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Do you have any pre-existing experience or connections into the estates agent business? If possible, I would start there and with them.

If you don't have any pre-existing experience or connections into that market, it's still possible to find success but it's going to be a long and challenging path to forge...and so before even building much of an MVP, I would spend some time getting connected and ingrained in that world (which will likely have the happy side effect of revealing a lot of the real 'problems & opportunities' within).

In the PDF he points out it says "Resource names should be nouns—avoid verbs as resource names. It makes things more clear. Use the HTTP methods to specify the verb portion of the request."

However the same PDF, in the very same section, states "Having sensible resource names or paths (e.g., /posts/23 instead of /api?type=posts&id=23) improves the clarity of what a given request does."

To me - having the verb in the resource name is very sensible specifically because it improves the clarity of what a given request does (or at least is intended to do).

And as a personal style thing, I usually put the verb first (it reads more like English that way) so I would have gone /add/topic -- but again that's just a personal style/organization thing.

I do a rolling daily list of the ones that have the most active comments at http://knowabout.it in case anyone is interested (it's how this thread caught my attention)

With a larger number of startups, there will likely be some amount more of hits per year, but I think the cap (or even large percent of growth) is not actually determined by this.

Rather, I suspect that the 'about 15 big hits a year' is actually more about the public (and how many 'new' things the masses will actually adopt a year) than it is about the overall number of new startups each year.

It's got the button, but not the feature. Gotta love it! ;-)

Well in this case it's an original Lamborghini, but it was in a horrible wreck and has been sitting at the bottom of the sea for about ten years...

So you can dredge it up, and perhaps restore it to it's original glory...or you can go out and build your own, new dream car from scratch.

Either way it's going to be a TON of work to get to a truly valuable (and fun to drive) vehicle...

1. Connections 2. Money 3. Macgyver-like business skills

fair point...

I've used CyberDuck in the past too...of the SFTP options, I liked it the best.

With this mapping option, I can drop down to Terminal app...move to the directory, and then mate * to open a whole project within TextMate (great for searching all files in a project and other little things)...and I can also do other comand line like things, but semi-locally...so just a bit more powerful for my personal use cases is all.

I didn't find any Mac clients that I liked for either of these approaches...and what I wanted was a really simple way to be able to edit files on my EC2 instance using TextMate...this solution works really well for me to do just that (though there could be much better ways to accomplish this that I just didn't bother to research/figure out).

I think s3fs is more for mounting a S3 bucket as a drive...what I wanted to do was access the files on my EC2 instance as local files (EC2 is basically like a remote computer, S3 is just remote storage).

That being said, you might be able to use s3fs to accomplish the same thing...I just wrote this up because it's the solution that I use...could be (probably is) better ways to accomplish this...

Yeah - I had lots of troubles with MacFUSE in the past as well...so far (only a couple of days really) I've had no problems with OSXFuse though.