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Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons | palsecam: Hello everyone out there following the button factory!First of all, thanks everyone for the big amount of -so- useful comments! It's really interesting and motivating!Some have noticed, the server has been down, overloaded. I put some rules to guarantee its disponibility, but it may still be problems (it's a ... |
Review my startup (vivapixel.com) | thepanister: It looks interesting...
But can you please make a demo video, or make a demo version that would allow us to make a fast test without requiring creating an account?EDIT: Also consider providing users a way to transfer their photos from their current service to yours, and to share the photos through multiple... |
Review my startup (vivapixel.com) | trickjarrett: So here are my thoughts:1) You give me no reason to use you rather than Flickr or Facebook. What is the reason YOUR site is better? I'm not saying it isn't, but that needs to be on your frontpage. You have to assume your customer is going to have photos online elsewhere.2) Frontpage signup button took me ... |
Review my startup (vivapixel.com) | unalone: Your logo's border looks particularly thick. It doesn't look very good on such a minimalist site."Vivapixel helps you store and share your photos and videos !"There shouldn't be a space before the exclamation point. Furthermore, there shouldn't be an exclamation point at all. You're not making us excited right... |
Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons | ralph: Either wrap long text to fit in fixed-width buttons, or let me specify \n and \\ to break the lines manually. |
Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons | ralph: Remember my last settings when I return to the site. Provide a `reset to defaults' button if I want sanity to return. |
Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons | dpurp: Not bad.1. On a first glance the interface is a little overwhelming, and I am not sure where to go/what to change first. Have a single column of options that can be expanded/condensed accordion style (think the Mac MS Word formatting sidebar).2. Buttons produced are only a single image. It would be nice if m... |
Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons | thingsilearned: I've used it and found it easy and super helpful! Thanks for this! |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | staunch: You should make this a poll, and don't forget the "I'm still not ramen profitable" option that most people will choose :-) |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | tom_rath: Eleven months from empty text editor to 'ramen profitability'. Only one product was developed but about four others were considered before I focused on a clearly defined market filled with customers who were willing to pay for software.The position I started from was zero debt and about two years of comforta... |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | Zarathu: Five months. |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | hedgehog: I left the previous startup last January (was there about five years). Between travels I did a few projects:- Contract app development.
- Wrote some graphics code for fun (real-time voxel renderer).
- Wrote a web app as an experiment (web clippings tool).What I learned: Contract development is not for me. W... |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | EvilTrout: I worked on my project (a pretty large web game) for a year before we launched it. Money started coming in right away. We had coverage on wired.com which was a nice spike, but I only got confident enough to start withdrawing a regular salary after another 12 months.So technically 24 months, which is longer t... |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | ejs: Never at the rate I am going :-/ |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | jnovek: Today was the first day of our first billing mo. with our first customer. Our second customer will place us clearly in the realm of "Ramen Profitability".It took four ideas, a co-founder revolving door, one false start and copious amounts of luck to get here.Altogether, 11 months so far. While working the day... |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | swombat: I didn't quit my job until I was ramen profitable and then some. However, the ramen profitability went away after a while. Things can grow as well as shrink. My second business is not yet ramen profitable. |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | axod: About a year, give or take. |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | gills: Not yet (+189 days). |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | SwellJoe: About 8 months. And another 6 months, or so, to one (modest) salary profitable (meaning: enough for one person to live normally, without money concerns). We're probably at two salary profitable today, though it's a bit weak for a Silicon Valley engineer salary, and my co-founder has a family and a mortgage ... |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | markessien: It took me 3 days. I entered a market with products in the $10.000 range, and sold my product for $900. I had my first sale within 3 days (actually, it was the second, the first sale was the guy who gave me the idea in the first place {because he needed it}).This was after about 4 months of work, though. |
Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons | brianculler: http://dabuttonfactory.com/edit?t=This%20is%20a%20startup%3F... |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | shafqat: I quit my job to work on NewsCred in July 08 (8 months ago). Hope to be Ramen profitable with 6 people in the next six months (we have a B2B side that is not apparent from our consumer website). Will definately post with details when that happens. It's tough, but no question one of the best decisions of my lif... |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | blakeb: Started doing web app development consulting to learn the ropes shortly out of college with my cofounders in Nov 03. Started the design for buildasign.com in July 04 as one of our hopeful projects to turn into a sustainable business (a product rather than service business is what we were aiming for). Soft lau... |
"Deals fall through" | thepanister: Here is the startup:
http://tinyarro.ws/
And here is the guy: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=thoraxI hope this is the proper answer! |
Review our startup (www.chuwe.com) | hotpockets: 1. I'm not sure what the numbers in the green box indicates. Are they upvotes from users indicating that the question is a good one? Are they the number of replies? The number of views? Perhaps frequenters of social voting sites may know this but even sites like digg say "87 diggs" in the little box.2.... |
Please review my webapp: Da Button Factory - create shiny buttons | hotpockets: 1. Your logo is pretty plain. Maybe make your logo be one of your buttons.2. It would be cool to be able to replicate popular button styles of other companies, or at least similar to them.3. I didn't see the undo/redo links until I was done. Maybe move them somewhere else, like under the center button?... |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | jamroom: 9 months |
"Deals fall through" | pg: I meant it's one of YC's additional mantras, not a mantra of one of the startups we funded. |
"Deals fall through" | aaroneous: I think pg is saying it's one of the mantras of YC, not that of one of their companies. |
How are url shorteners making money? | LurkingGrue: Volume? |
Authorize.net Vs Zuora Vs Aria for Subscription Billing | CalmQuiet: Arrrggghh ! I, too, hope someone else chimes in with some experience. I keep procrastinating about reading through all the reams of material from Authorize.net then debugging their user unfriendly processes to get to a functioning billing process.Their reputation for security and friendliness to the end cu... |
hacker ways of fighting anxiety? | amichail: Try not worrying about falling asleep at specific times -- such worry is itself a source of anxiety.When you are tired enough, you will sleep. |
hacker ways of fighting anxiety? | mcav: Treat your anxiety like you would any coding problem:Consider your anxiety's symptoms as problems in an issue tracker. For every thing that makes you anxious, stop and think: Is this a true, valid, legitimate [health] concern? If so, address it. But if not -- if it's merely a product of your worry -- then mark th... |
hacker ways of fighting anxiety? | Allocator2008: I would absolutely see a therapist. You could try out a psychologist just to "talk things out with" and he/she can recommend a psychiatrist if medication is needed. It can help. I have ADD and occasionally have anxiety symptoms as well, and I've been to a few therapists so I know that therapy can really ... |
hacker ways of fighting anxiety? | pg: Exercise is what always saves me, specifically running, soccer (before hurting knee), and yoga (since hurting knee). |
How long until you became "ramen profitable"? | patio11: So you quit your job to run your own company.I did? News to my bosses. ;) I've had a day job for the entire duration.I started being consistently ramen profitable about 28 months after starting. (Last October-ish.) In February I hit my next milestone, which was "sales > salary". I'm hoping to hit "profit... |
hacker ways of fighting anxiety? | bbuffone: I had the exact same problem a while back. It was while working full time and creating a startup on the side. The stress of every thing resulted in the same symptoms. Every day I needed to resist the urge to go to the emergency room because I thought I was going to die of a heart attack. This lasted for abou... |
hacker ways of fighting anxiety? | jgalvez: Exercise helps you feel always refreshed and improves your sleeping considerably. I have finally managed to fit jogging as a daily activity and it has helped me wonders.But the key thing is marijuana. There's no better aid to concentration than getting high. Of course you can't over do it, but getting the /rig... |
Anyone use brain drugs such as piracetam here? | jcapote: I too am curious after hearing numerous people rave about this "drug" (seems more like a supplement to me) |
hacker ways of fighting anxiety? | GrandMasterBirt: There are a couple of things I do to get away from stress. Remember you need to get away from stress, not problems. You need to solve problems, but get them out of your mind until they are needed.1) Pick up a fun sport. Sport gets the endorphins going, gets your body working, makes you think better, fe... |
Anyone use brain drugs such as piracetam here? | smellersinc: My mom takes piracetam like aspirin. She's 61 and still learning new stuff to keep up with the advancements in her professional field. |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | pg: Sounds to me like he's trying to push you aside. |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | code_devil: In my company, the CTO and CEO are the co-founders. The CTO has a PHd and our revolutionary product is pretty much his brain child implemented by the tech staff under them. We also have a VP of Engineering that they hired. (a Director of Eng in their previous venture). However, the VP of Eng reports to the ... |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | dennykmiu: It sounds like from what you are describing, you are more like the VP of Engineering and less the CTO of the company. VP of Engineering should report directly to the CEO and should be responsible for the entire engineering staff, similar to the VP of Sales who also reports directly to the CEO and should be ... |
Anyone use brain drugs such as piracetam here? | jambalaya: I take doses of Greens+ from time to time. I like it. I tried Piracetam and others but didn't put the effort in to identify how they affected me. |
A smarter Hacker News RSS Feed? | mcav: You could probably do that with Yahoo Pipes. I use a feed that pulls in the article's comments page (because I read comments first):http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=23159aed1a913917f... |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | spolsky: The CEO has decided that you have technical ability but not management ability. He doesn't want to lose your nagios-installation skills but he thinks that an imaginary person whom he has not yet met or hired will be better than you at leading the tech team. He's happy to let you keep the fancy CTO title and pe... |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | jwilliams: This is a rough question - but are there areas in the tech area that you see requiring improvement? If so, what are they? Irrespective of the political state, do you see the CTO/VPeng setup redressing them? |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | spooneybarger: 'use'? somehow it seems so innocuous that 'use' is way to strong a word that said, not me. marijuana makes me stupid to the point i forget i have muscles. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | inklesspen: Not I. Cannot stand the stench of it. |
Anyone use brain drugs such as piracetam here? | chris11: I haven't personally tried piracetam, but erowid has a good section on piracetam and other nootropics. It generally seemed from Erowid that nobody had any bad experiences unless they were also on hard drugs.Piracetem:http://www.erowid.org/smarts/piracetamNootropic Vault:http://www.erowid.org/smarts/smarts.shtm... |
Anyone use brain drugs such as piracetam here? | rms: Do a majority taking neutrotransmitters feel there has been some improvement in mental condition? I suspect most people do not. If it is not unhealthy to take one neurotransmitter, how many in combination become unhealthy? I would expect the benefits of these drugs to become more apparent when they were in combina... |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | ajju: I worked in a company where the VP of Engineering didn't report to the CTO. It made some sense because the CTO mostly directed the 6 months into the future vision of the company (next features, next product). This worked ok because the CTO had a research team that reported to him and the VP of Engg had the devel... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | lalagrand: I agree. Up to a point, it seems to have a beneficial effect. Especially in design, perhaps not so much when it comes to data modeling and logic. |
A smarter Hacker News RSS Feed? | alecst: Isn't Hacker News already close enough to an RSS feed? It's just aggregated links, like any ordinary RSS feed would be.Plus, I don't think I would want to load several articles at once like you propose. I enjoy being able to choose which articles I want to read. |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | sah: It's normal for the VP Eng to be a peer of the CTO and report directly to the CEO. That said, you are almost certainly being marginalized. Your CEO likely knows he needs your irreplaceable understanding of the company's technology, but otherwise wants you out of the way.Replacing you as manager is probably not g... |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | marhar: At my old company we called the CTO "chief termination officer". It was basically the de-staging area for tech people who had enough visibility that they didn't want to get rid of them outright. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | rsayers: I havn't in a little over a year now. Current company drug tests and I enjoy a paycheck more than I enjoy getting high.That said, I do very much enjoy it and have had some "breakthroughs" related to coding projects while high. Moderation is key, it can be great for helping you think about things differentl... |
hacker ways of fighting anxiety? | chris11: Exercise is great.Sleep is great. I've figured out that if I don't get enough sleep, I usually end up wasting more time than I would have got sleeping.That said, you definitely need some time off from work. I'd suggest taking off a full day (24 hr) a week from work. Do what ever you want, sleep, watch tv, pla... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | asnyder: This should be a poll, you're unlikely to get a comment from most people on this issue.Use http://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll to create a new poll. |
hacker ways of fighting anxiety? | scorpioxy: I had no idea that this was wide spread among hackers. Although, thinking about it, it makes a lot of sense. Working in an abstract rational world and in an almost always stressful environment tends to bring this stuff out. Also, i found that people to tend to be "deep thinkers" always have these problems. W... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | adrianwaj: It might only be giving you the illusion of helping. Can you benchmark test yourself with and without it? |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | dylanz: Yeah, make this a Poll, and I might 'fess up. Did I say that? |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | gfodor: Two cents here. Similar situation happened to myself, except I wasn't the CTO but the de-facto "lead architect" of a major project/death march that had all of the stereotypical problems you read about again and again: product mismanagement, feature creep, overzealous salesforce, and heightened expectations reac... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | piramida: Only to relax. I know some architects / senior coders who can concentrate better while high, but for me remembering what you did / thought about several minutes ago is more important than unnatural thinking.Maybe it just takes more practice... |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | vseloved: http://www.feld.com/wp/archives/2007/10/cto-vs-vp-engineerin... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | Rod: I confess that I find it surprising that some people here on HN freely admit using Marijuana. Worst-case scenario, couldn't YC be subpoenaed by the feds and requested to provide each user's email and IP address?I know this sounds a bit too draconian, but didn't the last administration try to subpoena Google? |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | andrewljohnson: I read the article in question, and it said that marijuana didn't have much effect on "chronic" marijuana users. I suspect that if you smoke pot occasionally, it will totally destroy your programming ability while high.You need to look at this study carefully. Essentially, it says if you are a pothead, ... |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | acgourley: The VP need not marginalize the CTO, often he just removes tedium from the CTO. If you get a VP Eng and modify the company org chart, and at the same time your influence in the company dwindles, I don't believe it will be causation. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | neoneye: This is what drugs do to you:
http://www.trinity.edu/jdunn/spiderdrugs.htm |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | danbmil99: work on your resume dude, and start going to lots of parties. Or just suck it up and make yourself as useful and unobtrusive as possible (times be rough out there). The CEO wants to sideline you; you're not his guy. He needs someone malleable and loyal to him only.Read The Prince. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | tartley: It sounds like use in moderation might make it easier to rapidly leap around the conceptual problem space, perhaps reaching apparently unrelated insights. This tallies with the stereotype of being good for creativity.At higher doses, this would be overshadowed by the negative effects (leaping too far around th... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | rjprins: I use weed rarely nowadays, but have consumed my fair share.
The effects differ a little bit per person, but in general:Weed makes you think you're sharp and insightful, but it actually makes you really stupid and slow. You forget things constantly. Using before work is only interesting if your job is mind-num... |
Implementing Test Adwords Campaign? | thepanister: Well, it depends on!
I have already done such a thing before for my startup, and here is what I did:
1- I created adwords campaign with $105 (I paid $10 only, and I had $100 adwords coupon), and I made the landing page is my startup's homepage.2- I optimized the homepage to make it ready to use for the use... |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | andrewf: I'm skipping over the issue of your CEO's motives - he could hate you and want you out, but assuming he doesn't..despite the fact we've always done what we said we would when we said we would.So you've got the commitment thing down: you make commitments and then stick to them. That's a reasonable baseline for... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | DanielBMarkham: Not me. I'm of the opinion that lighting things on fire and sticking them near your head to breathe just sounds like a bad idea all the way around.I'm for legalization though. The idea of outlawing a weed that does less harm than alcohol is ludicrous.I experimented a bit as a teenager. As I recall, it d... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | kaens: Yes, I do (although I just ended up in a new country, where I haven't figured out where to get any yet).I don't smoke a lot of it, and quantifying the benefits that I receive from smoking marijuana is a bit difficult because they're rather abstract, and (at least for me), the effects of the plant vary from use t... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | simianstyle: Whenever I smoke marijuana I just want to eat and watch movies. So even though it's impossible to measure, for me it has an absolute negative effect in terms of coder productivity. |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | seshagiric: The new CEO is taking away your advantage of working in a startup:
- when you were CTO, you were critical for the company. When the VP comes, you will eventually become commodity (and expandable)
- your influence in the company is being cut into half
- you will lose your flexibility (or agility) in getting ... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | simplegeek: Though I smoke Marlboro Lights but still I hate Marijuana or weed. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | jawngee: I do, nearly every day.I don't drink caffeine (nor alcohol or any other types of drugs/stimulants).It does a few things for me, chief among them is that it calms my ADHD and makes it easier to focus on things, specifically the mundane boilerplate shit.My best designs/architecture have come from work sessions w... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | davidw: Nope. A glass or two of 'vino rosso' with dinner, or a 'spritz' with friends once in a while. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | a_toker: I created this account for privacy reasons, and I'm one of the more active/karmic people in this community. Yes, this is an oppressive culture (in the US).I'm a somewhat heavy bud smoker and a full-time developer. #define HEAVY? That's subjective, but I can comfortably go through a quarter ounce in a week, and... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | hairsupply: I used to, but its been just over a decade now. For me the creative effects were never realized. It just made me dumb. After my first year at university my average mark was 2.9. Then I quit pot and got 4.0 for 9 nine quarters in a row. Your mileage may vary. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | mlLK: I've been an avid smoker longer than a programmer; although, these days I get high as means for keeping my left-hemisphere in check, which helps new ideas breathe, but the biggest reason I keep smoking is to forget. Forgetting is good if tend to worry to much, while psychologists typically have an entire lexicon ... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | pavelludiq: The comments here are interesting. Weed seems to have different effects on different people(not enough data to make definite conclusions though). I've experimented with it when i was 15-16, then i stopped, and its been 3 years now and i've had maybe 4-5 joints since then. I don't know what the effects it ha... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | jawngee: Jeff Atwood apparently doesn't:http://twitter.com/codinghorror/status/1305109744 |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | godDLL: I use marijuana. I also use tea. And tomato juice.
I'd say it does affect your coding, to the worse. However, it makes your creative thinking and problem-solving more enjoyable, which is a good thing, and positively gives you a boost.So when I actually sit down to code something I designed prior to this, I... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | sanj: My brain is the organ that keeps the lights on, writes the codes, designs the presentations and pays the bills.I have no interest in messing with it.I actively avoid caffeine when the going gets tough. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | privacychannel: I have used chronic for several years and as a developer I find that it provides three important benefits, and I believe that for many developers it could provide the same but with important caveats and considerations.1. It helps me get a peaceful full nights sleep, which for me is approximately 7 hours... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | cosmo7: You have a choice in life:You can smoke dope, get stoned, start dozens of unfinished projects in Ruby or Scala or Haskell or whatever you've just read about, wear bad clothes and think you're doing something worthwhile just because you're up to date with xkcd and know how to jailbreak your iPhone.Or you can lea... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | johnyzee: I smoked extensively for years between the ages of 16-22.To begin with it increased my creativity a lot (thinking outside the box), I came up with a lot of (objectively verified) really genius pencil art.Then, with habitual use, creativity levelled off to where it probably was before I started smoking, but, i... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | Anonymous71: I've tried, but I simply can't. I sit down with a text editor and get stuck immediately. I think it's because too much of my knowledge is encoded in state-dependent learning.(Another user making a new account to answer this one anonymously. This is not a post you want to come up when someone googles your n... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | nfriedly: I've see marijuana have a very negative effect on my friends work, (whether they realized it or not) and that was enough to make me not ever try it. |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | known: Traditionally, CTO is responsible for eliciting business requirements, designing and developing technical solution and coordinating project activities.VPE is responsible for deployment, technical support, bug fixing and coordinating marketing activities. |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | mannicken: * WARNING: Heavy drug material and offtopic both in one message. Don't complain if your Internet etiquette sensors blow up. *I've never smoked marijuana but I did take DXM (~1.5-2.0mg/lb) several times. Certainly, during DXM trip I would have absolutely no concentration or creativity. However, after it I fou... |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | helium: I created a poll for this for those who are worried about privacy: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=509693 |
Anyone use brain drugs such as piracetam here? | asciilifeform: Didn't seem to work particularly well for me.Do read this, though:
http://yarchive.net/med/nootropics.html |
How many of you (coders) use marijuana? | schizoBrother: This is the first time I have commented. Please don't do this: you are increasing your risk of schizophrenia by smoking dope. If you only saw what that does to people and those around them. My brother suffers from this and it is terrible for him. You can all do the searches if you want to find evide... |
CTO vs. VP of Engineering | psranga: You're being marginalized. But I'm not sure if you're capable of being VPE but are being passed over because the CEO wants to bring in a buddy or because you are genuinely extremely unsuited for the job.If you don't want to be marginalized, fight to get the VPE position. If you're going to get fired or further... |
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