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Pretty neat list, bookmarked for a personal project I am working on atm

I second this - but just be aware of the regular license vs. extended license requirement (i.e $20 vs $800 for example). Although if you get the point where you are charging for a product and need an extended license - that may not be a high price to pay for a quality theme you would probably spend 10-100 fold paying someone to create something similar.

What would you even do if you had more money?

I did that as well; I threw all the images afterwards up on a S3 bucket and set up Cloudfront in front and it's relatively easy / cheap to host.

Thanks for sharing. I just got married and did my own site - I forgot how time consuming even a regular HTML / CSS static site could be when you have a million other things going on - I would have loved to have used this.

I have!

I second this. I grew up in the NYC suburbs, have went to school and lived in various boroughs of NYC for the past 10+ years, and my wife was born and raised in NYC. I think most people not from here (and perhaps 'here' can be any big city one may just pass through when visiting in this context I guess) seem to forget it's as you say just a collection of small neighborhoods just like anywhere else. I am sure there is an exception (maybe Midtown Manhattan but) - but for the most part I think most people know their neighbors, help each other out, see the same people around when they got to a bar or get coffee, go to the same parks in their neighborhood - all the same things people think you may miss out on vs living in 'small towns.'

This is exactly how I feel.

I am currently working on a project for a client where they expect to have about 3,000 users each with some basic profile information, and the ability to upload some documents etc - nothing too crazy. I don't think they ever have to worry about scaling to 50,000 users and performing any data-intensive database queries. Why not use something like Mongo in this situation?

I second this. In addition to this, I've never had a problem with them, and their customer service is great.

Everyone's already said it, but between 100 and 200$ depending on what state your from. You can just google something along the lines of "(your state) corp filing form" and it should pop up, fill the forms out, and mail them in.

You most likely want to register as an "S-Corp" as opposed to a C-corp for tax purposes.

If you live in NY, you probably don't want an LLC either due to the required advertising in print publications. I'm not sure if other states have this, it could be just NY. http://www.yourincorporation.com/lawbrary/publication-requir...

I, a Junior now at a University in NY, have often have felt the same way as you. I've never liked school too much and probably won't really pursue anything related to my major, but I don't regret my decision to stick with it at all, due to one aspect: People.

Let's face it, college is fun. You'll probably have some amazing times and make some incredible and long-lasting friends along the way. Don't skip out on that because you know eventually you want to start/work for a startup. You will probably always be able to start a company, but can never really go back to school and enjoy it in the same way you can now.

Thanks for the advice everyone. I actually already started Learn Python the Hard Way about a week ago, so this works out great.

And thanks for the advice on the project, I will probably do as you suggested and start with some simpler projects and then expand into what I envisioned, after I get a grasp of MySQL, python etc.

Thanks again, and see you around HN.

One of my professors swears that "curling his toes" before he speaks calms his nerves. He's a little out there, but you never know.

Wow thanks for all the responses everyone. I am actually going with a few other students for a college class and am not sure how much freedom we have (to go and grab drinks etc) but I will let those who offered to meetup know when I find out.

It is actually a finance class and we are going to look at some publicly traded companies, but Startup Saturday sounds awesome. I am going to go and talk to my professor and see if we can all attend in either Delhi or Mumbai (depending on our schedule). It would be great to be able to check out some smaller and newer companies as well as the larger and more established ones already scheduled, at least that's the argument I'll make with my professor. And it just looks like a lot of fun.

I know I'm not Paul Graham, but since we're on the subject...

I'm very excited and am actually going for two weeks in May/June for a class to Delhi, Mumbai, and maybe Jaipur/Agra on the way for a day or so. Any recommendations besides the obvious things everyone does/sees?