benblodgett

I use google analytics as a historical record, but very rarely review it.

Mixpanel for event tracking, getclicky for real time site stats (only monitored when we have pr/marketing stuff going on).

StatsD and Graphite for user facing analytics (I run a marketplace for cranes/heavy machinery so advertisers need to review just their stuff).

I wouldn't consider Chart.io an applicable product for a startup, $185/month for a charting interface is way to expensive.

1. I think you are shooting yourself in the foot with your pricing, why don't you create a middle plan and limit usage by number of events per week?

2. The conquerer/empire thing I just don't get, its confusing why not try something like Promoter / Enterprise? Selling subscriptions is hard enough, I always try to be as simple as possible on my pricing page.

Stripe is meant for developers, and it is quite easy to integrate using their javascript api. If you can code a form you write basic javascript you can integrate stripe.

'Building a large webapp today'

Do you mean starting to build a large webapp today?

I would recommend Ruby on Rails or Python/Django - they allow for fast prototyping and easy collaboration.

I agree a good work around for the padmapper problem, wonder how padmapper will react.

I use something similar to allow users to manage the order in which images show up on their listings. (we provide a service for people to buy/sell cranes)

I agree, this post seems nonsensical to me - I always use past tense because it is a description of what I did.

I like this idea of collective, less-organized entities. I worked at a design agency for 3 years and found that every designer who came immediately started designing outside of their process. I think a system like this allows each individual designer the ability to implement their own process and creativity without management influence.

I would urge you to take this to the next step and unify accounting. This would allow customers to feel as if they were hiring a traditional firm, and would relish in the idea of being able to select out of 444 designers and then work directly with them.

It is all jacked up in Chrome 20 on a mac lion.

This is a blog article, the actual tutorial is at http://try.github.com

I work out of http://projective.co, absolutely love it.

And this is a startup in dumbo that organizes/finds coworking space. http://loosecubes.com.

Good hunting sir!

This is frustrating, you shouldn't build something unless you have a vision for it. When you have a vision (hopefully stemming from a personal pain point) then build a minimum version.

Users don't know what they want, and blatantly asking them gets you no where. You need something that they can play with and you can make decisions empirically.

Personally I don't see how this would save me time, I would rather just design in html/css.

I do it because I love writing software and learning. I have never had a job that I constantly learned and never got bored..

Yeah I am also constantly annoyed by this, I work out of a coworking space in the lower east side with tons of technical geniuses. It doesn't matter where you live, but who you associate with in that area.

I agree that your points do apply to the majority of facebook users. However, I think fb can be very useful as a social messaging/event calendar if applied properly. Without sacrificing the importance of direct social interaction.

To me it makes me wonder if the application or the popular belief of usage is the problem.

Throwing 500 error..

I think the broken part of email exists in business communication, in my experience it's grossly overused. It becomes an endless todo list that requires processing (eg, response, forward, assign, done, etc). This is inefficient and distracts us from our primary functions.

I would say this is a more appropriate recommendation - http://www.amazon.com/The-Four-Steps-Epiphany-Successful/dp/....

Coming soon, 50 Reasons Why you Should Cache Your Website

I think this app would be most effective in suburbs and not city centers. There are coffee shops everywhere (especially in NY) - it would actually waste time to wait for coffee then it would to walk down the block.

I quit my 9-5 to work on a startup. I make sure to start and end my day (whatever hours that might be) with reading. It is relaxing and stimulating, gives me inspiration and shuts my mind off when necessary.

Personally, I learned Ruby with Rails - this is a pretty good resource - http://railsforzombies.com/

Regardless of your individual opinion of Zuckerberg, it is really sad that this thread contains comments outside of "Congratulations". He is a large part of tech whether you like it or not, and should be considered a peer that merits nothing but support on his special day.

I can't believe that I woke up this morning and more semicolon arguments are at the top of hackernews..

Simple and fun, but why would someone use something like this vs visiting mlb.com?

"This is for the guy who browses Hacker News at his cubicle during his break under soul-sucking fluorescent lights."

Described my previous-life to a T, best decision I ever made was leaving those fluorescent lights.

You are an idiot, its a MVP. There is no point in browser testing early on for ignorant people who are determined to stay on a legacy web browser.

What if I want to redirect www to root?