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I can vouch for people still there. I’m a Brit who married an Iranian who still has a large family in Iran. With the exception of one religious aunt who is married to a military ma…

I don't claim to have the answers, and don't necessarily disagree with you. But that's how the Iranians I know insider Iran feel. That there was pain ahead of them with or without …

I’m a Brit, married to an Iranian who still has a large family in Iran. I’ve got to witness first hand quite the opposite to what you describe, at least with the British mainstream…

I've always liked Steve Blank's definition: "A startup is a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model." I would say Dropbox has found a…

Great job! I recently created a similar service: http://cvlift.co.uk Your application is much better though. I used prawn as opposed to wicked_pdf to generate the PDFs. Did you do …

I think a "make email visible" checkbox would clear up any confusion here.

http://karmurl.com - give feedback to receive feedback.

Thanks for the ideas. You can now edit the submission. I am considering the reply functionality, I just wouldn't want it to compromise the simplicity.

It was a midweek side project so there was never a business model in mind. I tried starting up http://kennelboard.com , but it never really took off (selling and developing is hard…

Karmurl is a free and simple way of getting instant feedback for your work. You give feedback to receive feedback. The idea was inspired by a comment made by photon_off ( http://ne…

Thanks. That's a really good idea. I just put it together in a few hours and hadn't thought that far ahead :)

Thank you!

Inspired by the following post by photon_off... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1683309 I made karmurl last night. It's a simple app where you submit a URL for feedback, then f…

For the life of me I can't understand why Apple decided to remove hex values from their color picker with Lion. This is a great alternative, the copy shortcut is very handy.

Surely it depends what your goal is. You wouldn't leave your job to build apps, but you might to build a business. Of course apps are fun to build. But making something profitable …

I saved up enough money to leave my job and build a niche software product. Fingers crossed, it will be launching early 2011. It's terrifying, and I'm broke, but I have learned I a…

Let's hope so.

Don't show him Google Calendar.