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I was thinking about the same thing last night. I assume most of the reader of HN are from US and even among them most are from West Coast.

Score of your article is inversely proportional to the time difference of current time and time you posted. See this http://amix.dk/blog/post/19574

So even if your post is interesting it wont make it to the front page if you post it at night (US Timings).

Also just posting any silly articles is a bad idea. Your article will be flagged for sure.

I am loving my Mac. But if you have budget constraints, I would suggest Ubuntu. I was using Ubuntu before I switched to Mac and I was loving it too.

You can get almost all the softwares on Ubuntu which you get on Mac OSx.

This is awesome. I like the integration with Instapaper. Lately I have been using Instrapaper alot.

Thanks :)

oh! I was always wondering what that stands for.

Thanks alot :)

oh cool. This seems interesting.

Thanks :)

* Be Honest. Show what you are. * Provide links to your work which you think are Best. * Don't write crap, they can easily make it out. They were also student once. * Don't make grammatical mistakes. * Keep it short and to the point.

Ryan's talks change the way I work. Glad to learn all these at the early stage of my career.

Awesome.

If you are looking for boolean answer: GO

What's the point in staying in a company where you are not happy (in this case because of cofounder). You can either resolve the issue or separate and start something of your own.

If you have your own hosting, you can try BuddyPress. It's simple and easy to setup and use.

check this out http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1778880

Not sure if you are still a student or working full time.

I have few ideas but I guess only student would be interested to work on it.

These ideas wont make you millionaire but you will definitely make enough money to pay your rent and will help you learn how to do business in general.

A bit off track but just curious to know if sending out emails, introducing yourself and your product, played major role in marketing.

I mean, do people take it seriously? I usually mark it as spam. may be it's just me.

Did you use any other methods for marketing your product?

None. It is not necessary to fail to succeed.

If you think, the idea is good, give it a shot. See what's the response. If it works, continue else quit.

Key thing is to know when to quit.

Thanks Jason :)

Forgot to mention Howcast

Good Luck :)

Dude, University doesn't matter. Better you score in GRE, better university you get.

Regarding you question. If you are really passionate about working on product and not consulting, Learn more than what is taught in class, contribute to some open source projects. Apply some universities in US. I don't think startups really care which university you come from as far as you are a real hacker.

And if you want to stay in India (which is not at all a bad idea), you can join some product based company there too. Or may be start something of your own. Since you are still in school, it's worth trying out.

And just FYI education in India is not as bad as you think. (I did my Bachelors in India and Masters from one of the top ten universities in US).

It is not visually appealing but it has good user experience. You will hardly make any mistakes while using it. They concentrated more on making it clean.

Yea, all schools have internal job board. You can email their careers and placement cell to post it there. You can also contact some responsible person at CS dept to broadcast the email to all students.

Commoncrafts Demogirl

Agree. I sometimes like listening to Jason also.

But yea, Ryan Singer is the awesome.

Regarding Cofounder, Have you thought of hiring an intern?

I would say, try SJSU, Stanford, UC Berkley, SFSU, etc. May be somebody might be interested to work for a share (usually students ask for some stipend to pay their rent and bills).

This way you can try them for couple of months and see if your frequency matches with them.

One drawback here is, since they might not be as technically sound as an experienced developer might be, you gotta think about it.

Hipmunk too

There's no "The way to design" but there is "A way to design".

I would recommend you "Defensive Design for the Web" by 37 Signals and "Designing Web Interfaces" by Bill Scott.

These books use examples of Web Interfaces but you can apply them on anything. Be it a software or hardware.

Also, I would say, when you design something, Dont focus much on visual appearance. First try to make things clean and ask your non-tech friends to use it. See what difficulties they face in using your product. You will learn a lot from these experiences.

When I first read this on TechCrunch, I thought it's a typo.

Basecamp, Wufoo, Reddit (If you are not looking at Visual Design but Good Design)

really helpful.

Thanks :)

yea. I like that idea.

Thanks :)

Thanks Scott :)