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grepon Show HN my christmas project: Focus.app, cut off your Internet so you can focus

SelfControl

grepon From concept to launch in 24 hrs and why there's no reason you can't do this too

". I’m currently on the $15 shared database, which accounts for probably 99% of my costs so far (the rest being marginal costs for S3 [likely a few cents])."

Why not on the FREE plan?

grepon Tell HN: You can spam every user of the frid.ge(YC S10)

What's the point of using frid.ge when you have fb groups?

grepon Webbynode's take on rapid node.js deployment

I'll get down voted for this but IMO, how can we trust a VPS provider if it goes down when it hits HN?

grepon Going Freemium: One Year Later

Impressive.

grepon An update on Heroku Node.js support

Joyent -> $250/mo for 2GB RAM

Heroku -> $108/mo for the equivalent

EngineYard -> $85/mo for the equivalent

Not everyone can spend $100 per month in a server.

grepon An update on Heroku Node.js support

Heroku -> Expensive

Joyent -> Expensive

EngineYard -> Expensive

Is it possible that nobody thinks in the small guy for a managed service?

I'm waiting for nodejitsu, let's see what they have to offer.

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He trashed an employee, live.

grepon Ask HN: Who's the best programmer you ever worked with?

Where do you find good developers in Philippines? They are 10x cheaper but they are 10x worse and take 10x more time. I'd like to know your opinion on that.

grepon HTML5 video chat implemented in Webkit GTK

Will this work in current browsers?

grepon Heroku: Announcing the Add-on Provider Program

70% for you, 30% for Heroku.

grepon This Week in Startups: Steve Huffman, Co-Founder of Hipmunk (YC S10)

Is Steve Huffman the designer? I like the simplicity of both of his sites.

grepon Programmer looking for co-founder/designer

you may want to check http://www.builditwith.me/

grepon Ask HN: What "infrastructure" do you use at your startup/company?

"until Twiddla went big"

How big to have to change?

"half dozen boxes ... for S3stat"

What kind of boxes do you use and how much do you need to process?

(I use 2 of your services and I love it)

grepon Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

If you keep your offer high enough, you can keep spot instances running 24/7, unless there's no offers at all.

grepon Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

What can we conclude about the performance comparing with Linode and Slicehost smaller offers? I'm curious if anyone has any conclusions.

grepon Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

Can you keep your spot instance up 24/7?

grepon Announcing Micro Instances for Amazon EC2

I hope EngineYard drop their prices a lot. I really want to use it but it's too expensive.

grepon Ask HN: Web Startup versus Non-Web Startup

It's not so easy to earn money clean dog poop where you're not in the US.

grepon Ask HN: Best books in API design

What about: Service-Oriented Design with Ruby on Rails?

Any comments?

http://www.amazon.com/Service-Oriented-Design-Ruby-Rails-Pau...

grepon Ask HN: looking for a tech cofounder, already have 13k users after 2 months

Why not hire someone as a freelancer before accepting her as a co-founder?

grepon Ask HN: looking for a tech cofounder, already have 13k users after 2 months

It will be difficult to be accepted in YC without a proper co-founder, one that you know for longer than 1 month.

grepon Ask hN: Most difficult positions to fill?

Is that true for startups as well?

grepon Tell HN: Scratching my own itch: HN new comments highlight

It doesn't seem to work very well here.

grepon 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

Could you elaborate about the qualities that you look for in a founding team?

grepon 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

I wonder how are they going to make money off this.

grepon Ask HN: Do you host paid video content?

Yes, but there's a difference in capturing the video one at a time or run Orbit and rip all the movies at once.

grepon Ask HN: Do you host paid video content?

"You set the Amazon S3 ACL on your objects so that only you and CloudFront have read permission for the objects. This means that end user access to the objects can only be through CloudFront."

The ACL is for the S3 and not the CloudFront.

Don't take my word for it:

http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/thread.jspa?t...

Edit: The signed URL protects the "copy and paste" but not the "easy" ripping.

grepon Ask HN: Do you host paid video content?

Amazon CloudFront does not provide any security against copying your rtmp/http stream and paste it in any other website.

grepon Ask HN: Do you host paid video content?

$499 for 250GB BW seems a bit too much.