adityakothadiya

Thanks for the input. I'll review it and see how effective it looks.

It's just shortage of real domain names. And the idea was to come up with something relevant to Tweet.

1. I completely understand the issue with Twitter account credentials. That's why I kept it with minimal requirement - provide it only when you want to Post, Retweet or Reply. When I say we don't store your credentials, I do mean it. That's why I ask it every time it is needed. But as you said, once Twitter fixes it using OAuth or so, definitely I'll support it.

3. My idea was to keep the domain name short and find the one which is available :). So its' mix of Tweet + Thought = Tweeght.

4. I've seen many people just post their insights, interesting observations, inspiring quotes, etc. So is the idea :)

Hello HN,

I launched http://tweeght.com a few days ago. It's a Twitter based application to share your thoughtful and insightful tweets with #tweeght tag. Other users can Vote up, Retweet or Reply to your tweets.

The idea was born out of simple necessity - to share my thoughts, and follow thoughts from other interesting people on the Twitter. But due to other noise available on the Twitter, these thoughtful tweets were getting buried, and were hard to discover. So I created Tweeght in one week. Instead of following such tweets from interesting people in real time, I can just read interesting Tweets voted up by others.

So please review the application and let me know your all kinds of inputs.

- Do you find it useful?

- How was the usability, design and performance?

- Do you have suggestions, ideas to take it to next level?

Also, if you like this app, then I'll really appreciate if you could promote it amongst your Twitter followers.

Thanks a ton in advance for your inputs,

- Aditya

http://43things.com not sure about if you can measure the goals.

why would you that kind of thing? i don't think snail mails are free. and what do you achieve by going this route?

Here is a clickable link - http://www.txtful.com/

I'm sorry, but I didn't get it. I mean... WHY Snail Mail to Tweet? Can someone please explain me?

you can cook at home by using free recipe sites as well. my point is, should we come up with business models for "premium" customers?

I'm not saying it's not a good approach. Rather I'm researching such an idea which targets premium customers who prefer personalization/customization. And that's when my friend responded that she wouldn't pay for my premium service since there are free or cheaper options available, which also "get things done".

The question is - will they pay even in this struggling economy? My friend once told me, if economy starts getting worsened, she would cut down her premium expenses first. That includes branded products, luxurious lifestyle, premium subscriptions, etc.

Yes, people pay for premium content but in this economy, businesses which are dependent on premium features will be the first ones who get setbacks.

My $0.02s of course.

if you are supposed to build an app, which absolutely needs a password, what would you do?

don't blame that developer. blame Twitter for doing lousy job. Look at how FriendFeed handles Password requirement by giving Remote Key.

Developers are not happy to ask users passwords in text format. They simply don't have other option.

Delicious - Just can't live without this. This is the only Yahoo property I love and use heavily.

the logo still points to http://www.aductions.com. pls fix it.

I would rather read more books online than reading paper ones.

Instead of paying $30 for printed book, I'd pay $5 for online book with no ads.

Paper books are so one-way communication. Online books are interactive with 2-way communication abilities.

Picture is worth of 1000 words. So paper books now add images. Now video is worth of 100,000 words. What's wrong in adding Videos in the book?

And most importantly, I cannot search something in paper books. That's the single most reason all paper books should be converted into online books. That advantage surpasses all these negligent disadvantages by huge margin.

My $0.02s of course!

Thanks for your kind words. Yes, any kind of help will be appreciated. And if you have suggestions/feedback, then don't hesitate to shoot me an email.

Thanks again.

I've started http://siliconverge.com for semiconductor and hardware folks. it has small community though. I'm trying to spread the word.

Wanna help me and join the forces in spreading the word to more people and have a nice focused site for hardware folks?

Email me: aditya AT siliconverge.com if you are interested.

I love these guys!

Thanks PG. This is a great advice. I'll stick to my plan then.

It's great. But please add more description about how users can use it and screenshots of how it will look to receivers. Then this will be a great tool.

The original Techcrunch article didn't have "(YC 07)" in the headline of their post. Add it while posting on Hacker News, and you get upvotes immediately and may be blindly! Good trick!

When I started learning PHP, after basic tutorials of PHP, I jumped on MVC framework called Symfony (http://symfony-project.org/). It's a great framework and the documentation is really extensive with some basic examples as well. You might wonder isn't starting with MVC was more extensive, but here are the adavantages I found - 1. MVC helped me to automate many things, so it was faster productivity 2. It showed me how to organize and structure the code 3. Though initially it kept details unknown from me, it was good because it didn't baffle me a lot initially.

Once I started get going with my actual application, I started reading more details of PHP as on when required. But MVC helped to accelerate my process of building the real thing instead of investing of time in reading tutorials.

Also, I found these tutorials are good for plain PHP - http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/ . It also explains the MVC and all. So you might want to read these tutorials, and then start with Symfony.

I hope this helps.

So are you guys going to launch every feature on Hacker News? Think about it when every startup starts launching their each feature announcement on Hacker News?

Just because you are a YC alumni startup, does it make sense to launch every feature here?

Another thing which annoys me about YC startups is - to get immediate attention, they add "(YC Summer/Winter 08/09)" in the title of their post, and other YC alumni vote up immediately. And the post comes to the front page. I'm tired of these tricks!

Please, there are many startups launching many features every single day. Launching search feature is not a news. Launching a startup is a news. So I would appreciate if you can limit such releases to your blog only. If we are interested, we will follow your blog for feature releases.

Please don't take this personally. I meant this to all YC alumni startups who launch features as if it's a big press release on Hacker News using all above mentioned tricks.

Anyway, it was my $0.02s. Hope you agree to it.

why limit this to only people who got laid off? this can be helpful for all job-seekers.

so instead of keeping http://afterthepinkslip.com/ as a domain name, keeping generic domain name will help more.

i think people who did not get laid-off and simply looking for job search may find that this tool is not useful for them.

my $0.02s! overall, it's a nice utility.

Thanks a bunch for your excellent suggestions. I'll look into them.

Thanks PG for your advice.

BTW, when you say "aggressive about killing spams", you mean killing manually, right?

Check this out - hope this helps -

http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/iphone-application-and-webs...

http://icodeblog.com/category/iphone-programming-tutorials/

By salseman, I mean you need to learn the art of selling. You need not think of money only. Even convincing your technology to internal/upper management, or explaining your idea (let's say a Free service) to a single user and enticing him to signup to your service can be also considered as Sales act.

I've worked in a situation, where we were 2 co-founders, coming from technology background. It wasn't a Consumer Internet startup. So we couldn't wait to code in the room and then let "virality" spread out. We had to make new introductions, go to customers' site, present them what we are doing, understand what exactly they want, and then re-define spec based on majority of customer feedback. We were small tech team, in the process of building something. So we didn't have sales team. So we had to roll our sleeves, and pitch the customers. We couldn't wait until we hire sales guys. Once the startup grows, we'll hire sales team.

But my point was, we need to have that selling attitude - always.

I'm extremely sorry. It wasn't intentional. I wud update the blog entry and will give you due credit. Once again, I apologize for missing that out.

No self promotion, but after reading this paper 2 years ago, I started a series called "What Makes Them Entrepreneurial" on my blog - http://www.adeologue.com/adeologue/what_makes_them_entrepren...

You'll find approx. 34 traits of entrepreneurs that made them entrepreneurial that I've collected from different papers/blogs/books I read. The series is still ongoing - so if you find some more inputs, then let me know. I'll try to write about it.

Don't bailout. There are always lows and highs in this journey. This is a "low" phase. Try to get over of it. Even if you are thinking about a new idea, there will be a phase with that idea where you will feel "low". It's very frustrating to see afterwards that you left the journey half-way. Let your users/customers decide if this is failure or not. Then it'll be obvious if you should quit or continue. I did this mistake before. I'm going through this situation again, but this time I learned the lesson from past experience. So I'm not quitting when I'm at low phase. I'm pushing my best, and I hope a high phase is ahead. All the best!