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Ah, yes. I had assumed it had something to do with the death of Steve Jobs.

This looks AWESOME. The look and feel is outstanding.

I also checked out Pluggio, great work. Using it as my twitter client now

Love BugHerd. Been using it for my company now, love the fact that I can POINT and tell what my developers should work on.

Good luck!

This means a lot, coming from a person like you!

Hi Andy. Thank you sooo much for the positive comments. Nothing better than reading these comments and chatting with the users. Very motivating!

Would you mind sending me an email at emil@helpjuice.com? I might have something interesting for you

Thanks!

Thanks so much for the positive feedback!

Thanks for the nice words :)

Thanks for making me feel even worse for not being able to attend I/O

Sendgrid accepts incoming emails: http://nanceskitchen.com/2010/02/21/accept-incoming-emails-i...

If only you could code on it...

Checkout the hackerhouse (hackerhouse.bluwiki.org)

Congrats Marc. Really glad to see to see compversions launched. Beautiful design. Played with the app, really great; Especially the UX (it's terribly simple and straightforward)

^^ Great books. Also checkout the books about the lean startup by Eric Ries (there's like 3-4 of them now).

I would also recommend the ultimate sales machine. Even though I've only read 20 pages since I started reading it one month ago (yes, I run a startup), it's really interesting and helpful.

Amazing stuff. Already addicted to this. It's like a social network full of entrepreneurs, a lot of from HN.

+1 on that! Another suggestion: Is it possible to make private posts?

Very very well done. I'd be interested in hearing more about this. Best of luck to you!

Your best bet is HackerHouse IMO. If you're really looking for an apartment, go with http://padmapper.com, really easy way to browse for apartments

Quick feedback

"Offer me a place at your startup"

I like this better:

"Let me show you how great of a fit I'd be for your team" or something along those lines..

Great blog post Matt. I've been using jMockups on and off and I really like it. I'm a designer and it really speeds up the process of iterating through ideas.

That being said, Matt, it'd be awesome(for you, as marketing material perhaps) if you could showcase how jMockups helped increase sales/conversion rate of a certain website that uses your product.

Keep hustling man!

Jasber, thanks for building this. You're really really making it easy for me to find a great name for my projects.

This would look great on a YC application :-p

Do #2 first, to validate your idea. This will help you better persuade your tech cofounders to take the plunge and join you guys. At least it helped me!

After that's up, start learning programming. Rails or Django should do fine. Just get a MVP out there and slowly gain some users/customers

3) ..don't rush getting on TC

4) It's like looking for the ideal boyfriend. You'll never find him if YOU keep looking so hard and see everyone as a potential boyfriend. Instead just learn to program a little, build out a simplistic product and they'll come to you.

BTW, I'll be doing a "Learn Rails and build an app in 7 days" course soon, so if you're interested drop me an email at hajrice@gmail.com

>> On one hand we have a product idea that definitely solves a problem for a small industry. We have spoken with 10 or so players in this industry and they would all be willing to pay for our software (they are hungry for a solution). This would be a very stable income producing product / company that could go on for years innovating in this industry but its growth potential would be somewhat capped. I can see it getting to 5+ million a year in revenue with 60% profit margins but then it becomes much more difficult to grow. Getting to 10 million would be a short term ceiling (Pending some other added revenue sources).

I'd go with that one. Build the MVP(my rule of thumb is, if you cant get it out the door and into customers hands within 90days, move on) and charge them. You'll soon realize that your assumptions were right/wrong about that industry.

That being said, I'd always go for B2B rather than B2C.

- Design editor on teh go. You upload ur PSD, and u can edit the psd with ur team like select a portion of the image, insert text and save.

- WhatWill5DollarsGetMe.com - A very simple(without login) way for people to submit what $5 will get them around the globe.

- Groupon but for deals which will make a loved one remember you / relationship building tool. Like Manpacks or

- Replica of MacHeist, using their previous deals. FOr instance, what was for them in December you do in January or February, etc.

- A better google analytics tool which focuses on sales and SaaS websites

- Something to do with all the emails at http://www.skymem.com/

- business dashboard

- awebder.com competitor …. see use of it here: http://mixergy.com/dane-maxwell-zannee-interview/ at 25:00 minute

- turbotax alternative for small businesses / entrepreneurs / consumers

- replica of salesforce chatter(BIG market, proven idea, easy to build)

- dropbox alternative which syncs in your Gdocs account. Price: one time/monthly

- dont make me think bulletpoints on the left and ur website on the right. u enter ur website and boom, u get a UX checklist to see if ur website needs to be worked on.

- $5/month repo of PSDS from designers. Sorta like WooThemes

- rails bootcamp seminar; learn rails in 7days at $299. <-- Might be working on this soon

- cloud email parser(forward an entire email conversation and it returns threads and removes the signature).

+1 on that. I also got into Taskforce recently and am really liking it.

Hi. It really depends, if you want to do it yourself it can be significantly cheaper. I paid less than $100 for the incorporation of my company(c-corp). I'm a solo founder, so I didn't have to deal with partnership agreements and such.

As rmah said, there is no federal incorporation in the US, it's all done on a state level. I'd suggest, if you're not going to take any investments to register your company in the state you live(to avoid double taxation). Also, if you're going to file for a corporation and still don't plan on raising capital, make sure you file for election of a S-Corp after you've received your certificate of incorporation - that'll also lower the taxes.

Hope the process goes well...I'll be sure to write up a detailed blog post for ya on how I incorporated.

I use IndexTank for my startup(pilarhq.com), and search is the single most important thing for us. Seriously, IndexTank is terrific. Not only is their product pretty fast and provides great search which you can integrate in your app in a matter of minutes, but their support is AMAZING.

In fact, I've tweeted TWICE about how great their support is. They've seriously walked me through each step with various code samples and have resolved all my issues within a couple of hours....I have only great things to say about them.

Would you mind elaborating on that? Staying at a Hackerhouse is relatively inexpensive(~550/mo). Food? ~700. Cali Taxes are, of course very high, but I don't see how SF is less expensive than Boston/NYC. Then again you could get by with $2k/month in SF but it's a question of how the quality of your life would be.

Hmm....try checking out universities in the area ?

Yeah, I hear you. Now in that case, I'd make it extra easy..for instance, when we had a bug and that problem was thrown at us with Chalkboard, we offered another month free(as it's a paid app).

@FollowWithoutContactInfo: CHALKBOARDHQ.com SUCKS, I CANT MAKE A PROJECT

^^ We'd reply: Hey, sorry about that, we had [xyz] happen to us. But can you please shoot me an email at emil@chalkboardhq.com.

Either in that tweet or in the email which we respond, we'd thank them also offering something in return for that. It's not necessary but it definitely provides gorilla value to the customer.