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jmenu··on Show HN: SaaS that turns your idea into a perfect 5-minute pitch
I agree with this assessment. The copy is a little to generalized. Just by adding the word Startup to your headline, a reader would get a better understanding about what you do. Personally, I would drop the phrase Artificial Intelligence from the headline. I don't think it's necessary. Instead you should put the benefits you listed in its place. "Create the Perfect Startup Pitch in Minutes - Fast and Stress Free"
jmenu··on Show HN: I built a tool that helps break down your SaaS idea into AI coder steps
I think the idea is interesting. I, like you, have found that planning and structuring your prompts give way better results; particularly using structured outputs.
jmenu··on Ask HN: Teaching Web Development to Middle Schoolers
Have a look at dickbaldwin.com. He has written a bunch of tutorials for middle and high school students. He is a former teacher.
jmenu··on Ask HN: How to monetize 10 million photos
Give away 10 or so images for signing up and then charge a quarter for each down load, giving the user a license to use the image on a website or print run of 100,000 or less. Then encourage users to upload their images and share the revenue with them, 20% would be good. As you get more users you could add different sizes for different prices, $1 for a web image and up to $50 for a bill board size. It worked for istockphoto.com. If this images cover the gamut of genres, I would contact anyone that has anything to do with design, architects, we developers, interior designers.
jmenu··on ASK HN: Is it time to move from JAVA/Struts2 to Scala/Lift?
I have been programming in Java for 7+ years. I am responsible for several site that use struts 2 and Java. In the past year I have been moving toward groovy/grails. I have successfully integrated groovy scripts into production code running srtuts 2. I have also had success with placing an existing struts 2 application into a grails application. The beauty of groovy is that it is built on top of java and compiles to bitecode. Grails is just a convention over configuration approach to a groovy/spring/hibernate or jpa stack. You mantain complete control over all configuration.
jmenu··on Ask HN: Do you meditate? How/Why?
I meditate on the Word (Jesus) of God day and night. I also read the Bible and pray. Just talk to him like any friend. I receive peace and incite about things happening in my life.
jmenu··on Ask HN: What tool, process or habits have boosted your productivity most?
Groovy/grails + Extjs + Netbeans + Customer Development (Four Steps to the Epiphany)
jmenu··on Ask HN: What should be my next programming language?
I also had three years of electical/electronics in college before I started programming. I have been a java developer for eleven years and just recently started programming in groovy. Both of these are native to the jvm and have extensive apis for client and web programming. The grails framework which harnesses the power of groovy, spring framework, and hibernate is like rails in concept but it is its own. If I didn't know these languages, this would be my next move.
jmenu··on Ask HN: What should be my next programming language?
Other than the language being different, what are your goals in learning a new language?
jmenu··on Ask HN: are there any "must read" product management books?
steve blank's Four Steps to the Epiphany. Steve also has a list of books on his website, steveblank.com/books-for-startups.