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krumjahnon Why we are taking our startup to Hong Kong and other crazy stories of 2011

I'm part of the incubation program at Cyberport in Hong Kong. You can check it out here: http://www.cyberport.hk/en/about_cyberport/our_5_centres/ent.... I've been back for 5 months and I love it.

krumjahnon Ask HN: Who is Hiring? (December 2011)

J Plus. Hong Kong. Full time/intern.

Ruby developer and designer.

Mobile apps for sports. Part of Cyberport's incubation program. Check us out http://www.jpluscorp.com.

If interested, email keith [at] jpluscorp.com

krumjahnon Subtle Patterns: Free textures for your next web project

Super awesome. Is the green pattern you've used for the buttons available too? Thanks alot!

krumjahnon Ask HN: Build Site vs Use Magento for eCommerce site?

I built a magento ecommerce site about 1 year ago. Here's a quick summary of my experience:

Pros - Beautiful themes out of the box - Easy to setup initially (i.e. payment plug-ins,etc)

Cons - Extremely slow on a shared host (i.e. netfirms) - If your host is slow, using the admin panel to manage the content is painful

The performance issue killed it for me. Unless you can spend some more money on a good hosting service, I'd stay away from it. Otherwise, it's pretty awesome out of the box.

krumjahnon Ask HN: Amazon asked me to develop for the Kindle, shall I?

I've been thinking about this too. I feel awesome that Amazon reached out to me but does that mean it's better than Droid/Berry/Nokia? If I agree to any new opportunity, what if it's the next Microsoft KIN/ZUNE (I doubt it)? Even if Amazon sells a million kindles a month (12 million a year), it would take them a few years to catch up to droid/berry/nokia? It seems like a high risk/high reward situation when I don't even know if the Kindle app store will work out at all. Whereas, the other markets are proven. I'm not disagreeing with you, I'm just talking about a different angle of approach.

krumjahnon Ask HN: Amazon asked me to develop for the Kindle, shall I?

Thanks for the encouragement. I actually tried to ask them for a discount on a kindle but was rejected. As for being their go-to guy, I'm not sure what I can gain down the road. Maybe another beta license for the "KindlePad"?

krumjahnon Ask HN: Amazon asked me to develop for the Kindle, shall I?

Thanks for the information. The sales figure is impressive but it's for a book. I'd expect app sales to be less than a book publisher's because users bought the kindle mainly for the ability to consume content, not apps.