proexploit

You're not going to make enough money.

There's nothing that prevents you from writing CSS for JQM. The ThemeRoller is simply a setup tool intended to make it easier for the masses. I've actually found there's very little customization needed based on the JQM structural base CSS.

See: http://code.jquery.com/mobile/1.3.0/jquery.mobile.structure-...

It's not a "guy that found an issue". Nothing has every been hidden and it's not a privacy slipup. Come on.

This is a great enhancement. It's been a problem finding quality repos on Github as one of the key indicators for me was the "freshness" or time since last commit. The previous interface did not make this easy to evaluate but it looks like this new search has enough options to make my searching actually useful.

It's Twitter Bootstrap.

Anyone have a US-based broker recommendation?

That's tough to answer (pricing is tough!). As a single consumer, not much (e.g. under $20/month). As a business, potentially a lot more. If you're actually marketing it to enterprise or at least company teams, they're budget (and features they'd require) are different.

This looks great and I love the ease of use, however I just can't use it yet. I could spend a lot of time putting info into this but there's no question if it will be gone any day. For me to trust it enough to use it, I either need to be able to install it to my own server or want to pay for it.

You should really add a minimal homepage with an email signup as well if you intend to work on this more. The product is self explanatory so I don't need marketing text but I'd love to be able to be notified if you come out with accounts, open-source it, add a paid plan or allow installs to my server.

All in all, great work and congrats on shipping something!

You might be right in general that logo matter very little to a number of startups and they shouldn't spend a lot of money on a logo before they're successful. However, your startup is one that need to appear trustworthy to a consumer and appearance / design actually matters a lot. When I look at your logo, I don't feel reassured that your web hosting reviews will be professional / trustworthy. Other niches need not worry as much about the trustworthiness of their product but you would have more success with a stronger logo design.

It might not be easy but some serious skills can trump a required college degree in my opinion. You don't have an email in your profile but feel free to shoot me some links to some of your work and a little bit about yourself and we can chat. (I'm a frontend dev without a degree at Google)

I figure with free, you've always got the opportunity to say "Hey, that's as much as I can afford to do for free" in response to unreasonable requests. With cheap, you then have to deal with the added "but I paid you money" argument as well. I'm sure it differs on how the job is presented and how you outline your responsibilities as well.

Free is not good but it's actually better than cheap. As long as you are accepting a client's money, they are going to have expectations and a lot more things can go wrong. Free at least frees you from those expectations.

I started consulting instead of going to college and (almost) always said yes when asked if I knew how to do something, whether or not I knew that particular task yet. Once I said I could do something, I was locked in and forced myself to learn it.

This was intended for people who already had an account and the title of this submission doesn't reflect that. I believe that makes the process of asking for a login even more acceptable.

Text from the email they sent out today:

Free Goods, exclusive for our early-access members. Creative Market is coming soon! Until then, here's a collection of great content we're offering free for a limited time, as a special thank you for your early support.

I'd focus on the honesty in advertising. Something like VeriSign for specific scientifically-proveable claims in ads (e.g. "Kills 99.9% of bacteria in 5 minutes" over "Best ever product").

I think you're correct a long-term push is different from a 72 hour scramble but they're only looking to "win" an interview, not a place in a starting class. I think it's reasonable a team could be unsuccessful at filling out an application (which previously required an idea) but still be extremely strong candidates. I hope YC accepts, they don't stand to lose anything (save time) and there's no obligation to accept similar copycat offers in the future. They might also get a problem solved.

I think there's plenty of people who would not like this as well and the current method they're experimenting with is unique in that only people who want to test the app will agree to get a ride. If someone does approach me in public and ask for my time, I'm not going to think too favorably of the experience.

Everyone seems fixated on the design of this particular page (a one-time use site to find a great designer). The important thing to take away from this and what makes it great in my opinion is how honest he is and how he address the concerns a designer will have. All the nonsense you see in a typical job post is simply mentioned briefly in the last of 6 bullet points under "boring details".

I bet he gets a great designer because he's demonstrated he can provide a great work environment for said designer.

He's hiring a designer...

I can't agree enough. You're looking for a designer because you don't have the skills so the more you let them make informed design decisions, the better result you'll get. This doesn't mean let them do anything and use it even if you hate it but try to refrain from making design suggestions and instead ask for reasoning behind decisions you're not thrilled with. To find a good designer, try enlisting a designer to help.

Don't worry about whether PHP is cool or not. It sounds like your comfortable with it and know how to get started so just do that now. With most applications, your users aren't even going to know what tech you're using or possibly even what PHP is.

Don't read any more articles yet. Put your prototype together with the tools you're familiar with. (I'm into Ruby, don't really like PHP and this is still my advice to you).

The UI is unnecessarily cluttered and the logo overly complex.

For the logo, I'd try removing the smaller top icons, removing the .org at the end and replacing the center O with the lightbulb (or a similar but rounder lightbulb).

For the UI, you need more space between some elements and the spacing to be consistent. I don't really like the position of the Facebook Like button or sharing widget either. You could add a little color to call attention to more important sections of your UI but that's not as important at this point.

You're right, I mixed it up a little bit. They won't personally hear it but have rules related to domain name disputes: http://www.icann.org/en/udrp/udrp.htm

I've tried Adobe Edge and the biggest issue I found was with the amount of HTML output and the human readability/context of elements. There seemed to be a lot of wrapper elements used in succession and named long, generic names with numbers. In my brief trial it looked OK in the browser but due to the excessive HTML, it would be a huge burden to edit in anything other than Adobe Edge if you wanted to go back and change anything. In a text editor, I can create a page using only 20% of the elements Edge did and have the opportunity to name them something relevant (e.g. #author_info rather than #generic-1-3-15).

That's true, but even temporarily copying the about page and not otherwise using the domain may be slightly more substantial in appealing to ICANN directly.

It's not necessarily the norm but I don't think you should be skeptical based off of this one factor either. The company has to figure out how to evaluate you and decide whether you're a good fit for the job. Talking on the phone and viewing past projects is great but perhaps they're newer to hiring and doing their best to realistically evaluate you.

When you say the task seems similar to what you'd be doing for them, do you mean you're concerned you might be doing some actual work for free that they'd use even if they didn't hire you?

I did a 2-3 hour evaluation for my job and had similar reservations but it turned out great. Assume that they're acting in good faith to evaluate you even if the actual method seems less than ideal.

You're the only one who has all the information to make this decision though, so make one you can be happy with.

Yeah, that's a good point. I think you might have better luck viewing any heavily down-voted comments in popular threads.

At first I thought this was a fancy but somewhat useless tool but I have found a use for it. I develop (or debug) a lot of Facebook applications and exceeding the max-width of the iframes Facebook uses will expose the scroll bar. Finding the specific element isn't always easy because it could be padding, margin, border etc taking it over the edge rather than just width and height. Tilt allows you to see instantly where the overflow is happening and cuts a lot of time out of those particular issues.

This is something I would personally use but won't simply because there's no way to stop it. It seems like a bad idea to just add a 'cancel' button but I'm not willing enough to post a goal without a lot of detail about the process, how the votes determine if a photo gets posted to Facebook or not, etc. Let's say I made a goal to exercise 3 times a week for the next 3 months and then broke my leg a week in. Boom, picture released. I also wonder how many people would vote that you didn't complete a goal when knowing they would be rewarded with a compromising picture (if familiar with the app). A picture needs to be bad enough to motivate. I don't have a solution for you unfortunately, but hopefully this helps you see the thought process of a potential user who won't try it and help you from another perspective.

From what I understand, it looks like basically a branded VISA gift card. The interface to add value to the card is going to be something VISA controls, not Facebook. So searching for weaknesses to add value to the card is equivalent to searching for weaknesses in the VISA network.

If that's incorrect, someone who knows more can correct me.