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kieranoneillon Show HN: Many to Many, a different kind of tech meetup (London, UK)

Totally agree. We're planning on doing ones for marketing/management/etc in the future.

kieranoneillon Ask HN: Will you use an "Evernote for words" I plan to build?

I think you want honest feedback here: I won't use that, and I don't think the vast majority of "normal people" would either. A lack of place to save difficult words isn't a common problem for most people I don't feel. Also, I think most people don't even look up words they don't know - they just skip over them. That said, if success for you would be a small userbase of people who rely on it, then why not.

kieranoneillon Divvyshot [YC W09]: Photo-sharing for groups

Facebook without a doubt. It's what everyone does, and while it's slightly broken because all the albums for one event aren't linked, it's not a huge problem. It's something that would be nice for Facebook to fix, but isn't major. At least that's my opinion as a user.

kieranoneillon Reminder - London Hacker Meetup #7 tomorrow night

I heard a lot of people say, and I agree, that the Erlang one was very interesting, but also too long. I think it was like 1hr 30. 20-30 mins max is best.

kieranoneillon The London Scene: Songkick mix British propriety and Silicon Valley style

Good stuff guys. Always good to see more London love :-)

kieranoneillon UK news.yc'ers - join us in building something big in the UK

Very true! We'd be interested in talking to anyone from within the EU.

kieranoneillon Cheer YC: Happy Holidays!

Have a great one guys! Hope 2008 is prosperous for all!

kieranoneillon Ask YC: Equity for First Developer

A lot more information needed as per the questions already asked:

How much has been created already? Are they part-time also? * Has any money been put in?

But the truthful answer is that it's a negotiation between individuals, rather than a set amount, so figure out why the really need you and how you will turn around the fate of the company, making their equity worth more, and play on that.

kieranoneillon Ask YC: Meetup for UK based hackers

Works great for me. See you then Ian!

kieranoneillon Ask YC: are you a UK-based hacker, or working on a startup in the UK?

I'm dropping out of the University of Bath to work on tech startups full-time in London. Also in Winchester quite a lot as from there.

kieranoneillon What idea(s) do you regret not implementing?

I had the idea for PornoTube (YouTube for Porn), but couldn't live with not being able to tell my girlfriend's parents what I did ;-)

Shame, it's now Alexa rank 203 - probably 10 times the size of twitter. :(

kieranoneillon 240k/year for web developer, with one catch...

"2-4 programming experience preferably with JAVA or HTML"

Java OR HTML? Is that for real?

kieranoneillon It's Time to Replace eBay

The "long tail of auctions" :) What would individuals want that power sells wouldn't?

kieranoneillon It's Time to Replace eBay

So it's time to replace eBay because you can't add the seller as a friend? Right...