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I'm wondering whether there is a SAFE-like document, except the value would be correlated to hours worked and hourly rate. The situation I often find myself in is that I am asked t…

I really dislike comments that are negative about design when someone has spent a lot of time researching the problem and the commenter has not. With that said, here is me doing th…

I'd say this is pretty awesome: https://blog.ycombinator.com/research I don't think it's common for a VC to hand out free money. The best part is that with the data they get from t…

I'm not sure why a pessimistic comment is at the top of practically every HackerNews article, but in this specific case, what data do you have to support YC becoming a "typical VC.…

I'd take it a few steps further. Change "Junior" to "Bootcamp graduate" and "Mid-level" to "Junior." If there is anything even close to linearity between the "levels" of software d…

POST http://api.shrug.es/shrugs You'll receive a 201 (if the server isn't overloaded with requests) and a JSON response including metadata regarding a shrug, including correct pron…

heh, my buddy said the same thing. I'm looking into expanding into other verticals. I think the flip table industry is ripe for copy/paste disruption.

Agreed - essentially in the new age of single page apps where the biggest payloads (static assets) are being offloaded to CDNs and the apps running on VPSs are simply providing lig…

I believe the RethinkDB team will be a great fit for Stripe. RethinkDB was literally a pleasure to work with. As someone who has had to endure the pain of setting up a production m…

Before the pitchforks come out, keep this in mind: before Obamacare increased access to affordable individual plans, employers were the typical purchasers of health care plans. Whe…

> But I seriously doubt you will get people to voluntarily pay money I've always been curious about this. I'd definitely pay $25/mo if it was distributed amongst the websites I vis…

No no - two separate services. I was just saying an API for a cleaning service would be great, just like an API for a courier.

if you check out the bottom of the article, Uber has developed a dashboard for SMBs. But it's smart that they've opened this up to enable startups to leverage this as well as enter…

This is a game changer - not only for what service it provides, but I think it will lead to more companies making APIs for totally non-technical tasks. Sure there are companies lik…

Not sure what your career path is, but I'm going to make the assumption that you're a software developer. SF and NYC are silly expensive (I live in Silicon Valley, south of the cit…

I would go about it by setting a realistic market salary for my skill set, and then share with you 50/50 any salary over that number. Curious to hear your thoughts on that model.

Looks great! One suggestion would be to change your pricing from $0.99/month to $11.99/year. Assuming you're going to use Stripe, you will be charged $0.65 in credit card fees if y…

Looks nice, but maybe you could be more specific than "Radically changing how you manage money"

Because they can. It's not necessarily a bad thing that they do take such a large percentage however. The more money they make, the more economical it is for them to advertise & in…

To deploy without granting your development environment ssh access to the staging or production environments, I suggest you setup port knocking which triggers a script on the serve…

Figure out a niche market opportunity that could generate revenue. Learn whatever skills you need to to build that product. Aim for break even by the end of the summer.