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As someone who dropped out of college and had to cope with the consequences, I often think if college is worth it for the typical use-case in HN discussions: an ambitious & hard-wo…

I took a course on DesignLab, a platform for learning how to design as a hacker, and it was really good. Learned all the basics of how to MVP my own sites with some polish. www.try…

Does this package include priority SEO placement? That would be a real value add ;)

I'm sure I still would have had plenty of hurdles even with a degree, and I don't mean to discount that starting a career is hard for anyone, but the matter at stake here is whethe…

As someone who was influenced by Peter Thiel to drop out of college and do a startup with my room mate, I can say it was a mistake in hindsight. Even though I was able to land on m…

I work at a startup with five full-time customer service team members, and 10 other people with phones in our office. We all use the same VoiP provider, Vonage/Vocalocity, but the …

Thanks Nick, I just emailed you with more details. It appears to be working now!

All teams who applied by the application deadline have been, but YC's homepage states they'll review late applications that are submitted on a rolling basis until June, before S14 …

I was writing a late application for S14, but when I tried to edit it last night the link was dead (ycombinator.com/apply displays as blank page). Is this a temporary glitch or are…

Amazon's UI will never be considered beautiful, but it's core strategy of focusing on the numbers has allowed it to accomplish more than 99.9% of companies ever formed. I'm sure th…

Culture is internal marketing. The numbers are what really matters.

Would it be easy to sell a more advance EHR to hospitals if you could show it would cut down on malpractice? Sounds like all the comments are saying penetrating the hospital market…

Nice job Kyro!

Hey Matt, I'm sorry to reach out to you directly on a public forum like this, but my company's website encountered a major negative SEO attack last month and we were hit with a man…

What I'm trying to get at is that a bank is only as secure as it's regulators say it is. The Government is what insures all depositors money up to $100,000, as well as theoreticall…

Great synopsis. However, maybe this is more of a publicity stunt? He probably knows the case isn't going to work out in his favor, but perhaps he thinks the headlines will.

“The bank that is storing my money is highly regulated by federal regulators and backed by a government with a huge army behind it,” James Angel, a business professor at Georgetown…

Hello ThomPete, we actually do clean a ton of offices and hope to expand further into the facility management space :) Thanks for the post!

Thanks Marcamillion, we have a lot of cool idea's around referral incentives and customer rewards points moving forward as well. stay tuned!

Thanks sizQuarks, now that we have some technical expertise in-house. Stay tuned. The best is yet to come!