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prashantdesale

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About prashantdesale

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    Comment #1015170

    Video is also available at http://www.vimeo.com/1594866 Let me what inner workings of the system ud like to know. App is on PHP, MySQL. Most of the JS/CSS is coded by ourselves. Do…

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    Comment #1015161

    Thanks, Talking to Partners and see how we can sell it. We never sold sites in past and coded most of this ourselves, so were not sure if it is worth anything. But yes, Seems like …

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    Comment #1014818

    Yep, I remember we discussed Onista and Sormpulse. Hope all is going well at your end.

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    Comment #1014816

    Certainly.. I do plan to write all my experience on what we were trying to do, what went wrong and what I myself will correct when I build next startup. About pulling the plug, We …

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    Ask YC: Advice on shutting down startup

    I and 2 of my friends developed Onista (http://www.onista.com) a while back and we also invested some money (not a whole lot) for hosting and legal bills (like forming corp, patent…

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    Comment #347805

    How do you find buyers though?

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    Comment #324676

    Thank you so much. Exactly what I was thinking. The great thing about hacker news is the feedback and wisdom that we can get from other like minded and smart folks. We are pretty f…

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    Comment #324586

    Thanks for pointing out. Soon I will fix these issues.

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    Comment #324583

    Thanks for the honest feedback. About the design, yes all points taken. Actually we are programmers and tried to do as better job at design as we could. May be we need to get profe…

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    Comment #324580

    We are charging 3% of the closing value for each product that is sold. We also offer optional premium services (like eBay) that enhances look of the listing. There is some charge f…

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    Comment #324557

    Thanks a lot for great feedback. Soon I will change the page using all your suggestions as they perfectly make sense. As far as design goes, there are only 3 of us working on this …

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    Comment #324555

    Great suggestions. We just came out of coding phase last week and now we are going to give our best shot to get sellers and buyers. Suggestions like these really help a lot. Thanks…

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    Comment #324552

    Yeah, I never thought of that one. Sure we will work on hiding the address.

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    Comment #324551

    We did talk to attorney and I think we need to do more research to be absolutely sure

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    Comment #324548

    Thanks. Yeah, what you suggested is better wording.

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    Comment #324546

    Thanks, I think we need to rework on wording to express the exact message out there.

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    Ask YC: Feedback on our startup/application

    http://www.onista.com On October 2nd we (I and two of my friends) released the Alpha version of our dreams, ideas and execution called Onista. We are extremely excited to release i…

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    Comment #313901

    I think you can take money by giving investor a convertible note. Here is what I found on web regarding Convertible Notes. ------------------------------------- Convertible note is…

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    Comment #287209

    Thank you everyone for your feedback.

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    Comment #286852

    Thanks a lot.

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    Ask YC: Any risks with JS and CSS compression?

    We are in final stages of finalizing our code for our open alpha. I am researching ways to improve the page load time and am looking at http://webjackalope.com/fast-page-load-time/…

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    Comment #285739

    How come these meetups are not over weekend?

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    Comment #266519

    Is there a HTML version somewhere we can read this online? Why ask people to download and print PDF? not that you have to, but PDF's are meant for that and there are 40 pages. 40 *…

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    Comment #266069

    There is lot of code. Onista is amalgam of eBay, Priceline, LendingTree, Alibaba and LinkedIn. When I say that, what I'm trying to say is that site has lots and lots of features. W…