PonyGumbo

Don't forget about Mechanical Turk.

Thanks for your quick response. I'll follow up in an email with some additional questions about moving over my domains.

Your pricing looks amazing - but it looks like you had an outage this morning too. Can you talk about that?

Thank you so much!

Comodo's DNS.com appears to be down too.

>It won't be soon until even our coffee machine will crash and deprive us from the much needed caffeine. How will we be able to work without coffee?

French press.

>Surely it's just a matter of deleting an email address from a table.

Actually, they have to add you to an opt-out table. If they just delete you, there's the chance that you'll get re-added at a later date.

The product needs to be cheap enough that small business owners can afford it, simple enough for them to use it (many are not technologically savvy) and the value needs to be self-evident. It's a hard combination to crack.

Get a 50% deposit before you begin work. That 50% should be enough that you won't be completely screwed if they never wrap up the project.

If your goal is really to bootstrap your startup, your best bet is probably to hang on to the day job as long as possible - if only for the predictability of income.

I was diagnosed in college. My adviser suspected something was wrong and suggested I see a specialist. It's been more than 20 years, so I'm a little hazy on the details - but from what I remember, the tests mostly involved reasoning and abstraction.

Did you give Heroku time to address the issue?

>Would they rather have an extra year of experience of me running my own company and building and pitching most of the software for it, or would they rather see a really fancy degree?

If you're interviewing with software startups, it's a tossup. If you're interviewing with 'normal' companies, the degree is unquestionably worth more. I decided to do the 9-5 thing for a while after selling my last company, and I had to seriously downplay my entrepreneurial experience to even get interviews.

It is a thing, and I have it.

Seconded - they've been great.

I would love to be able to offload my support queue a few days a week.

I couldn't have said this better myself. The more I made from my side project, the more it magnified everything I hated about my day job.

My customers see the name of my company on their credit card statements, not my name. Use a mail forwarding service or virtual office if you need to add a further layer of abstraction.

I was a conference director for seven years, and everything you say is true. In addition to what you mentioned, conference organizers are forced to estimate the number of attendees and reserve blocks of hotel rooms to ensure availability. In most cases, you're doing this eight months in advance - before any of the speakers have been selected. If you fail to hit your room night reserve, you pay out the nose.

It can be really difficult to go back to school after being in the workforce - both financially and socially. Two thoughts:

1. Don't take on financial obligations that will make it impossible for you to return to school. With older coworkers, there will inevitably be social pressure around lifestyle - clothes, maybe buying a car, having a better apartment. It's hard to live in a dorm after you've lived like an adult for a while.

2. It's easier to jump into another job than it is to go back to school. After all, you were making good money, right? And isn't the point of school to get a good job? This is dangerous thinking. Understand that this eventually catches up with you, and that it sucks to be the guy in his 30s or 40s who doesn't have a degree and has to make excuses for it.

One suggestion - I'd have a native English speaker polish up the content for you to make it seem a little less halting.

I built mine on nights and weekends and quit when I was able to pay myself more than my day job. I had about 9 months worth of living expenses saved up.

It looks like your service is a front-end for existing payment processors, some of whom already offer recurring billing products. How do you differentiate your service against something like Braintree's Vault and recurring billing?

A credit card is a revolving line of credit, and it's useful if you need more control over when you pay your bills(e.g. paying the hosting bill on the third week of the month instead of the first). Note that I'm not advocating that you carry a balance from month to month - only that you have more control over cash flow if bills are getting paid on your schedule.

'Legitimate' in this context is not intended to be synonymous with 'raking in cash'. I'm talking about profitable businesses with sustainable revenue models - not someone with a niche, keyword specific domain they registered three months ago that's benefiting from some temporary adsense luck.

My business partner and I sold a business a couple of years ago because our hearts just weren't in it anymore. It was profitable, but not enough to offset the pain in the ass of running it. We sold it to a group with a collection of complimentary businesses, and they've had great luck with it.

Flippa is just really noisy. It seems like the majority of listings are short-lived scraping sites with no revenue, or sites with revenue being sold for outrageous amounts of money.

As a buyer, I'd like to see a Flippa-like site that only sells established, legitimate sites and businesses. Basically, the high-end antique shop alternative to the flea market that is Flippa.

Seriously, take a vacation. Take your girlfriend. Go someplace far away and relaxing, and stay off the internet. I only get five days of vacation a year, but I damn sure take them. Vacation is my reset button.

No, and I didn't even do anything in my field of study. I feel like I've done well despite the lack of paper, but as the years have worn on, my reasons for dropping out sound less and less credible and more and more like excuses. It's definitely a hindrance in interviews.

You may also want to consider the possibility of transferring to another school rather than dropping out.

First, seriously, go see a therapist before you make any decisions. The fact that this is happening during your freshman year is disgustingly normal - everybody goes through a period of adjustment at this point in their lives, but it's much harder for some (particularly kids who have parents with big expectations).

Second, you'll survive and probably do just fine if you drop out and self-study. Having said that, an ivy league education opens doors. I dropped out my senior year. I'm doing fine financially, but I'm certain that I could have done much more interesting things if I'd stuck it out.

Remember, your education is for you.

Didn't work in Firefox even after allowing (the suggestion to "Allow" lined up in Chrome, though). Loaded the site in Chrome, and no movies were found in my area despite being within 10 miles of two movie theaters.

Google Analytics, and Reinvigorate for real-time info.