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Shop for myself. Would never let someone else buy for me sight unseen.

In what way would this be an "App Store". It sounds like a website you build for others to discover stuff other people build. In that sense it's a lot more like a Chinese product hunt with a totally different UI perhaps than it would an App Store no?

Your comment is spot on for a lot of things but arguing you don't know what the MCAT is isn't one of them. It's a niche audience and those who want tutoring for the MCAT would know. Those who don't aren't going to have a need for it.

TLDR: Purchased .com for five figures but did not disclose actual price.

Pay walled

Nothing I am officially aware of. It could be a structure they created themselves. Perhaps someone can shed better light on this but when we had our structure done, it was base on how the standard structure is set up.

In regards to #2, he said he's the only software engineer, not the only engineer. It's a hardware startup so I am left to assume there are other engineers on board. Irregardless, the comment that no other department has anything to do until he does his part at best is a bad assumption or at worse completely wrong.

Even in a pure software company, someone should be out there validating the idea, building a client list, etc... In this case, it could be those and things like prepping for a kickstarter campaign, storyboarding, and of course the hardware development. There is always more to be done.

In regards to #3, in the example given, if OP wants to be cofounder then to some degree this makes sense but if not, it gets a bit more tricky. My advice to OP here is to figure out how much commitment you actually want to put in and ask for equity split (vested among all members) accordingly.

Using FB to personalize news for me is probably going to yield some pretty bad results.

You're missing my point. I'm not the Op but had I been the one asking the question, I would love to see actual projects that have clean php code written (even if they were using a framework), rather than refer to how a framework itself is written.

I find it a bit funny that all the recommendations here are of php frameworks and none that are projects built in php outside of that

Notes app

I keep a list of things I want solved for personal reasons each time they come up

Site initiated some sort of download file, no idea what but guessing it's a virus.

ATP

I use this: http://hnnotify.com/

Doesn't work on Chrome in Mac Yosemite (newest versions on both). The @ sign is in the wrong place and clicking the button does nothing.

Ironic considering how broken this looks on mobile...

I'm curious, what is your take and how does it differ from everyone else?

It could have been done on purpose as some people hate voicemail and not setting it up is a sure fire way to not have to check it. But now that it is set up, I'd imagine it'd be a pain to shut off again.

What you're asking for is most likely unrealistic...

Even tiny studios in bad neighborhoods tend to go for more than $1200 in majority of the bay area much less what you are asking for. The only way I can see you landing a place that meets your requirements is sharing a place with other renters or getting insanely lucky

Network

Can't view on mobile, says browser is not supported. Would like to see anyway

None of that until it does scale. Speaking from prior experience of previously running on our own server setup (a long time ago before cloud and hosting were the norm, after scaling on AWS, and to current stuff.

Worry about server setup when you have those problems or otherwise you might be over optimizing the wrong things.

No. The last time I updated right when an OS update came out, all sorts of issues cropped up plus some drivers for certain things weren't updated by third parties yet, etc... For any OS updates now (mobile included), I would generally wait a month or two.

These days I am moving away from anything that isn't a .com. I have a couple domains that I think are other TLD for legacy reasons but trying hard not to buy anything that isn't a .com generally

I tried it in the past due to people raving about it to. It was a garbage experience. After the one domain I had with them expired (never used it for much), I stopped using them.

This is different how from all the chat aggregators that existed since the 90s except for the fact that it supports SMS type apps and chat?

Not only that but not working for iOS and being solely at the mercy of so many integrations seems like a difficult model to sustain.

What stack

I am not Zuck and won't pretend like I know what he meant by rejecting that million dollar check but if it was me, I would take it to mean I live modestly, that million dollar doesn't do much to impact me.

That said, money should not be the focus. There is a difference between focusing on money as the reason vs money is the byproduct of what you care about doing. In this regard I can relate.

The speed was too slow and it was getting choppy