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momop··on Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
Awesome! Look forward to it.
momop··on Show HN: I've launched my iPhone journal app I've worked on for almost 2 years.
Beautiful app! It was a no-brainer setup and just worked! It so happened, I was listening to spotify while installing this app and it automatically pulled images and built a nostalgic video for me from the pictures I had stored! Just for that feature alone, I would use it. May be you can think about "centering" pictures and avoid zooming into dull areas etc.

But great inspiring job! Congrats!

momop··on Show HN: Startup I Built in 48 Hours
In 48 hours ? That's very cool! I like the fact that it is minimally good looking website!
momop··on Ask HN: Why can't I get started?
I can very well empathize with you. I still don't have anything to "show", but am slowly making progress. Baby steps. I started with little bit of javascript and went onto node.js and then setup mongodb. The setup HTML5 + mongodb + node.js is a fertile playground to get few projects complete.
momop··on Show HN: my 1st web app, a p2p rental marketplace. Thoughts?
Looks cool! How do you compare against say craigslist ?
momop··on Show HN: I'm 36 years old and this iPhone app took me forever
Nicely done! Was this a full time effort ? Please do come back and share how it is doing.
momop··on Good startup ideas
great share!
momop··on Inappropriate comments at pycon 2013 called out
Absolutely crazy ! That was a harmless joke gone wrong. Sorry mate.
momop··on Interactive visualization of self-immolations in Tibet
Sad sad story. Amazing viz that made an immediate impact on the story.
momop··on Show HN: Stack-Ed for iPhone
Very impressive what you built in such a small timeframe. Keep it up!
momop··on Show HN: visual discovery of TV/Movie quotes
Looks nice! I like it!
momop··on Show HN: Random cat generator
If you could put more pictures on each refresh, it would be more engaging I think. Also it feel slow.
momop··on Show HN: I made a site that calculates the market price of items on ebay
Nicely done and Good luck!
momop··on Philadelphia budget data visualization
Those decimals are distracting and dont seem to have any purpose at this scale. Also it may be easier if you just put the $s in millions.
momop··on Show HN: Premium Nature & Meditation Music Web App (my first solo project)
I tried on my iPad, but don't hear anything.
momop··on Ultimate Day Trading Platform/Information Collector
fuzzypickle: The most successful companies in the trading business are the one's who don't trade! For example, thestreet.com makes most money with their recommendation systems (doubt if they even make a penny with their own trades). So if you are thinking of aggregating things and providing a service, it is a good idea - but if you are thinking of using it to your own algorithmic trading, it may be an overkill. Remember the trading world has some of the smartest people (doing machine learning, statistics etc) and you are competing with them in the zero-sum-game.

Also as full disclosure, I have setup a fully automated algorithmic trading (using IQFeed for realtime feed + IBAPI), but it wasn't HFT - but medium frequency intraday. I shut it down because it wasn't profitable. But if you are thinking algorithmic trading, you need to get into machine learning and statistics space (most of the info is just noise in this space). I have myself thought about the aggregation as a service, but never got around doing anything in that direction and would love to chat if interested.

momop··on Show HN: Free Unlimited Private File Sending (Beta)
It is minimalistic and that's great! You say it is P2P, so would I end up paying for someone else's traffic like torrents ? I didn't see anything in the settings though.
momop··on Ask HN: Re-entering U.S after post graduate U.S Degree
I respect you for the fact that you never fudged your profile. I have seen many fellow Indians who do it and "somehow" make it. Sorry, I personally don't have any useful experience to offer though.
momop··on Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you learn?
Web development is definitely in my interest area (because the closest I came was 15 years back in HTML!). Thanks for the response.
momop··on Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you learn?
Thanks tzaman. Your second point makes me feel good already :)
momop··on Ask HN: If you had a month of free time, what would you learn?
lol! funny, but you drive home the point. I guess I am confused because I have many ideas (for example, iphone apps that keeps popping in my head, or a web educational app etc). Hindsight, I did the post in a hurry.
momop··on Ask HN: How long should an ideal resume be?
Thank you all for the valuable suggestions. I will be building 2 pages..
momop··on HNers: Please give us a new name
FrendzEat

Hungry is the problem and eating is the solution. You are solving the problem, so I would go along the lines of eating.

momop··on Ask HN: How long should an ideal resume be?
OK. Thanks. I am beginning to lean towards 2.
momop··on Ask HN: How long should an ideal resume be?
Video resume sounds like a great idea! Thanks for the response.
momop··on Ask HN: Please recommend skills to pick up
Thanks jseims. I will take a look. Most likely I will revisit the thread once I have done more homework
momop··on Ask HN: Please recommend skills to pick up
Flash could be a problem. More than phone, I think iPad may have an issue.