mcdowall

Hi Guys,

I'm working on a new website in my spare time, the basic premise is the below...

Hustle.IO

Hustle aim is to bring sportspeople together, whether it be finding a new running group, a team looking for some new football players or a husband looking for a tennis match to avoid the wife talking about 50 shades of Gray by the pool on holiday, Hustle's aim is to get people off the couch!.

Hustle IO's Background

Hustle was born out of a need I found myself and others in more and more frequently, when I wanted to play Tennis or Soccer there just wasn't any of my usual mates available, I'd resorted to posting on Facebook but it clearly just made me look like a bit desperate.

It was clear it was happening on the flip side, with teams turning up for soccer matches a man or two short having exhausted all avenues and bribes available, there was a clear demand to help people out.

What I need from you (I'll buy you a beer...if your in London!)

I have commissioned designers to create hustle.io's logo and branding, I've been working on this with them over the past week and have got to some final designs, it will only take two minutes but if you could rate the designs on the following link I would really appreciate it!...

https://99designs.co.uk/logo-design/vote-uvcck8

Thanks

Just wondering (*hoping) the UK is in that small list of countries too?

Such a great product, this solves a massive problem I have when away and using Airbnb for my flat and having to get my poor mum to have to come round to let them in each time so will definitely be ordering one.

p.s as its often difficult to ask on Kickstarter, but out of curiosity, what tools / hardware did you use to create the video, its pretty neat.

Great idea, this would definitely work in the UK

Definitely true, the last three projects I've ran have utilised your products (Confluence & Jira specifically) and its through word of mouth only.

This subject keeps coming up and just won't go away, the problem is that most of the points raised essentially come down to funding, if we really wanted to go there (or the moon) and setup a base, then we would have by now.

Other than SpaceX does anyone know of any private organisations trying to do this? I for one would quite happily get involved, as I am sure would others, happy to setup a Kickstarter page...

Thankfully I have managed to reject the requests from upper management to set me up with a Blackberry at various positions.

It pains me to see friends receiving emails on their BB whilst at the pub after work and fretting over the email they've just been 'pushed'.

I went to Tel Aviv back in 99' and absolutely loved the place, it had such a good vibe, but as I've read recently its becoming a hotbed for startups so I'm sure they will have a great time there!

I would also recommend checking out Netanya just up the coast.

I can't agree more about the standard of developers, a host of roles I've interviewed candidates for in my past 2 positions just don't get the same calibre of applicant for a permanent role vs contract.

Sorry, your assumptions are way off. Indoor mapping and specifically location aware indoor mapping is huge.

We're trying to solve exactly this problem in London, why you may ask? When you have millions of commuters using your network each day (Underground) and many of your stations are at 100% capacity then your only option is to manage the flow of passengers more efficiently.

You've also missed a key problem, accessibility. The sheer volume of tourists, elderly or parents with prams getting onto a carriage thats inefficient to their travel results in exacerbating delays on platforms, this example(and other technologies) is a possible way to reduce those problems.

Slightly confusing to be to be honest, Lean.com as the domain (which most likely cost a small fortune) but all the branding is LeanMarket. I'm sure they have plans for more combined branding, but its a bit amiss for me.

I got that commute for a week, hell on earth!

2 Hours door to desk, though it was more like 3 when I was working in far West London!

I commute on SWT daily from Bournemouth so I understand your frustration, I'm yet to have a week that has run every service on time.

The low point was a bike falling on the track and the train having to stop for an hour and a half for the driver to turn off the power on the line and walk the 2miles to remove the bike himself, ridiculous!

On a positive note, i've sometimes got the Virgin trains and had nothing but a good experience from them.

I still don't understand why there aren't power points in all carriages and onboard wifi, I mean National Express can do it on the coaches!

Century more like!

Got it, will drop you a mail.

Andrew, some good and bad news...

Good news - The team loved the implementation, especially the way it rendered on mobile for the smaller stations. They also raised some opportunities for development, such as hints of which carriage to use for travellers carrying large luggage or with accessibility problems.

Now the bad news, if you are going to want to access all the CAD station layout diagrams, 360 Virtual tours or Network / Premises photos you will need to fill in an FOI request.

Give me a shout if you want me to point you in the right direction for the best person for the FOI (save you walking up and down the platforms!). I can't however guarantee access to the information due to the obvious security but its worth you applying.

Haha, I'm only a few weeks in so please do! Though I am working closely with the team that open up the data and look after the mapping options so feel free to ask a question or two.

I've just started out at TFL and the goal for open data is far from being cracked down upon, in fact it seems they are trying to make more available, give me a shout if there are any particular problems you've experienced and I'm sure I can try and help out.

This is great, Victoria would be an interesting one to try!. I'll pass this on to my colleague who looks over all our mapping, he'll really like this! (Note : I work for TFL Online).

Winamp was great back in the day, suffered with iTunes for a while and now have deleted all my mp3s and living solely with a Spotify premium account. But I loved those skins on winamp!

Does anyone have any good reference links for H1B positions or a list of companies that are open to them.

I'd quite happily pay the immigration fees myself to get into the states (currently in the UK also).

Your position is aggressive and invalid.

I personally have never leaned towards having children, I have friends and family with young children and I see the benefit and joy they get, but for me its never been a personal goal or desire. Maybe one day it will be and my viewpoint will change.

I consider the fact that I travel the world and experience amazing things, have tried a startup and am socially active most evenings a pretty good testament to having 'lived' as you would call it.

I'm at stage 1 of your story at the moment, I'm part developing / outsourcing dev from my contracting earnings and hoping to launch in the next 3mths, I'm then heading off around Central & South America for the next 3 to try and push it on part time whilst also enjoying new cultures.

Thanks for being a great inspiration.

Nice design, go for it!

Just downloaded for my Mac, awesome program, hoping for next and previous tracks sometime soon...!

I own a car, I own a nice flat in a popular beach town and earn a very good wage. This may sound cliche, but I woke up a year and a half ago and realised I had so many things I wanted to do but just never did. So I wrote a bucket list of activities, things to learn, places to travel to / general life goals and through going out and doing these I am so much more happy. In the last year Ive taken up Spanish, learnt to surf, sailed the whitsundays, camped on Fraser Island, visited a Damien Hirst exhibition, partied in Ibiza, in the next few months I'm going to my first festival, to the European Football Championships, a number of Olympics events and La Tomatina festival in Bunol, added to that I've just planned my next trip to Central & S.America for 3 months in September.

I suppose the moral of my point is not to be fixated on attaining a net worth, enjoy each day for what it is and get out and do the things you want to do. In a few years do you want to sit back and look at your bank balance or think back to the life you've led. Either way I'm not judging but moreso hoping some others don't fall into the millionaire pursuit.

Maybe look over this thread earlier today - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3794885 which may give you some quick design ideas

In terms of functionality, its pretty damn cool!

Best of luck to you, if you don't succeed and fancy coming over the pond to the UK give me a shout. I hope I don't hear from you but read about you though.

I can't agree more with this, we've just redesigned a site with 50m+ per mo with articles in the hundreds of thousands. Akamai Caching and google indexing alone can turn a relatively steady paced site into a snail.

I submitted an eerily similar application to YC in Summer 11' though it was focused on storage as well as office space. Best of luck, its a market thats ripe for some disruption. If you want my domains let me know, I won't be using them.