RealGeek

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by RealGeek 16y ago
I built the search engine, then I bought a crappy website which had 20,000 visits per day. It was just a form which redirected to Google.com and it looked like this: http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1602/pl_playlis... Then I l
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The name of search engine was ShareMiner, it was very popular. The website is now dead, but you can read about it at: http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/shareminer-search-web-files/ http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/shareminer-com-search-t.
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Most Indians live without AC, and even without electricity in 40c+ weather.
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Most of our expenses are similar, but apartment rent. How in Banglore did you get an apartment for $80? Its a steal :) How much is your electricity bill? Do you use air condition and computer?
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$1000 is not poverty in India, its middle class. Officially, poverty is less than $1/day in India. But realistically, anything below $100 per month is extreme poverty. Most people with income of $1000 per month in India can afford a 2 bedro
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How many years ago was that? The rents were low until few years ago. The $500 rent I mentioned includes electricity and other utilities. When I moved to New Delhi, my rent was $100. These days a livable apartment in New Delhi will cost arou
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At it's peak, I made $15,000 per month. Then I pulled the plug, because most of the users were using it to search movies and music. I had no legal troubles, but I did not want to stay in the gray area.
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After running for a year on Google CSE. I built my own search platform and was able to grow it to over 100,000 visitors per day.
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I would rather work at McDonalds than Infosys or TCS.
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Apply for a job at Amazon Bangalore. They have a team that works on Amazon Web Services platform. For hackers, there isn't a better job in India than to work on AWS cloud computing platform.
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It can be a useful application. Most startups will be happy to pay like $10 for access, if it can save them a few hours.
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Most bloggers encourage readers to contact them to submit anything newsworthy.
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Most programmers in India live in their parents house. So they save $500 on rent and are able to live on $400 per month. Programmers who move of parents house, share a 1 bed room apartment with 3 friends to save on rent and cover up their c
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by RealGeek 16y ago
Play with Google CSE and build niche search engine http://www.google.com/cse/ I built a nifty search engine using Google CSE API over a weekend. It got over 30,000 unique visitors per day and made $2,000 per month. It was probably one of
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New Delhi (NCR), India Typical monthly wage for a programmer / designer: $300 to $500 Monthly Expenses: $860 Apartment Rent + Utilities: $500 Internet (2 Mbps): $50 Food: $100 Public Transport (Taxi+Bus+Metro): $100 (Higher if you
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This guy will probably spam Facebook feeds of 1 million users, and make more money than $3 per user.
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We've learned from experience that most people don't call. But, it increased our conversion rate.
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May be Venture Beat? or GigaOM
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Zynga is about wasting time in a fantasy farm. What is innovative about it? Flash games have existed since more than a decade.
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Most of the companies like Zynga and Foursquare are get rich quick schemes powered by snake oil. They talk about changing life and solving world's problems.. yada.. yada.. BS! When was the last time any of such silly companies helped you wi
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SEO keeps on evolving, the best way to learn is to keep a track on SEO trends. There are two main aspects of SEO, on-site optimization and link building. Read at about on-site optimization at: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/perfecting-keyword-
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“I regret David Lee was involved in the gatherings. I am sure he does too.” In the previous email, it actually looked like Ron Conway threw David Lee under the bus. This clarification was much needed.
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This is different than PerfumeBay vs eBay. PerfumeBay contains the entire eBay mark. However, your domain may not contain the complete word 'eBay'. If your domain is like SomethingBay.com and your website do not mimic eBay in any way, you s
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by RealGeek 16y ago
Opzi is a Q&A and networking website with private groups based on School or Company. Think Quora + Yammer Euwyn Poon tells about Opzi in a interview. http://www.metaezra.com/archive/2010/04/introducing_opzi_a_c...
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How Many Startup Ideas?
3 points by RealGeek 16y ago|1 comments
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Technically, it does not matter. Its more of a personal preference. How does your domain sounds better? With www or without www?
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Stick to your existing employer. This event might be embarrassing but everyone will get over it. If you leave the job; not only you will be out of job, but out of immigration status as well. There is a lot at stake, this could ruin your car
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If you could come up with a weekend project idea, it can save you the trouble. Develop a small utility product over a weekend. Something that people will want to use and pay $10-$20 per month. Get few hundred users, and you will be able to
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Do you change job every week?
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What made you think it is a desktop app? Diaspora is supposed to be an OpenSource Facebook clone. When was the last time you used Facebook as a desktop app?

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