it's great for budgeting since it can automatically categorize expenditures).You have a few orders of magnitude more then me, but I imagine it should scale fairly well ;-) |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | pg: Here's the conventional advice. Start with it all in cash, in some form you feel is sufficiently safe from disasters. Gradually over a couple years bleed it into some combination of stocks (by default in a low-cost index fund) and bonds. The usual rule of thumb is to put your age percentage in bonds. I.e. at age... |
Starting Small | suhail: Learn Hadoop/MapReduce, write something that requires data-scale. |
Starting Small | nostrademons: Try a BitTorrent client. Transmission seems to be the main option on Linux, and I bet you could do better than that... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | gasull: I like Eric Janzsen's advise on investing, despite his so bad-looking website http://itulip.com/ . His view:- No investment is gonna make you rich while we are in recession.
- Gold will appreciate in dollars, but just because dollars will actually depreciate.So, for the following years, if you buy gold and hol... |
Review my web service. iPhone app creator for blogs | moxy: Your page is tactful, clean and direct. I immediately recognized what your application did, and signup appeared easy and simple. It appears to me that you've taken the most commonly articulated criticisms of webapp pages into account and adjusted accordingly. However, I feel like I wouldn't be true to my HNness i... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | jonursenbach: Start over. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | jwb119: "Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful." -Warren BuffettI dare you to find many greedy opinions out there today.. Everything I read is decidedly fearful. Full text of the article is at http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/17/opinion/17buffett.html (I realize its slightly less appli... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | sammcd: It seems to me you are asking the wrong people. My father works at an investment company (http://www.hilliard.com/), and usually the people that give you investment advice at banks are the people that couldn't make it at real investment companies.You need someone whose job is to find out what kind of person yo... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | dylanz: 1) Buy property in a location you could see yourself growing old in.
2) Take a Permaculture Design Course.
3) Live happily and take trips to places that happily meet your vices. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | timcederman: Certainly diversify. It's still an easy amount to handle yourself which is good. My biggest mistake was not diversifying enough. Happily I did get strong advice which I half-heartedly followed, for which I am forever grateful.By the way, there are plenty of stocks out there paying very handsome dividend... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | sown: I'm reminded of a rotten.com articlehttp://www.rotten.com/library/culture/lottery-winners/ |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | kul: Firstly, congratulations! I was in similar position once I sold Auctomatic and moved to Vancouver (but with much less cash). I'm now doing property in the states. My advice would be, convert as much as possible of your money into assets that generate passive income (i.e. through rental property). You will then hav... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | nazgulnarsil: a lot of people are talking about "taking time off to think" but not really being more specific than that. This is not just a vacation, this is a vitally important step. Assuming you can make 3-5% off the 2M you are set for life.
Now comes something that few people have ever been able to do: actually de... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | seshagiric: Talk to Randy Komisar and ask what to do. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | known: Have you considered setting up YCombinator in Canada? |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | mkuhn: Invest against the trend. And don't invest everything into one thing, diversify. As a last piece of advice I would suggest to keep some liquidity. |
Starting Small | aneesh: It's a shameless plug, but come check out our site http://clusterify.com. We organize meetups for small coding projects, and you might find an interesting project, or someone interesting to work with. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | jacquesm: Take your time, don't spend what you don't have to, stay away from people giving you 'good advice' (including this one), everything comes to those who wait.The only concrete advice I'd have for you is spread your money around different banks and currencies so that if something takes a hit you don't lose it al... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | spassky1: blow it back into another startup |
Starting Small | patio11: 1. Make a program that solves a problem.2. Charge money for it.3. Get a headstart on learning all the stuff that takes place outside of the IDE.($1,000 is way past what is needed for this these days, if you do your own coding and fill in gaps in your skills with open source. Open source web design, etc...) |
Starting Small | triplefox: If learning game programming interests you, you may want to try coding a 2d rectangle collision system. Not just intersection tests(that is the easy part) but also a collision response that can either cleanly separate intersections or prevent them from occurring, the kind of thing you want for actor-environm... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | abhishekdesai: invest in my startup http://rivals4ever.com ;) |
Review my web service. iPhone app creator for blogs | katamole: How much will one of the apps cost in the store? |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | cwb: Congratulations! Invest a little in yourself:1. Get a good doctor and dentist; commit to yearly full check-ups.2. Develop a life-long exercise habit that you can perform anywhere. No weights, minimum props. Get help from (i.e. pay) army/special-forces trainer initially.Now is probably a good time to do this, if yo... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | brentr: I recommend seeing someone at a bank about setting up a trust. If you are concerned with making sure that the corpus of the trust remains intact, explicitly tell the bank that as there are investment opportunities that are completely appropriate for that. The benefits of a trust are numerous. When I worked as a... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | c00p3r: You can invest in development of a family hotel somewhere in Hymalayan trekking areas, like Nepal, Sikkim or West Bengal. Actually you can build two or three of them. =) |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | ggruschow: There's plenty of good advice here to think about.. but just think about it for a year. (Software recommendation: none for now)There's no hurry, but there's plenty of mistakes to be made. Carry on as usual for a while and see if any of the ideas really resonates with you after your mind has settled.Definitel... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | lallysingh: Mac software: quicken's worked for me. Not fancy, not pretty, but effective.Talk to a professional about investing & protecting your assets. As you can live on the interest, perhaps the free time is more important than the money for now?Sounds like a good time to invest in yourself. First: a small vacati... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | UsNThem: Invest in Madoff :D |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | lazyant: since nobody mentioned it: make a last will.As for opinions I'd put maybe 5% in stock indexes (Dow,S&P) as 'risk' and the rest partitioned in bonds and cash in high interest account after talking with a tax specialist. I'd forget about money managers. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | giardini: If you don't own a home then buy one. Buy it as a home, not as an investment, so the smaller the better. If possible, buy a home in an area that has no homeowners' association and associated fees. If you don't, you will eventually regret it. You could buy a "fee simple townhome", which means it's small (condo... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | cellis: Trip around the world. |
Please review our startup - timzon.com | RiderOfGiraffes: The link for direct clicking: http://timzon.com |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | mistermann: 1. Get a good accountant
2. Be very careful in the stock market right now. |
Alternative to the tag cloud? | raquo: Instead of differentiating by font size you could differentiate by color intensity (e. g. like in http://www.artlebedev.ru/everything/clouds/linear/ ) |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | Dauntless: Buy shares in companies from which you use and plan to buy products in future and that have good ROE. Be an angel investor. Travel around to every continent on earth once. Start a new company, where you can invest the money again. |
Alternative to the tag cloud? | gjm11: What are the items? Are they best represented by single words or short phrases? (If not, I don't see how you could use a tag cloud anyway.) What does "importance" actually mean? What other characteristics of the items might the users care about? Are there any that you can usefully use to arrange the items in wha... |
Alternative to the tag cloud? | gjm11: Note: anything with a lot of information visibly present in it is "not very approachable for non-techies", so filtering is probably at least as important a problem as presentation of the filtered data. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | drsnyder: Pay off any debts you have and set aside some for taxes. Consider some diversification, but keep as much of it as you can (or stomach) as liquid as possible (high interest savings accounts, CDs, or treasuries). There may be some great opportunities in another year or so for those who are still solvent and hav... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | nihilocrat: As everyone else says, save the lion's share of the money, and act like nothing happened. Ensure that you will never have to work at a job if you don't like it. |
Review my web service. iPhone app creator for blogs | weaksauce: Are you planning on monetizing this site at all? If so how? |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | nickfox: I haven't made that much at once before but I have made a considerable amount and I have this one bit of advice. Make sure you don't lose your work ethic. |
Alternative to the tag cloud? | ieatpaste: Here's a discussion on metafilter:
http://ask.metafilter.com/56228/Alternatives-to-a-tag-cloudYou can find more experimental UI elements at infographics sites and various visualization lab sites:
http://infosthetics.com/
http://labs.digg.com/
http://sandbox.yahoo.com/Experiments (it used to be much better be... |
Please review our startup - timzon.com | bbuffone: Site looks cool. Don't like the iframe, makes it difficult to bookmark and post links. Also the inside scrollbar is a bad idea. |
Alternative to the tag cloud? | Maro: Consider using hand-picked instead of generated aggregates.For example, on a picture sharing site, showing me a mix of other users' latest pics is just noise. But if an editor creates a album of "Old Mexicans Smoking Cigars", that sounds interesting. |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | alexandermimran: You should read some good books and make your own decision. Worst thing that could happen is you are hurt by inflation which can't happen nearly as fast as a stock crash... |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | goat: Staggered CDs and Dollar cost averaging.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_of_deposithttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_cost_averagingEventually you want to be diversified, but right now, you don't know if you want to put all your money in the market.So divide your money into 8ths (or whatever, by 8ths rig... |
Alternative to the tag cloud? | riklomas: I'd recommend this Edward Tufte book for visual data design, it's very good:http://www.amazon.com/Visual-Display-Quantitative-Informatio...Also, FlowingData is a great site for data visualization: http://flowingdata.com/ |
Just cashed out for 2M. What now? | mrtron: Being Canadian...I recommend PC Financial. Their high interest savings is great, and no fees!With 2 mil, I would personally:-Buy a place to live in the 400k range. Housing is probably overpriced right now, but generally speaking the Canadian housing market is not too badly bubbled. I really don't see a Canad... |
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