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I think that this is a very unique idea with a well designed website. But to be honest, at first impression I thought this was a gag site. With that said, I'm not sure how valuable an app like this would be to me. Unless I am the minority of opinion - never in my life have I thought about choosing a certain venue taking into consideration the features/cleanliness of the bathroom. I could be wrong.

I do however see something like this in addition to the HN post 3 days ago of AirPNP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339963). I also thought that was a mock web application at first, but it seems they're serious. Maybe I'm getting too jaded that I don't recognize the needs of the marketplace.

I'm curious how many users you currently have in the beta, if you're willing to divulge the information. Best of luck with executing, and I hope you prove me wrong.

Thanks for opening this talk up to the HN community Chris. Like others have commented before me, is there a possibility to stream this event over YouTube? I think that this will be an awesome talk and hope to make it, but if I can't - I'd love to still hear your advice.

This is an awesome approach to human crowdsourced translation. The project I was working on back in early 2012 (http://crowdlation.com) was going to use machine translation coupled with human editing and reviews in a very similar fashion. I'm glad that this idea has such positive feedback, and I wish you guys the best of luck! Feel free to reach out to me via the email in my profile if you guys would like to chat.

I'm not sure the validity of the post or the information therein. It did lead me to think of some futuristic use of implanting data into DNA:

Could it be possible for someone to take a corporate secret or information, translate it into DNA, incorporate the DNA into a virus, and then infect themselves with said virus? While they are incubating say, the common cold, they could be in physical transit to their destination with no electronic device. The virus could ultimately be extracted and it's information sold to the highest bidder.

Actually, it sort of reminds me of a novel by Alan Dean Foster - Sagramanda http://www.amazon.com/Sagramanda-A-Novel-Near-Future-India/d...

I don't know much about the R&D tax credit either, but for $100 million spent they really didn't change much:

[xbox one vs. 360 controller](http://assets1.ignimgs.com/2013/05/22/img6866jpg-5ea6bc_610w...)

With that said - they did invest in "smell-o-vision", having other displays, and probably a few other far-fetched technologies they haven't discussed. But $100 million is still a lot of cash if you ask me.

Is there a way to look at the total 'liked' products? I'm wondering if they can be saved and looked at like an amazon wishlist.

This reminds me of the shipping container turned relocatable dwelling: http://www.fabprefab.com/fabfiles/containerbay/059MDU-lotek/...

Of course you'd need to rent a truck to drive it around, but it expands similar to some RVs.

Technically it's illegal to set commission rates, but 6 percent was the norm. In the Bay Area however, it's the new norm to offer 2.5-2.0% to Selling agents (those bringing buyers to the deal). I'm not sure exactly what the Listing agents put as the commission fee, but I'd imagine they're likely splitting it 50/50.

97floors.com - the people behind pixartheory.com - did cite jonnegroni.com as the source of inspiration in the footer.

While ycombinator does not have a policy of posting affiliate/referral links (that I know of), usually forums explicitly forbid this practice.

On the forums that do allow it, typical etiquette is to notify the reader of a posted referral link, and also give them the choice of a non-affiliate link - and then let them decide.

And without the referral link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B002STNBRK

Do you think that project loon has anything to do with the recently acquired Makani Power? http://cleantechnica.com/2013/05/24/google-buys-makani-wind-....

It would be interesting if they were to merge these two projects.

In my cursory search on the matter (and comment a few moments ago to another reply), ethanol production was my first thought when dealing with the excess lactose. It seems that there are a few cooperatives that own a facility in California & Minnesota. I am still unsure of the difference between "sweet" whey & "acid" whey, I believe that they should be able to convert the lactose into a useable ethanol.

From a broad search, it seems that much of the downstream market for whey byproduct of yogurt and cheese production has plenty of uses. In this article by the USDA (http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/mar08/whey.htm), it discusses dairy farm cooperatives turning the Lactose sugars, of which 5% of the "waste whey," is used for ethanol production. Whether there is a difference between acid or sweet whey, I am unsure, however there is certainly a demand for the byproducts of the dairy/cheese/yogurt industries.

I guess I'm missing what you mean, could you elaborate? What I got was that "a 20-something guy" reached a target market that he was not a part of, and did very well at it too.

In my area, Agents charge landlords 1/2 a month's rent. Of that 1/2, (or one quarter of one months rent) goes to another agent if they bring a qualified tenant into the unit. I think 20% recurring every month is way too much, however I don't know the sources Boxyroom used. They are, however, in the business of listing rentals - so there's that.

Fortunately, it's not much money - Unfortunately, I don't know where exactly he went. His move was part of the reason myself and the others involved decided to sell our interests. The main thing I'm disappointed about was the time and effort I spent devoted to the project is nowhere near the compensation we decided upon in the contract. Thanks for taking the time to respond to my post.

Thank you for your reply g2bsocial. What avenues are you considering going through to collect on your accounts receivable?

The link should be working now. I'm currently downloading it on an old laptop.

Which markets were you focusing on? I would assume this would work well here in California, based on the need for stock photos and models in the LA & Bay Area. From what I gather in your writing, the choices were having a companies own PR-people waste hours of their billable time or have to go out to an expensive agency to get models, while you provided a service that catered to the middle market?

back wall iphone 4? Spam

This sounds to me exactly how Valve and other organizations operate (http://blogs.valvesoftware.com/abrash/valve-how-i-got-here-w...).

I think that if you get buy-in from the engineers working on the project it can induce ownership and a willingness to watch it succeed and work towards it's success. The issue occurs when there isn't adequate a/b testing (or something similar), which could create the fiasco such as facebook's switching of email addresses.

Companies such as Google allow 20% time to work on projects that might not make it to production, or get killed after acquisitions. I think that policies such as those work better than code being committed on the fly.

I wholeheartedly agree. It's not the failures that make an entrepreneur, it's the lessons that you learn along the way and the fact that you put yourself out there and keep on trying.

Thank you for your article ansd post.

Yes! Several of these ideas I do hope the start-up community can grab a hold of and make into successful businesses. Like Elon Musk, I hope to eventually change the world, and several of these ideas will do just that. That's for compiling them.

Paul Christoforo should never be in charge of a customer facing position.

Maybe he should take the advice on (his) Ocean Marketing's front page: "Your brand is no stronger than your reputation - and will increasingly depend on what comes up when you are Googled."

I wonder what will come up after all this is over.