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Do you take hour long Uber rides? Because if most are 10-20 minute rides the distractions are not going to be helpful for productivity, so it may be hard to bill anything.

One thing I noticed recently that really bit me was I created a few issues on a public repo which decided to disable issues and so I lost them forever.

A family member was lost to SIDS so I understand your worry. Hopefully the peace of mind far outweighed any stress.

Food provides energy and when it isn't burned turns into fat.

I'd be really interested in help with this for us. Our traffic has been increasing for months now, but our conversion rate is low and I continue to try to improve them and do user testing to figure out ways to better convey and explain the product more so an outside view could be highly beneficial for us. The site is http://userdeck.com.

I've seen two of these in Ask HN in the past week. I just want to say it's not as easy as building a SaaS and then customers will come knocking at the door to hand their giant stack of cash. We've been working on it or 5 months and are just now getting traction and we are in an established space. Marketing and getting people to sign up has been the toughest part of it all even with better/more features and easier to setup. Just something to be thinking about from our experience.

Even living frugally (I've been doing the same), that seems like a very long runway with the modest burn rate. I think ultimately you should figure out what will make you happy and go with your instincts. Some people are happy being employees for most of their lives while others such as myself have the entrepreneurial fire always eating at them and can't be satisfied in corporate environments.

If you are going to consider the gas savings, you still need to remember that there are also electricity costs as well.

Would you be interested in a custom built product based on your needs?

The link says that is about a single provider. Just because Dropbox is more expensive than a competitor doesn't mean it's price discrimination.

Or use advertising and not charge anything and make money from businesses trying to target DevOps and SysAdmins which probably is pretty lucrative from a publisher standpoint.

It's not custom, it looks to be a 3rd party service [1].

[1] http://sysadmincasts.com

Thanks Paul! We're targeting both markets, but our primary focus is on SMBs.

We'd love to get your feedback on it if you have any suggestions or ideas.

This is a nice product! Congrats on making it. It really touches on some very important workflows for people and we are working in the same industry, but working on different problem areas. I think fresh out of the box thinking like this is what customer support needs.

I wanted to ask, how does the collaboration work? Does it share an email I get with my team or does it share the team email with me? I wasn't sure.

Also, your knowledge base is one really long page, any chance you would use an embedded widget for it? Let me know. We could exchange feedback too.

This was our thought too as we were building a knowledge base widget that works with existing websites by embedding and blending inline to the page's design. Others required you to set up another support site and match the design and we thought we could do it differently and save people time. You can learn more at http://userdeck.com/guides.

At UserDeck, we're building customer support software that works with existing websites.

The first product is an embedded knowledge base widget that displays inline into the page and inherits the styling and blends right into the design you already have rather than setting up another support site and spending the time to match the design. To build on that customizability we added layouts and components which are simply javascript settings changes that dynamically change the display of the widget.

You can learn more at http://userdeck.com/guides.

Send me a message if you are frustrated with existing solutions as we branch into other products down the road such as ticketing and live chat.

This is similar to what we are building at UserDeck. We call it Guides and it is a knowledge base widget that embeds inline into any page of a website. It is all Javascript and customizable on the client side with layouts and components which have options which let you change things like a sidebar component to the right side instead of the left.

Any team member can collaborate and edit articles live on the site and we are considering adding wiki type functionality if people are interested.

You can learn more at http://userdeck.com/guides.

I make the mistake all the time too, but I think you would get a better response from sending them a message at feedback@github.com.

Many people would argue that the cost savings of Uber/taxi are already substantially greater than a DUI.

As a Sprint customer, I hope it does go through. My internet speeds are pretty bad even after them upgrading the infrastructure here to LTE. I don't know how it will play out, but I think Sprint users could stand to benefit from T-Mobile. As a T-Mobile user though, I could see why you could be nervous if it went the opposite direction and both services went downhill. I think Sprint wants the band that T-Mobile has that they received in the AT&T fallout so my hopes are positive.

We're looking to build a solution like this at UserDeck. If you both want to talk about this over Skype. We're working on customer support and thinking of a way of integrating mailboxes (forwarding) and our embedded widgets so you can have conversations through them or email and manage in our control panel and different people you share access with your team can reply and collaborate. Contact info on profile.

Do you still have to style the knowledge base to match your site's design or use a layout?

We've been working on a hosted knowledge base that you drop on a page and it inherits the design you already have. Our editor supports both WYSIWYG and Markdown too. Looking to see if people are interested and get feedback. http://userdeck.com/guides

Leests - http://leests.com

It was created to be more than just a Craigslist clone, to improve local and eventually national listing of anything anywhere with a vision to change how people buy and sell adding trust/safety and improved communication and simplicity in the process as well as being developer friendly by being a platform to build on.

You can override the application directory for Cask:

    export HOMEBREW_CASK_OPTS="--appdir=/Applications"

I had the same feeling. I'm really surprised they didn't migrate accounts over. They clearly didn't start out with a fresh database entirely as they have a huge list of companies already. It's kind of off putting to the people who contributed data to them the first time.

I wrote a similar, but maybe less detailed post about getting started in open source on my blog. http://derekmyers.com/posts/getting-started-open-source/

What they could do is turn it into an autoresponder at least with a link to that inside.

Comparing the cost multiple for a private company's acquisition to a P/E ratio of a public stock is way different and not really a fair comparison.

I was just thinking that, the micro EC2 is now becoming more and more devalued as the higher ones get closer to it's price per performance. I was hoping for us to be able to spin up Beanstalk apps a little cheaper though and it is the cheapest server option and $50/app vs Heroku is a bit expensive since it requires the ELB. I wouldn't mind it all if they had a way to deploy multiple apps using the EC2 servers and ELB you setup though.

Didn't the founding fathers of the United States break some laws when they were under British rule?

"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so." - Thomas Jefferson