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It doesn't matter. Focus on validating the problem first. Get people to pay you to solve that problem and once you have people begging you for the solution, then figure out somethi…

Living in Chicago, the Chicago Loop - Naperville comparison hit me....wow! That's quite an accomplishment.

Exactly. By joining YC, the goal is automatically getting acquired. So the parent is solving the problem temporarily, until they become the problem.

Same. They don't even really know what commercials are.

Start by asking yourself: what do you need? There are now dozens of co-working spaces in Chicago, with all sorts of amenities, specialties, sizes, etc. 1871 is the flagship, create…

You and me both. We must be doing something wrong. :)

I'd venture to guess you're single, a renter, and have no children or relevant financial obligations?

This is exactly why I created Donald ( http://getDonald.com ). So many clients just default to email and don't use whatever project management system you ask them to. Sometimes eve…

I'm aware of what a SaaS is. :) Great analogy though!

I know what a SaaS is. :) I'm asking what he built.

What's the SaaS?

You could say the same about television. I don't buy it. I don't see us all watching cartoons only in the future.

Man it feels good to hear somebody else say this. I feel like I'm shooting myself in the foot sometimes business-wise by not participating regularly in Product Hunt but I find that…

"Yes, it still an echo chamber which I believe actually hurts the startup community because it incentives them to work on products which have zero value outside the echo chamber." …

Ah, we didn't need dedicated IPs so not familiar with those costs.

Use Sendgrid for my previous company ( http://matchist.com ) and using Mandrill for my new one ( http://getdonald.com ). We used Sendgrid because in additional to transactional ema…

Launch it. Launch launch launch. Let customers tell you what features they need.

Nice! Was thinking about building a Gmail counterpart for Donald in the future, looks like this will simplify/speed up development for that.