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Re: How to start a company with no free time

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Thanks everyone for the awesome feedback :-) By the way you can find out more about what we're building at https://winnie.com .

It shows some promise, but for now it's not really usable. All this app is doing is scraping Foursquare data and looking for keywords. This leads to some hilarious results. For example, every frat house in my area is "a zoo", complete with an elephant icon, and a great place to take your kids.

Re: How to start a company with no free time

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Care to share the notes app?

http://www.ghostnoteapp.com/

Just a suggestion: Ensure a default value for when JQuery isn't available.

Your site is nicely progressive apart from the:

"Attach notes to your"

I spent a good minute wondering what I was meant to attach them to ;)

Re: How to start a company with no free time

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As a mechanical engineer, this is the key to efficient work. Never CAD anything until you have done mental experiments, paper drawings, and thought through all the possible issues.

I'm a software engineer dabbling in mech design. I always do mental experiments and paper drawings, but I find that until I actual model it in SolidWorks I don't know for certain it will work. In your mind, do you see a "mental picture" of the model before you CAD it?

Everyone has different ways of thinking - I imagine the models before CADding them but some people might like to make cardboard, playdoh etc models. If you like going directly to CAD, I would recommend starting with coarse CAD models.

Re: How to start a company with no free time

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I have two kids, and my coding time is suffering. How the heck did you code while up with your kid at 3am? What was the kid doing??

I didn't code while taking care of my kid. My kid has childcare during the day! People love to assume that women are all just staying home watching their kids all day...

The only assumption I made is that childcare is not available at 3am
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