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Death(kuppandharma.blogspot.com)
3 points by sonink 19y ago|2 comments
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by sonink 19y ago
design is important ..but not something that will take more than a week to figure out ...i think the only thing that you need is to learn a bit of photoshop (2 days) and read the book "don't make me think"...heck you can even leave photosho
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by sonink 19y ago
If you are into java then I will suggest webharvest...if you want something broader(read generic) and brave enough then you can even try nutch.
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by sonink 19y ago
Yes, because an idea does not make a business. Its just a starting point of figuring out how to eventually create something useful and build a business around it. You are not really sharing your strategy/plan of how to build a business, be
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by sonink 19y ago
actually I think you are right, however it was also something we were overtly specific about - of trying to build a site which helps make sense of already existing data rather than a community approach to solving things. More on the lines o
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Ask YC: Feedback for ReviewGist.com(reviewgist.com)
5 points by sonink 19y ago|2 comments
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by sonink 19y ago
I have talked to a couple of friends in a similar dillema. My take on the whole thing is that there are two kinds of people: 1. Those trying to find a reason to do a startup. 2. Those trying to find a reason to not do a starup. "the choice
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by sonink 19y ago
Assuming that you are going after a big hill - I think you need to figure out the following things: 1. Is it a big hill after all - your customers might want something else. If it is not a big hill then figure out what a big hill is and reo
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by sonink 19y ago
afaik 1,2 and 5 need to be looked on with pure caution and might be an artifact of the kind of startup (consultancy, which works on contacts and is in general much easier than a product startup)the guy has done rather than a generic rule. #
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by sonink 19y ago
A9 is open, though afaik its not good (read big,exhaustive etc.) enough to provide an adequate platform to build something on. Amazon, it seems had their google strategy worked out EC2-S3-A9 though A9 is the weak link which yahoo search can
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Should Yahoo open up its web search index?
3 points by sonink 19y ago|5 comments
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by sonink 19y ago
webharvest ?
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by sonink 19y ago
The other question is if the guys behind youtube read (and believed) this article - somebody would have been poorer by a billion dollars. Afaik, its all pretty simple - just create something useful and the money will follow (and stay away
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Is Hacker News just for YC startups or is everyone invited ?
2 points by sonink 19y ago|1 comments
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by sonink 19y ago
Second the fact on laptops - they are indeed ergonomically evil, unless you have a laptop stand with an external keyboard ...but then you might be on a "web 2.0 three month mashup" - in which case it is probably ok , anything longer and you
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by sonink 19y ago
It really depends on what you are planning to do. 1. If you need a server for a longer term - or need to make serve web pages on demand then ec2 doesnt seem like a very good option - not that cheap, server might trip and you might loose sta