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Ask HN: OSX App Developer

I have an idea for an OSX app and I want to get started ASAP. Unfortunately, I don't have the skills needed to get an app to market in the time frame i'd like. The initial offering is basic enough that I would be able to wrap my head around the code shortly enough to continue developing other features.My questions:Where/How do I find OSX app developers? What should I expect to pay (hourly) for...

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Show HN: Aggresaurus - a social stream mash up tool

http://aggresaurus.com/We're almost ready to beta launch an app that we've been working on the last few weeks called Aggresaurus.From the site: "aggresaurus is the loveable dino that makes it easy to create a customized, real-time social media feed from multiple sources that you can embed on your website."Essentially, it let's you mash up content from different sources (flickr, tumblr, twitter,...

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Re:What email sending services do you use? on Friday December 12, 2008 @05:34PM (#396195)
http://industrymailout.com is my vote. We use them quite a bit for numerous clients and haven't had any problems. Anything not present in their back end, they've built in. Anywhere from 1000 - 35000 mails without a hitch and an API.

Ask HN: small office network

We just moved offices and we're thinking of revamping our network setup.We've got an internal server, an external server. A router, wireless router, 24 port switch and 8 workstations.What we're thinking is:Internet into the wireless router. One DMZ hard wired port on the wireless router will be for our external server. Another hard wired port will connect to our switch. From our switch we'll...

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Ask YC: accounting help

For those of you with small home based businesses or a business on the side. How do you keep track of invoicing and payables/receivables? I'm using Quicken Home and Business 2008 and it's nice and all, but I just want to invoice and know what's outstanding etc.. I don't need to micro manage an investment portfolio or know what the interest on $10 is going to be in 5 years.An online solution...

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Ask YC: Client work development workflow

I work in a small custom dev shop. We do drupal hacking, wordpress bits and some zen stuff. Then custom when we can't leverage open source.We're looking to revamp our work flow from, build, test, deploy and then remote edit through ftp, hoping we don't screw anything up to svn controlled, locally developed, staged and then checked out of svn to a live server.We're not sure the best approach to...

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Re:Ask HN: shared hosting on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @02:12PM (#215100)
just added my email address in there. i don't know if that means you'll be able to message me.

the company i work for isn't a startup. we do client work and we needed a reliable hosting recommendation for them.

on the side i run a small online magazine for arts and entertainment in vancouver. not exactly a startup, but we got high hopes.

Re:Ask HN: shared hosting on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @01:59PM (#215092)
i guess i didn't necessarily want shared. just something cheap for our clients. and since most of our clients are in vancouver, the hope was that it was close by so hops or latency or whatever were kept to a minimum.
Re:Ask HN: shared hosting on Wednesday June 11, 2008 @12:47PM (#215008)
no rails, mostly php and python. slicehost is looking really nice. anyone know where the data centers are?

Ask HN: shared hosting

we are a small dev company looking for a reliable shared hosting company in or around vancouver or along the west coast. we used to use netnation, but those dudes are idiots now so we switched to media temple, but the latency from here to there is too much. any ideas?

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