darius

Something that always worked for me: start watching a movie that you've already seen. After a lot of work if I try to go to bed I'll find myself thinking about work even more. I found out that watching a movie can easily distract me but it has to be a movie that I've already watch otherwise I'd end up watching the whole movie.

Open Laszlo is another choice.

Try posting your job opportunity in places like this one. I'm sure there are people interested in startups that read yc news but that are not working on a startup right now.

We are using this method on our site. Create temporary user on the fly and let the user overwrite it if they select to save their state and it works great for us. I think just by renaming the registration page to save work page gives you an advantage since the users are sick and tired of having to register in order to get any value.

Interesting article and interesting website... what tool are you using to generate the graphs?

Yes, we are using Flex in our application. It is pretty easy and quick to develop in Flex and their builder is worth all the money. Action script is very similar to java script so it is easy to pick up. I huge pro is that you don't need to worry about browse compatibility. Also a few extra good things are that the sdk is going to be open source and that mainstream websites already make use of it (for example yahoo maps and messenger are in flex). I recommend to at least try it before you turn your back on it.