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Bootuplabs (No. 69) in Vancouver is now defunct. Anybody out there know about anything new in the British Columbia area?

I am using this for two different projects. The font issue can lead to a lot of head banging. Try messing around with your css to get it close to what you expected.

The contests RedBull organizes in extreme sports have really pushed the boundaries. They created a new sport with the Crashed Ice series. RedBull runs downhill mountain bike races through the streets of Spain. They have a Music Academy. RedBull is the coolest company in the world.

Mobile interface in the works?

Only problem working from is the damn cat.

I ordered the iPhone pack and will most likely get the browser pack....these are going to be awesome....they will make my crappy squares drawn on printer paper obsolete

I had the exact same experience this morning. I downloaded Instagram and wanted to use it in my daily life. I have found if I move apps to the home screen, I use them 90% more often than ones on the other pages even the second page. My mind does not even think of using them.

This would be a great psychology / UX experiment. I would love to see if other people share the same characteristics.

As a fellow Mountain biker, I was surprised and glad that I saw pinkbike on HN.

I just finished a large project for a healthcare company in Canada. I wish the drchrono team the best of luck. Here are some pointers to watch out for in the healthcare industry.

1. Doctors can be extremely cheap. I had to port over a legacy dial up system because the doctors would refuse to upgrade to high-speed.

2. The entire industry, at least here in Canada is ass backwards. It takes ten people to do a single task. You will run into having painstaking long conference calls

3. Multiple standards. Every provider has there own standard that sometimes overlap.

4. Older doctors barely know how to use a cell phone, let alone an iPad. Luckily these doctors are fading out fast.

5. Market to the secretaries. They will pitch to the doctors anything to make their life easier.

Good luck guys....hit me up if you have anymore questions.

After speaking with some colleagues and seeing the replies here, I guess my presumption is wrong.

Something along the lines of a guy's blackbook with his ex-girlfriend numbers in it? You could make it the Internet version with links to their Facebook page, email , etc...

The domain. The site is pretty much a right off, but the name itself is synonymous with Automobile Valuation.

Quick question, why do I have to login to make a query?

As soon as my head hits the pillow, my iPhone goes into Airplane Mode.

NewsCorp?....well it is final....Facebook won

Dustin Rosen contacted me last year to develop an app for him. He seemed enthusiastic and had a ton of ideas. While I didn't end up building an app, (probably because of location differences) I assumed whatever he did was going to be a hit.

Good Luck to the Pose Team!

Couple of design tips:

  - No More text-align:center with bullets

  - Stick to the same variation of a colour. You have multiple variations of blue

This page needs a call to action.

https://www.track1099.com/info/learnmore

Looks great!

Would the creator be able to add in a copy function to the highlighted code to remove the line numbers?

Looks good

- had a problem swaying from iphone not the app... Got an error saying there was a problem - have you thought of making this a facebook app?

I graduated in 2010. I wonder how long it will be until they start teaching NoSQL in school.

Does it include the QR generator?

They are planning an update by the end of January:

http://blog.boxee.tv/2010/12/31/vudu-arriving-next-week-netf...

Not sure if it was a failure or not, but my last venture didn't go as planned.

A partner and I decided to create an iPhone app just as the App store starting booming. The idea behind the company was to create simple fun games. As we started coding, we quickly discovered that neither of us were artists. Since we were bootstrapping, we could only afford a finite amount artwork and the game we were designing would require a ton of art. So we built a simple animation builder that would greatly reduce the amount of work. Once we built this thing, we thought it would be a great idea to make the animation app a consumer product. The idea was to let you make animations of your friends using only a picture.

We programmed the app and kept on adding features. After a long year, we finally decided that it was time to release it into the wild. We submitted it to Apple and waited. While it was in review, we received a number of great reviews from cultofmac and others. Then Apple rejected it. It took us a week to find out why. We removed the offending content and re-submitted. It then took Apple 6 weeks to finally review it again. I think they finally got around to reviewing it because Gizmodo wrote an article about it. At this point our morale and wallets were empty.

When the app was finally approved, we set about marketing the app. With an advertising budget of zero, you have to be pretty creative getting your idea out. We created about 100 animations of prominent tech journalist and sent it to every known email address of theirs. The reception was dismal. We even received some take down notices (which we promptly abided by)

After a few more weeks of more failed marketing attempts, we decided to throw in the towel and get real jobs. The app is still on the store: http://itunes.apple.com/app/itouch-my-friends/id335338942?mt...

Main points learned:

  - Ship early!!!! 
  - Don't let events that are out of your control get you down.
  - Getting press about your product is hard. It is a lot easier if it has some controversy around it.

I hear ya. When you have to get your spouse to pay for simple items because you have to keep your servers running or giving i-o-u-s for Christmas, you really have to start considering if what you are doing is the right thing to do.

But, I wouldn't trade the experience of bootstrapping for anything in the world. It taught me frugalness and prioritization. It also brought me a hell of lot closer to my sig other.

Do you think that early investors would want out now with an (Not Confirmed) IPO around the corner?

What are hn users' thoughts on voice control for the future?

Funny, I just finished designing, programming and deploying a healthcare system. Though it didn't take me three years, it did take considerably longer than expected due to the incompetence of the health care company. They wanted to remove a universal search bar because it was too easy to use. Five meetings later, they put it back in. It is now the most used function of the entire platform.

To be a competent programmer, one must switch between all three modes. I would find it hard to work with someone who directly fit into only one of these classifications.

I was expecting the app to just scan through the css and pull out the colours. I was presently surprised when the app grabbed the colours from all the images, including background images.

Good job!