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Quite interesting! At first, I didn't understand why you only wanted a 200x200 image. I expected it to cut a big picture up into smaller squares and lay them out in a table. But I …

What are the roles of each person? Is the younger person the hacker and the older person the bizdev? Or vice versa? If the older person is the bizdev and has a lot of domain expert…

The problem I think you are trying to solve isn't much of a problem. I've been developing with CMS applications for 12+ years and have never once ran into any of the issues you des…

Next time... :) Make sure all co-founders' equity is vested. Don't do a 50-50 split. One person needs to have a majority stake. Otherwise, you spend too much effort being a democra…

If you give 40% to a designer, how much are you going to give to your biz dev person (when you need one in three months when your beta is done)? If you both use equity to give to t…

Car-as-a-service. Nice.

Build and install a scaled out application. Multiple AWS instances in a load balanced configuration. Use small instances to purposely bottleneck the available resource pool. Use so…

Agreed. Based on lots of experience dealing with off-shore developers, the problem has always been communication. Once a company figures out how to properly communicate the right l…

Nice work. Glad to see somebody implementing a solution to pretty up QR codes. Only potential issue is the contrast between the foreground and background needs to be enough to prop…

Check out the specials listed on WebHostingTalk.com. I use unmanaged dedicated servers. Going price for a dedicated Quad Core i7, 12 GB of ECC RAM, 4x2TB is under $150/mo. That's a…

Are you interested in building cutting edge technology or building a business? If you're interested in building a business, then there's a huge amount of opportunity the online com…

Take a look at Tableau. It's super expensive and desktop-based. But it allows for some very powerful, customized data analysis. Build a SaaS version of Tableau and you have a good …

As a developer, I love writing code and solving problems. I spend my Friday nights writing code. I routinely pull all nighters writing code. Did I mention I love writing code? I am…

+1 for ASCII art

You get even more bang for your buck if you combine two existing products. Combine HootSuite and SocialOomph and you have a rockstar Twitter manager. Synergy is a wonderful thing.

Single best post I have ever read on HN. Thanks for sharing!

Doing a .Net startup myself, I'd like to think I'm not the only one. I'd surmise that there's actually quite a few people using a Microsoft stack in the startup community. They jus…

If you have clear technical requirements defined, use oDesk. Put out a $25-50 test job. Make sure to invite as many contractors as you can (the oDesk UI is absolute garbage, so thi…

There's a big difference between investors and a support network. Very few (any?!) investors are really going to help you with the grunt work of making the business successful. Nev…

Good point. My brain is hardwired to think product == SaaS product. So I'm only referring to using this strategy for a SaaS product. I think it works with a SaaS product, assuming …

Friends & Family (F&F) is the quickest and easiest. Spread it out over several people and spread it out in 3 month payments. Make sure you set very specific milestones and a very c…

Where your IP 'lives' matters entirely! If a Swedish company owns the IP and the IP is on servers there, US courts can't touch it. How can a US court have any jurisdiction on a cor…