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Hey, come on, give yourself the due credit. You probably put in more hard work than you give yourself credit for :)

Did you ever really fare well in Mechanical Engineering?

Posted with the intention of a focused discussion that's relevant to hackers.

BTW, I read your "about" section. Looks like you might genuinely benefit from this discussion :)

Posted with the intention of a focused discussion that's relevant to hackers.

What's CoD4? (I may have rather stupidly assumed this is the fourth call of duty video game)

How can I pay you for this?

Note — I know many might disagree, because of very valid points, but for me personally, deployment is a nightmare. I really have no clue how that works. I didn't know SQLite3 (being file-based) needed special permissions on the .db file to be able to avoid an OSError, and the folder containing the file needed other permissions. The whole absolute-path-in-server-but-relative-will-work-locally, blah blah — This is really a irritating business for me.

Deployment ideally should be like —

$ sometool deploy myAwesomeApp

$ Enter <some-sort-of-username-for-server> — myServer

$ Enter <some-sort-of-password-or pem key location> — ••••••••••

$ Deploying...done!

$ Your app is live on YOUR-SERVER-IP

Too far off for many. Many might hate it, but trust me I personally know atleast 50 other developers who would benefit from a setup like this. Mostly people learning how to code, who just want to put their simple apps out there.

Assuming this works perfectly well, all the time — this is awesome. A possible pain-point this is addressing is that apps behave differently locally and then when you move them to the cloud (aka deploy them) they behave differently.

I'd say D3 is a super set of the features in SigmaJS. D3 is more comprehensive in the sense that there are so many types of visualizations you can make using just D3.

I tried to use JsPlumb and it was a nightmare. I think there is a lot of documentation for JsPlumb, but it's structured so poorly that it makes it hard to use. I'm pretty sure I had an unpleasant experience with JsPlumb mostly because the framework behaves much differently than what the documentation suggests.

You should still check it out though. It might work for you.

https://jsplumbtoolkit.com/

Wow, sorry for slightly going on a tangent, but this is really cool. Imagine all the products had a single syntactic guide to follow. Underlying tech may differ, but a uniform process for creation. There are a million flaws with this, but just a thought.

And can I just add — WOOOOOO!! Okay. Sorry.

Firstly, maybe you should remove the (YC W2016) from the title. It is kind of confusing and led me to assume you were already a YC backed company. It's kind of unnecessary too, IMO, but I may be 100% wrong on this.

But about the app itself —

Love the simple design! You could add the "Available on App Store" button which looks more neat. But the app, and the website looks cool.

I think there is insufficient data for most people to tell you if you have a shot at YC. This is only ONE side of the whole story, which is PRODUCT. We may need to know about user stats, and so many other things. There may be some very experienced folks here who can help, though.

Best of luck, and I hope you get in! Kudos, my friend!

Beautiful design!

I see a few great suggestions from people here, but I want to add — I see the grand vision here. This is a great "First-step" in this direction. I feel it's great because it does away with the shitty "sign-in-with-github-and-youre-done" thing. Comprehensive, yet minimal. I like it.

Finally! Always wanted something like this! It looks beautiful! Sorry if this sounds to flimsy but how an app looks is probably a huge factor for me to consider using it. This always pushes me away from open source because they aren't designed (visually) as properly as their proprietory counterparts. Love this project!

I used to use Trello + Burndown for Trello + Scrum for Trello prior to this. This looks better. It will have to be very fast loading and should have burndown & scrum like features before I can convince my team to switch, but thumbs up for the great job!

I will give it a shot :)

Kudos!

Edit — Tried it out! is awesome! A few minor things though – It's a little too similar to Trello for me to bother switching, but looks way better (subjective I know, but works well for me!)

and also this: For the buttons (signup button on the home page. The element:focus{outline: none;} is something that really goes a long way in showing polish and detail on the front end.

Can this be used in production?

Agree with you 100%

This is a vague reason. Animal slaughter for food is a common practice world wide. Kashmir isn't the only place where this happens.

Edit — Infact, judging by the dress code, the video you've posted is from somewhere in South India (where internet was not banned)

Meanwhile in Kashmir, which is an "integral" part of India (apparently) — http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/access-denied-kas...

I love SQLAlchemy because I had formally learnt MySQL in high school and I never seemed to understand why I wouldn't use Excel instead.

SQLAlchemy + Python (preferably using Flask) and the Mega Tutorial by Miguel Grinberg is the best way to get started in web development. I realize every body has different methods that work for them, but not only did this work for me, it also was very well explained by Miguel and also as OP said, the documentation on SQLAlchemy.

It was sad to bid adieu to SQLAlchemy recently, as I picked up MongoDB (you should check out MongoEngine if you haven't!)

As 'tdlyan' said, the median age was 30+ in one of the recent batches. I honestly don't think age should define the success of your startup.

Also, don't let YC determine the fate of your startup. You are bound to fail or succeed based on your execution skills and hard work, and not whether you get accepted into YC or not. That being said, I wish you all the best! People like you are an inspiration and remind me to always do what you love.

Also — http://blog.ycombinator.com/yc-open-office-hours-for-black-a...

"Each company who participates will get 20 minute office hours with a YC partner. They can do them in person at our office in Mountain View, CA or remotely on Skype."

Hey, this is a very radical approach. I have great respect for people who ship something (anything!), because they have the vision to see things differently and actually execute this vision.

This may take some getting used to, and a lot of debate if using this is really worth it, but it's something. Nice job! :)

That last sentence was very deep and helped put things in perspective. Thank you!

Agree. Try to do that as much as possible, whenever it is due!

Go to McLeodganj in Himachal Pradesh, India.

Fly to Africa, donate all the money I can to better education, healthcare, and living conditions, raise some more, donate that too, and then fly back.

A good friend wouldn't need to be paid, I think?

We'd love to but we simply cannot afford it, especially since we're bootstrapping. That's the sad part about boostraping. You spent most time trying to keep food on the table, than actually building something awesome.

Little knowledge is very dangerous. I shall not feed fanatic trolls like you. Have a nice day!