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jonathanmarcuson Max Levchin to Leave Google As Slide Is Shut Down

$200MM is a lot of money. It seems rather unsavory and uncool that Google bailed out Levchin and their investors.

jonathanmarcuson MemSQL (YC W11) Raises $2.1 Million From Ashton Kutcher, SV Angel And More

I would love to have heard an investment pitch to Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary about databases!

jonathanmarcuson Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (May 2011)

New York or Anywhere in the US. REMOTE Welcome!

HiiDef owns and operates Flavors.me, which allows anyone to make a branded website using personal content from around the Internet, and Goodsie, which allows anyone to make a branded e-commerce storefront.

We are looking for a design-minded front-end developer with an extremely thorough understanding of Javascript, Django, jQuery, Jinja and cross-browser compatibility.

Please send code samples + resume to jonathan@hiidef.com

http://www.hiidef.com/jobs

jonathanmarcuson Startups: not for the faint of heart

HiiDef/Flavors.me was a super happy client of Aleph Point!

jonathanmarcuson Introducing LunchTree - Lunch networking for the startup community

Great idea! Congratulations on the launch.

jonathanmarcuson Lets make November "Launch an App Month", who's with me?

Tx so much :)

jonathanmarcuson Lets make November "Launch an App Month", who's with me?

Tx :) Great team indeed! Feel free to ask any questions about the HiiDef structure. It has its positives and negatives.

jonathanmarcuson Lets make November "Launch an App Month", who's with me?

We have drafted off the success of Flavors.me, which is Goodsie's sister property (http://hiidef.com is the parent). Goodsie was featured on Lifehacker (which is the holy grail) because I sent a thank you email for a brief Flavors mention and the author noticed Goodsie in my email signature.

For Flavors.me, we were super lucky to get a fantastic bunch of creatives and influencers to try our beta, largely through personal connections. Just before we launched, I emailed every big blog like TechCrunch and we were able to get a ton of high quality coverage.

Only now are we just starting to work with a PR firm, so it can definitely be done by pounding the pavement.

jonathanmarcuson Lets make November "Launch an App Month", who's with me?

We will be launching http://goodsie.com in November, though it's been in development for over a year now because of various fits and starts!

HN will work as a code for anyone who would like to try the beta :)

jonathanmarcuson Where to submit your startup for some coverage

Nothing even comes close to Lifehacker, assuming your product is a good fit. It should be #1 on every start-up's list.

jonathanmarcuson 1Gbps Symmetrical Home Broadband for $26 per mth (in Hong Kong)

So jealous!

jonathanmarcuson Dropbox is hiring a Web Engineer

http://jobs.hiidef.com/

So is HiiDef, creators and operators of Flavors.me, Goodsie, Dashboard.me and more!

Django, JQuery and/or *NIX administration.

We are distributed around the east coast of the United States, Canada and Australia. Everyone works on multiple sites simultaneously, making for a uniquely challenging and constantly changing work environment.

Email: jonathan@hiidef.com

jonathanmarcuson inDinero (YC S10) launches Mint.com for Businesses

Based on my initial test of inDinero, Mint/tags + python script seems like the better option. Their interface is more refined and auto-tagging is more powerful. Its not entirely clear how the inDinero product is different from Mint.

jonathanmarcuson inDinero (YC S10) launches Mint.com for Businesses

Congrats! We really need a service like this for http://hiidef.com

The categories need a ton of work. It seems like you just used standard personal finance categories, much like Microsoft Money or Quicken. For instance, Income via Salary / Paycheck isn't applicable for a business. And there is no obvious category for salary on the expense side.

jonathanmarcuson Feedback on my startup job aggregator

Very cool Adam! Ive always wanted a site like this. Definitely keep it focused exclusively on start-ups and never touch the Monsters of the world.

jonathanmarcuson Posterous takes on Tumblr

Incorporating additional data sets like Rotten Tomatoes for movie reviews, etc. would be great for vertical focused systems.

jonathanmarcuson Posterous takes on Tumblr

Aggressive marketing would be a woefully insufficient characterization. As both an entrepreneur and target user, this crosses my personal moral standard. Having said that, its definitely clever and very well written! I will stick with my high school friends on Tumblr though. And so will all of the HiiDef blogs. Tumblr has always been really good to me.

jonathanmarcuson Ask HN: Who's hiring?

We are always looking for US-based Django and Javascript developers at http://hiidef.com - which is a web services incubator.

Hii Def owns and operates http://flavors.me - http://goodsie.com and http://superkix.com

Please send resume and code samples to: jonathan@hiidef.com

jonathanmarcuson Flavors.me - automatic personal web sites

Helvetica requires a license, and the license stipulates a Flash implementation. Perhaps the foundry will release an embeddable @font-face font soon, in which case we would likely make a switch.

jonathanmarcuson Flavors.me - automatic personal web sites

For those who can't stand Flash, we will soon be switching to exclusively licensed @font-face web embeddable fonts, which use HTML5 instead of Flash on compatible browsers. Also, we use OAuth where possible not for the write access, but to reduce user confusion that arises from trying to figure out usernames/passwords for authentication, particularly Flickr and other Yahoo properties.

jonathanmarcuson Ask HN: Gmail alternatives?

Zimbra may be a good option, particularly now that its not controlled by Yahoo anymore.

jonathanmarcuson Build It With Me (Connects designers and developers)

There are a lot of good application/web service ideas floating around freely, which gives the site substance and a makes it really interesting. Great work!

jonathanmarcuson Flavors: 10 Code-Free Minutes to a Sexier Web Presence

I've been waiting about a year to actually post here (HN). For access to the beta, please use the invite code: readwriteweb and email me if you have any problems or questions: jonathan@flavors.me

Thanks!