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Sounds like you're unfamiliar with Dave's style in general - he's well known for his profanity.

It seems that he only delivers to people in the Lower East Side for now. Of course, food delivery has operated on a limited geography basis since...well pretty much since its inception.

My partner and I have been working on something that's very similar to this description for some time now. Earliest feedback has been quite interesting and we're hoping to get a beta out in the wild sometime this year. Those interested in beta testing should let me know :)

Overall I love the idea of software improving the gym experience but I'm not too sure about this simultaneous team effort idea. Anybody who's tried to grab a cardio/weight machine or even a squat rack at peak usage hours before understands the pain in the ass that is swapping sets or having to find a completely different exercise to do.

Really? I've managed to live on a little over $2k/month in even the NY metro area with a reasonably comfortable lifestyle.

And we wonder why Japan is experiencing a population decline crisis.

I spy Summer Glau on your wall :)

:)

There might need to be some variations on these infographics to fit the multiple theories out there.

I think it's a fairly good representation. It's faithful to the chronology; the first 10 minutes of the movie and the last 10 minutes are the same.

One thing that strikes me as off, however, is Cobb's length of time spent in Limbo. It's only slightly shorter than Saito's yet as far as the audience sees, Cobb only spends a brief amount of time there to find Saito, as evidenced by his relative lack of aging.

Trains are a fair bit more expensive than buses. We don't want scrappy startups sending mixed signals ;)

I think there are plenty of incentives for hackers to come to NYC but it's mainly from the finance sector. Wall St firms wining and dining their hire prospects is common practice. Matt's recommendation is to show that the startup community can entice hackers in its own way. Startups might not be able to pay the salary + bonus that finance firms can throw at you, but perhaps they can gain influence in other ways.

That's not what I thought upon my first 10 seconds on the site. Don't make an assumption about user behavior and leave it untested.

I suspect this is the case. I just clicked on that Meetup - Nightowls link and there was a meetup for the town in which I work my day job. It'd be a pretty crazy coincidence for that to already exist and to be at the top of the list; this isn't exactly an area brimming with the culture typically associated with meetups.

Watching one episode of The Annoying Orange has taught me that predicting what will be popular content is incredibly difficult.

In other words, there's no accounting for taste.

OP, I really hope things turn out for the best for you.

There's another lesson to be had here: save more than two months' worth of living expenses when you're still drawing a salary. You never know when shit hits the fan.

The company is quite profitable though keep in mind that the majority of revenue comes in from more traditional consulting projects. My estimation is that the software arm accounts for only 10-15% of total revenue.

There are a few other things going on here that I haven't mentioned yet:

- We've already pulled one client from the brink of not renewing a contract by developing a much simpler, web based version of our main offering. IMO this should be the general direction of the product but some users would legitimately miss some features.

- Management is well aware that the software is problematic. I believe they've been resting on their laurels for a while due to monopoly position. Things are changing though; competitors are catching up.

- it bears repeating that users are not happy with the product at all, but they are forced to use it by our true customers: their bosses. Those higher-ups do recognize that without ROI, however, the investment is simply not worth it. Now, the actual value of the product itself is another thing entirely...

Let's assume that leaving right now is not an option. Recognizing that efforts from the lower ranks will have limited upside, what can I possibly do outside of gritting my teeth as I continue to suffer with this awful software?

Where in Brooklyn do you live where you're paying $700 (even with roommates) for a great place? I'm intensely curious as I'm planning on moving to BK soon!

Do you intend on adding meals from non-chain restaurants? If so, how do you plan on tackling that?

Matt,

You're still planning on moving out to Mountain View (based on your Twitter feed), right? When are you planning on doing that?

This has got to be one of the laziest "articles" I've ever seen. The final two paragraphs look like a 9th grader trying to slap together a couple of concluding statements for a last minute essay.

A startup that I'm positive will be huge :)

I must say that your personal site/portfolio is fantastic. I LOVE the design.

Some feedback: the stick figures are slightly confusing. It took me 10 seconds before I figured out they weren't talking on the phone while hunched over on a seat.

There are enough NY tech-related events and meetups each week that you could be networking just about every single day if you wanted to.

I have never seen anybody describe the Ivy League as being known for having attractive women.

I've run into those "The Manga Guide to..." books before and I instantly loved the idea. I would venture to say that quite a few nerdy types would enjoy learning certain subjects using these books as primers, especially if beginning at a young age.

I experience the same issue with call forwarding lag. It's pretty horrendous.

I find that the SMS experience is pretty shoddy at times as well. >75% of the time I try to send an SMS in GV, I get a "SMS has failed" error and have to retry a few times to get it to go through. Incoming SMS also often lag by 15-30 minutes.

Asking "why wait for articles" is like saying why use tutorials or guides for anything at all? Why not just learn it all by doing it yourself? Besides, I think there's a bit of a strawman here. I'm not saying I'd like to avoid consulting to pay the bills.

There is a lot of value in learning from other people's experiences. Spencer Fry has a fantastic article on the topic of bootstrapping in general(http://spencerfry.com/how-to-bootstrap) but I'd really love to see somebody get down to the nitty gritty financial details of dollars in vs. dollars out - the holy crap, how are we going to pay rent in 2 months? stuff - in the stages of a startup that hasn't yet reached ramen profitability.

One of the things that always bothers me about the "How to build and launch a product with <$X" articles is the fact that they almost always talk about the costs of outsourcing design/development but almost never talk about the actual costs of living for founders. You know what I'd love to see? Articles about how a couple of scrappy founders cut their living costs to the bone, keep the majority of development in-house (assuming there's a tech founder), and outsource when needed. All of this while trying to get to launch/MVP before the founders' savings run out or need to concentrate on consulting for a while to pay the bills.