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It's worth mentioning that there is a difference between "hardness" and "toughness" when dealing with glass and gems/minerals. Hardness is the material's resistance against scratch…

Austin, TX - http://appsumo.com AppSumo provides daily deals for web geeks. We're growing and we need some more Sumos around the office who are into startups, having an immediate i…

Style is a celebration of the self. It's another language to learn and master. Dismissing it as nonfunctional or damaging to your well being is the same as ignoring the utility of …

The title says "a Million-Dollar Business THIS Weekend" and not "IN A Weekend," suggesting the initial effort to create an idea and verify that idea (and potentially creating the M…

Great work David. Proud of ya'. :)

SEEKING WORK - Remote (based in Austin) Entrepreneur just out of college looking for freelance work while I bootstrap and develop a few ideas of my own. I have 10 years experience …

If your store isn't bringing in enough customers you can upgrade the facade to bring in more traffic, but it's still up to you to make the sale once they walk inside.

As I read this, I kept thinking of the movie American Beauty. If you found this post through-provoking or disagree with it, watch this movie.

I think you should create a Twitter account and share your work (both with design and your great social work with the children). Maybe even tell the story as it unravels with a Tum…

From his WickedFire thread: MY EMAIL ID- sjaghanivasan@gmail.com Please drop me a mail or a PM with the info of the logo to be done! My paypal ID is different. I will send you my p…

For disclosure, I am not involved in this operation. I saw it and thought what they are doing is amazing and felt compelled to help.

Thanks for the HN code Kyle. I heard you talking about Forrst at the lunch Noah put together right before SXSW, and I heard you got some funding soon after. Congrats! Quick problem…

SEEKING WORK -- Remote Designer based in Austin, TX. Have a reputation for being fast and am comfortable with both web and print design. I'd prefer to take on smaller jobs like lan…

Launched FriendFury ( http://friendfury.com ), a side-project to help similar Twitter users discover each other. We built in a Tweet Roulette feature to @message a random person wh…

We posted FriendFury on HN a few days ago and there seemed to be interest in the project, but we noticed users weren't interacting much. The original version only let users choose …

Twitter is a great tool to met new people, and it's not invasive or rude to @mention someone and ask to meet up. Break the ice by saying you're into startups and will be in town. Y…

Reddit is a great community to get feedback and support from. I took a similar approach for a project I had in mind and the response was astounding. I made some mockups, posted the…

At the moment, it relates you to anyone sharing any of your three topics. We'll be adding a function to let you choose between seeing users with any of your interests, or being sho…

Thank you!

I enjoyed reading about Stormpulse in the Hacker Monthly: Startup Stories. Congrats on the hard earned success!