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Been looking for more high level examples and articles on TensorFlow. This is perfect -- thanks!

I would be curious to know this as well

Wow, before reading an HN comment, never realized to associate Adam Pritzker as being part of the Pritzker family.

Not relevant but I actually work out of the GA Chicago shared space every now and then.

Never thought to connect those dots...just super interesting and impressive. L

This will probably get buried but wonder if GA is in the market for picking up some tech ed bootcamps

Hey Michael, awesome piece! When I started my first company [that made serious revenue relative to other projects], I didn't spend any money until we actually had sales. Getting to product-market fit took awhile for us, as growing the brand and reputation just took time, but now it's an awesome machine that churns well with some spurts of oil here and there.

I think you're spot on with the half-baked, v1, imperfect solution. Currently trying to do the same with a new startup (https://getbeau.com). Our v1 didn't do it for us, but we listened to the recurring feedback and just relaunched our v2 and are continuing to validate that the problem we solve for our customers is a serious (albeit first-world) problem.

I'm a big fan of http://Deskpass.com in Chicago. It's access to tons of coworking spaces and has really affordable monthly pricing. For me, I got desk pass because I like a combo of different days between vibrant and quiet. As far as pricing, I would probably be more comfortable with monthly pricing vs hourly.

Just a .02 from a guy who works remotely and has different preferences at times.

Hey there, thanks for the comments!

I'll be sharing a post in the near-future that outlines our process and tool/hosting stack so that anyone can put together a website with all our details (sans design and creative direction). Even if you've never built a site, you can copy our procedures directly. If you design/develop/build sites, you don't need us. If you are technical and/or have impressive credentials, you probably don't need us.

Talemark isn't a replacement for recruiters, brute force networking, and LinkedIn Premium. It's for when you're applying for a stretch company or if you're having trouble hearing back from any companies. Some people simply aren't the best candidates in the resume stack, and a unique-domain targeted-content microsite is super useful in provoking a response.

We talked with early friends/family users, and we ended up with 3% as a fair given the ROI for all parties. Not everyone will get the job, and that's factored in. We don't take recruitment fees from employers. Talemark lets you offload the stress to us (free upfront / no risk) and saves you time (you just have to provide the content).

awesome service! May integrate this with https://adcat.io in the future with a public feed feature

That was a fast beta invite! Got errors and looking forward to when it's more stable. Curious about pricing -- if this is freemium set up like heroku, will gladly dive deeper in

Thank you for the heads up! Should be fixed

If you don't read the docs fully, everything looks really official with 314 stars social credibility too

I'm a UX+UI designer with experience in early stage startups and marketing, looking to partner up with someone who wants to launch SaaS products :)

Great points in the article. I've been using Cloudflare for the past year or so for all my production sites. Super straightforward to set up, has awesome features like SSL, page rules, minification, and more.

DNS configuration was always a pain for me before Cloudflare, but now it takes less than 10 minutes to buy a domain, set up any/all subdomains, and get back to your product/site.

Not sure if that's sarcastic, but you're describing something that sounds pretty great

Great question, feeling the same way here in Chicago! It's getting colder now, but would love to meet up with like minded people who want to create things.

Very cool -- tremendously useful, thank you!

Hi everyone,

We’re building Beau b/c we saw the need for an on demand beauty service in Chicago, similar to Glamsquad in NY and Stylebee in LA. Beau provides a convenient way of getting beauty services from the most talented stylists in Chicago. The current services include male haircuts, female haircuts, blowouts, makeup and updo, all from the comfort of your home.

We have a subscribe form on our current landing page, while we’re working to launch our beta by the end of this month (www.getbeau.com).

We have 50+ stylists who are very excited to start. If you are a stylist and this sounds interesting to you, please fill out this form (http://dsn.io/beau) and we’ll get back to you :)

One of the startup companies I used to work with was called Cupcloud (http://cupcloud.com). If you're OK with a cloud app, it can support Photoshop and Illustrator

Thanks for calling this out. When I started this, I really had nothing to lose (no personal assets of significance). Since there's something to lose now, I can definitely assure you the business will (very) soon be an entity with liability protection.

Thanks for bringing up that point -- and sorry to hear that! Profit margin has been pretty good (~40% margin), after all expenses have been said and done

There's a lot of trivial details in this first post I realized as well (and I'll go into the main stressors later), but I definitely, agree with you. I think Marc Andreeson really hits the nail with this post: http://pmarchive.com/guide_to_startups_part4.html

   Ironically, once a startup is successful, and you ask the founders what made it
   successful, they will usually cite all kinds of things that had nothing to do with it. People
   are terrible at understanding causation. But in almost every case, the cause was actually
   product/market fit.

I'm trying to avoid this.

thanks for the Noah Kagan links!

the MS and google templates are financial model templates, but I appreciate it.

The use of LinkedIn accessing your data across social networks and email was also discussed in the comments on http://www.interactually.com/linkedin-creepiest-social-netwo...

Songza is awesome. I listen to the 'saving the world from evil' and 'epic study music' playlists. They're really great.

We made Fitsby (http://fitsby.com) and aren't making a miniscule amount from it.

Shortcut link: http://thedesignation.co

Galaxy S3

Franco, thanks for mentioning us on this list of awesome startups!

Hey everyone, I'm one of the co-founders of Fitsby, an app that motivates you to work out. If anyone's interested, we launched Android 2 days ago. You can download the free app at http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fitsby or check out http://fitsby.com to learn more.

An app that motivates you to go to the gym. Challenge friends on gym check-ins, and win their money when they don't go.

We're launching for Android on new year's day! (http://fitsby.com if anyone's interested)

Wow, truly is beautiful!

People will always be measuring everything by the numbers. Look at your number of Facebook friends, your LinkedIn connections, your GPA in college, your annual income. It's always a rational argument to say that bigger is better. In a world where metrics are quantified like this, this is the natural way of thinking. It's going to be difficult to seep through the bullshit metrics, especially when you're such a small startup with other numbers that are too embarrassing to display to the world -- but, really, when you think about it this is the only way to find and fix the problems that you have.