Stripe will happily waive the first $37 in fees.
PagerDuty will similarly offer a $37 credit towards an account with us.
5KMVP will offer $37 off the building of your MVP.
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#92Do you accept startups from Brazil? I would love to apply!
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#94Just a note on word choices... the "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" was the name of the colonial empire that Japan built through conquests and occupation starting in 1940.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_East_Asia_Co-Prosperity...
Not sure if this is part of a joke or not, but Japan's history of war-time brutality during World War 2 is pretty extreme.
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#95How I hacked the Pinboard Co-Prosperity Cloud
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
When hosting on Heroku, first dyno per app is free!
Unless Heroku has changed, you absolutely should not host a production site using a free account. If your site doesn't get any traffic for a certain period of time, they spin down your instance. This means that the next subsequent view will have an abnormally long load time as they wait for your EC2 instance to spin back up. The $20/mo at Rackspace (or any other provider) is well worth it.
App Engine has this problem too. The solution is to run a cronjob somewhere (App Engine has cron built in, so I've used that in the past) that hits your frontend every ~10 minutes or so. Instances never go stale, and on App Engine, you get 28 instance hours/day for free, so you can stay under the free quota as well.
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#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're only up to $87 so far in my book. Pinboard and tptacek are legit; toomuchtodo has yet to show us credentials.
Already replied to this comment, but what the heck, I thought about what you said and had some more to add (since my original posts were "ha ha" funny, or at least I thought so). I don't have startup credentials. My last startup was 10 years ago; I built a hosting company and sold it to a consulting firm for a couple hundred grand. I'm still in IT, so I clearly haven't made enough to cash out yet (I'm an IT operation…
I like this idea. How can I get in touch? (Email won't show in your profile unless you put it in the "about" section.)
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#98I would like to take this moment to announce PICPC-VC, which is an automatic follow-on investment, structured as uncapped convertible notes, of $50 available to any founder accepted into the PICPC program.
Andreessen Horowitz will match your $50 with another $50.
Shit just got real.
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#99Stripe will happily waive the first $37 in fees.
Now, what would be really great is if all of you guys were offering these services for $37 for the first month or so :)
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#100Thinking of applying as a single non-technical founder. All I have is an idea but I am sure with the $37 dollars I could hire an awesome programmer to put it together for me! EDIT: Seeking technical co-founder to help build out idea. Must be prepared to sign NDA before equity can be discussed.
EDIT 2: Funny/telling this is my highest rated comment on HN.