matthewphiong

Same here with Google Authenticator for iPhone.

With all due respect, I don't think there is such thing that "you think" your idea is 99% successful. You will never know until you try it out. Go to meetups and talk to others about your idea. Also joining Startup Weekend might be a good thing too. Finally, if the technical aspect of it is not overly complicated, try to learn to code. I have a friend that is a doctor turned hacker. Never too late.

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From what I know, yes. But the total reimbursement is capped at $40k USD which includes salaries and rental expenses.

Thanks!

From the Startup Chile FAQ, participants are entitled up to $600,000 CLP monthly spending on rental. Many had fully furnished apartments around Providencia with facilities like pool and gym (from HomeChile listings, apartments with such facilities are around 400k-600k). Providencia are also recommended because it is said to be safer.

PS: Another website similar to HomeChile is ContactChile (http://www.contactchile.cl)

Hi Andrew,

As someone who is going to Santiago as part of the program, I've done some research based on previous participants' experiences.

Find apartments using Home Chile (http://www.homechile.cl/) and all are furnished. Many recommended Providencia area.

Since you are based there, hope you don't mind if I ping you for questions.

matt

IMHO, the floating cloud is partially blocking the screenshot and makes the whole page looks weird. And yes, show us real stuff please.

I suggest you give the Stanford iPhone Application Development a try and it's free.

Link: http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/.

Worst review ever. The author didn't seem to backup what he/she claimed plus unfounded "personal" attack on Leah.

Interesting. Besides the "dynamic" thing, it would be great if this can be a service like Gravatar but for "About" profile.

Or how about a free, startup friendly plan and in return get free marketing from the startup, a link back at the footer (powered by DotCloud).

IMHO, PyCharm is the best IDE you can get for Mac. I went from MacVim to Textmate to PyCharm and stick with it. BTW, I'm also a former .NET and VS person.

Try 100tb (formerly known as 10tb) http://www.100tb.com/

I was with them for a while and they are rock solid. Servers are hosted at Softlayer datacenters.

Well, the easiest way perhaps is blogging. Blog about the stuff you like, include some ads into your blog and start earning. Earning might not be a lot (depends) but should enough to buy you a pretty good meal.

I started blogging few years ago and since last year I've stop blogging (to focus on my startup) but I'm still earning around $200/month.

Super simple it may seems to most of us -- simple website, etc but the work, effort, energy needed behind the scene is whole lot than you think. This is real human calling every day, not a computer-cron job call.

I believe there is no such thing as super simple, deploy and forget money making product. The amount of time, effort, energy are the key things that make the money counts.

HN is build around the web startup community. So, almost all stuff you read here geared towards web stuff.

> At the end of the day it is about the percentage return on investment, correct?

For me, at the end of the day it is about the satisfaction and happiness I get from my startup. Money certainly matters but it's not primary for me. That said, I'm not saying it's OK to do unprofitable startup. Put a balance to that.

The bottom line is to look for what you're passionate about & what is meaningful to you, whether it's web apps, software, selling stuff, etc and make a startup out of it.

Guy Kawasaki once said: "It's been my observation that most companies founded on this concept of making money pretty much fail. They attract the wrong kind of co-founders and early employees. Entrepreneurs should focus on making their product or service mean something beyond the sum of its components -- and the money may very well follow"

Same here. Plus...

- There are many things you cant do with Graph, so I'm still sticking on using the old REST Api.

- Facebook OAuth 2.0 implementation is incomplete, e.g. no refresh access_token method provided.

- Current support for iFrame Facebook.com apps is premature.

With all these, they even planned to remove old authentication method & going full force on iFrame end of this year. Hopefully they really can fix all those problems by then.

A general name should be good for a new startup. Do make sure to check the name of your choosing properly to make sure it's totally 'free' from any trademark names.

A good, short, memorable domain definitely gives a startup a greater advantage in marketing & branding.

Kumo -> Bing, TheFacebook -> Facebook, GetDropbox -> Dropbox

I do agree that find a good domain name for a project/startup is hard especially you dont have lots of cash in hand (to acquire registered domains) but I don't agree with you that other shorter/sweeter/nicer domains didn't exist anymore in the wild. This might be true for 4-char, one syllable name but not all. I think it's fine if your domain is not directly related to the service/content of your project as long as it's reasonable/logical (e.g. if your project is about news don't use a domain like tropicaljuice.com)

You can always go for 5-7 chars, 2 syllables name. You can use tools like Dotomator or Domainr to find a good, fresh name for your project.

BTW, if you are willing to tell HN your "next big thing", we are more than happy to help you brainstorm a good name.

Good luck with the name!

I second this. I had a similar problem before, and yes I mis-configured my apache. In my case it was random crashes instead of hourly.

I would suggest you to post your problem to your hosting community forum with related info (logs, conf files, server setup info, etc). In my case, it's the Linode forum. I'm sure the community is more than happy to assist you.

Good luck!

Well the book has a lot more to offer. It is the super set of the 'Last Lecture' (video). More stories I can say.

I happened to bump onto the video at first (and watched over and over again) and finally decided to grab the book. Reading the book really like having myself in the story.

Go grab the book. It is worth a life.

The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch -- http://www.thelastlecture.com/

Everybody should read it, or at least watch the video on Youtube. It changed my life.

You don't need to be a guru in programming to start a startup. You learn (a whole lot more than reading programming books) while working on your startup or projects.

Learning is part of startup and that drives you forward to be better.

This looks similar to Facebook Friend Lists.

+1 for Django

BTW, The free online Django book for you to get started: http://www.djangobook.com/en/2.0/ and the brilliant documentations.

Personally for me, the best way to learn a new speaking language is by conversing in that language. When I was in college, I'm 'forced' to speak in Mandarin as most of my friends speak Mandarin. Within 3 months I can converse pretty well in Mandarin. I listen when my friends speak, catch the pronunciation and repeat that. The loop goes on until I can speak with confidence.

I would be great if you can juggle both. Working on your startup during your free time, i.e. weekends is quite common here.

Ads. But sites like 4chan is more of a community-focus site and they don't really focus on making money. Here is a post about 4chan's revenue:

http://www.homethinking.com/brontemedia/2009/02/22/4chanorg-...

The revenue is enough to cover the hosting plus maybe a few hundreds extra. That's all.

You are earning ~$60/day and that's quite an achievement to say the least considering there are tons of games on the App Store. A quick check on the App Store shows a pretty good rating of 4+ and I see there is a potential to keep this game going instead of selling it off.

Anyway, if you are really keen on selling it off you could try eBay or better still contact other iPhone/Pad game developers, companies to see if they are interested to buy it. As for price, I'm not really sure.

Good luck!

Practice makes perfect. The more you code, the better you become.

From my experience, reading books is one thing but if you didn't make your hands dirty, it's nothing. My advice would be, if you are really new to programming go learn the basics and get your hands dirty ASAP.