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We did a startup that used the same model in stopping online procrastination: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2268710 , http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuc0_ZMQ4P8 and our compe…

I am super excited, I have been doing backend development with rails and been kind of intimidated moving into doing more front-end stuff. I think LT is the answer.

one of those times when continually clicking "refresh" is fun.

I do believe that the best engineers of the world read HN. Perhaps this belief is fueled by my recent admiration for the way software engineers solve problems and the intellectual …

You are right

Only way you compete with Wall Street is you increase the utility of expected payoffs, not just the wage. People who are going to WS have different risk profiles than entrepreneurs…

Economics of startups and ad industry is a lot like that of farmers and corn. Hard to find quality food without junk load of corn syrup in it, and farmers are always poor. Ads, lik…

rexreed is right, it shouldn't take long to set up the system. Most of the time is wasted waiting to get approved. I integrated Braintree api in half a day, while the application p…

Honestly, I wasn't aware of the convention. Seeing DropBox's color, we went with our own. Thanks for letting us know, we will definitely try to include it for our next update.

forgot to mention, stickk.com does that with other types of commitments that require peer monitoring.

That's where the inspiration came from, but it was easier to monitor time use than to measure the cotinine levels in someone's body.

For now it is, we are developing Windows and Linux versions. Thanks for 7, it will get better day by day I promise :)

www.timecarrot.com We've built a web and desktop app that tracks user-specified procrastination sources and allows setting of commitments to limit your procrastination. If you neve…

It is better if NGOs are promoting the service to their existing and potential donors. It is possible that revenue from giving away $150,000 with a buzz brings in more users than 2…

I have explored this kind of marketing before. This creates a buzz among the non-profit organizations and non-profits will be doing the marketing for you if they consistently recei…

I can sympathize with discontent about this, but almost nobody has brought up the positive uses of unique Internet ID. Suppose you want a system where you want to signal to all int…

I am not familiar with B2B, but I had the impression that the B2C companies in the area of technology and manufacturing have been mostly founded by high-net worth individuals, and …

Very timely and useful post, thanks.

Nice job! I used to be in translating business for a short while. I would suggest that freelance translators are asked to enter their profile information in all languages they tran…