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That's definitely on our to-do list.

We are NOT a sexual service - I'm not sure if you were joking, but I'm honestly offended. At the same time, if you were being serious, I'm happy that you asked instead of making an assumption.

One more time: We ONLY do professional massage therapy.

I completely agree. When you're a small startup, few things are in your favor. It's worth every minute to pour over creating a great experience, even if it's done by hand.

@MassageJoy (http://www.massagejoyspa.com), we're currently going through Pinterest and the wider web, and pulling things together to create thoughtful Care Packages for our clients.

Is it hella expensive? Yes. But that doesn't matter. The basic point is to make sure the experience that we deliver is unmatched. And we're either going to do that or die trying.

I think we were also thinking of it as a platform for community thought. Imagine embedding a brainstorm widget at the end of your blog article to get ideas for a problem your company is solving.

We definitely will.

What did you think of soneca's suggestion of essentially having a widget that lives in popular project management apps / gmail, that provides this functionality at the click of a button?

I've found these questions pretty helpful. Anyone interested in building a therapy chat bot that helps entrepreneurs using those same questions?

Interesting.

We're targeting business problems and coworkers since workers have better incentives to contribute (compared to friends), and businesses can see tangible cash value from being more creative.

The thought was that if a coworker sent you an invite/email saying - "I want your ideas on this", it'd be hard for you to not contribute. But I'm hearing that it breaks the work flow too much to expect people to leave email and their current task management tool to use our tool whenever they want to brainstorm. Is that because it feels like they're spamming their friends/coworkers, or because their friends/coworkers don't necessarily want to learn to use another gadget/app? Would it be different if we emailed your coworkers on your behalf saying "soneca just brainstormed x" - want to add your ideas and help her?

I think integrating into a team management tool is a great idea - or maybe directly into gmail like streak (www.streak.com).

Async definitely was what we were going for - busy people want to brainstorm with you and contribute ideas, but it's impossible to get 5 of them in a room at the same time. MonsterLumen should help with that.

That would be awesome, and it was our first idea, but it doesn't work.

It would draw direct issues - there are seedy massage providers out there offering sexual services under the guise of "massage".

So it's very dangerous to use the words "massage" and "happy" together. You'll start ranking on google for some very questionable queries.

We also thought about saying Aspirin-As-A-Service.

The truth is, it's a much more dangerous risk for us to die without anyone knowing we exist.

I'll add it to the ask HN now, and to the app later today. Thanks!!!

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Hey HN, we really want your support and your feedback - I'll be hanging our here in the comments and I'll be as responsive as possible. We serve the SF Peninsula: Palo Alto, East Palo Alto, Stanford, Atherton, Mountain View, Portola Valley, Menlo Park, Redwood City, Los Altos & Los Altos Hills - basically anywhere 15 miles from Stanford, CA. If you're somewhere that isn't listed, but you're in the area, we'll still come to you.

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Hi Soneca - thanks for your feedback and for giving it a shot.

I think your hesitation about sharing may be linked to the fact that sharing the brainstorm feels like it's real-time, so to share with your coworkers would involve breaking their flow and dragging them into your current brainstorm. That explanation seems to fit with you not wanting to change the mood - am I correct in this assumption?

I'm really glad you liked your nudges - we were initially not sure people would "get" them. We're a little worried about async brainstorming, because a lot of the real value from brainstorming comes from stealing your coworkers' ideas and building on them - so you make their ideas better. Async makes this more difficult.

I love your idea about email being the conduit. I think i'd like to build on that :), and that with tools like mailgun, it's not going to be terribly hard. Thanks a lot for this 3rd paragraph - a lot of actionable ideas here.

Thanks for your support - we hope to make it into something awesome too :).

I'd be interested in hiring for hourly work, but I'm not sure how much work I need to send out per week. I suspect others are like me. It would be nice if we could pay a monthly maintenance fee and then just pay $10/hr, or whatever. It would be even better if we could just pay $15/hr during spike times.

Sounds like you're speaking from personal experience. My startup is working to solve this problem, and I'd love to chat with you. Drop me a line - lexsebro@stanford.edu

I don't mean to be rude, but I'd love to see a similar article on pricenomics. I've never really understood your business model.

That's not evil; that's capitalism. Apple is literally doing it's job: they are extracting maximum rents.

This article is completely accurate - there's nothing new or innotivative about fusion drive when compared to what was in the market years ago- it's pure marketing. I know the anti apple tone of the article made it seem unfairly biased, but it's totally correct in this case.

I'd love to deploy on Heroku, but it's so dramatically more expensive than aws. For a startup, is it really worth that additional cost?

An index fund just mimics the market and has no research behind it. It's meant to perform just as the market does.

I think half your problemwastgat you were selling something with a predictable market price of $0, and asking people to pay early. They woukd only pay if there's some huge, non- app based benefit for them, otherwise you'd wind up with tragedy of the commons (especially because normal people dont realize that apps take more than 2 weeks to make, and they see them as disposable).

I agree - I often just give up and read the source to figure out how to use advanced features.

It sounds like what you want is really good, searchable documentation for everything. I use dochub.io - it's pretty awesome.

I like the idea, but it's really hard to read anything. There's just too much.

I got it, and I was thoroughly impressed.

I wonder how this is going to affect Ouya, who just raised over 8M on kickstarter, and who was relying on Onlive to provide access to AAA titles from day 1.

People aren't building apps for fun. They're trying to build a business. No one in their right mind is going to invest in a business that's built in an area that can be bulldozed at any moment, and that's what twitter's platform is.

For developers, twitter is now officially a burning platform.

Twitter is making it very unappealing to build on their platform, since developers have to effectively give up a large chunk of autonomy and trust that Twitter's business model won't change again, and that Twitter won't suddenly start competing with them. And anyone who's paying attention knows that that's exactly what Twitter will do, since they don't have a clear, believable business model, and they've done it(destroyed their 'developers') before.

It looks like Twitter won't be happy until the only Twitter developers are the ones that work at Twitter.

Hybrid apps serve the website locally, from the device, because if you didn't there would be a lot more data being sent over the wire, and your app would perform significantly worse. The only thing (well designed) hybrid apps generally use the internet for is querying apis, just like normal mobile apps do.