d3x

I totally agree. I get much further showing my personal side projects than I do my resume.

Revenue. Once someone pays for something it becomes real IMO. I run digest.io and it was always a side thing until people stared paying and I had to deal w/ customer support and stuff like that. Do whatever you can to just get one paying customer and then whatever you have to do to get your next and your next etc...

I created http://digest.io all by myself and for myself. It has paying clients now and I am close to releasing the iPhone / Android apps.

"Because YC is a smart deal for founders, and therefore it will attract the smart founders"

YC might be a good deal but that does not mean it will attract "the" smart founders. Yes it will and does attract some smart founders but just because you dont want to do YC does not mean you are not smart or that you are less likely to have the next big thing. If anything this "All smart founders will go to YC" attitude is one of the main reasons you are more likely to miss out on the next big thing.

Whoever is out there creating the next big thing might not even know that YC exists and if he does there are a plethora of other reasons (life and work related) which may cause him/her to not want to apply. Even if they do apply PG has said his strong suite is not picking who gets in and they pass on good people all the time so you are not only hoping that you see the next big thing but that YC sees them too. All these additional criteria make it less likely that you will find the next big thing IMHO.

"That said, finding the next Google and buying a 1% stake is my current billion dollar plan :)"

Facebook, Google etc.. did not go through incubators and they were not started by "established entrepreneurs". If you are looking for a 1% stake in the next google do you think that your preference toward companies that go through incubators will cause you to miss the next big thing?

Yea, i just wanted to solve it quick so I didn't feel like such a dumb ass. I did it again using your solution and now i see what you mean about scalability because your way is much much faster and more efficient. I had to run my solution on my db server using memcache because it was taking too long and too much memory but yours ran on my laptop.

I took each x axis line segment x(1) -> x(6) for example and hashed it at 1,2,3,4,5,6 and did that for everyone then it would simply be a question of iterating each M point and looking at the hash table

Probably a stupid way to do it but it worked.

I think the issue was that I did not know points == queries

From the explanation you just gave I sovled it in 7 minutes but i guess thats no challenge since you did all the thinking and I just had to code it. But I see what you mean; i feel like I should have known that and will definitely go look into the things you suggested.

--Thanks

I dont think its very diffrent; the goal here is for girls to check in and then you can find them via search and video chat / txt or call them. Thats the same value prop that CL Erotic section had. If you are saying you dont like how I am going about that then that is possibly a valid good point. Are you saying bad product or product / market fit? This is my first node project and it kind of took a few twist and turns but whatever... I might just make it something else if that does not work out.

I just mean make it so u can see when people are available so u dont click and just wait. What else do you suggest.

click the green dot to chat w/ that person.

nah, this is more for fun than anything. And Geo loc is not sneaky microsoft stuff. All im doing is detecting your location.

I made this in a weekend by myself so I think its pretty cool even if everyone on HN thinks its lame. Thanks for the suggestion though.

OK i need to make it so that there are chat statuses and you can see when people are available.

I am not sure; possibly but I wanted to do something different so i did it this way.

it should not ask for loc on the search page. Ill fix that.

Leave off the www and just go to localstrange.com

Sorry about that I had the dns setup wrong and www. was going to the wrong aws instance. Its fixed now. I had to update from this account because i'm using noprocrast and cant login as p01nd3xt3r for a few more hours.

The whole thing is writen in Node w/ Mongo. I hate windows & probably could not get php running on windows either.

I made something similar to what you are describing. http://www.socialadmanager.com I kind of abandoned it though. What I found is that people hate ads no matter what and most people dont recognize people e.g.: Facebook friends in pictures.

I am glad I have never had this problem. I really dont care about HN @ all and just use it as a resource to learn from the same as TC and a plethora of other websites. I enjoy making things so thats what I do and the same goes for my friends. If you enjoy studying startups more than launching products etc... then perhaps you should shift your career in that direction.