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Look on Craigslist and Kijiji in North American cities and reach out to people looking for websites. Charge people $500-1000. Repeat monthly.

Canada.

Considering increasing the highest price level. There are people who build businesses around Twitter. They will pay more than $1200/yr for something that helps them make more money than that.

That's the headline number from the statement of claim, not how much they're entitled to. You can write whatever number you want in a statement of claim, and they did!

Although helpful for US lawsuits, the article is about Canadian law so none of this would apply.

I attended an event in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada in the summer with about 50 local developers. At the end they had an informal few minutes where people who are hiring can stand up and pitch. There were a half dozen people from medium to large companies (e.g. Electronic Arts was one of the large ones). They asked who was looking for work and not a single person raised their hand.

You might enjoy the free legal data service offered in Canada that has most of the cases that you can find on Westlaw/Lexis: canlii.org. It could be more open, but it's free and works well.

It also wouldn't have $0 ROI because there are people who will pay for advanced services built around the law-making process.

Here's an example of a service built on Ontario laws (disclosure: I made it): www.ontariomonitor.ca. It emails people when a bill passes a committee or when new laws are introduced (+ lots of other stuff).

Contract programming? Try advertising on Kijiji/Craigstlist. There's always people out there who will pay you to make a website. Takes away the risk of not making anything from the site.

Not really a defensive reply, because I don't live in the US, but across the border in Canada we have a very similar culture and very safe public transportation. I grew up in downtown-ish Toronto and never saw a crime. There are crimes, just not too many that people fear taking public transportation. A typical subway ride in Toronto has plenty of people in suits. Bus transport in other cities in Ontario is also quite safe.

Subways/trains do this! You don't need self-driving cars to make this world a reality!

Not just complexity, but vagueness. Good luck writing a program that calculates what's "reasonable". Was the construction work a "repair" or an "upgrade"?

How about determining what would be a reasonable amount for someone to pay if they were in the shoes of the businessperson but dealing at arm's length?

Have you ever read a prospectus from start to finish?

Groupon's is ~270 pages long: http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1490281/0001047469110...

Kids have snooze buttons?

Your neighbour to the north does this. It leads to vague advertising that tells you about some problem and encourages you to ask your doctor about it. Doesn't seem to have been the end of the world.

That's almost exactly the distance between Shinjuku (Tokyo) and Sendai, Japan. $40 cheaper + an hour faster by train. I think that's the alternative. High speed rail.

If you happen to live by Omiya's station (about 30mi closer to Sendai), you'd be there in under 2 hours.

This is a service that I've seen before. Not yours of course, but others like it. Why would I use yours as opposed to the others out there? All I see is that your product is "easy". It's probably a great service, but you've got to let people know why you're so great!

Law student. These sort of situations have been considered by the people that write criminal laws.

If you recommend a crime to someone and then they do it then you're a party to that offence (http://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/C-46/page-6.html#h-5 [Canadian Criminal Code, but I assume US is quite similar on this]).

There are a variety of ways to become a party to a crime, and then you're as guilty as the rest of 'em.

It gets worse in Canada. They carrier lock the phones to the brands. There's a big phone company called Telus that has a brand called Koodo and you can't swap phones between them even though it's actually the same network. All the joys of fake competition with none of the compatibility!

Luck is not getting kicked out of Harvard with your original idea that involves stealing a whole bunch of photos off a Harvard server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook.

There are more kinds of IP: -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_design_right (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_patent/) -Integrated Circuit Topographies: http://www.cipo.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/cipointernet-internetopic.... -Plant Breeders Rights: http://www.inspection.gc.ca/english/plaveg/pbrpov/guidee.sht... -And other kinds of IP around the world

Good way to get attention to your service, and I did check it out, but, uh, pricing? Would have considered service but unknown cost made me head back to HN.

But how would companies with lots of users provide notice otherwise? Apple is not going to be sending out letters to all XYZ million users of iTunes when they change the Terms of Service.

I second Wordpress. It's also easy to modify if you'd like to make changes that haven't already been made by others through the many plugins and templates available.

I think I'm in that "more tolerant" crowd, but the pictures made me stop reading pretty quickly. Just doesn't look like something I'll be interested in even if the content is good.

As a third year law student and fairly experienced web programmer, I feel like I can maybe weigh in on this: What seems boring to one person is the other person's reason to live! I'm surprised by how thrilled many lawyers are with their practice areas (that I find boring) but they probably feel the same about the areas I've found most interesting in law.

Both are filled with intellectual challenge. People who like problems are attracted to each. Although people who like problems and money might be more attracted to law!

This might be a good place to get started: http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/Copyright

Here's some more on "Fair Use": http://www.benedict.com/Info/FairUse/FairUse.aspx

"I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to! I have people skills! I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?"

Recently used this for generating a few charts for a school assignment. Great piece of software. Tried out a whole bunch of them before coming across these guys.

Don't underestimate what the parent poster says about "slow to pay". Everyone is. Think months to get paid instead of two weeks like regular employment.