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zscraperon The Importance of Custom Code in an Ever-Changing Market (Part 3 of 5)

Good stuff. The era of deep integrations is over. Being nimble is kind now.

zscraperon An example of how you can use slideshare to market your business

Nicely done! I like the emotional appeal.

The app is neat too :-) Is it available yet?

zscraperon Show HN: A better way to track fitness goals (my nights and weekend project)

Very nice! Good UI and colors. Now here's the big question - did you come out weight-negative while developing this app?

zscraperon Andy Kessler's "Eat People"

Having read the book, I can attest that it is not your garden variety "be bold, network and execute"-kind of a book. Here, Kessler surveys various business categories and provides interesting analysis for why certain businesses succeed while others don't take off as expected.

zscraperon Client-side Web Scraping

No, but there is RestSharp :-)

Bobik does not have a language-specific API per se, although more language-specific SDKs will be available soon. All interaction with Bobik is carried out via REST calls. Thus, you can create your own "SDK" with a fairly minimal effort.