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ntmartinon Ask HN: How much of your personal capital $$ have you invested in your startup?

1. How long have you been bootstrapping your startup? 2 months

2. Roughly how much of personal money have you invested in your startup? £50-100

3. Are you profitable, if not then at what point do you make the decision of pulling the plug and not invest your personal money anymore? Yes, profitable.

ntmartinon Math For Programmers

Completely agree.

ntmartinon Email and web monitoring laws 'to be brought in soon' [UK]

"Actually only 528 so far at this time."

Sorry the total is 4,384. For some reason the site only shows you the latest number after signing.

(Edit: Correcting previous assertion.)

ntmartinon What the [UK] budget means for start-ups

Perhaps for those industries patents are a better fit and more standard practice. My personal opinion based on observations of patents in software is that they inhibit innovation.

Invariably in a race to the bottom everyone loses.

ntmartinon Why You Don't Need A Programmer

Good piece. I've talked with numerous people looking to start a startup with the assumption that implementation is just a case of hiring a few devs or outsourcing to n freelancers.

I especially liked the wake up call to developers at the end. Would be very interested to read any reciprocal articles on why technical founders need a business co-founder.

ntmartinon Poll: What is your current Stack Overflow reputation?

Good advice. This is usually something I try to do, but invariably some context switch happens and...hey cows!

It is nice to give back if possible though.

ntmartinon FamilyLeaf's (YC W12) Y Combinator Application

Congrats on getting accepted and thanks for being so candid about your application.

I have a couple of questions however:

Did you face any problems having disclosed you scrapped a competitors site for potential clients/leads? Did all the founders think that was an acceptable method for building a base?

How did you derive the potential turnover figures and was the model and revenue discussed in depth at the interview?

Finally, how did you guys decide that FamilyLeaf was the right direction?

Best of luck to you all with the company.

ntmartinon Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques

Many thanks!

ntmartinon Show HN: My weekend hack project, Appload.io, get your app's first 1k users

Personally I find that kind of experience intrusive. I do like the idea though, but what happens after? Do I get to keep the app? Do I get upgrades to an app? I take it the users who are early adopters are also free testers to some degree.

ntmartinon Sentiment Classification using Machine Learning Techniques

This is great, do you plan on open sourcing the code? I would be very interested in understanding how you implmented things.

ntmartinon UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit

+1 the header is gone via Opera Mini and their proxy. Leaving O2 after this, definitely not cool.

ntmartinon Are you a programmer with chronic headaches? If so please read

I've had similar symptoms, and finally got around to getting an eye test. Bottom line I need glasses too. I started getting very bad headaches in my late 20's, I'm early 30's now.

Glasses make a World of difference, esp as I am usually looking at more than one screen and switching between them. I went for a very light frame, like Lindberg for example as these were most comfortable.

ntmartinon Show HN: PyCloud, a Python IDE in the web browser with interactive tutorials

Hi, nice app. Just to be a pedant, there is a syntax error in lesson 5.

if 2 + 3 = 5: print "OK!"

Should be:

if 2 + 3 == 5: print "OK!"

ntmartinon Treat it as finished

Good post Joel. It's really hard to have that mindset, but I think you're right. Promote and gain traction, then refine.