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by oceanician 16y ago
It's very hard work getting bespoke work alongside writing a startup. Sales is hard. You're switching between projects ALL the time. EVERY day. Organically financing a project is hard. I'd advise spending time with past-funders and their n
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Ask HN: What natural air-conditioning solutions are there?
5 points by oceanician 16y ago|8 comments
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by oceanician 16y ago
It could work if you weighted the votes by those who had also selected favourite genres that you like - from say your last.fm history or manually selected. I'm always extremely motivated by music related ideas. Have you been involved in a
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by oceanician 16y ago
I guess some projects need more money than can be feasibly obtained from other projects organic profits, and are too risky for banks to touch, and co-founders credit cards are already maxed out, so they need investors to 'give' money. Maybe
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by oceanician 16y ago
Let people know which are of the world or states you are in, and perhaps they can provide employment for the whole of your team. It sounds like you are very hard working, so anyone will be happy having you in their team. Do you have equity
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by oceanician 16y ago
Well, I watched the Y-combinator vid about working for startups and he was saying if a company has 2 co-founders, and angel funding then 5-10% would be about right. I presume that would be a paid position in the US though. In the UK coders
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by oceanician 16y ago
haha not just me using 90210. Think I've been entering that as my zip code for US offers for a very long time :) I guess you could do something with lat,long from GeoKit (on Rails) to avoid asking for zip code specifically.
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by oceanician 16y ago
I've seen Jim Webber give some very good talks on REST. http://jim.webber.name Think he's got a book coming soon on it..might be out even?
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by oceanician 16y ago
This is mainly aimed at people who have lots of TODOs in their code. Not primarily those that don't. You'll probably be wanting to use a ticketing system like Redmine or Trac too. All feedback welcome, though pref not too many flames for NO
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Taking TODOs from code to tickets/stories(oceansaremadefromstreams.posterous.com)
1 points by oceanician 16y ago|1 comments
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by oceanician 17y ago
I think the only _great_ dating app is okcupid, which is only really just starting to touch upon using facebook. Making it harder for apps to spam users, will actually benefit the fb platform as a whole. I actually think they're mostly doi
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by oceanician 17y ago
Not rocket science, but good to hear repeated often all the same. For ideas see the shed load (67 just now) over at: http://spreadsheets.google.com/lv?key=tOGIddn3rPdqKbHWsqaWbi...
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Kanban (on) Scrum - David Anderson(se-radio.net)
1 points by oceanician 17y ago|0 comments
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IPhone Controlled Helicopter Drone(technology.todaysbigthing.com)
1 points by oceanician 17y ago|0 comments
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by oceanician 17y ago
I was thinking something like this would be great. Keep getting a few people ask where they can find co-founders. I'll point them at this now :) Well done.
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by oceanician 17y ago
What are the Chinese using? Maybe Android or S60 works better for them?