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I'm curious to see the pitch video submitted for YC application. So if you can share it, that'd be awesome. Just want to see how you simplified the offering in your video.

I have seen people bring in Portable Hard disks and copy the code. Lets say you have developed a utility messenger bot which alerts you every time SLA of your support ticket is about to be crossed. A developer would like to keep this 'completed+working' code with them to reuse in next projects.

One of my employees left the company and he took all the Unity assets (assetstore.unity3d.com) I had purchased. I realized this when I saw those assets being used in "his" newly released game on Appstore.

This is just one of those things which looks evil from 'Employee' perspective but important enough from 'Employer' Perspective. You have to also look at the how these clauses found their way into these contracts.

Certain professions; Legal/Software/IT Services/Accounting; make it very easy for one or group of employees, to just take a company's current clients, offer them a low price, and start a new firm thereby causing losses for the original service company. Business which got burnt by their employees starting competitive business thereby started adding these clauses into their agreements.

Sometimes competitors itself would poach key employee which is working for a Client X thereby gaining an edge and thats why the clause for 'Client'.

It's much easier for a Company to let a potential employee go then position themselves to a losing client situation.

Also Most software engineers when they leave the company take backup of not only the entire code they've written but also the entire code for the project they've been working on. Thats why the IP Protection clause.

Again, your blog content would be different if you stopped being a Computer Scientist and started your own Company.

Australians get ready for questions/requests like

a. Can you please cancel OLA ride and book a ride on Uber or vice versa? #incentives #UberOLATwosome

b. Cash or OLA Money?

Dance Dance AR. I wont call it popular but we do see in-app purchases for full content unlocks.

https://everyplay.com/videos/50667268 https://everyplay.com/videos/50459819

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dance-dance-ar/id1294676909?...

I think all users are now used to email confirmation. With mobile and notifications its much easier to just click them once.

Ill be more irritated if it prompts me to go in my mailbox when I'm in middle of something. I'll be like- 'you fool why didn't you do this during signup itself.'

Think in terms of modes. Right now Im in signup mode. Then Im in 'Do work' mode. Dont make me go from 'Do work' mode to 'signup admin stuff' mode again.

Also now I expect each site to have option for google/facebook logins. The only reason I still have my facebook account active is that it makes one click login on most sites easier.

As a newcomer to Javascript frameworks I totally love Meteor JS. I come from Java backend programming and My Job/Client always worked on proven not so recent frameworks like Spring etc. I always wanted to learn the Javascript frameworks but the vast options there are made it very difficult. Too many JS frameworks, Too many choices. I started learning Angular and they decided to do a makeover which requires learning from start. Even React isn't something quick to master.

But Meteor, it just made my move into Javascript webapps so easier. I'm seeing results instead of that paralysis of am I learning the right framework. I'm also almost 80% done with my niche Classified ads site.

Meteor JS is best thing I picked up In 2015.

This post could have been a nice visual before and after org chart.

I have always hated Amazon Video. I don't think Amazon even comes close to Netflix from user perspective.

There is always the confusion of which video is free and belongs to Amazon prime (free) and which ones need to be purchased. Compare that to netflix - You see it, its yours to watch.

Amazon originals are a torture chamber, I cant even name one. Compare that to Netflix - I renewed my membership just to watch House of Cards.

Amazon, Google, Facebook they all fall into this same problem of having a consistent UI across all their offerings. This constraint of consistency leads to a UI design which might not be the best for that particular product. Netflix because it offers just one thing, video streaming, can design UI best for discovery and personalization and wins compared to Amazon video any given day.

Most people relate Netflix to 'movies'. I have been an on - off customer of Netflix and thoughts of leaving it often crosses my mind.

But the only thing which keeps me on it are the TV shows, seasons and seasons of it. I'm currently watching Mad Men , that's 6+ seasons I want to watch. I love the luxury of just catching up on a 30-45 min TV show while I'm multitasking, eating, playing PS4 etc.

I think Netflix or competitors who want loyal customers ,expanding library of TV shows should be their prominent strategy. I would suggest - giving out free episodes for every season, atleast 2 and see the signups go up.

I'm working on side project to lessen the pain of people who have got parking tickets. Involves Meteor, iOS + android app.

If you don't mind sharing the details, What is the tech stack?

Also most of headlines are trimmed off. I have to click on the link just to know what this post is about. Longer headlines should be displayed so people can decide before clicking if they want to read it (There's always the tooltip feature)

Damn! Time to scratch this idea off my list. GJ

I think there would be lot of RIP messages on his/her wall. That can be used as a starting point.

I have added the files to github -> https://github.com/cryogee/Recent-Chrome-Extension

Thanks. I'll update the chrome store description. I did add all the known Google domains to the match filter list.

Ill reply here when I have added it to Github.

that webhp in your google url, is that due to malware or its a google thing?

Gee I came here to know how in-flight cookie snacks will cause price surge...

I'm working on a solution which lets users pay their 30$ bills and charge them a dollar for it. With Stripe.com they would charge me 2.9% + 30 cents which will take the overall charge for end user to 33-34$ and user might think of not using my services and pay it themselves. This seem to be the best bet for me. Any thoughts on how a startup with this model might keep the costs low?

I'm working on my meteor app too. Where are you hosting it? Can you provide more details on the deployment and how much monthly this costs you to keep it running?

I think model needs a social element and an experience element and not just the ownership of an asset. * More author visits and signing and book reading sessions, More QnA's with Authors. * Work with nearest businesses for peer coupons and if any customer buys a coffee at the nearest starbucks give him a coupon which lasts 2 hours for the books. This way force customer to come into your shop even when they left the house without any thought of buying the books. * Trunk Club like service for books. Send them books and they can keep the ones they want and return the rest. This can be done by somehow making sure only first x%/20%/50% book can be read and if consumer still wants to read it they will have to break the seal which will be considered as a purchase.

Per that xkcd graphic, I did try the ebay 1 cent auctions. But then stopped it as it was all junk from china in epackets.

Most business shut down because they don't reinvent themselves. If you continue to do what you have been doing you will become obsolete.

Bookstores need to find new model of keeping their customers.

Also its not the online competition but also the pirated books market, where you can find all the NY best sellers at a very cheap price on the streets of India. Students don't buy textbooks but xerox them from seniors or infact there are some shops where they offer to create copies of such highly recommended textbooks for a fraction of the price.

I have purchased 100's of books most of them because while flipping them I happen to stumble upon a paragraph or quite which reasonated with me or the table of contents seem to contain what I was eager to learn.

Amazon offers that with their quick look feature.

Only thing I hated about offline bookstores was that I had to tilt my neck sideways to read the title of these books.

Thanks. I'm glad my question made you come out of comment hibernation of 214 days :)

How to contact the authors and let them know about the comments you have?

E.g. http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.4006.pdf section 1.1 should have floor function instead of brackets IMO.

Yeah get the murder part. Try more white and little red peeking. Too much red = Blood Bath and Some novice Killer on loose.

Little Red = Well planned and well executed murder with precise knowledge of his tools. IMO :)

Good Luck. But all that redness in the site makes me trust you guys less. You guys need to change the color scheme which oozes out more welcoming and trustworthy feeling.

That video ended before I could figure out anything. You should add few more seconds to it.

You can take vacation as much as you can take or go on a 8 week trip to India. I mean If YC takes you under it arms are you not willing to carve out 8 weeks for it?

Hi, Do you look at how many lives will be impacted because of the idea or how easy it is to monetize the idea? I feel my webapp can help users find needle in the haystack but I haven't really gotten to the business model part yet.