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Disappointing to see just 2 weeks notice for their existing users.

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As as aside, there's a good list micro-frameworks and micro-libraries at http://microjs.com

Apparently, "domain age is an insignificant factor that really carries very little weight in the Google algorithm" --Matt Cutts (ref: http://rapidwebseo.com/matt-cutts-does-domain-age-really-mat...)

I prefer, and suggest, Sphinx over Elasticsearch. It has better performance, easier ETL and handles large datasets better.

I've played with Dynatable and Defiant.js (which has the advantage of using Web Workers for large datasets), but this seems quite fast. Good stuff.

If you are trying to decide between two things, a good trick is to flip a coin. Assign one choice to heads and the other to tails. You'll find yourself subtly "hoping" for one choice over the other. Decision made. Keep things simple!

In the book “Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness”, Prof. Cass Sunstein and Richard Thaler talk about the science of choices and defaults:

The human brain is amazing, but it evolved for specific purposes, such as avoiding predators and finding food. Those purposes do not include choosing good credit card plans, reducing harmful pollution, avoiding fatty foods, and planning for a decade or so from now. Fortunately, a few nudges can help a lot.

Looks good. Seems like you use it internally for your product as well. Our automated feed generator with inbuilt selector support: https://feedity.com might be of help to you. Have a look.

Here's his announcement on Twitter, among other details: https://twitter.com/jack/status/651003190628872192

If you're just looking to create custom feeds, merge them etc. then checkout: https://feedity.com

The number comes from the article author: https://twitter.com/StartupDailyANZ/status/64975823165332275...

Plenty of micro-frameworks out there: http://microjs.com/#templating

It's a small world after all. Interestingly, DNA from Aboriginal Australians suggests Australia experienced a wave of migration from India about 4,000 years ago.

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/news/2013/01/aborigin...

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-21016700

The homepage (above the fold) doesn't tell anything about what your app does. Move this text above:

"Thrive is the best way to receive key insights to running your business better."

Give Feedity - https://feedity.com a try. Drop us a message https://feedity.com/contact.aspx if you have any questions or concerns.

Disappointing news. But, if you're just looking at creating custom feeds for webpages, then try out Feedity - https://feedity.com

Stripe. Streamlined and well-documented.

I recently tried WebJobs and found it to be simply awesome. The best aspects I noticed are:

* Seamlessness - it has an in-built processing pipeline (using queues, service bus etc.), whereas with Lambda you'll have to do a little more work to connect the components e.g. S3, SNS.

* Scalability (although both AWS and Azure offer auto-scaling) - Lambda has an execution timeout of 60 seconds for functions. If the functions are I/O bound then WebJobs is more suitable, else Azure Batch offers better CPU bound work support.

* Ease of deployment - 'drop and use', which I don't think Lambda offers out-of-the-box because there seems to be dependency on Node.js?! The WebJobs dashboard under Azure Portal is a great way to track invocations and logs.

* Cost - WebJobs comes free with App Services (Web Apps)

The one and only shortcoming of WebJobs seems be the lack of recurring tasks (but there's a workaround by adding the job back to the queue on its completion).

Further reading:

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/01/azure-webjobs-are-awesome-an...

http://www.troyhunt.com/2015/04/orchestrating-massive-parall...

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/IntroducingWindowsAzureWebJobs...

An on-premise alternative can be Hangfire, Sidekiq or Quartz.

Few more:

* ServiceStack - full-featured Services Framework https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack

* ServiceStack.OrmLite - Fast, Simple, Typed ORM for .NET https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack.OrmLite

* BCrypt.Net - A .Net port of jBCrypt implemented in C# http://bcrypt.codeplex.com/

* Stripe.net - .net api for Stripe https://github.com/jaymedavis/stripe.net

* TuesPechkin - .NET Wrapper for the wkhtmltopdf library (to generate PDFs) https://github.com/tuespetre/TuesPechkin

PIA (https://www.privateinternetaccess.com) are reliable, have a new AU node and are well-regarded on WP forums (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/87).

Also check this list for Oz VPNs: http://www.vpnanalysis.com/5-best-vpns-for-australia/

404. Correct URL: http://blog.dominodatalab.com/topic-modeling-in-sept-11-news...

I would highly recommend getting a VPS (KVM with SSD) from RamNode: http://www.ramnode.com

Wait until you have customers who will pay for the app, so that you have ongoing revenue to sustain your project as a business. Spend some on marketing. Once you reach up-to a 5-digit figure in monthly revenue (MRR), then try to hire one (or few) dev/devop people so that you can focus on other important areas like business development, sales, product development, customer support etc.

Investment makes sense (and you'll get a much better deal from investors) when you have recurring revenue AND you have to grow fast to the next stage (e.g. from a small team of 2 to a team of 5-10, from a few servers to many, from a local office to globally, from self-serve online sales to face-to-face B2B/Enterprise sales for which you need sales people etc.)

In short, evolve organically and delay outside investment until absolutely necessary for rapid growth.

Code: https://github.com/lmmenge/WatchSpringboard-Prototype

Eventbrite may be useful.

You can find many on http://lowendbox.com

+1 for ssl2buy. Bought a wildcard cert[1] from them for a special price.

[1] https://www.ssl2buy.com/ssl-discount-offers

Also check out inbound.org

We have a few VPS's with them, ranging from 2GB to custom 8GB ones. Their SSD performance, hardware quality and customer reviews are the main reasons we chose them. You'll find several benchmarks/comparisons if you search around. Their hardware and network is very stable. Haven't had any downtime with our KVM nodes in over 6 months. Support team is experienced and prompt. Nick (the owner) is pretty hands-on too.

RamNode is the best I've used so far.

@Pinboard: "Right now the IFTTT business model is to charge one user $30M, rather than lots of users $2. The challenge will be with recurring payments"

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/505081162264363008