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"To match your data needs, you can switch plans once a month, as many times as you want." -- from the linked site.

I've done a lot of road trips with it around the US for a few years now--it gets really spotty outside of larger towns. On the other hand, it's great to get off a plane in a different country and have a working connection to the internet.

Thank you for passing it on, I'll send them a message tomorrow.

I was just looking into it a few hours ago, do you have a good experience with them? Just as many people on here I've been through different forms of office hours, one of them with a locally run entrepreneurship center, I saw an attorney (that was years ago before I could properly afford one). I know the guy volunteered his time, but basically what he said was "hey, give me a portion of your company, and I'll provide you with services", I came away with absolutely zero advice. That's why when I was looking into it today, I was a bit skeptical.

Custom database product for EPA, seemed like a good fit. While I have no connections to EPA, I do some collaborative work with bio-engineering department at a university in Chicago, I'm a data scientist/developer/have a small team, I thought I'd try dipping my toes in something new.

I just registered on SAM and submitted a bid (something unrelated to this), but no idea what I was doing, I mean I put together a plan, had meaningful past performance, but overall I'm just hoping for the best. Would you happen to have any resources you followed? Or, suggestions that you believe led you to submitting a successful bid?

SEEKING WORK - Chicago area or remote Full-stack web developer and freelancer with 10 years of experience and a math background looking for work in the Chicago area. So far I’ve specialized on digital startups, and have worked with clients out of Chicago’s 1871--I love building MVPs. Throughout my work I’ve also been involved in helping startups build the back end of their application, design and optimize their websites and develop their business. Interested in short and long term projects. While working with me you'll also get access to a copywriter and an artist/designer.

Primary Specialties:

- MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular.js, Node.js)

- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), including Wordpress

- Server set up on: CentOS, Solaris, Ubuntu, and Debian

- Data analysis in R and SAS

All of my development is responsive. In the past, I’ve worked on e- commerce sites, social networks, mobile versions of websites, and other projects. Here are some publicly available examples:

http://loadcost.com - Node.js (JavaScript), data analysis model written in R

http://yolobe.com - Node.js (JavaScript)

http://foundintown.com - PHP

References from past clients available. If you are interested, email me at: [email protected]

SEEKING WORK - Chicago area or remote Full-stack web developer and freelancer with 10 years of experience and a math background looking for work in the Chicago area. So far I’ve specialized on digital startups, and have worked with clients out of Chicago’s 1871. Throughout my work I’ve also been involved in helping startups build the back end of their application, design and optimize their websites and develop their business. Interested in short and long term projects. While working with me you'll also get access to a copywriter and an artist/designer.

Primary Specialties:

- MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular.js, Node.js)

- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), including Wordpress

- Server set up on: CentOS, Solaris, Ubuntu, and Debian

- Data analysis in R and SAS

All of my development is responsive. In the past, I’ve worked on e-commerce sites, social networks, mobile versions of websites, and other projects. Here are some publicly available examples:

http://loadcost.com - Node.js (JavaScript), data analysis model written in R

http://yolobe.com - Node.js (JavaScript)

http://foundintown.com - PHP

References from past clients available. If you are interested, email me at: [email protected]

SEEKING WORK - Chicago area or remote

Full-stack web developer and freelancer with 10 years of experience and a math background looking for work in the Chicago area. So far I’ve specialized on digital startups, and have worked with clients out of Chicago’s 1871. Throughout my work I’ve also been involved in helping startups build the back end of their application, design and optimize their websites and develop their business. Interested in short and long term projects. While working with me you'll also get access to a copywriter and an artist/designer.

Primary Specialties:

- MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular.js, Node.js)

- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), including Wordpress

- Server set up on: CentOS, Solaris, Ubuntu, and Debian

- Data analysis in R and SAS

All of my development is responsive. In the past, I’ve worked on e-commerce sites, social networks, mobile versions of websites, and other projects. Here are some publicly available examples:

http://loadcost.com - Node.js (JavaScript), data analysis model written in R

http://yolobe.com - Node.js (JavaScript)

http://foundintown.com - PHP

References from past clients available. If you are interested, email me at: [email protected]

SEEKING WORK - Chicago area or remote

Full-stack web developer and freelancer with 10 years of experience and a math background looking for work in the Chicago area. So far I’ve specialized on digital startups, and have worked with clients out of Chicago’s 1871. Throughout my work I’ve also been involved in helping startups build the back end of their application, design and optimize their websites and develop their business. Interested in short and long term projects.

Primary Specialties:

- MEAN (MongoDB, Express, Angular.js, Node.js)

- LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), including Wordpress

- Server set up on: CentOS, Solaris, Ubuntu, and Debian

- Data analysis in R and SAS

All of my development is responsive. In the past, I’ve worked on e-commerce sites, social networks, mobile versions of websites, and other projects. Here are some publicly available examples:

http://loadcost.com - Node.js (JavaScript), data analysis model written in R

http://yolobe.com - Node.js (JavaScript)

http://foundintown.com - PHP

References from past clients available. If you are interested, email me at: [email protected]

It's a great product, unfortunately (for us) the price has been steadily rising. When I first signed up it was $20/month for everything now I think it's $40/month.

I'm also coming from Chicago.

I don't think it's about intelligence, I'm from Chicago, I know a lot of incredible people from the top schools, but I've also met plenty of the "less intelligent" people from Northwestern and University of Chicago.

I believe it could be about being able to get your way in into the right circles. Getting in into an ivy league school is usually challenging, unless you're born into money, you have to figure out a plan and correctly execute it in order to get in--just like meeting the right people, starting a business, and then getting funded.

Also I think we like to associate and surround ourselves with people of the same background. So when a successful Harvard graduate sees another Harvard alumnus, there is an automatic desire to help out.

I created reports that needed to be presented every time a public finance analyst went to visit a client. I built tools in R that sped up the analysis process, but putting everything together took a few hours.

The reason why I said the analysts knew they needed the reports before 5 o'clock is because they were the once who set those meetings up weeks in advance (they are institutional clients, it doesn't just happen last minute), they just forgot to share it with our team.

I actually liked working on deals that needed to be analyzed quickly, it was usually something new and I got to be more creative.

I worked as an analyst in Investment Banking for a while. To me it seemed that the analysts who worked the really long hours worked on projects in teams, where each team member was responsible for a part of a project. No one can start or continue until that part is done, so they just sit and wait.

There were many times when people just wouldn't respect other people's time. At 5PM I would get an email: "Hey, I need this done for tomorrow morning"..."So why didn't you just tell me earlier? I know you knew about it in advance."

8pm PT: http://ycombinator.com/apply.html

Nice, you actually made me laugh.

Although I don't think that one day will make a huge difference (it'll take more than a day to get back to normal) I also don't see why the deadline shouldn't be extended.

Majority of people submitted their applications and I'm sure many keep editing them (in fact I am right now) but the reality is that the last day editing won't change that much anyways. So if everyone gets an extra day, your chances of getting in will most likely remain nearly unchanged, while the people on the East coast will at least get some kind of a chance to submit the next DropBox or AirBnb.

It has a 16GB ssd.

I'm sure that if you go into developer mode you'd be able put Linux on the machine--and with that all the software you mentioned (I know what you mean though, it would be nicer if you didn't have to jump through hoops).

I really like your project--very simple, and I believe this is something I see myself using. I think that the one major feature you may add is "private lists", it won't require that much work for you to implement, but you'll hit wider range of audience. Good Luck.

Netflix, Hulu Plus, Amazon Prime, some of Google services.