JonathanWCurd

Twice the rate you would make working at a full-time job.

And if you are looking for a co-founder zipdog's advice above is a great starting point.

Hire a developer or two and build a MVP to test the idea in the wild.

That way you can see if what you think is a great idea really is.

If not rinse and repeat.

If so add to your team to make it better and keep adding to the product.

Read HN, or more appropriately just read about what your doing / getting into. But most importantly do. Failure and Success are a result of continuing to try.

You can push the app and generate buzz by giving away a replacement phone to the top scorer over some period. If its ad supported and grows large enough the money should cover the expense.

Something like:

"Want / Need a new phone see how far you can send yours flying for a shot at new hardware."

Also its possible that soon we will have all sorts of custom extensions from custom providers / companies and then people will have to start paying more attention to the extension of the domain as well as just the name.

I also agree that it depends on if another extension makes sense.

For example:

If you are buying a .me (or other extension) just because .com and .net are gone and it doesn't relate then pick another name. If you are buying a .me (or other extension) and it relates like about.me then go for it.

Open CV is free and decent to start with. Lots of wrappers exist for it so you could pretty much use it with whatever environment you are using. If your idea is validated you could then look into some of the more expensive commercial libraries out there. They would give you more features flexibility scale and (maybe) better results.

Some people here might be interested maybe a list or a way to contact you.

Might be, but at least its a pretty darn good trick.

I think this would be a great plug-in for teams of developers to install. Especially early career members. You could make the rewards visible to your team members in TFS so you could rag on the guy who always submits "Spaghetti code" or the "cowboy coder" who never tests their stuff.

I tell a good number of people about 3mindme but I have yet to tell someone who knows it exists. Although I find it useful and sure many others would as well people just don't know its out there. Perhaps that is something you can capitalize on if you can figure out a way to make your service more marketable / mainstream.

I am going to try your service out later tonight.

I like the idea. I currently use 3mindMe.com to accomplish the same thing but I'll give this a try.

I think that nailing down the smaller more focused categories is the way to go. If you can make it both more relevant and more focused it would be both different and useful providing a real reason to give it a try.

I do see that you have something that sounds like this coming under your coming soon section so you may already be working on this.

I'd love to be able to filter or have the system filter even further. For example in sports, just baseball or football not all sports.

First step: share a link.

Thanks for the offer but I agree with others in thinking people should earn the right to have the community review their work. What level of participation justifies that right is the real question. Any thoughts?

The ability to spend time doing what one loves is what I consider the point at which you can say one is truly wealthy.