TimothyBurgess

As for the objective, this app does quite a bit and it's all fairly specific so it's hard to narrow it down to a single concise tagline. I've tried to highlight the main idea though in a number of places... which is basically to make the lives of touring bands/management easier. How would you suggest I let people know what all the app can do (it does a lot!!!) as concisely as possible?

As for the presentation, it all goes by pretty fast on my resolution. I'd guess the reason it seems like such a crawl is because your resolution is so high. I'll figure out a fix for this as well.

This is how it looks on my resolution: http://i.imgur.com/XmpRl.jpg

Mobile: http://m.rela.cc

Mobile: http://m.rela.cc

Browsers should include 3 options with this alert:

Resend, Don't Resend, & Cancel

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/02/11/bing-smacks-googl...

And if you wait a few seconds and hit your back button to return to HN, the "Resend/Cancel" window pops up (unexpectedly!)... I find it pretty annoying that I suddenly have to click it to do anything else.

The vast majority of businesses really could learn a lot from Disney. And I think it would make the rest of the world overall much happier and decrease anxiety... we wouldn't have to constantly worry about and counter which corporation is going to try to bend us over next. Great customer service definitely makes me feel my money is well spent.

I'm not going to lie. My goal right now is definitely to make money. But it isn't my goal in life. That's for sure.

My drive to make money is fueled by my desire to live freely, without financial chains (as my parents and a lot of my family have)... and to have fun and live a good life with those around me. If I have wealth to share and to help makes the lives of others easier, you bet I'm gonna spread it around. I don't have a wife or kids but being able to provide for them when that time comes and give them good lives is my main concern.

When looking for those with a knack for getting money, look for those who earn it... those whose ethics are no less than admirable... unless of course you lack compassion and morals yourself. Those who manipulate and steal without any remorse for others' lives need to be weeded out. They drag the rest of us down and hold us back for their own selfish gain.

Some may consider this darwinism - survival of the fittest - but I believe we've made much more progress as a species by working with each other than against.

The last conversation I had with these people I spent years with was to try to explain how their line of thinking quite honestly brings suffering to countless people. Prime example, big banks making deals they know will fall through regardless of the impact it has on the economy... look where we are now. The type of people who made the decisions that led to the recent recession, which caused a massive decrease in my father's hours at work, are the same ones who want to perform a shortsale on his house because he has fallen behind on his mortgage. As for the suffering I mentioned, let's just say my father will give up his house over his dead body.

1) Don't be afraid to try new things (be bold).

2) Execute quickly while keeping future quickness of execution in mind.

3) If/when keys 1 & 2 work out and "explode" your userbase, giving you massive leverage... use it.

If you're using other server-side languages I'm sure a search engine query or two will return decent results... don't go straight for the first one though. Check a few out and see what suits you best.

I will say though that PHPExcel has never failed me.

And I just noticed the version I'm using is out of date too... thanks! Gonna [try to] get it up to date now. :)

I understand that people want something they can put together quickly, so they find a script that does it and they figure out how to integrate it... but I've learned that it actually takes more time to do all that than write my own little script that does exactly what I'm looking for with less code... and it's optimized for the particular code it works with (for which it works for you grammar-whores ;)).

Not to mention, I've learned way more by doing it myself and in the long run I progress faster... all while writing more efficient code.

And for this very same reason, I don't use jQuery or any other libraries... the majority of them are way too bloated for what I need (most of the time). Exceptions include server-side libraries for graphing, reading/writing from/to excel, etc.

I've actually shortened the descriptions 4 times to as short as I can make them while still explaining the full idea. If you can come up with shorter descriptions please help me out. :)

I was in it for the music (looove to drum!) and possibly being a positive influence... let's just say the rest of the guys had other motives. :|

I'm 23 now, and up until last July I was a professional touring musician (drummer!)...

During college my band signed to Victory Records. We all decided to finish up college and began touring immediately after we graduated. (Computer Engineer here...) I had quite a few people tell me I was making a big mistake continuing with the band and not pursuing a career with my degree... but I honestly believe I learned more on the road (about the world in general) than I would have during that same amount of time in an office.

I had a lot of fun doing it too... it was an opportunity I'm very glad I didn't give up. I left the band for personal reasons/differences and have been working on my startup day-in, day-out ever since.

My startup is actually centered around touring bands and their management/labels/booking. You can check it out at http://www.rela.cc if you want. It's actually days away from officially launching... I just need to add the ~30-second ads for bands and management, and make a few changes to the video tutorial.

So yeah... have fun while you can people and don't pass up once in a lifetime opportunities no matter your age! Maybe if my startup sustains me I'll be able to play music on the road again.

Don't abuse it!

Someone pointed out (in the gender poll) that HN allows more than 1 vote on a poll at a time so sorry for splitting it up! I had no idea.