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"Worthwhile", I don't know. I guess it depends on what your product is supposed to do. My product is http://smallpayroll.ca , it's a do it yourself payroll site made for people who don't know anything about payroll. I freely admit it looks
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If any Canadian startups are reading, my venture is http://SmallPayroll.ca . Right now it's targeted to a slightly different audience, but I'd love to hear about what it would need to appeal to the startup crowd.
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I'm in the same situation as you. First off, my business is my hobby, so instead of watching TV or playing video games, I try to get something done on my application. I choose small pieces of work to do that can fit in about an hour. My wif
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I'm going to go out on a limb and say this app doesn't target experienced cooks. I classify myself as one of those and would agree, a lot of this is (beautiful) noise. Some recipes won't translate well either. But for people who are not at
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The Cooking For Engineers guy ( http://cookingforengineers.com ) has been using a similar format for his recipes, but in a table format. I think this is a great improvement. Are the timers integrated with the recipe? For example, if the rec
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I interviewed (unsuccessfully) back in 2006 for an SRE job and initially didn't get any feedback, but after pressing the recruiter, got a description of my strengths and weaknesses. I don't remember the conversation in detail, but I do reme
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I use Feed on Feeds, a PHP script that runs on my home machine so I can access it from anywhere. It pulls in feeds once an hour and I view them in a big list. It's got a bookmarklet that makes it easy to add a new feed when I'm looking at a
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I once worked as the sysadmin for a blogging network. We used Logicworks.net for quite some time. They managed the servers and helped out when things were going bad, but would also stand back if we wanted to do anything ourselves. I can't s