I've been using http://www.paymoapp.com for some time now and it fits my needs to track time and also do project management (tasks and tasks lists). The desktop widget is awesome, I know how much time I've spent working or doing something else.
I do think that, hardware failures are inevitable, but using a RAID system, should prevent such things since all data is written on 2 or more disks at the same time. The backup might be one or more days old, think of Facebook would say: " hey 1 billion users the 10x billions of images you have uploaded in the last 24h are gone, please upload them again "
Worst pricing page I have ever seen. It took me 2 minutes to figure out the prices. If I war the CEO with such an offer I would take some mesures to make sure this page is very easy to read.
this rocks, I wanted to make something like this in the past but the idea died I hope you get a lot of users.
What I would do is add an auto complete like the one on youtube.com just to make things a lot simpler
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Hey, do you think that you are the only one that had (has) big problems? No hell no, think of it as you are lucky, you are still young, you have your health the rest are just small things. And never think again of suicide, that's not an option, that's a way to say you are afraid of live, you didn't gave life to you, so you should not take it as well, you are granted with it.
Reach out to freelancing sites, www.freelancer.com or others make an account and starting posting on each job you find lower your rates for the first couple of projects until you get some feedback. Put up a portfolio and you will see that within a month if you do this full time you will for sure get some work.
Oh and yes, in the meantime you can search for a job.
Waiting for stuff to pop up from no where will not happen and think of this as a life test, don't fail it.
Good luck
Hope you go international as soon as possible there is a lot of good potential around this. I just hate the way paypal has recurring billing setup, the documentation is not 100% completed in paypal and I had to loose a couple of hours to ge around an error that was saying basically: " there are 1000 things that could go wrong ", the problem is that I was missing a field that I had to submit to them, the docs war not saying anything about it, but with the help of good old Google.
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Or maybe a link expires in a certain amount of time (2-4 months for e.g.) and they start from the start there are quite a few combinations translated in math is something like combinations of 10 (digits) by 28 (letters)
It's a very nice idea, but you need to take in consideration the following: Managing 10 projects with 100 backers / project so you already have 1000 people to take care + the founders of the companies, you really need to come up with some simple way to do that, otherwise it will be very time consuming.
On the other hand check in with a lawyer, I know that there are some legal issue regarding this type of project, I had a client how was having this problem(I'm not sure if it's true or not, but I suppose so)
Good luck
You can not upgrade only for the first version the second one is not available for upgrade like you can upgrade from CS1 to CS2 but you are not going to be able to upgrade to CS3 as far as I remember.
thanks for your reply, however I don't think that our burn rate is high, it's just that we did not had to many savings. But your are right about the part time we will look into that even if that means that it will delay our lunch date by a couple of weeks.
We also got rejected, but that's fine. We did not had any demo or a pitch video, so our odds got down the road. However we would like to learn more about how a startup really works (we mean the documents, funding, etc). I will make a post here on hacker news in order for us to get off the ground, I am sure we will have a great product by demo day. We made a deadline for us (demo day).
I have read this story like 4 times now, I'm still impressed about how much work is PG putting into the teams. On the other hand I can truly see that the teams work around the clock just to get the best result done before demo day.
Good luck for the YC 2011 participants.
I would agree with what code wrote, but please be explicit that you can not pay him at this time. It's better for him to know that he is going to do this for equity, evaluate your business and think about how much value is he going to bring in, then do the math about how much equity should he get and under what terms. I would do some terms that would keep him at work, so that after 2 months you will not see him flee. Meaning that the terms should state something like: 2 articles / week in order to have x% of the profit or company.
If you are a hacker and have one or more website put up the donation code on your websites, that will help a lot.
The people there are great in helping each other but they need outside support that will cost a lot of money, so for you the best way to help them is by donation and helping to rise donations, I suppose.
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Hi pg, thanks for the answer. The problem is that the time frame from 7th April to 23 rd April is quite little for outside US residence. The ones that need a visa to get to the US could not make it on time not because of them but because of the process to get the visa for US.
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When shell we expect a reply to our submission if we submitted our project one month ago, I know that the session is still opened, but the early projects aren't responded until the submission period is over?
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