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My partner has got an amazing job offer (for a year-ish) in an area that doesn't have many software engineering opportunities. I'd like to take that time to do something I've alway…

Nice! This is a really neat idea. What kind of analytics do you provide?

I love the idea, and kudos to you for creating this! Some feedback: 1. Your enunciation sounds a little mushy, by which I mean your words seem to slightly blur together. 2. The que…

Just curious, are there any reports/posts of people or companies who think that Y Combinator was not worth it?

Awesome. For what it's worth, I also look at this: http://squidlist.com/ from time to time for events around the bay area.

This is fantastic, nice work! Are you planning on adding any ability for people to add their own events directly to the map?

Awesome! This looks really useful.

Other than going through the source code for Lucene/Solr, what books, articles or any other resources would you recommend that go over the theory/math/design of a Search system?

Here's a list: https://cloud.google.com/customers/ (It doesn't have only startups, but it does have a few in there)

A student asking if a company is hiring full-time engineers is not naive in the slightest. You're writing purely from the perspective that all companies behave exactly like Twilio.…