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nope. not for free :)

Find some customers before building the product. Make sure you build what they think they need.. not what you think they need.

Hi Guys/Girls, We are based in India. We have launched 2 web based products - http://www.mingletrips.com and http://www.rishteykonnekt.com . During this, we have learnt many things…

iPage.com is the worst web hosting service. I had an account with them where I hosted all my a lot of stuff - my blogs, websites of my company and my friends' companies - mostly wo…

Hi Guys/Gals, I wonder what you all think about it: Should startup entrepreneurs spend time reading tech blogs/news regularly? Mostly these are one/two people with a lot to do. But…

Sorry, by "resources", I meant "experienced ROR developers" and thats a statement specific to my city- Kolkata, India. Wish I was in Chicago or San Francisco. :) Indeed, online hel…

Hey Guys, We are building a web app from ground up. We are using Neo4j for data management. Should we go with Ruby on Rails or Grails? ROR resources are far and few. But Java peopl…

Hi, The stories about web patents seem so bizarre. Like Yahoo claiming to own patent on showing ads based on some metrics. I wonder what all can and can not be patented. As in, how…

Hey Guys, do you know if OK cupid has a patent on its matching algorithm. I know google says they have some patent pending. But if we change the set of questions, can we use their …

I used to be an avid Tech Crunch reader. The site show cased interesting startups. But now I dont find it interesting anymore. The editorial quality has gone down. The article sele…

I think FB Advertizing was awesome. It is expensive for USA/Europe but you can target Asia for less than 10 cents/click. We were converting close to 30%. So it wasnt bad at all. Bu…

I did some basic FB Advertizing and also reached out to bloggers - some of whom have written about us. I also spammed some travel sites a bit :D and posted on CL and various free o…

I did some basic FB Advertizing and also reached out to bloggers - some of whom have written about us. I also spammed some travel sites a bit :D So we have around 6k users and 500 …

Thats right. I do have more enthusiasm than money :) Thanks. I have reached out to bloggers on Linked in and gotten them to check out the site and recommend to their readers. I als…

Thanks.

Hey Guys, Heres our startup - Mingle Trips - http://www.mingletrips.com . It is for single travelers to meet other travelers/locals while traveling. All sorts of feedback is welcom…

Hi, Why are most Webapps developed in PHP while enterprise apps use Java? I am asking this because I want to build a team for our next web app. We were recruiting PHP guys but I re…

Hi, We need to allow our users to invite friends using their address book from popular email services like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, rediffmail and also from social networks like face…

Thanks Gee. We are currently on Linode. But now Im experimenting with PHPFog. Looks good so far.

Hi, We are using PHP with Yii Framework. Currently we are using MySQL but will also use a NoSQL database in the next application. For Facebook app, we need an SSL too. We have no e…

Thanks Playhard. Any clue how I can see if any of my submissions were also marked as "dead"?

Hi, I have 14 submissions on hackernews and 18 points (i found it by clicking on my name and then submissions) But it says 5 next to my name - what does that 5 mean? Does anyone kn…