Hi Guys/Girls,We are based in India. We have launched 2 web based products - http://www.mingletrips.com and http://www.rishteykonnekt.com .During this, we have learnt many things: Quickly building landing pages and getting right kind of traffic to validate the idea Designing and building MVP for next level of validation - making sure our service works and thats what the users want Multiple...
iPage.com is the worst web hosting service. I had an account with them where I hosted all my a lot of stuff - my blogs, websites of my company and my friends' companies - mostly wordpress sites. Their renewal date was 20th March 2013. However, on 19th March, they arbitrarily DELETED ALL MY STUFF - WEBSITES, DATABASES, EMAILS, DOMAIN SETTINGS - EVERYTHING. Since then I have been struggling with...
Hi Guys/Gals, I wonder what you all think about it: Should startup entrepreneurs spend time reading tech blogs/news regularly? Mostly these are one/two people with a lot to do. But we find read stuff like HackerNews and TechCrunch because it is "work". On one hand, often better ideas emerge out of reading these blogs since we get to know of new technologies and trends. But this can also be...
Hey Guys, We are building a web app from ground up. We are using Neo4j for data management. Should we go with Ruby on Rails or Grails? ROR resources are far and few. But Java people are in abundance here. Im hoping they will be able to quickly pick up Groovy/Grails too. Also, we will be building many web apps in future too. So from that perspective, which tech stack do you think makes more...
Hi, The stories about web patents seem so bizarre. Like Yahoo claiming to own patent on showing ads based on some metrics. I wonder what all can and can not be patented. As in, how come Friendster or MySpace could not get online social network patented or how come Amazon could not get online book store patented? Basically what I want to understand is - what are the features of a product for it...
Hey Guys, do you know if OK cupid has a patent on its matching algorithm. I know google says they have some patent pending. But if we change the set of questions, can we use their process of "whats your answer, which answers are you ok with and how important is it for you" process? - without infringing on any patent.
I used to be an avid Tech Crunch reader. The site show cased interesting startups. But now I dont find it interesting anymore. The editorial quality has gone down. The article selection has also changed. So, what are some sites that cover good web/mobile startups nicely?
Hey Guys, Heres our startup - Mingle Trips - http://www.mingletrips.com . It is for single travelers to meet other travelers/locals while traveling. All sorts of feedback is welcome. Especially, ideas on promoting it. Thanks. Manas
Hi, Why are most Webapps developed in PHP while enterprise apps use Java? I am asking this because I want to build a team for our next web app. We were recruiting PHP guys but I realize that most PHP guys have only done work on customizing OSCommerce, Wordpress, Drupal or Joomla, etc.. no hard core programming. Java people seem to be more "hard core" programmers. Can you tell me why I shouldnt...
Hi, We need to allow our users to invite friends using their address book from popular email services like gmail, hotmail, yahoo, rediffmail and also from social networks like facebook, orkut etc. There are many sites like Openinviter.com Invitebox.com Cloudsponge.com ContactGrabber.com GetMyContacts.comsuper-tell-a-friend.com inviteallfriends.net smartaddon.com (found them by searching...
Hi, We are using PHP with Yii Framework. Currently we are using MySQL but will also use a NoSQL database in the next application. For Facebook app, we need an SSL too. We have no experience in UNIX and System administration - dont want to take on much management work either. Can you suggest a good hosting service at cheap to test our app prototypes? Thanks.
Hi, I have 14 submissions on hackernews and 18 points (i found it by clicking on my name and then submissions) But it says 5 next to my name - what does that 5 mean? Does anyone know how the points work here on Hacker News?
Hi, I blog as a hobby and also work on testing some startup ideas very often. I dont want to pay for images for my pages and at the same time, wish I didnt have to use stolen images. Can you guys recommend good sources for photographs and illustrations? I tried Foter.com but their search engine sucks.