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Thanks for the feed back. http://i.crowdfunded.it/apple-ipod-shuffle-2-gb-silver is the page people use to pitch in. you can click the fb like, google +1 or tweet to share with others so that they can pitch in. Trust is definitely important here. How do you suggest I improve on that?

Yea, I totally agree.

You can create one and the user can change their item to an item of lesser value after their fund has entered "inactive" status.

Anyone can pitch in. When you checkout it creates your funding page and people visit that page to pitch in.

Stripe is really awesome. I started using it yesterday on i.crowdfunded.it and I have never had such an easy time w/ CC processing etc...

I made this to help people crowdfund their birthday gifts, x-mas presents etc...

1. find products

2. add to cart

3. checkout

Using stripe for CC processing, heroku, rails 3 etc... Creating a payment api for social payments next.

This is a small side project of mine. Thx in advance for any feedback and suggestions.

Edit: Why was this post flagged?

This whole thing really shows the character of Airbnb in general. First there was the issue with spamming people on craigs list (PG also defended this action) and now this, next there will be something else and im sure that PG will come to their defense again. I understand he has to say whatever he needs to say to protect his investment but a little objectivity would nice.

There are 3 meal delivery methods

1. Local Chefs

To get this info local chefs can upload their menu's. Their food items are run against the USDA food database then categorized against which dits allow those things and which do not. I currently have support for 455 diets

2. Restaurants

Some of this menu info from the restaurants uploading their menu's and some comes from info that I can get from online sources; as with the local chef menu's I use the USDA food database here to know what meals qualify for what diets

3. Recipes

This one I have not quite figured out yet.

My app does not work like others in that it does not recommend "Places" it instead allows you to search for what food you want and it finds meals based on that food item that also match your dietary preferences (which may or may not be a pre-defined diet)

I am working on something like this. www.dietmanager.com. I also tied it in w/ the usda food database web service to break things down even further and tied in a feedback loop so that people know what ingredients trigger their conditions etc...

Its very easy to get upset at Lodsys for being scummy patent trolls but what about companies like Facebook

see: http://www.seobythesea.com/?p=3365

IMHO they are just as bad because if they filled for these patents then eventually they will decide to enforce them.

I have done several hackathon's and I have always coded the entire project there. I usually do all of the planning and organization ahead of time but I always complete the code during the event. Thats part of the fun of it IMO.

Dont you think this is a bit like ambulance chasing? Are we going to have to hear about (anything that involves death) + 1000memories? I guess one mans misery is another mans marketing opportunity.

Your reply is so laced with hypocrisy its disgusting. How do you know their lives are so bad? From what the video showed they seem to be doing just fine.

I would rather be A West coast armchair philosopher than an elitest who feels he is so superior to other people that I have the right to be condescending when discussing their way of life and I have the obligation to convert them to my way of thinking.

FYI: one of the main justifications for slavery - Slavery was good for the slaves; the slaveowners took on the burden of caring for the interests of inferior beings, seeing that they would be fed, clothed and given religious instruction.

I really hope you are kidding. If not this is so typical of the american way of thinking. Yes, we are so superior lets convert them all to our [insert culture, religion etc...]. What is so bad about leaving them alone? I would bet they are much happer than the majority of the FB and Twitter obsessed narcissist that I run into every day.

While we are at it lets make sure they all become good christians too because anyone that has not accepted christ in their life just does not know what they are missing.

Im not trying to be an ass but I fundamentally disagree with everything you just said. BTW: you to know that Western medicine is not the only medicine in the world. While we are at it lets take them our aids, diabetes, obesity etc...

You are basically saying that your beliefs and way of life are so superior and better than theirs that you must convert them and that is total bullshit. They have a right just as you do to continue their way of life without someone like you coming along and deciding what is and is not ok for them.

Traffic sites == affiliate sites. @ aebn they have an entire traffic department that does nothing but throw up traffic (or affiliate) sites and drive traffic to their theaters. Also the pure affiliate model has been in decline for some time now. I also personally own about 10 traffic sites and each one has appox 10 affiliate offers on it. the term "Traffic site" has nothing to do with how the user gets to the site e.g.: organic search vs clicking link on 3rd party page. It simply refers to the purpose of the page which is to drive traffic to another site.

They are normally so poorly done because it does not matter. Most porn sites are either traffic sites or membership sites. If its a traffic site then the goal is just to upsell and send the user to another site and if its a membership site then the users care much more about the content than the site.

I have worked in adult for 9+ years and sold 2 sites. aebn.com / stockroom.com / domme.com etc... One of the sites i sold was called cameraphoneporn.com; sold it 8 years ago before mobile was big.

IMHO the best thing about working in adult is that you gain a good understanding of affiliates and seo / marketing / conversion rates etc... and that is information that has helped me with my mainstream clients as well.

When I ran into this problem i simply developed a phone and txt based system for people to get meal recommendations etc... Not only did this allow me to help users that did not have computers but it seems that the majority of users prefer the txt , phone interface because its easier. If you need more info on how I implemented this in a user friendly way just email me; I would be glad to help.

I would put a clear sheet on roof when snow was forecasted.

Put heat packs in grid format along the sheet.

Attach sring to the break point of heat packs

Once snow is on roof pull strings to activate the heat packs

Once enough snow has melted pull off the clear sheet.

awesome...im looking fwd to it.

Wow, wrong again. The article is total BS and the title is nothing more than link bait. Every successful startup founder I know list a passion for the domain as one of their keys to success.

Basically what this article boils down to IMHO is "when shit gets hard just run, or better yet just dont do it because it might get hard"

And as for the 6 solutions she proposes... well those are dumb to. If people focus on how much work a startup is then they are much more likely to talk themselves out of it. I rather follow the advice of people like Steve Blank (customer development) and PG - How to start a startup (http://www.paulgraham.com/start.html)

Maybe we should take another piece of advice from this lady that obviously knows nothing about successful products and just forget passion to "Follow the Money" as she put it.

Actually I did comment; my comment was that I disagree with this article. I'm sorry that you didn't pick up on that. In the future you should take your own advice and only comment if you have some actual value to add to the conversation e.g.: I agree because... or I disagree because. I was unable to comment at the time because I was working on my startup. My comment conveyed my opinion of the article and yours has done nothing more than show you are petty person that makes irrelevant comments that are not even relevant to the topic at hand. Since you are obviously dense I will explain: The topic at hand is the article but you did nothing more than comment on me so next time try and focus on the article at hand.

Every single one that I want to go is Females only. Dont you think that men would also like the opportunity to lern from YC founders?

WOW, I fundamentally disagree with everything stated here. I would explain but I have to get back to following my passion.

Really? Why do you say that? What do you mean explode? IMO it's a really bad first shot at an idea that people have done over and over again. Not trying to be negative but it really just does not look very good to me and based on the quality of this product I would not trust any of the feedback that I received.

Fact is that if you want to build something then build it for fun or talk to your customers (aka: customer development) not to other startup founders and random "alpha users" that my and may not be a part of your target audience.

See: http://steveblank.com/category/customer-development-manifest...

These companies should wait until they actually have something cool before making statements like "Forget apps, OnSwipe is the future of publishing."

This would be much harder to do if you did not have the timer on the screen.

I made http://spotted.at using node.js / mongo. I used it because I wanted to see what all the hype was about and I wanted some real experience with it. But honestly I dont see what what node provides that eventmachine and twisted dont.