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We use CakePHP. Our MVP was hacked from Drupal, but we trashed that quickly due to performance issues with our project management system. I think there are plenty of startups using…

I often read threads here on HN where people compare the various online payment services, and I never seem to hear anything about Amazon's Flexible Payments Service (FPS). They cla…

https://www.dwolla.com/ I know the guys who put Dwolla together. It shows a lot of promise, and is a huge boon to merchants because of the extremely low transaction fees (flat $0.2…

I faced a similar problem when I was starting college. My father is disabled and my mother passed away during my junior year of high school, so I had zero financial support from my…

I've been using Catch (www.catch.com) to organize and record just about everything. Their mobile app is pretty well designed, so I'm able to record any random thoughts I'd like to …

"Brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to show how badly we want something. " ~Randy Pausch, Last Lecture ( ht…

I'm primarily self-taught, and at the age of 21 I'm comfortable listing 8+ years of C/C++ development on my resume. I built my first web site when I was 11, and I started learning …

We are raising capital ($150k-250k) and have had some offers from various contacts. However, I know that many of them are not accredited investors. Should we completely drop these …

Investors and raising capital are the top ideas these days. I also think about how if I could go back in time and change one thing at my startup, it would forcing myself to get a c…

Hello everyone! We have our first meeting with an angel investor tomorrow, so I figured I would see what advice the HN community would offer on talking/negotiating/working with ang…

The guy who won Entrepreneur magazine's Student Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009 did so with the idea of paperless/digital receipts. You can see his service here: http://www.3secon…

Burnout sucks, and it can be hard to deal with. I began work on my startup in my spare time in college because it was fun. Once I jumped into it full time it turned my life on its …

Also this. I started teaching myself programming when I was in middle school, and by the time I got to college the only thing I found in our CS department was disappointment and bo…

You are certainly not alone in this! The best way I've found to avoid burnout, even with things you enjoy, is to do things in a balanced manner and adopt good habits. Don't spend y…

I was in a similar position at the end of high school. I opted for college/internships, and I often regret that decision. While college has some unique benefits, especially in the …

Paying for Pandora has been one of the best investments I've ever made. With a little tuning you can get stations that play endless amounts of music you enjoy with no intervention …

My startup lives in the student business incubator at the University of Northern Iowa (along with 9 others). We don't get any startup funding like you would through YC (they are wo…

It definitely depends on what your product is. Some customers will not be very forgiving while others will be relentless champions for you. Our approach has been somewhat unique. O…

Combine steps 1 and 2. It is free to list your book with Amazon, so go ahead and do it from the start in addition to selling on your own site. Alternatively, you can use a distribu…

One of the biggest reasons you see acquisitions is for realized gains for investors (including the founders). When you seek investors for your business, you'll find that they expec…

I'm happy to say that my startup is hiring its first few employees. Like most startups, we don't have a lot of cash, so we are planning to go with a low salary + stock/ownership de…

I've had tinnitus for as long as I can remember, so "silence" for me means non-stop high pitch ringing. Thus, I use Pandora just about every hour I'm awake and around a controllabl…