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bondon Add recurring billing to your site. No coding, monthly fees, gateways. Code=HN

Generally speaking every commercial business will stay alive as long as it has customers and it's profitable...

$175K a year is a LOT of money in most places, so I still think it's impressive.

You can also check http://eduardo-xavier.com , they have some good designs and prices are affordable...

Seeing from what happened to the ipad case business last year, i would say that this will not impact sales of third-party cases. The market will be there for all.

Some will buy the smart cover and some will buy the traditional folio case...

bondon YCPages - List of Y Combinator companies, founders and jobs with statistics

Maybe it would be good to have some filters for active, acquired, etc...

bondon Tell HN: Catch.com raises 7m. Didn't get in as solo founder (S08), kept pushing

Congrats! Never give up...

bondon Redesign of MailChimp

Don't like it, prefer the old design...

bondon Ask HN: Name your company after your first product?

It depends if you're going to have multiple products or not.

If one product is the goal then go with company name=product name.

If multi product is the goal then go with a company name different than product name. This way you'll be able to market several products under one brand...

bondon Man in disguise boards international flight

The should have taken the costume when he boarded the flight, not mid flight...

He should have gone to the bathroom right after he put his bags so no one would remember when he got back to his seat...

bondon Let’s Crate – from weekend project to registered company in two weeks.

Well, those time consuming things is what will make you have users.

So you want users but you don't want to spend time telling them what you offer?

bondon The 5.2 billion dollar mistake.

So they have now 300,000 customers and what about $$$$?

bondon Turning your idea into business reality

Never give up...

bondon Why Twitter’s C.E.O. Demoted Himself

“Ev is very difficult to work with because he has a tough time making a final decision on products,”

“This all changed when Dick took over. He’s very logical and knows how to make things happen.”

“Dick is hard-charging and very focused on urgency and executing now, and I tend to be very contemplative,” he says. “My weakness is probably taking too long to make a decision, and his is being too hasty.”

bondon Paper Toss dev makes $500k per month with ads

Seems mobile is a good space to be in...

bondon Ask HN: Buying domains for side projects

> I suppose in theory I could register 1000 domain names and repeat the process of paying for content, setting up wordpress RSS autoposting, and possibly make $10,000 a month, but I never seem to get around to it, and there's the possibility that it won't be as profitable as I think.

That's what this kid is doing with 500 domains.

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/dvkdc/i_pay_for_colleg...

bondon Ask HN: Is it bad to entertain an idea that has already been tried?

You'll never know until you try it...

bondon Stop Looking for a Technical Co-Founder, Learn to Code Yourself

I had a CS background but didn't do any coding for about 17years so the basics were already here...

Thanks for your tips.

bondon Stop Looking for a Technical Co-Founder, Learn to Code Yourself

Just did that!

Couldn't find a co-founder so I decided to learn. Took me some weeks but now, after a few months, I'm comfortably with coding and improving where I can. Still need to improve my javascript skills.

Still lots to learn but at least I can put out a decent app in a few weeks time.

Should have done it years ago but I guess it's not too late to learn...

bondon Ask HN: What's the deal with start-ups named ly?

I was thinking about it last night. How come this is getting more popular? What makes one choose a name ending in ly?

bondon Is it possible to make a enterprise website using PHP still?

Yes, you're right, peak is very important.

bondon Is it possible to make a enterprise website using PHP still?

Sure it can handle millions of requests a week.

So 1week=7days=168hours=10080minutes=604800seconds

For 1 million requests/week= 1.65Req/sec

For 5 million requests/week= 8.26Req/sec

For 10 million requests/week= 16.53Req/sec

For this kind of traffic there's nothing to worry about. I'm not an expert so someone with more experience can say if this numbers are ok.

bondon Evernote Secures $20m in Funding

Today’s announcement of our $20 million series “C” funding led by Sequoia Capital means that we now have the resources to significantly expand and improve our service in ways that would have taken years to achieve organically. We’ll build more features, add more devices, fix more bugs, expand into more countries, and make Evernote indispensable to more types of users (including corporate and educational folk).

http://blog.evernote.com/2010/10/19/evernote-raises-20-milli...

bondon Ask HN: What is the best way to find out if your startup idea is already taken?

Tell everybody...

bondon Ask HN: Save my dying Startup

And the URL is?

bondon Warn HN: When PayPal doesn't know the meaning of "Donation"...

Red flag? Hmmm, don't think so...

https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?&cmd=_donate-intro-ou...

"To accept donations, put a Donate button on your website. Creating the button is easy. We provide the HTML code, which you simply copy and paste to your site. Donors can then click the button to make donations. See button features you can customize."

How could you use the Donate button? "Let’s say that you are an animal rescue organization needing to raise funds to provide care for animals. You can easily add a donate button to your website and make it safe and convenient for supporters to give to your cause"

bondon Ask HN: How to split equity

You 40%, others 30% each...

Assuming they will be co-founders with you from the get go...

bondon PayPal robbed my bank account

They are registered as a bank in Europe so they must comply with European bank regulations...

bondon Is your startup built to last, or to sell?

>1) When built-to-sell startups get customers, they aren't really interested in listening to them to improve the product – the company is supposed to be sold anyway.

I don't agree entirely with this one. For a company to be able to sell, first it needs to have customers around or else how will attract buyers?

No customers, no business...