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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:06 PM UTC

fiatjaf wrote: post #110

RivieraKid wrote: post #34

Like Gravatar but for everything, not just avatars. Gravatar is a service, where you save your avatar. Websites such as StackOverflow can connect to Gravatar and retrieve your avatar from there. So when you decide to change your avatar, you do it in one place. On a more abstract level, the problem here is that people and organizations often create some data and basically Ctrl+C Ctrl+V it to different services. Couple…

I think there could be a service like this, but that relied on the already standardized types of data and categories such as schema.org. The service could work like a hub, parsing private addresses people where indie-people would host their own preferences (for example, their own websites) and giving this data to external services; and, for common people, the website would host the data for them, also in a microforma…

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Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by fiatjaf » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:06 PM UTC

namuol wrote: post #71

RivieraKid wrote: post #34

Like Gravatar but for everything, not just avatars. Gravatar is a service, where you save your avatar. Websites such as StackOverflow can connect to Gravatar and retrieve your avatar from there. So when you decide to change your avatar, you do it in one place. On a more abstract level, the problem here is that people and organizations often create some data and basically Ctrl+C Ctrl+V it to different services. Couple…

Seems like it would be very difficult to standardize so many different types of data...

http://schema.org/CreativeWork

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by 147 » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:07 PM UTC

capex wrote: post #5

MVP as a service, where you pay a fixed amount each month to get a fixed number of developer hours. EDIT: To expand on this a bit: True lean development, every month focused on delivering a working product. Initially using third party applications like Firebase and Parse, gradually increasing features, but the product must launch by the end of the first month.

I do something like this. I think it can be considered as a form of productized consulting.

I started charging people $3k for 2 weeks of development. http://christopherdbui.com/i-will-build-your-mvp/

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by miguelrochefort » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:09 PM UTC

We need to take a step back, and stop building all these silly websites and applications. Seriously, this madness must stop. The application paradigm simply cannot scale.

How many apps can you install? How many profiles can you maintain? How many inbox can you empty? How many activity feeds can you go through? How many shopping apps do you use until you buy that one thing? How many times have you seen the exact same article/story posted across your social networks? How many "share your startup ideas" communities does it take for humanity to find the meaning of life? After how long and how much are you going to realize that nobody will ever use your niche social network?

We need to look at the big picture. We need to rethink all of this. We're doing it wrong, and now is the time to fix it. Everything else is distraction.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by dolzenko » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:38 PM UTC

S4M wrote: post #109

A Firefox (or Chrome) plugin to collapse comments on HN.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hckr-news/mnlaodle...

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by lazyjones » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:44 PM UTC

reitanqild wrote: post #102

lazyjones wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Privacy, no need to mail tests around and wait for days, test price not dictated by 1 entity.

See my reply elsewhere: sell a lab-kit, customers send them in, anonymously if they want, get results by writing the code from the kit into a website. This is kind-of-anonymous (won't help if the feds are after you)

Indeed, this already exists. It's like sending a 3D model to a 3D printing shop and getting a (pricey) result, instead of having a 3D printer at home. Different uses, appeal to different people. For example, an athlete interested in monitoring his body closely while exercising will prefer getting results within a few hours rather than days and the cost per test might be very relevant.

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by capex » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:46 PM UTC

capex wrote: post #5

MVP as a service, where you pay a fixed amount each month to get a fixed number of developer hours. EDIT: To expand on this a bit: True lean development, every month focused on delivering a working product. Initially using third party applications like Firebase and Parse, gradually increasing features, but the product must launch by the end of the first month.

Update: In true spirit of an MVP, I've put together a landing page: http://buildbase.io. Please sign up for updates and if anyone is interested in building MVPs, please send me an email: hello@buildbase.io

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by capex » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:56 PM UTC

lordnacho wrote: post #48

capex wrote: post #5

MVP as a service, where you pay a fixed amount each month to get a fixed number of developer hours. EDIT: To expand on this a bit: True lean development, every month focused on delivering a working product. Initially using third party applications like Firebase and Parse, gradually increasing features, but the product must launch by the end of the first month.

I've got a team that can do this. In fact, I've already started meeting startup people who are interested. The team is able to make websites, iOS/Android apps (that talk to the sites), pretty much anything that you'd want an MVP to do. We know how AWS works (can make things scale ready), and how the app launch/approval process works. We can integrate all manner of components, including push messaging, databases, pict…

@lordnacho could you send me an email about your team: hello@buildbase.io

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by grey-area » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 9:58 PM UTC

RivieraKid wrote: post #34

Like Gravatar but for everything, not just avatars. Gravatar is a service, where you save your avatar. Websites such as StackOverflow can connect to Gravatar and retrieve your avatar from there. So when you decide to change your avatar, you do it in one place. On a more abstract level, the problem here is that people and organizations often create some data and basically Ctrl+C Ctrl+V it to different services. Couple…

Sounds a bit like camilstore - https://camlistore.org

Re: Ask HN: Idea Sunday

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Post by babygamedev » Sun, Mar 08, 2015, 10:06 PM UTC

the day of the one page resume serving any purpose are over. If companies look at your resume at all, they are looking for information in raw data form: what projects you've worked on/completed, where you've worked, skills, etc. Otherwise they don't even bother. You might be asked to bring in a one page resume to a job interview but it's rarely used for anything but reference/quick glances.

The Idea: Gravatar but for resumes. Raw data that you fill out online and can be updated as you work on projects. Companies (or you) can pull this data into usable formats or to fill out online forms.

Additionally it'd be cool if it had a "condensed" option that either you fill out with terse explanation for each project, or it ignores the descriptions of projects entirely and just shows the project name,date,and role. This would give interviewers something to glance down at for reference, but would save the functionality of the resume as a complete document of experiences.

Idk the idea that only our most recent projects (that can still fit on one sheet of paper) is the only relevant info is absurd to me; there is a lot to be learned from seeing the growth of a person over time.

To me the resume fails on every goal that it SHOULD accomplish except for maybe your ability to choose your best work, which i can see as important but there could even be a feature where you select the three works you are most proud of or something.