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please stop creating such groups. What do you want to do that can not be done at HN ?

I don't know about differentiator but I am quickly learning that it's a must for any product.

I worked for Project Looking Glass, added natural language voice control. It was really cool demo and stuff but didn't go anywhere as the parent project was always in a demo like state itself.

I did continue to work for Google and played a part in some of the SoC activities for next year.

Can't reply to the child thread. Yes I am the same guy :-)

Yeah the usability sucks. Right now the problem is that one can use it after 15 minutes of training and become expert in may be few hours of training, after which you can create super complex sites like twitter/HN.

I am doing a UX rewamp and trying to minimize the learning curve. The next version with some major UI modifications and support for all browsers should be out in 2 weeks. Do follow me on twitter or drop a line and I will make sure you know.

www.appcanvas.com. I posted it here a few days back and was blasted for poor and unintuitive usability. Have been working my ass off on the UX since then. For what's it worth it definitely fits the description here.

You just sound like me. I had the best job. I am not in the valley. My first year in the woods saw me splitting with my co-founder, going into debt and not to mention that my first idea never took off. My current idea has seen 3 YC rejects, 2 TC50 reject, 2 year of me working on it alone and a very recent blasting on the YC. I wonder if my idea will give up on me first.

I disagree that me and you should give up. We have learned more from our failures that most entrepreneurs would have learned for their short-lasting success. It's time to introspect, write down a list of todos that will make your product better, talk to a bunch of users and see why they are hating your product and get back to coding.

You are just in mid-30s and you are going to live for atleast 50 more years. Hang in there for a decade.

NO.

Your target audience are developers. And it's already super easy to do what you want done with pre-built images, yum etc. Then there is a trust issue with someone who's new.

If you want to go ahead and provide a service to setup distributed architectures using Nutch/Hadoop etc, you have an audience, but it's a lot of work and there are people already doing it.

I am curious. Did you outsource the UI/US as well to the Indian Development firms ?

- I am targeting both coders and non-coders. People who are willing to spend some time learning a new interface and some new concepts by watching some videos.

- Want to realize their idea of creating a complete functional app (as complex as Hacker News or Twitter) in few hours.

I agree that at the moment the interface sucks, the tutorials are missing and discoverability of so many features in the builder is super low, and I really need to work a lot more on them than I thought. But, I am excited that you liked the concept and took the time to evaluate it further.

Thanks for trying out. I expected the comments about UI being un-intuitive and I continue to work on them. I think having a brief video walk-through of the interface will go some way.

I agree that one should not build complex websites from low-level pieces and AppCanvas was designed to address this problem from the very beginning.

- There are page templates (right now not many) which you can base your starting page upon. - There is a "Widget Gallery" which has high level widgets. - You can create a custom widget by selecting something and then reusing it.

Thanks for helping me understand how important having templates/presets it.

Sorry. I just added a popup which will warn you on the homepage itself. The Design interface is very JS intensive and right now I have only tested it properly on FF. I do play to add support for all browsers very soon.

However, the finished PHP applications should run properly on all browsers.

clickable : http://www.appcanvas.com

Make anyone code.

It totally depends on the nature of the company. In many successful tech companies like (Google/FB/DropBox etc..), I believe tech guys owns majority.

You lost me in the first 30 seconds in both the video.

"better, faster, smarter", if you can measure these you can improve these. Focus on that.

- Work hard, have aggressive deadlines and get rid of the people who are being lazy. You are in business for a long time and probably your developers have become bored and run out of ideas. You need to challenge and motivate them like in the early days. - Get some smart people as advisors/consultant to help you generate innovative ideas to improve your product and define the timelines. Especially if you don't have any technically strong guys in the core team.

I am an X-Googler. It's a great company to work and what you see and learn there will definitely add a lot of value to you for future.

Also, the actual money you will make at google will be more than your base pay. The bonuses are good (I am not sure I can reveal the exact numbers here, but read your offer letter carefully and make some min-max calculations, It won't be hard for you to land up with an average).

Then there's free food and other benefits that you can google around to find out.

Google supports Eclipse and have built several tools to enhance it (Source Android). Why would they undo all of it. There are more interesting stuff to do even for a big company like google.

My only problem with eclipse is that it's a bit slow, but I can always buy a powerful machine and nullify that.

Perhaps you need to explore eclipse more. There are several editor options, I use emacs and long time back I built a shared LAN editor plugin. I also customize the shortcuts/workspace a lot.

Please read this http://aci.byelarus.com/index.php?p=6#wag-fig. The average wage for a good software developer is close to 1000$ (note that minimum wage is $2.5 per month). You say he is awesome, that ways I will put his to 2000$. He is consulting for you, so he should make 3X the money as his salary, that comes to 30$ an hour.

The living cost thing is BS. You are confusing between "living cost" and "cost for a good standard of living which everyone in US takes for granted". The former is less, just because more people are very poor, eat once a day and live like hell. I can bet cost for a comparable standard of living to US would be super high.

Just because your developer is OK with living poorly doesn't mean he has to. You can be fair and guide him to a better life.

Sad you would exploit someone like this. You could be a good mentor and advice him on what his real asking rate should be and also pay him better, if he really performed at a much higher level.

I am looking. Specialist in Search/Scaling/Data Mining/Large datasets using Java/Hadoop/Nutch/Solr/Lucene. X-Google and have helped several companies solve their search/scaling issues.

Depends on your definition of "super smart". I had put a successful entrepreneur in "super smart" category.

Liked the concept. Just sent you my condition doctor ;-)

Give some simple algorithmic problems like "Given a tree in preorder, print it in postorder" or "Find longest increasing subsequence in a list of numbers" and ask the guy to code it in front of you. It will be easy to filter out guys who code regularly and will be able to learn iphone development. It will be nice if you can find someone to interview or evaluate the code written by the candidates.

Yes this is probably getting too much hectic for him. Handling PR is not something he is expected to be good at.

Author has posted a new synopsis (which answers the first objection raised by Scott and perhaps more) and claims to put out a version addressing the issues raised in 3-4 days. http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Vinay_Deolalikar/

I think this is getting unwanted publicity. The author never released the proof in public or made any announcement. He only sent it to his expert friends so that they can point out potential flaws. May be this needs more research and putting him in spotlight is not helping anything.

If the company is google chill. It takes a while. Rejections come early. So feel good.

I am building a tool like this. It's a Photoshop-like design tool that generates a complete PHP application. That's (HTML+CSS+PHP+JS+MySQL). Follow @zopte and I will let you in as soon as its ready.