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Seaside (because I want to implement some heavy desktop-like capabilities)

Baltimore, 2, 29 & 30

Work like hell on the idea and see if people want what I'm making. Re-apply in the fall if I still need the help.

I pay it out of pocket along with some life and disability insurance; I think it's worth the peace of mind to enhance creativity and not worry about "what ifs".

You might have to hack your own alternative -- and believe it or not there is a lot of hope for you; I've had a lot of success here in Baltimore by making things, telling everyone …

Absolutely it is; I spent a long time this year working with a small real estate company that uses very primitive software and analog techniques to track very complex business proc…

I'm only thinking in terms of what's possible. Can I build something like that without continuations? What's what I'm wondering.

Gang, I submitted a YC funding idea for a new app that would be highly interactive and ideal to put on the web. The closest thing I've seen to what I'm trying to do is DabbleDB; I …

We should all be planning to fly under big companies anyway and not targeting these kinds of large organizations at first.

Building small apps like this is a great learning experience -- I'd love to read more about what you learned by doing it, and what kind of traffic you are seeing

This seems like too big of a distraction; file it away on your to do list until it matters.

I work with people who mostly do not have a startup mindset, or even a work-for-yourself mindset, and I think my creativity had been suffering until I took it upon myself to be pro…

Maybe there's a whole category of apps to be built like this: they don't make money themselves, but they educate the creators and connect them to things that will make money (he me…

It seems like if you are building to flip you might get lucky, and at certain times (like 7 years ago) that's easier than others. But "build to last"/"build to work" are on the sam…

This shows the value of human relationships in startups -- the people who are most successful spend time cultivating them, and take a long-term approach to investing their time in …

fonts are fine (that's an easy change for browser users to make because we have shortcuts), but visited links should be darker (more of a pain to change for just one site)

I love it, it reminds me of Guy Kawasaki's article about avoid stupid things that slow users down.. http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2007/01/the_top_ten_stu.html very refreshing to not …

Amichail, there is a site that was a proto-version of what you're describing called The Business Experiment. It seems to be down right now, but here's an article about it: http://w…

I have to say this matches my experience with any shared host for a serious web app. TextDrive is super helpful with customer service but not being able to get root on your server …

I've actually never read anyone discussing the elasticity of demand for web services. Here's a thank-you to my econ teacher in college! Sobering quote: "The biggest gap in any vent…

well, all I can tell you is that from looking at the logs, there are a lot of people out there who are searching for someone with common interests that they must not be finding thr…