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thank you very much! big is http://avecora.com - I've been told it's too big. threewords.me was an MVP I built in three hours (two of them being design) that just randomly took off. never really meant it to be anything huge.
Could someone tell me what MVP means? I see that term used everywhere on HN, but I don't know what it stands for.
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FWIW, I'm 32. I guess you can go chasing girls in night clubs when you're older, but it's way easier to do that stuff when you're young. Similarly it's possible for people to wait until their 40s to have kids, but I'd say it's far easier to have them when you're young and have the energy.
I'd be interested in seeing a graph of difficulty of raising kids with age and income -- it probably depends on parenting style, but I think it would (will? maybe.) be easier for me to have kids at 40 with >$bignum than at 18 with $1k, assuming I'm in excellent health for my age (honestly, I'm healthier and more fit at 31 than I was ever before, and hopefully at 35 will be even more so -- not being into exercise earl…
The key attributes are energy and time I think.
I'm 19 and got nothing more than a Google Summer of Code and some halfdecent apps. Makes me feel insecure :(
Yes, you've only had your work accepted to a program run by the company with some of the best software engineers on the planet, that rejects at least 98% of those who even apply. What could you possibly do to surpass the kid who bought 11 domain names, some of which have apps attached to them? No offense to Mark Bao, by the way. I greatly admire that he's put together so many projects and is trying to interact at an…
It did teach me I'm normal though, so not bad :)
Normal Teen angst. I'm over it, and back to doing stuff. Probably hacking on Chromium next, and writing an xkcd game now.
Oh cool, I'm on here :D 18 now, and I've stopped calling them startups... a lot of them are just webapps :) (also no longer in high school, was going to update it two days ago until threewords.me came along, now at 1.8 million pageviews...) the new startup is http://supportbreeze.com ! Would like to note that my bhag (big hairy audacious goal) is to donate almost all my money into positive philanthropy (see below) an…
Congratulations man! I remember back to the days when you made the flash for this: http://seethewall.com :) :) You have come a long way. Now listen -- I know how much you hated high school, but college is the time when you make all the social connections that will last you for the next 10 years! (And some of them, well, a lifetime.) It is probably where you are going to meet the people who will help you meet your wif…
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18 now Good. The honeymoon is over. Now you can vote, join the army, get laid without legal worries, and most importantly, be considered a true peer here without the gratuitous "17 year old" prefix on everything said about you. I have admired your progress and even enjoyed using some of your software over the past several years, usually thinking, "This guy is great. I wonder what kinds of cool things he'll be doing o…
> get laid without legal worries Not entirely true. Now he's gotta be careful not to become a statutory rapist.
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I'd be interested in seeing a graph of difficulty of raising kids with age and income -- it probably depends on parenting style, but I think it would (will? maybe.) be easier for me to have kids at 40 with >$bignum than at 18 with $1k, assuming I'm in excellent health for my age (honestly, I'm healthier and more fit at 31 than I was ever before, and hopefully at 35 will be even more so -- not being into exercise earl…
Money is fairly irrelevant to raising kids IMHO The key attributes are energy and time I think.
Firstly, congratulations. You're a very impressive person. I hope to see many great things from you in the future. I second that, you should definitely apply for the Thiel Fellowship. At first i was skeptical of it, but now i understand. The entire program is structured for individuals such as yourself. Ok, I know this is completely inappropriate, and i'm sorry about that, but i have to ask. Having founded 18 compani…
Applied :)
> Rich
Physical finances, nope. I wouldn't say so. Investing a lot of money into building some stuff (namely Avecora).
I know Mark well and we even worked together on Genevine for a bit. He's one of the brightest people I know. Seriously, he gets things done fast and understands business along with tech. They're mostly projects, he knows the distinction as shown below in a comment. It's great to build things and tinker. Eventually one of them makes sense to you, takes off a bit, a bigger vision presents itself, and you turn it into a…
Really appreciate the kind words, Jason. Thanks :) Some thoughts: one pretty important metric for determining whether it's a startup or not is ramen profitability. Not when the project owners' livelihood depends on the project, but when it can depend on the project if needed. However, the caveat is when it isn't profitable at all but still considered a startup (like when a lot of time and money is put in but it hasn'…