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I can't really argue with your logic here. Yes, ideally you want to do something you are passionate about. Now, to be fair, that isn't always the case. I have a small business runn…

[6] Hold on to it - Do nothing right now - Elections and voting will never go away - Keep thinking and look for other opportunities to build a product or brand around the domain

[5] Sell the domain - Less work - Far less money than a successful site could generate - Currently working on other products, including: - Redoing an existing mobile app to start m…

[4] A platform for voting and survey taking online - Not necessarily limited to politics - Site provides the tools to organize voting for whatever purpose - Embeddable voting forms…

[3] Build something that Democrats or Republicans can use - Make it a useful get-out-the-vote tool for young people - Aim squarely at providing it as a service to one of the partie…

[2] Political blog, again aimed at younger audience - Also easy to setup: Wordpress - Seeding with posts happens more organically than forum because one or two people write - Proba…

[1] Political discussion forum aimed at a younger audience - Relatively easy to setup. vBulletin or phpBB would do. - Needs seeding with lots of posts in order to even begin to pul…

I've owned this domain for a while. I am now looking to do something with it. As an experiment I thought I'd put it out to HN and see what surfaces. Due to HN submission length res…

Anyone serious enough wanting to have a conversation about what I've got on the table can easily contact me off-list and have detailed discussions. I've already had a number of the…

Well, I think we can agree on some points. There are tons of web businesses that can be started and run with $100 per month...you don't even need to buy the hardware. All you need …

Thanks for the recommendation. If I could use a bad analogy I'd compare the two world, setting up servers and engineering software to selling marble and being a sculpture. Part of …

Cash is like the blood running through the veins of a venture. You need it to survive. You also need it to walk and you need more of it to run. There are web businesses that can ce…

Money comes with side effects and it also comes in various grades. At the extremes you'll find smart money and dumb money. The latter is the most dangerous. Not all money is create…

Email address now in my profile. Here it is: hn.rocks@yahoo.com I'd appreciate contact with identifying information such a LinkedIn profile. I'll reply in kind, of course.

With respect, I think you are drinking too much of the cool-aid. Yes, in general terms you are right. The difference is that if you have thirty years of entrepreneurship under your…

No. An opportunity is an idea connected to a market need. There's more than one way to connect an idea to a market need. One case is where the market already exists either entirely…

Here's the problem with that approach: It takes a long time and you are invariably going to talk to a lot of people who have money and nothing else to contribute. The only type of …

Well, I know current SV culture is to put it all out there and let the world see. I have cuts and bruises to prove this is not always the best approach. Business can be war and the…

> Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's the execution that matters. And you are right. And if I had done absolutely nothing in my life. If I was a kid either dropping out of school or jus…

For context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6932327 I have a ton of business and tech experience. I've launched several garage businesses. One did really well but the economy…

Yup. Twenty-five years ago I could walk out of a job and into another within hours. Things change. I've done the meetup thing. I'll say that most tech meetups have been a total was…

That's easy to answer: Intelligent robots. Humanoids have fascinated me since childhood. I went to school to get an EE because I wanted to work on robots. Life took me in a differe…

When Georgia Tech widely publicized their online CS Masters program AND they explicitly stated that they'd offer credit for relevant experience I jumped on it. I got in touch with …

Sent reply off-list. Thanks for your pointers.

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