michael_fine

How will you execute better than the original Color did?

"Color -- the cross-platform app which allows users to share recently snapped photos with others in their vicinity"? Apart from the 1KM radius vs 150m, I don't see a fundamental difference with the idea.

But what you can do is execute better. Color failed not because of the idea, but because they

  a: Had horrible UI, with mismatched icons and unclear UX
  b: An incredible buggy app, frequently crashing phones
  c: Most importantly, an empty world when starting out

So, what's the takeaway? I really like the idea and think it has potential, but what you have to do is:

a: vastly improve your design. It's a good start, but it's not the most attractive

b: Make sure that there are always enough photos, whether you start with a limit city in mind, or do some code shenanigans

c: Start you marketing now. It's only viral if there are enough people to make it so. Especially so with an app like yours that is contingent on there being enough people around you with the app

I'm really excited to see where this goes.

Framework: Rails

Language: Ruby

Front end:Coffeescript/Backbone

Server: S3

Database: SQLite

isn't it kind of self sorting though? If you were really interesting, you probably already would have a lot of followers, and therefore would have no need to join this sight to get more.

Yeah, packages by default are hard on sublime. I recommend installing package control: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/package_control

I don't see the Apple part that you're talking about, but I think that he was the original one who did that, and others took inspiration from him. Or maybe I'm just delusional.

But what if the other painter, seeing Picasso's painting, painted another, not based off of the woman, but based off of Picasso's painting? Would that be considered theft?

Please elaborate. Firstly, why is it necessary to treat them differently for "the survival of the race"? Secondly, yes, Women are different, but that doesn't mean that

a: It's appropriate to comment on a woman's cleavage at work

or b: that women can't be equally good software developers

That's cool. Best of luck!

Have you considered making the community thing your only niche? For example you would have a way to embed a sales process entirely inside the forum. That's something I would use and find really cool

I think this is one of the major points covered in the Lean startup. In essence, you start with your idea, and sometimes after you get customer feedback you learn that maybe one of your features should be your product. For example, @Flickr actually started that way. Flickr was at first a social gaming site, but when they implementing photosharing the demand for that feature was so overwhelming they made it their whole product. If you'd like to talk about your idea with me, feel free to email me, which is in my profile.

Wow, that's an interesting take. I'll assure you that we do have passion, though maybe not much design sense.

Thank all of you for your comments. One questions. All of the commenters have mentioned individual design things, which have been very helpful. But does anyone like/dislike the basic layout of the page?

Thanks, I really appreciate this. The icons were a particular challenge. Do you have any favorite icon sets?

Thanks, great constructive feedback. A point by point: It's for both fans, and bans. The interactions will be fan to fan and band to fan.

Its a social network, not currently a framework.

It will help you build traffic because currently the only way to interact with fans is either through face to face, or another network like facebook, which is an imperfect medium because: a: It's not designed around music and therefore is hard/impossible to share your playlist, or to have more interactions with a band than simply posting on their wall.

b: Spotify is a stopgap service, which is doing kind of well on the social front but not the artist front. For example, Lady Gaga recently took her music off spotify after earning a grand total of: $100 dollars through streaming.

On the design, okay, I definitively see that. Do you have any colors/patterns you'd recommend?

Thank you so much.

clickable: http://www.musicmind.co

Any proposals on how a startup can fix that?

What's wrong with the monetary system?

Also, how did you manage to acquire that? That's pretty impressive.

Also, it's not even that Rails is fundamentally better, it's that they are alike in so many ways that switching, except for a particular job, is usually not worth it.

Nice plugin, it's really useful. A little UX thing though. Because the box resizes based on the content, and I guess you wanted to have the arrows always be vertically centered, they move around, which prevents you from just clicking through the slideshow without looking.

Check out Kod:http://kodapp.com/ It uses chrome's tabs, though sadly it's only for mac

Have you looked at ArsTechnica or Anandtech? They're always really high queality, editorial base journalism

What do you look for in a tech magazine?

I can't stop laughing. That was hilarious.

Can you elaborate a little more on how this works, why we should use it etc?

Facebook, HN, Gmail, The Verge, Quora, Lifehacker, Google Reader, and Reddit

When I click new or hot I get a trackback error

So really it woud be more like Kiva; loaning money to people based on charity. The problem with that is what makes Kiva so rewarding is the quick turnaround times, where you loan someone something and you get part of it back only a few months later to help other people with. That wouldn't work with student loans.

How would the kickstarter for scholarships work? Sounds interesting

The thing about password entropy is that it doesn't matter how many special characters you have in your password, only that they are present because then the computer has more combinations to search through. For example, Foxtr0t! is just as secure as @e31z.P8, but much easier to remember. Helpful hint: long pass phrases are far more secure than random strings of letters and symbols, but easier to remember. thequickbrownfox would take around 5 million years to crack, compared to your example taking 87 years, which probably doesn't matter, but still a fun thought experiment