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[Not the op] Meteor is extremely easy to deploy.

Disclaimer: I think Meteor is fantastic.

Never really had an issue - I can't say the same about rails! Obviously Meteor has the advantage of being younger and so less cruft has built up, but I'd bet on it still being insanely easy to deploy 4 years from now.

The Meteor team is doing an awesome job spending the VC money on making an experience that is fantastic for devs. Major props to Geoff et al.

cjbarberon Meteor hits 1.0

It doesn't.

cjbarberon Lecture 8: How to Start a Startup

Checklist for lecture #8

https://chris.typeform.com/to/Oto5xV

cjbarberon Ask HN: Startup jobs site

Hi! Hopefully this is cool/helpful:

http://www.breakoutlist.com/

would love your thoughts. email in profile.

cjbarberon Lecture 8: How to Start a Startup

I've been eagerly watching/reading all of these lectures.

Top quality content. Many thanks to YC for doing this - I look forward to the beneficial impact that spreading this knowledge will have.

My only complaint is that many of these things are easy to hear, and agree with - i.e. talk to users first, of course! Yet, it can be hard to bridge the gap between what we agree with, and the actions we take. Much easier to bridge the gap when this advice is given during YC session, where people can take it and immediately apply it.

To remedy this for myself I'm making checklists for each of the classes, almost like a CS183B sanity check tool.

As an example, here's my checklist for class #5 (on growth).

https://chris.typeform.com/to/DxLnqP

(by the way, typeform is awesome and way better than google forms)

Anyhow, awesome series and I look forward to watching this lecture. I'll reply and post my checklist for this class too!

cjbarberon How Google Works

How so?

cjbarberon Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App

As some of the others have said, it's important to note that I select subreddits well.

Reddit is a vital product in two main ways:

- Information on topics that interest me (e.g. fitness, startups - I use it like hacker news, or twitter)

- Information on problems (I treat reddit like the "stack overflow, for life". I often google "xyz reddit", because I seek a reddit page of answers, where I know the users are more similar to me than many other sites, and also where I can see which answers have the most votes. For example - "replacement desert boots laces reddit" Or, "best comedy movies reddit". Both recent google searches of mine)

cjbarberon Reddit Acquires Alien Blue, the Most Popular Unofficial Reddit App

Reddit is a vital product in my life.

Necessary move by reddit. If someone was going to be able to compete with reddit, and succeed, Alien Blue had a very good shot.

Cool to see reddit making moves since their new round of funding, too.

Semi-related segue: Since this $50mm funding round happened, I've recommended to a couple people that they apply for jobs at reddit. [1]

Reddit has maintained impressive growth since 2005. I'm expecting them to be doing very interesting things over the next 5-6+ years.

[1]: http://www.breakoutlist.com/reddit/

cjbarberon How to Start a Startup Lecture 1: Full Transcript

Each to their own. I found it extremely interesting.

A nice counter to everyone wanting to start their own thing (definitely a common view point at Stanford) without necessarily thinking it through.

cjbarberon Ask HN: How do you go from being an average developer to a great one?

One of the best pieces I've ever read.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

Suggestion: use readability

cjbarberon Ravti (YC S14) wants to digitize the HVAC Industry

Awesome. I love seeing companies go after real industries, with real pain.

Pretty clear that Ravti fits that mold/mould.

cjbarberon Ask HN: How to learn design as a hacker?

Also, a little late, but a bit over a year ago I created:

https://github.com/cjbarber/learn-design

And it ended up getting a few stars on Github so I think some people may have found it useful.

> What is this?

> Resources and tools for hacking design together and (alternatively) learning design.

cjbarberon How startup founders and CEOs rate the top VCs in Silicon Valley [pdf]

Right. I don't trust this at all.

If the respondents were CEOs of companies funded by a16z and Sequoia etc, then great. But if they were, then why the fuck do they need to recruit for respondents on hacker news?

To entrepreneurs: ask friends or CEOs funded by the VCs you have questions about.

cjbarberon Let's Build a Traditional City and Make a Profit

On a serious note, what would the requirements/steps to move towards this be?

My guess is some combination of:

- Money

- Initial pre-committed residents

- Habitable land

- Management

And then the main thing left, is, I believe, approval?

Which leads to my questions:

- What is the legality? Where is it legal? Where is it illegal? Or if legal, what are the chances/what is needed for approval?

cjbarberon Uber vs. Car Ownership

To be fair: It seems like Sam wrote this in response to queries after he posted this tweet

"just did the math. it's now cheaper for me to get rid of my car and uber everywhere (gas, parking, maintianence, insurance, depreciation) ."

And then he posted the calculation on Twitter.

cjbarberon Poll: How many emails do you have in your inbox right now?

Zero, and it feels great.

I abide by the inbox zero philosophy from GTD.

To be clear, I don't process emails instantly, but I processed recently and thus am at zero.

cjbarberon SpoonRocket doing $1 dinner in SF Next Monday and Tuesday

Not affiliated in any way, just saw this on Twitter and thought it was pretty awesome.

cjbarberon Startup Studios – are they a thing?

What's your email? I'm cjbarber@stanford.edu and would love to ask a question!

cjbarberon Show HN: Dead simple Bitcoin payroll

Looks nice! I like the B logo.

I've also seen Bitwage [1] doing something similar to this and heard that people like them.

[1]: http://bitwage.co/

cjbarberon Show HN: Front, Collaborative Email for Sales, Customer Support, Hiring and more

Yes:

https://github.com/cjbarber/best-crm-for-startups

cjbarberon Ask HN: Idea Sunday

I put it up on /r/startups if there's interest.

http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/27nvm8/ask_idea_su...

cjbarberon Ask HN: What is the best example of api documentation you know?

I'd add BlockScore to that list:

https://manage.blockscore.com/docs/index

cjbarberon Ask HN: Can you help me find an old post?

And with your search keywords, for anyone else interested, check out:

http://getsimpleform.com/

https://formend.com/

As well.

edit:

And

http://fireform.org/

cjbarberon Ask HN: Can you help me find an old post?

Awesome, thank you! Not sure if this was it specifically, but this is exactly what I'm after.

cjbarberon HN Hiring

Given that:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7685170

is coming up on the 1st of June.

I modified the template:

https://gist.github.com/cjbarber/189c84750cd42309201d

Thoughts?

cjbarberon HipChat is now free for unlimited users

I wrote this:

https://github.com/cjbarber/hipchat-alternatives/

I while back.

This move by HipChat makes me happy.

I've attempted to move over, but HipChat is far superior for my needs.

cjbarberon Tell HN: Potentially impressive meteor shower tonight. Get outside

Not sure how HN feels about a promotion like this, but I gain nothing from it so I'm going to try: I compiled a list of tips and locations to watch the shower from, and put it on github pages last night.

Also I was pretty happy with the domain name :)

http://www.meteortime.com/pages/may-2014-camelopardalids-met...

cjbarberon [dead]

Repost of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7738602

from 8 hours ago.

Also, posted in the earlier thread, there was also a podcast:

https://soundcloud.com/a16z/a16z-podcast-valuing-todays-fast...

cjbarberon Understanding SaaS: Why the Pundits Have It Wrong

For those who prefer to read:

I paid for and posted a transcription of that podcast.

http://blog.chrisbarber.co/a16z-podcast-valuing-todays-fast-...

cjbarberon Ask HN: Where to look for QA engineers?

On the off chance you are one, I'm chris.barber@alumni.stanford.edu :)