riskish

how do you make money? that seems pretty high for advertising? did it go viral or something?

how did you promote/market this initially?

im building a site in the same niche as yours, we should connect.

hm. do you have an email we can contact you at?

I've worked at a few companies and seen many people use standing desks as an alternative. I prefer sitting when working, but I take breaks after a set amount of time (i.e this part is going to take an hour, so I'll break in an hour).

Outside of that I try to take have separate time for real exercise. I don't like to mix the two up (treadmill desk).

when did you start?

If my plan is to start my own company (not work at one, so I would not pick up things as you mention), wouldn't the SE degree make more sense, to kick-start the formalized processes in software dev?

I like this idea a lot. A lot of these types of photos (weddings, babies, etc.) are put on facebook, but a little too personal for casual sharing, this is a service I could see myself using. What is the business model/how much are you charging?

this is awesome. Nice work. What tools did you use?

angelpad I hear is great.

Hi. Can we email you if we have more questions?

PG: Yes, I deleted it, corrected. Sorry.

RiderOfGiraffes: I feel the same dilution since joining over three years ago, especially lately.

Andrew -- do you have an email we can ping you at? I have been wanting to try iphone development, specifically with the box2d physics engine, would love to chat.

if its java, wonder why they chose it?

pg: I believe one of forrst.com's main value is its high quality contributions and faces a similar issue as it grows. They just recently released a few short guidelines to ensure that posts continue to be of quality. Maybe HN would benefit from a similar approach for comments/posts?

forrst guidelines:

1. Are you seeking critique and feedback from the community?

2. Does this teach the community something they may not have known before?

3. Will this foster constructive discussion?

4. Is this something development- or design-related the community will find interesting?

how much did you make profit?

www.TryRuby.org is a good one to get started. it will walk you through a few basic commands.

there are plenty tutorials out on the web and most any basic intro book will be good if you're learning to code.

you can also check out www.hackerbooks.com

perhaps a good differentiator would be a blog/site with content and/or ui design that people enjoy so much they visit it directly? meaning it breaks through the rss feed, and they goto it directly. thoughts?

indinero is a ycombinator company :)

http://www.indinero.com - mint.com for small businesses

if anyone wants me to add a choice let me know

didn't dropbox have 'getdropbox.com' initially?

How about something like those motivational posters or t-shirts? It seems like the same crowd would enjoy those that enjoy 'now you know' one liner facts.

You could also turn your one liners into partnerships. I saw you had a post about purple carrots and linked to seeds, why not have a partnership once in a while for things like that with sites that sell seeds and see how things convert. Hope that is helpful.

clickable: http://www.grexit.com/

Didn't they say if you edit or resubmit your app late, it will be marked as late and not be considered in the same way as the batch before the deadline?

would you mind elaborating on the niche/product? URL?

flipacoin: what is your email so we can contact you to help?

I would also like to know the answer to this question.

The reason I asked is I asked a similar question a while ago, regarding "HN founders taking the leap from full-time to startup" and a lot of great responses about projects were posted, so I was hoping for a little inspiration for the most part and to see what new projects people are working on / succeeding with.