theitgirl

I use Underscore + Backbone + jQuery as well.

I do the same. If I want to keep track of additional notes or resources, I reply to the thread.

I once considered suicide too. It was for a different reason. My boyfriend of 2 years told me he got engaged to a woman his parents picked. I had just graduated from college, had no job, was still living with my parents and had no plans for the future. I just got more and more depressed..stopped eating and pretty much cried all the time. My best friend told me to "stop being a loser". My mom kept saying "why are you doing this to us?". Well, I felt like a loser and a burden to society...really, I would be doing a favor to everyone if I just disappeared.

Then one day I did try to commit suicide by slitting my wrists. It didn't quite work out. It wasn't as easy as they show in the movies :). Then I had a realization. I was looking for some external factor to make me feel better...my mom, my friends, etc. and I was very self-pitiful. I realized that if I wanted to get out of my situation, only I can do something about it.

I let go of the past and started over. I got a paid internship..moved out of my parents house and concentrated on just being self-sustaining. I made new friends and tried to be as social as possible...being around happy people rubs of on you :)

I feel like you are still in the phase where you are going over your past and keep thinking that you should have done something different. You have to stop thinking about the past. Hopefully, saying it out loud here helped you a little with that. I would suggest you to concentrate on the present. Take small steps. Do one thing each day to improve your situation.

A few more tips that helped me deal with my depression: - Write out your feelings like you did now - Try your best not be alone. Either go to the library or a coffee shop to do job applications or other work. - Don't take your friends and your dad too seriously. Most people do not know how to deal with a depressed person. They usually say the exact wrong thing :)

Best of luck!

I would like:

1. An API to connect to non-profits and donate to them.

2. An API to retrieve college textbook information..like what are all the courses for the fall semester and their required textbooks.

Very cool. A few weeks ago my friends and I put together something like this using google docs for a friend's 30th birthday and had it printed. This would have been perfect!

A few suggestions: 1. It wasn't clear to me what you do right away. The book image is what helped me. Then I still wasn't sure if this was a digital book or not till I read the "How it Works". 2. I think having an example for a wedding book would be useful.

Good luck!!

Edit: Just found the examples :)

the pop-up that shows up when you hover on image is not updating..it keeps showing info of the first book i hovered over.

http://www.lazymeter.com ..sort of does what you want

very cool..i like that it updates in real-time unlike jsfiddle where you have to click save.

Currently, Google Spreadsheet and Lazy Meter are working best for me.

I use Google Spreadsheets to share "to do's" with my co-founder. We have a column for priorities and my co founder set it up such that items are colored coded according to priority level.

And I recently started using lazy meter for my day to day to do list. I try to put down at least 5 to do's at the start of the day and try to get though them. This has been working well for me.

Google Analytics and Clicky

I have tried Pencil, Balsamiq, MockingBird and Google Docs. Google Drawings works best for me.

A brief history about myself first..I was born in India..grew up in the middle east and then moved to the u.s. about 12 years ago and have been a citizen of the u.s. for about 5 years.

Having said that, I don't think American's understand how fortunate they are. This is the place where we get clean water and electricity 24/7, women can drive, people can criticize their govt. and not be killed for it and there is an awesome mix of culture and opportunity. The current state of the U.S doesn't bother as much. This is still the place I want to be and raise my children.

I don't think America has lost it's stand in the world. People may judge America but given the chance most people across the world would want to move here :)

I am in a similar situation. The start up bug bit me in May. I had several ideas. I picked the one I thought would be easiest.

I thought I would get my beta version out by now but it's been hard. Some changes that I have made that have helped me:

- I do not work more than 40 hours at my work anymore..even if it feels like it's the end of the world. Surprisingly, this has made me more focused at work. I do the same amount of work in a shorter amout of time.

- As other hackers have mentioned, I set up a scheduled time to work on my start-up. Initally, I began with working on the weekends but I was too distracted by other fun things that I could be doing. The times that work best for me are during lunch breaks and before/after work during weekdays.

- I made it clear to my husband that I will be busy during the weekdays but free over the weekends. This way he had no major expections of me over the weekdays. I think getting him Starcraft 2 also helped :P (j/k)

- I wanted to read books about how to start a business, google analytics, etc..I pretty much paid fines to the library without going though a chapter. Then I discovered audio books. I listen to them on my drive to work. I finished 4-hour work week in 2-2 weeks and am onto to another one.

Lessons learned for the future:

- Don't spend too much time designing the site...just get a template that has worked for others.

- Don't have deadlines at the end of the summer. I noticed that I am more busy over the weekends in the summer.

- Don't venture into new technologies if you already have skills that you can do with.

Sometimes, you just have to do both. You'll figure out the way that works best for you. Hang in there.

I use Gmail to take down random thoughts or notes about different business ideas that I have...mainly because of the search functionality. I started using G+ for the same purpose. It would be awesome to be able to search through the different streams.

This is great. I have been trying to figure out what a MVP is. Is a landing page with a description of your product and a sign up form considered a MVP?

I have noticed this too. It is annoying. I just refresh the page and it works fine.

I agree..if you need to make about $100 for one day, the easiest would be to sell off items around your place that you are not using anymore.

We just sold a few things around the house and made about $250.

I used to spend way too much time researching for our trips. I just gave up after a while. This would be great. btw, nice idea using MailChimp for collecting email addresses.

Wow. The site looks great. A few thoughts: - The thumbs up/down are not that visible on some images - I read the instructions but immediately forgot them. I saw the big "Generate list" button and I wondered what that was for :). Maybe you could try different wording. - When I clicked on an image, sometimes a modal window is opened and at other times it takes you to another page.

I love the simplicity of the site!

Awesome tutorial. I have been experimenting with Backbone for a few weeks now. I did not understand the point of _.bindAll(this, ..) in initialize till now :)

It would help if the sections of code that you add in each step were highlighted somehow. I definitely like the step-by-step approach.

Great post! I am a software developer currently working full time for a company. Recently, my husband and I started talking about having kids and the first thought that came to my mind was that I don’t want my kids to be left in someone else’s care while I work for someone else. I don’t want to stop working entirely and become a housewife either.

I started looking into other options. From what I understand, startups are for people who want to run a business and a lifestyle business is for people who want to own a business with a focus on maintaining their preferred lifestyle.

I am choosing to go the lifestyle business route. We’ll see how it goes :)

Whenever I discuss a problem that I am having with my husband, he gives me very specific advice on what I should do. About 90% of the time I don't listen to his advice and he gets upset about it and thinks that I don't value his opinion.

So, why don't I take his advice? Because I wasn't asking him to tell me what to do. I just want him to listen to me. I know what I need to do to solve my problem. It just makes me feel better to talk about the problem out loud :)

My advice: Your girlfriend will figure it out by herself. Just be there for her.