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Thus I think swype for phones is fanstastic.. Swype for tablets is great if for some reason you can just use one hand.. But both hands hand touch typing works the best on a tablet imo. And this particular invention enhances that effect a lot.

The peak is set to hit towards 2013. ZDNet (I think) ran an article on how it would mean that power would need shutting down for 3 months to avoid being burnt out during the peak

The main idea was: “Stop worrying about if there’s something better. If you can do it right now then just go with that.”.

Says it all. That's a difficult wall to break past and I've struggled and I'm still struggling with it for my Android app. And I don't even have an app review to pass.... shame on me for not having any app out there. Thanks a lot for sharing this. The dev article was definitely an inspiration. Ah well. Good luck with the future run of this. You are right. This database does have a huge amount of potential in it so it'll be interesting to see where this goes :).

Being part of the tech world means being part of the fastest evolving community and the one that gives room for all further innovation in nearly every other sector.

My biggest purpose in doing this is to try and show that given an apparent lemon, how you can try and make lemonade out of it, or rather how to try and build up on what's available for you rather than always wanting to stay in one's comfort zone.

One point about arranging results. Google power users only. And Google would have an algorithm being modified to suit your interests. If crowd sourcing doesn't work, if friend recommendations don't work because of the noise then your obvious best choice would be to have an algorithm work the way the user wants it to work. And how do you do that if the user can't tell what he/she wants. Hence the rearranging of results which is the user saying "No Google, I kind of like official pages more than blog posts" (or vice versa).

PS - Thanks a lot to the great HN community which sent the traffic soaring through my blog. I'm trying to score a position as a professional tech blogger eventually and this sort of stuff gives me a lot of motivation to keep at it.

- Dreams are meant to be lived.

So here come the questions 1) are you solving a problem? Or is this a novel idea you think might be cool? If it's the former then what is the problem? If it is the latter the next question will be even more relevant 2) typical file share downloads won't last more than 15 minutes. Minimum a minute. Average somewhere around 4 minutes. Why would people want to chat for that time? 3) given that people set stuff to download and move along you have to be adding value to what peoples time if you expect them to devote time to chatting instead. What's the value you add?

I will never shoot down an idea outright so go ahead and answer without worrying that I'll cream over you. But you do need to be able to answer those questions to anyone to say why your idea is actually something that would be worth using.

Cheers. More questions after your answers :)

edit - I chose that theme since I thought it fit with the theme of the blog itself. Changing it now to something focused on readability.

edit 2 - fixed hopefully. thanks for feedback

Do check the rest of the tumblr to get an idea on how it will work. I'm planning on putting in quite an effort to try and make a name for myself so if anyone has any suggestions on how I can use these to connect with startups later on please chime in and shout out some support. Thanks. And stay tuned for more dumps in the near future.

https://bitbucket.org/charliehoey/gatsby

Here's something I did to get past my own wall two months ago. I told myself to shut up, set aside some time each day (after I started working it was a lot easier. The only time I had was after work hours till 10 30 in the night) and then follow these steps.

1) make sure you are fresh, preferably having had shower 2) phones, distractable media all shut off and put away. block everything except your resources on the net if you have to 3) put down what you are going to do either on a small A4 size like whiteboard, or an A4 drawing paper (blank white is best to focus) When putting down the stuff do it this way a) write down the features you want to implement in your current development cycle b) draw up the screen designs if you need to c) think through the logic and put down what's needed.

Get to Work!

Methodologies are there for a reason. They do actually work. Btw, before starting. Make sure you have a clean overall view of the project as well. Not just the 'pitch'. Put down your main use cases and the features for each use case there (two levels max you can elaborate during the main cycles).

What's wrong with you is not lack of motivation. It's a lack of focus. I've dealt with it when learning languages too. I'd spend hours reading the material and come away with nothing. You need to know what you will achieve and that within a practical time frame. If you are having a really bad case of not being able to focus, I suggest a maximum time frame of two days. I currently work on a functionality a week/fortnight basis.

Good luck :)

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Really good list. Good luck :)

edit - after looking at drupal i took off the line "Drupal might be ok for initial stages but it probably won't scale as well".