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- Bidding on a $20 bill is stupid.

- I understand you wanted to get it up fast and try it out, but you couldn't design it a little better?

2. Create it yourself using multiple accounts.

3. Have a following like the StackOverflow guy did.

I've had success with growing it one user at a time, starting with yourself, friends and family. If your startup provides something of value, it will grow.

If it's not growing at all, even a couple users a day, then that hints towards a problem with your product/service/site and you need to get some feedback from your users. Some of your assumptions when creating/designing your site may be off.

Needs some optimizations? Sure.

Tons of good information on that page. Scroll down to the bottom and check out some of the "See Also" links.

- Possibly vulnerable to mod_rewrite off-by-one buffer overflow (Apache 2.0.54). Upgrade Apache.

- Possibly vulnerable to header injection (Apache 2.0.54). Upgrade Apache.

- Possibly vulnerable to session fixation attack. Set session.use_only_cookies = 1 in php.ini

- Install mod_security if you haven't already. It's a great extra layer of security and can save your butt when someone forgets to sanitize input (which WordPress and 3rd party plugins frequently do).

Intermediate: Image host w/ resizing & cropping.

Advanced: Classfieds site that isn't vulnerable to SQL or XSS injections. Allows image and videos to be attached to a post.

Expert - Social network w/ image/video/wall/message/friend functionality.

A handful of people using a quality tool like Rsnake's "slowloris" (http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/) could do much more damage.

Anyone remember smurf attacks? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack) now that was epic. LOIC is lame.

BODY {font-size:62.5%}

That makes 1em equal 12px, so 2em is 24px, 1.5em is 18px, etc.

You'll need to do this to get consistency across all browsers. Otherwise 1.1em could be 20px for me but 18px for you.

Here's a post that goes into much more detail: http://www.clagnut.com/blog/348/

4chan is full of a bunch of 12 year old script kiddies. They don't even know what a buffer overflow is and they think HTML is a programming language.

Also, the post titles shouldn't be 20px. That's about what you would use on an <h1> tag and you typically only have one or two of them on an entire page (whereas you have 30 of them).

Scale everything down.

You seem to be leaning towards 2, no interest in 1, and slightly interested in 3. That's really what it comes down to, unless you decide to share the 3 companies so we can bring some facts and debating to the table.

I could never go back to working for someone else. I love being able to bring my ideas to life and seeing how it plays out.

Several of my start-ups made it big, by accident. I was just doing what I loved doing, learning along the way, trying out different things, etc. and success followed. Whenever I start something thinking about money, it doesn't end well.

To expand a little bit further, sometimes people see value in expensive stuff just because it has a high price tag.

Typically hash's are calculated using something like: $hash = sha1($password."secretcode".$username); - none of which are random.

If you were to add a random number into that like this: $rand = rand(1,99); $hash = sha1($password.$rand);

Now you can't do if($hash1 = $hash2) { loginSuccess(); } because you will never know what random salt was generated for the original hash.