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What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | tonystubblebine: The services side of our business:
highrise, basecamp, glance, blinksaleThe internal side:
serverbeach, github, campfireI think they're all great, so it's easier to say what we would switch away from.We would switch from serverbeach to slicehost if we were scaling faster.We would switch from highrise t... |
Should monetization be an afterthought ? | dpatru: There was an podcast yesterday here about "pricing is hard" or something like that. It was about how to price an enterprise app. One suggestion was to ask the client, "How would you use this app if it were free?" The idea being to find out just how useful the software could be to the client if the client maximi... |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | edawerd: We're usingSlicehost (Hosting)
AWS (Storage)
Authorize.net (Recurring Billing)
Bank of America (Banking)and we're currently looking into paying for an 800 number...anyone have any suggestions for this? |
What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? | physcab: Mt. Everest. Duh. |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | davidw: I'm surprised at all the people still using Slicehost. They are good people, and run a nice service, but in terms of money, you are leaving it on the table when compared to Linode:http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linodeI was with SH myself, and before I wrote that article, I dropped them an e... |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | jawngee: @massify we use:- Slicehost (some hosting)- Datapipe (hosting)- EC2 (Document/media conversion)- S3 (Storage)- Panther Express (CDN)- PBWiki- PivotalTracker- Protoshare- DNSMadeEasy- Hosted MS Exchange- JIRA/Fisheye/Crucible |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | swombat: EngineYard (hosting)Fogbugz (bug tracking)Github (scm... paying but included with EY)NewRelic (perf monitoring... paying but included with EY)Protx (payment gateway. Awful customer service, don't recommend them)Easyspeedy (test server that we should get rid of, really) |
Please help review my site CollectiveSys.com | hariis: I looked at it for a few minutes and I get no idea what the site is about or what I can do.
May be a welcome page with some blurb will help. |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | charlesju: Engine Yard, New Relic, GitHub, Lighthouse.Typical Rails shop stuff, :) |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | timcederman: Omniture for metrics, ExactTarget for email campaigns. |
What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? | Xichekolas: Invent FTL and some cheap/limitless form of energy. |
How Many HN Readers are going to the Startup Weekend at SF today ? | code_devil: Twitter HashTag: #swsf09- if they are going, what's in their agenda ?- if not, what would they like the products/projects come out of this ?ps: I am going, will probably try to build something over FB platform or something that use's Twitter. |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | wastedbrains: Paying for GitHub, AWS (Ec2, SimpleDB, S3), LightHouse, Vonage, DreamHost. |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | rishi: GoDaddy, BrainTree Financial, Quickbooks |
What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? | vorador: I wouldn't try. |
Should monetization be an afterthought ? | sjs382: If it's a "startup", then no: monetization should not be an afterthought.
If it's just a project (even if its a very involved project) that you'll benefit from in other ways, then maybe.Right now, I'm (barely) working on a (project|potential startup) that I know that me and a few friends will have a ton of use ... |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | pg: We use Dropbox, Wufoo, CO2Stats, and Etherpad (which will soon be paid). The only one we have to pay for is CO2Stats, because they have to buy power certificates, which cost them money. But we'd pay for all of them if we had to.Www.ycombinator.com is a machine at Pair Networks, and News is at The Planet. We use ... |
Berkeley or Urbana Champaign? | gaius: Dude, I'm guessing you're only 18, so please take my advice: do not choose your college 'cos you're chasing some girl. By the time you graduate both you and she will be different people. And you're going to meet a ton of interesting people over the next 4 years (and I know you don't want to hear this right now, ... |
How to predict 3-year revenue and growth for an early-stage "search" company? | aristus: Is this investor at all experienced in funding technology startups? There is such a wide variation that there is no such thing as "similar". At year 3 Google was $50 million in the hole with no revenue in sight.The question is silly, but it's not useless. Think about how much you will charge for this thing, or... |
How to validate billable hours? | SwellJoe: You can't. That's why you shouldn't outsource an hourly project to someone you don't trust a lot.The federal government (US, though I imagine it's the same everywhere) has forms and standardized time sheets that their contractors fill out, all employees on the job sign their timesheets, and there are big pen... |
Berkeley or Urbana Champaign? | davidw: I've never been to Illinois, but the Bay Area is pretty much guaranteed to have better weather and nicer outdoor type stuff, if that matters (it does to me, a lot). |
Berkeley or Urbana Champaign? | tokenadult: My overwhelming bias when I give advice on this subject of choosing colleges is to go as far away from home as possible, because that causes personal growth. (I didn't get that personal growth until AFTER college, when I lived overseas.) BUT, money does matter, and you are talking about a substantial money ... |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | mattculbreth: Freshbooks for invoicing, etc. |
How to predict 3-year revenue and growth for an early-stage "search" company? | SwellJoe: Hand-waving and wishful thinking.At least, that's the method I've seen most folks use, and it seems to tacitly accepted by the VCs that believe in what you're doing. There are all sorts of weird human foibles that make us poorly suited for dealing with large numbers, probabilities, and rate of change as it a... |
How to predict 3-year revenue and growth for an early-stage "search" company? | frisco: YouNoodle.com? For all it's failings and dubious accuracy, it's basically exactly what you're asking about. |
Berkeley or Urbana Champaign? | menloparkbum: Go to Berkeley. The weather is better. The town is cooler. It's close to the ocean. And the mountains. There are cuter asian girls (and better looking men.) The school itself is ranked higher... in every subject. It's the best public university in the country.No matter what your major, it's a university e... |
Password managers | joebasirico: I am a software security consultant and developer, and I've got to say my favorite is PasswordSafe, originally written by Bruce Schneier, it's now open source and available on sourceforge. It's secure, lightweight, easy to use and can be installed on a thumbdrive for portability. http://passwordsafe.source... |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | callmeed: Hosting: Rackspace, EngineYard, Slicehost
SCM: GitHub (included with EY)
Project Management: Basecamp
Storage: AWS S3
Merchant: PayPal and BrainTree
VoiceMail: GotVMail
Email: CampaignMonitor |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | ctingom: Freshbooks, Jotform, CampaignMonitor, Paypal |
Password managers | paulgb: For anything not ultra secure (bank/paypal/email/etc.), I remember a main password and then use a bookmarklet that creates different individual passwords that work for each website. The advantage of this is that I don't have to do any synchronization at all, and I can access any website on any computer.I really... |
Password managers | jlees: Heh, I recently blogged about a system I came up with to manage this, using a ruby password generator that was linked on HN and storing the results in a dropbox directory. Super super insecure but kinda fun to think through. http://digg.com/u19L9I don't actually use that system though, I generally use the same u... |
What would you do if you knew you couldn't fail? | jlees: Is failure really that bad? |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | zanders: Used to pay for basecamp. Then switched to Dropbox. |
What's the state of universal internet connectivity? | johngunderman: While I can't answer the actual question, I can give you my best guess at what the future will hold.
In short, I think WIMAX will eventually come out of hibernation, allowing for cities to be covered by ubiquitous access. This, in turn, will hopefully lead to hub-bridging between cities, which basically ... |
How to validate billable hours? | 3pt14159: Get them to use an online time tracking/project management/invoicing application. I recommend FreshBooks, partially because I work for them and partially because they have a built in contractor section. If you connect your RSS reader to the homepage feed it should let you know when people are submitting hours... |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | peterarmstrong: Current (and all recommended):
GitHub
AWS (S3, EC2, ...)
Pivotal Tracker
DropboxMigrating away from:
Slicehost (redundant with AWS)
Lighthouse (redundant with Pivotal Tracker)Already migrated away from:
Basecamp |
Password managers | mjgoins: I use plain text files encrypted via gpg.There's a gpg plugin for vim. If you don't like vim, you can probably find one for your preferred editor. |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | patio11: Rank ordered by amount spent:AdWords (I spend more than everything else on this list, doubled.)SwiftCD (outsourced CD fulfillment)Paypal / Google CheckoutSlicehostMicrosoft AdCenterCrazyEggClicky (getclicky.com) |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | gills: Github and Heroku (I'm hopeful they will start charging one of these days, because I think they are on to something good. And I'm very new to Rails so it works for me at least here in the beginning). |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | fireteller: Am I the only one here using AWS-FPS? |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | ecommercematt: What services do you pay for that are non-technical? Lawyers, Accountants, Copywriters, Consultants of various stripes? Anything recurring? |
Berkeley or Urbana Champaign? | dantheman: Do the math on how much it's going to cost you -- I would not want to get near 160k worth of debt, which is what it sounds like you're proposing. Also, you can take your summers, or even semesters to work in the bay area if you want. Hell for a few thousand dollars a year you can probably fly out there ever... |
Domain name searching | vaksel: I use this:http://www.makewords.com/ |
Domain name searching | markbao: Try https://domize.com/ — Power Search, which lets you specify vowels/consonants/alpha/numbers, endings, prepositions, verbs, synonyms, or load a list of domains from a URL to a text file. Plus it's lightning fast. Not exactly regex, but it's quite powerful. My favourite domain searcher. |
Choosing a mobile platform | credo: You mention that you're considering iPhones and Blackberrys.
However, the iPhone doesn't support background processing. So you won't be able to implement an iPhone app that sends lat/long updates to the home base every 5-10 min (unless the user keeps the app open) |
Domain name searching | trapper: I use bustaname, its brilliant. |
Domain name searching | nreece: Although not regex related, but I find InstantDomainSearch very useful - http://instantdomainsearch.com |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | jwt: We use the following paid services: Dropbox, Wufoo, Github, Slicehost, Skype, Google Apps, Uservoice, Basecamp and Pivotal Tracker |
Domain name searching | cte: http://www.dotomator.com/ |
What's the state of universal internet connectivity? | raquo: Well, either WiMAX or LTE could become widespread in developed countries by 2011 - 2013, thats what I read in pre-meltdown reports (summer 2008 and earlier). Now it's probably going to take more time. I believe WiMAX will stay as a niche wireless broadband technology, even if Skype-based WiMAX phones appear, whi... |
Domain name searching | lleger: http://www.dotomator.com/
http://squurl.com/
http://domai.nr/ |
Domain name searching | tdavis: Not to be "that guy", but that isn't really a regular expression unless you are searching for nan.com, nano.com, nanoo.com, etc. I think you want: ^nano\w+\.com$ |
Choosing a mobile platform | satyajit: Consider Nokia's WRT (Web RunTime) .. they have a JS based SDK (prototype, JQuery).
Join Forum Nokia to learn more about their offering, and their app store is releasing in May. LBS awareness, bground processing, JS/CSS based SDK makes it easier to develop on it. Though Nokia isn't that big in US, but has a b... |
Domain name searching | satyajit: The unsettling feeling I get when doing a domainname search with any of these folks is: they keep a log of domainnames that are being searched. If something is being searched upon a lot, they themselves prolly will go and buy it. And later sell it to you for a premium price!
I would rather do a whois search f... |
How to validate billable hours? | pwim: It doesn't matter if you are paying for a billable hour and getting half-an-hour or hour or ten hours of actual work. What does matter is that you get appropriate value for what you are paying. If you work with the outsourced team in an agile manner and set of frequent deliveries, it should be easy for you to d... |
Berkeley or Urbana Champaign? | viggity: Most high school seniors think that college is about education. It is, just not the kind of education you think. College is about learning to be an adult, I got infinitely more experience and knowledge participating in campus groups and events than I ever did from class. You'll learn almost everything you need... |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | mjon7: Most useful I would describe as 'wheels come off if we stop using'. Ours are:
- Quickbooks Online (backoffice/finance)
- Smartsheet (work management/collaboration/file sharing)
- Amazon AWS (hosting infrastructure)Other services I subscribe to and find work well are:
- Zoomerang (online surveys)
- MyEmma (e-mail... |
My 13 year-old cousin hacked into his school's system. What advice would you give? | soulstoler: World is full of hackers. Some hackers are good...some are bad. He needs to choice his site in this thing. If he is "good" hacker, i suggest continue, if he is "bad" hacker, he can hack into government networks without getting caught. But if he gets caught, he goes to jail for a long time, maybe less than 1... |
What Paid Services Do You Use For Your Startup? | AndrewWarner: I pay to monitor my credit report. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | seregine: Skype, MediaWiki, Trac, code reviewer, Gmail, Google Docs. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | ryanwaggoner: Redmine, Google Apps, Skype |
What virtual-team software do you use? | ojbyrne: IRC, Trac, Email. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | clint: IRC, Email, Git :) |
What virtual-team software do you use? | mbleigh: Present.ly, Google Apps, Skype, Unfuddle. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | catone: Skype, IM (usually Yahoo! since it supports offline messages), Basecamp (less than I used to), Google Docs, email, and Senduit for sending large files back and forth. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | jpirkola: realXtend (http://www.realxtend.org) for virtual meetings and scrum, skype, google docs |
What virtual-team software do you use? | justinchen: IM, Skype, Google docs & spreadsheets, pbwiki (more organized docs than google), gmail |
What virtual-team software do you use? | hvs: Campfire, GTalk, Windows Messenger, Crucible, JIRA |
What virtual-team software do you use? | rguzman: codebase, gmail, google sites. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | antirez: Something that implements a chat voice and screen sharing in order to hack together on the same source code? It's basically Mac OS X "screen sharing", but I need something that runs on Linux. Btw Mac's screen sharing is an impressive tool to work together. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | afrombie: Socialcast, Campfire, and Google Docs. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | billroberts: iChat, Skype, Swirrl, email |
What virtual-team software do you use? | hwijaya: Skype, Redmine, Email |
What virtual-team software do you use? | carbon8: Redmine, Basecamp, Google Docs, IM, Email, Skype. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | modoc: Confluence, Jira, Campfire, SVN, Email, IM |
What virtual-team software do you use? | skmurphy: Skype, CentralDesktop, DabbleBoard |
Hate the new Alexa design | dmix: Brushed metal? The background looks like a bad 90s photoshop tutorial. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | kbrower: pivotal tracker,email,gchat |
Hate the new Alexa design | mikeyur: Am I the only one who doesn't give a shit? Alexa is useless. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | mpk: In our company almost everyone uses Skype for voice. But that also means adding contacts for everyone you want to talk to, so it's not really a company standard.We use IM extensively and have a public (as in 'on the open net') Jabber server. If you have an account here, you'll automatically have the whole company ... |
What virtual-team software do you use? | gleb: Acunote, Skype, Google App |
What virtual-team software do you use? | asnyder: I also recommend GoToMeeting. It's indispensable for team meetings, real time collaboration, and demonstrations. It'll set you back $50 a month, but is leaps and bounds ahead of their competition and vastly cheaper. |
What virtual-team software do you use? | andrewow: Hey! You should definitely use Voxli (disclaimer: this is a shameless plug since I'm a cofounder). We're easy to use web based voice chat.1) You get your own URL so you don't need to conference call people in each time.2) We're client-server, so you can have tons of people in each conference room3) We're fre... |
What virtual-team software do you use? | lecha: In order of importance: IM, skype, email, phone conference, trac, wiki, yammer (just starting)Ironically, most valuable collaboration/project management tools are "generic" like im, voice, email as oppose to those designed specifically for collaboration/project management. |
What can a hacker do about gun violence? | jmtame: Gun owners are more at risk for suicides than homicides (by quite a large margin). The media covers these, although in reality they happen far less than we would think (see recency effect). |
What can a hacker do about gun violence? | gills: You're asking a loaded question by conflating violence and possession and/or use of firearms, as if the firearms are part of the motivation for the violence.Violence decreases with less unwanted births, a higher general level of education, and the evenly-applied rule (and understanding) of law. Put your time an... |
Hacker News related sites? | tokenadult: Search YChttp://searchyc.com/I use this, and a site-restricted Google search,http://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+site%3Anews.ycombinato...when I want to check if a cool link has already been posted here. |
Hacker News related sites? | kqr2: For financial news:http://newmogul.comFor everything else:http://nonhackernews.com/ |
Firefox v. Chrome | mcav: Chrome, if you can deal without the extensions (for now).Chrome's faster, more stable, and uses Webkit. But I'm biased. |
Firefox v. Chrome | awad: Chrome.I can't wait for a [fully functioning] Chrome for Mac.It's speed reminds me of Firefox when it first came out. I miss those days. |
Best Way to Learn About User Experience | tokenadult: Yeah, I know he is controversial, but even if you don't agree with everything he writes, you should consider what Jakob Nielsen's sitehttp://www.useit.com/says about improving user experiences. I think becoming thoroughly familiar with Nielsen's writings may not be sufficient for becoming great in the realm... |
What can a hacker do about gun violence? | tokenadult: I think hackers need to hack a new social response to mass shooting incidents. Currently there is saturation news coverage of such incidents, and much speculation of what "drove" the shooter to kill many people, often just before the shooter kills himself. Maybe video game designers need to build in scenes ... |
Firefox v. Chrome | tokenadult: Oddly, Chrome does a worse job of displaying Gmail in my set-up (Windoze) than Firefox. I'm not at all sure why. I can't see my Gmail contacts list at all in Chrome, unless I switch to "older version," while in Firefox I only need to switch to the older version of Gmail to EDIT the Gmail contacts list. (The... |
Firefox v. Chrome | vaksel: I'll continue using firefox, until they release adblock for chrome. |
Best Way to Learn About User Experience | known: Usability is inversely proportional to the number of mouse clicks required for the user expected feature. |
Firefox v. Chrome | known: Chrome is better for ASP.Net sites. |
Cost of a server farm | gojomo: $58,400/month plus bandwidth -- as 100 Amazon EC2 "High-CPU Extra-Large Instances", with 8 virtual cores, 7GB RAM, and 1690GB local disk. |
Firefox v. Chrome | algerbee: On my system Chrome is only fractionally faster, if at all. What it does is present an incredibly more fluid feel with the way the tabs gently slide out at the edge of your vision, and the fonts seem to be more carefully rendered.Also, when you see the web pages in Chrome you see them with all the ads intact.... |
Firefox v. Chrome | decadentcactus: I use Firefox because I'm pretty entrenched in it now, and I know my way around it a bit better (obviously). The extensions mostly keep me though.Chrome is easily a better built and designed browser (maybe because it's newer) and if they could give us extensions I'd have to seriously thing getting used ... |
Cost of a server farm | patrickg-zill: 100 8-core servers, each 1U, figure $2K apiece as a rough guess. That is $200K.Next you are talking about 3 racks of space (you can fit 42U in a rack), plus extra power, figure $3000 per month in a less-expensive colocation space.Gigabit switches, cabling, etc. figure another 5K or more, depending on th... |
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