JayNeely

In case you don't get any input here (not sure HN is much of a filmmaker community), you should check out reddit. There are lots of sub-reddits around indie filmmaking:

https://www.reddit.com/r/filmmakers

https://www.reddit.com/r/IndieFilm

https://www.reddit.com/r/Webseries/

https://www.reddit.com/r/ShortFilm/

https://www.reddit.com/r/videography/

I really doubt this would ever be an issue. Would you have any reason to believe this programmer is directly associated with enemies of the US? If not, a totally indirect chain of payments doesn't put you on the hook for anything; just think about all the hops the money in your PayPal account went through to get there. And also that money (with Bitcoin being a sort-of exception) is a fluid amalgamation that gets split up and reconstituted from different pieces all the time.

Absolute worst case (supremely unlikely) scenario, some chain of transactions does cause a flag to be raised -- you wouldn't be silently condemned. It would be investigated; that's why they'd be flagging transactions in the first place. And they'd see from the context (or if it ever came to someone actually calling and asking) that it's a legitimate payment for services rendered. Just like millions of other payments to out-of-country developers.

The Seasteading Institute is working on it: http://www.seasteading.org/

If partner / customer (assuming B2B) visits are a possibility, consider that it may not make the best impression on them. Neighbor complaints are another possible area of concern; this was a big problem for one of the original coworking locations in Cambridge, Betahouse.

As others have mentioned, definitely consider coworking; there are a bunch of options in the area now, and they're more affordable than private office space with more benefits over running your business out of an apartment. Here's a list of 20+ coworking spaces in the area: http://bostonstartupsguide.com/guide/boston-coworking-spaces...

TechStars hasn't had a problem. Boston cohorts have raised ~$400 million in VC so far: http://www.techstars.com/companies/

There are tons. Ghost, Moveable Type, Textpattern, Octopress, Statamic, Craft, PencilBlue, Dropplets, Anchor, Kirby, Expression Engine, Drupal, Lifetype, PivotX, Nibbleblog, Joomla, b2evolution, Publify, Jekyll, BlogEngine.net, Mezzanine... plenty more.

Well now I understand why Patreon hasn't done more to support discovery on the site, at least for game creators. Essentially all of the most popular ones are adult / erotic games.

Boston Globe Media - http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers - Boston, MA

In engineering & IT we're hiring:

- Full Stack Web Developers - PHP / JavaScript / Advanced WordPress

- Front End Web Developer - BostonGlobe.com

- Data Security Specialist

- Senior Systems Administrator

But we're also hiring for data science & analytics, product management, design, marketing, and more.

Since the Boston Globe separated from the NY Times, we're making big moves within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company, and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers

Our newsroom developers have already created some pretty cool pieces with D3.js, like http://www.bostonglobe.com/2013/01/30/mai/yWQCjhK7lyBaqgqFra... and http://www.bostonglobe.com/2013/09/06/look-mayoral-race-camp...

We also have an Editor, Laura Amico, focused specifically on data journalism and interactive media, so I think you'll see more D3 use from us.

Boston Globe Media - http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers - Boston, MA

In engineering & IT we're hiring:

- Full Stack Web Developers - PHP / JavaScript / Advanced WordPress

- Front End Web Developer - BostonGlobe.com

- Software Engineer - .Net

- Data Security Specialist

- Senior Systems Administrator

But we're also hiring for data science & analytics, product management, design, marketing, and more.

Since the Boston Globe separated from the NY Times, we're making big moves within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company, and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers

Boston Globe Media - http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers - Boston, MA

In engineering & IT we're hiring:

- Full Stack Web Developers - PHP / MySQL / Wordpress

- Front End Web Developers

- Data Security Specialist

- Senior Systems Administrator

But we're also hiring for data science & analytics, product management, design, marketing, and more.

Since the Boston Globe separated from the NY Times, we're making big moves within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company, and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers

Boston Globe Media - http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers - Boston, MA

In engineering & IT we're hiring:

- Full Stack Web Developers

- Front End Web Developers

- Data Security Specialist

- QA Engineer

- Senior Systems Administrator

But we're also hiring for analytics, product management, design, marketing, and more.

Since the Boston Globe separated from the NY Times, we're making big moves within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company, and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers

Boston Globe Media - Boston, MA (relocation assistance available)

We're hiring a Lead Software Engineer for BostonGlobe.com.

You'll be responsible for the technical strategy of the site, lead a team of talented developers, and be part of an organization that is recognized for its groundbreaking innovations and its lasting impact on its community and the world.

​We are looking for someone who has prior work experience leading technical teams and working closely with senior management, and strong working knowledge of the several of the following: WPO, SEO, SMO, Structured Data, WAI, SASS, jQuery, SVN, Grunt, JSTL, REST, XML, JSON, Web Sockets, Brightcove API, Adobe SiteCatalyst and data visualizations. Experience developing a critical, large scale, RWD web site is key.

You can find the full job description and apply here: http://ch.tbe.taleo.net/CH18/ats/careers/requisition.jsp?org...

A year ago John Henry bought the Boston Globe, and we're making big moves now within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're also hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://bostonglobemedia.com/careers

Boston Globe Media - http://boston.com/digitaljobs/ - Boston, MA

Our open roles in engineering are:

- Lead Software Engineer - BostonGlobe.com

- Lead Software Engineer - Digital Marketplaces (and an upcoming big data project)

- Video Web Developer

- Front End Developer

But we're also hiring for analytics, product management, design, marketing, and more.

A year ago John Henry bought the Boston Globe, and we're making big moves now within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://boston.com/digitaljobs/

Boston Globe Media - http://boston.com/digitaljobs/ - Boston, MA

Our open roles in engineering are:

- Lead Software Engineer - BostonGlobe.com

- Lead Software Engineer - Digital Marketplaces (and an upcoming big data project)

- Video Web Developer

- Software Engineer

- Front End Developer

- Front End Software Engineer

But we're also hiring for analytics, product management, design, marketing, and more.

A year ago John Henry bought the Boston Globe, and we're making big moves now within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://boston.com/digitaljobs/

Boston Globe Media - http://boston.com/digitaljobs/ - Boston, MA

Our open roles in engineering are:

- Senior Software Engineer

- Video Engineer

- Front End Dev Manager, Advertising

- Front End Developer

- Front End Software Engineer

But we're also hiring for analytics, product management, design, marketing, and more.

A year ago John Henry bought the Boston Globe, and we're making big moves now within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://boston.com/digitaljobs/

Boston Globe Media - Lead Software Engineer, Director of Product Development, Video Engineer, and more. - Boston, MA

A year ago John Henry bought the Boston Globe, and we're making big moves now within the world of news and media. We have the challenges and innovation-focused mindset of a startup, backed by the resources of an established company and the credibility of New England's most trusted brand.

We're hiring top-tier developers, product managers, UX designers, and content directors to build, brainstorm, and grow new products. If you want to help shape the future of journalism, check out our open jobs and see if one is right for you:

http://www.boston.com/digitaljobs/

I think it's your UX. You have two big flaws:

1) You don't have a search. You have four filters, three of them with over 20 choices each. You've well over quadrupled the number of choices a visitor has to make before they see any results.

2) You don't let me quickly browse a list or grid of themes. You show themes one at a time, which feels like the slowest possible way for me to find a theme.

If you can fix your UX, something I'd think about for your marketing is talking about how many additional (quality) themes people will get a chance to see. I buy or recommend themes to buy for clients pretty often, and I pretty much only go to ThemeForest. My impression is they have the largest collection. If you can convince me I'm going to get a lot more good options, from one place, and be able to evaluate them as easily as I can on themeforest (reviews, Wordpress & browser version support, etc.), I'd be interested.

Being the sysadmin on a site frequented by sysadmins has to be frustrating at times.

Thanks for all you do!

I do a lot of Wordpress development for clients. I've spent more on themes (between $30 - $80 per theme, usually closer to $40) than I have on plugins, and the themes often include functionality I'm looking for that I might otherwise use free plugins to create in a theme I'd build myself.

So far the main plugin I've spent money on is Advanced Custom Fields, purchasing the repeater field and options page add-ons. Cost around $40 USD I believe. Gives me a license to use those add-ons on as many client sites as I want.

I've also had clients purchase WooCommerce extensions like the PayPal Pro gateway ($79) and Stripe extension ($79).

Also, as I continue to build out http://BostonStartupsGuide.com, I expect I'll purchase SearchWP ($25) and Events Calendar Pro ($65).

You might find either of these helpful:

http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/4157/what-are-som...

http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/

Any hints on easter eggs on the site that you don't provide instructions for? I tried your name, the project name, etc.; disappointed there wasn't more to discover.

This a node knockout entrant (not by me) that I found super-fascinating, particularly because of its pitch as a monetization alternative to advertising.

There are a lot of issues the creators haven't addressed yet: opt-in, preventing user experience / performance from suffering, what's the actual amount of money you're making from traffic compared to ad revenue, etc.

But I think the concept has potential, and wanted to show HN.

Just some constructive criticism:

- You created a text post submission that only includes a link. Why not just create a link post?

- Your poll asks a question contingent upon conditions ("Would you ever") but then the only choices are non-conditional interest or disinterest. I don't think you'll be getting useful insight from this.

3d printing. I saw someone saying that 3d printers are the beginnings of replicators from Star Trek, and that really struck home for me. I think we'll see a lot of physical goods get redesigned to be made via single-material extrusion, and 3d printers will get smarter about how to manipulate that single material (some kind of plastic) to achieve a variety of qualities (texture, strength, color, etc.).

I think one of your big issues is going to be optimizing utilization. How can you get a single car to help as many people as possible? As notahacker mentioned, some people may need a car simply to get to and from a 8 - 9 hour shift. You don't want one person putting a car out of circulation for 10 hours. ZipCar works because it charges by the hour and keeps the cars idle in high-population, easy-to-reach areas.

Something to look into is how many people will have a smartphone. If not many (or for the ones who don't) I'd give them a cheap Android phone that does nothing but run your app. The phones can run on a group data plan (and like Republic Wireless' phones, WiFi whenever possible), and just be a more powerful kind of key fob that lets your members find, request, schedule, etc. cars. You could also use it as a key, requiring a password in the app to send a bluetooth signal that unlocks the car. I might also use these phones to connect to the cars' onboard computers whenever the car's in use, so that you can check fuel levels, engine status, etc. Some of that may be a bit further down the road -- you may want to go with more lowtech solutions while you get this up an running.

re: insurance and infrastructure, the best thing you can do is talk to people at ZipCar. You're not a threat to them, and they have the exact expertise you need.

Consider that the majority of people aren't familiar with RFC 1591 -- I think that would nullify any argument that the use of a country code TLD is "misleading".

Numerous countries in fact permit and promote international registration of their ccTLDs as a product for creative domain names, including .co (Colombia), .cc (Cocos islands), .fm (Federated States of Micronesia), and .it (Italy).

And importantly, conventions change, and RFCs are a starting point for an evolving set of standards. .net isn't limited to "only the computers of network providers" as RFC 1591 states. Is everyone with a .net domain doing something incorrect?

I'm also interested in this, both for transitioning clients and referring work I don't have time for.

I don't want to manage a sub-contractor, and it's awkward to "hire" someone to refer work to.

After SOPA support, the sexist superbowl commercials, countless customer support horror stories, etc., would you consider making NameCheap the default registration option rather than GoDaddy?

Congratulations on raising your fund!

How open to investments outside of California and New York are you? I noticed that vertical marketplaces are one of your example of Bottom Up Economy startups, and Boston has a large number of these: http://startupsinboston.com/type/marketplace/