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My dad has used https://www.71lbs.com/ and it's worked out great. Literally free money for his wholesale shipping business.

Have you seen http://safeshepherd.com/ ?

Man I wish I was in town too!

The ingenious and tactful hustle read here only makes me want to work harder. Love how they crashed the party from a tweet all in the name of pitching Dave.

How does this compare to http://www.thredup.com/ ? Anybody know of any others in this space?

Still powering away on http://spothero.com an online marketplace that let's you rent out your parking spot when you're not using it

Hey you found our video too! (We're the SpotHero one)

Very true. The blog has definitely been instrumental in driving traffic to our website.

I have not seen launchrock. That's a pretty cool site. One thing I was thinking about was doing a survey to see if people were interested in renting out their parking spot, using SpotHero to purchase parking or both.

I'm glad you like the business concept. The way the current system is being set up, is that you can list your parking spot from anywhere. We are focusing all our marketing efforts/energy/time in Chicago to start, but it can scale and be used anywhere there's an open parking spot.

If having the "Chicago" there puts people off from other areas, I think you're right about removing it.

This can work in cases where gaining a critical mass of information/content/links is necessary for a critical mass of users, but what about gaining a critical mass for a product or service? It has to be something real that people buy, so faking it wouldn't work.

Drop box solves the collaboration problems with any program. We used balsamiq mockups and were incredibly pleased with it. The sharing and collaboration was a bit difficult, but DropBox solved that problem completely.

I input airports "Ohare", "O'hare", and "Midway" none of which worked. It returned "Sorry, I've never heard of ohare. Try another airport". It only works if you know the short abbreviation in this case "ORD". Cool concept though.

A lot of desktop computer based software migrated to the web where it ran on the server. Made things simpler and avoided "updates downloads" since the updated could be pushed to the code running on the server. With the different platforms, and so many versions of Andriod floating around, doesn't what 37 signals is doing, make things that much simpler? Basecamp is about online collaboration. How could a "native app" do this without the internet?

This was posted already here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2167100

Even without the additional 150k available, if the start up was successful enough after the 20k of YC funding (like it was previously), they would be able to find funding elsewhere.

This is great! I had to trove through craigslist for a while before finding a quality French tutor. This solves the issues of:

Finding a quality tutor Ratings Weeding out spam Knowing exactly who they are (many french tutors were just french students! I wanted a native or near native speaker).

I wonder though for this business model, what stops people from going around Tutorspree for subsequent lessons to get around the $5 per lesson fee?

One thing that pops into mind is the ratings system. It would be beneficial to continue to do the tutoring through the site in order to build a good profile.

There's also the credit card payment through tutorspree which is nice. (I'm assuming most individual tutors can't process their own credit card payments).

However, there's still a risk that after the first session people will bypass the system.

I really like this though, and can't wait to see this take off. Just sent it out to my tutor.

I agree completely. When there are preconceived expectations it can cheapen the act or make it seem less genuine. When there are no expectations or ulterior motives beyond interesting conversation, the most real and genuine things are forged. It's better when things come up natural in conversation.

I have a problem with the metrics they use:

20 pages of writing, or 40 pages of reading

They are going on the assumption that increased pages of writing and increased pages of reading is a metric for amount learned.

There are so many lurking variables at play here. The attribution of cause and effect here to these arbitrary variables is an over simplification fallacy of what's really going on and why.

Yelp already is one of the 45th most trafficked website in the US (Alexa). With millions of users already on the site with the intent of finding a restaurant, bar, mechanic, spa etc., adding a daily deal and leveraging their traffic makes sense. How much should groupon worry?

There is also this same service in France, VoitureLib and they have a pretty extensive FAQ that you can translate from French:

http://www.voiturelib.com/page/guide-pour-louer-voiture-entr...

My friend in Paris has listed his vehicle and gets tons of requests all the time. The demand is there for borrowing a car temporarily. (I-go, and zipcar), but there are legitimate concerns for sellers.

One way to do this is to ask for a deposit. This can be upwards of 3000 Euros which makes the seller appeased but also adds a barrier to the buyer. I wonder how this P2P model will work when one catastrophic event could ruin the business and reputation. There seems to be so many barriers. Not sure if the amount of revenue justifies the risks involved.

Wondering how much this site differs from:

http://relayrides.com/ http://www.spride.com/ http://www.whipcar.com/

Has anyone used any of these services?

Very cool idea and hope that the legitimate concerns are mollified.

I think notmyname's comment is great. It's so true the parallel to office space. The reason office space was such a successful movie was because of the real world experiences in corporate america that the audience has itself experienced. Thanks for sharing the comical real world example of office space like life

What if the results of what are exposed show that there is only enough real work for 25% of the current staff? Would the administration implement the layoffs? Classic agency problem.

Even if its exposed, the administration is part of the bureaucracy that furthered fake work along in the first place. ie created fake groups and projects and "moats" in order to make it look like management was doing a great job and that a lot of "work" was getting done

Norton anti-virus is saying this is a phishing website