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Down for almost an hour now. Haven't seen anything of this scale happen in 18 months or so of running our apps on heroku. Looking forward to the postmortem from Heroku (and hopefully my app being up again).

aquilliganon Ask HN: How long do your unit tests take to run?

Yip, unit tests are like lightening. Integration tests cause the bloat. We cut a significant amount of time off by using https://github.com/grosser/parallel_tests

aquilliganon Show HN: Find bugs before your users do

http://www.docracy.com/

Really like this idea. Haven't been able to test it out yet due to HN overload. Will check it out again later.

Also, on the pricing tables. Headers and some text acting up with the responsive design for small screens.

aquilliganon Applications for YC W15 are open

Seen as the people at YC HQ will be in bed for another few hours I might as well offer my opinion. Your description appears to me to be more like an employee relationship than a co-founder relationship.

A co-founder is generally someone who's goals and interests are closely aligned with yours. Someone who's in it for the long run through all of the peaks and troughs experienced on the startup journey. If you own the majority of the shares and your friend's main interest is the salary you're paying him/her, then his/her goals are not closely aligned with yours.

I don't know how YC will view this but my advice is to think about building a team of co-founders who will stick together through thick and thin and share in the success of the company as well as the struggles. I guess that's why its so important to get good co-founders. You don't want to give half your company to someone who you don't believe offers a whole lot to the company's success. I hope this helps.