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oziumjinxon Microsoft furious at $2,000 bounty for open source Kinect drivers

I could see it now:

Porn industry adapts open source Kinect drivers into new, immersible adult entertainment experience. Act in one of your favorite movies and get "intimate" with your favorite porn stars.

oziumjinxon Offer HN: I can review your web app usability and UI

Thanks for the feedback! Chrome extension is in the works, expecting a mid December release.

Also in the works is an integrated shopping engine to compare across a variety of e-tailer sites, not just Amazon.

Our "send to friend" feature simply emails your friend a link/video without actually using your email account. It's like a simple form for your email, your friends, and a short message.

Thanks again for the ideas. -=Vin

oziumjinxon Offer HN: I can review your web app usability and UI

http://www.kwiclick.com

My name is vin@ domain name. Thanks in advance!

oziumjinxon Ask HN: Looking for feedback on a startup strategy question

Achieve product/market fit and start fundraising for your next round early to extend the runway.

If you have customers paying for the product/service, why pack up your bags and go home? Once you achieve pm/fit you should be focused on scalable repeatable sales/marketing channels.

oziumjinxon Challenge HN: Your company's purpose in a single declarative sentence

Making people enjoy brushing their teeth.

oziumjinxon Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big

Fantastic post! Just read through it all...truly inspiring.

oziumjinxon Instapaper Subscriptions (beta)

I don't even see an option to pay for any kind of service (logged in or not). Did i miss the link somewhere?

oziumjinxon Ask HN: How do you write the best specifications for a developer?

Thanks. My main concern was how detailed to make the specs. Should I start with one document from a 50,000 foot view of the overall product value/vision, and then another document drilling down into each specific aspect of the application?

oziumjinxon Ask HN: An interesting idea that I wont build. You like?

It would be more user driven than automated. When you visit a site that you want to hear what it "sounds like" you press a button and it refreshes the page and runs the little app.

Might be interesting to hear what your own work sounds like.

oziumjinxon Ask HN: What would you do if there was no Internet?

Tour guide for white water rafting or mountain biking somewhere around the Grand Canyon

oziumjinxon Ask HN: Who uses Google Alerts and what for?

competitors (new pr releases, site mentiones, product releases)

self - different variations of my name

our own company

family members

topics that are relevant to our market and target audience - this is a great way to find new media outlets to reach out to for exposure

oziumjinxon Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)

Would be slick to integrate Disqus, Backtype,and the other commenting systems as well.

oziumjinxon Autocomplete your life with Greplin (YC W10)

Any plans for a desktop app like Spotlight? Or a browser plugin that added another search box into the browser for my cloud data searching?

oziumjinxon Fuck you, Money

$50k a year in salary doesnt sound like enough to send your kids to college with their tuition paid for. Being able to do that enables them to not have to worry about student loans and decades of debt after they graduate. IMHO, that is something to strive for.

oziumjinxon 10,000+ users in 24 hours & YC funding a few days later: lessons learnt

I'd second that request. It would be great if I could utilize the Rapportive engine to show all the juicy details you guys can grab on someone based on their email, within my app.

oziumjinxon Choosing New York over San Francisco

i live in murray hill and love it. Close to grand central, union sq, madison sq park, great selection of restaurants (not trying to compare to downtown or even some ues areas), and it doesnt hurt that I work 4 blocks away from my apt.

Plenty of cheesy bars that are sure to bring in the 'i just graduated and trying to break into PR' crowds of girls.

Whats not to love?

oziumjinxon Ask HN: I know this isn't reddit, but please review my cannabis-related startup

Need to update the top link on the about page: http://www.leaf.ly/company/about

The 'Discover New Strains' link is missing its CSS

oziumjinxon Ask HN: Could HN make it as a business?

Turn the "Seeking feedback on my startup" into a premium service. Startups submit their site and mini-pitch/boilerplate. Users go visit the site but the site could be framed with a dinky toolbar at the top that is used for usability/feedback review. Mocking up their website, writing notes, giving feedback, etc. All that data is aggregated into a nice dashboard that the startup can review. They could even filter by a users karma to ween out the crap if someone isnt giving constructive criticism. They could also vote on who gives them the best feedback, which would add to that users karma (redeemable for prizes or services from other startups).

So, the startup pays some amount, lets say, $500 for the feedback service. HN guarantees that they will receive 100 pieces of feedback using this tool (which of course would be using node.js, closure, haskel, [insert any trending technology here]). Once the 100 pieces of feedback are received, the 'sponsored link' gets removed and another goes in its place. The startup could also request feedback only from users with certain karma levels (which would cost more money).

HN shows a maximum of 1 sponsored review link at the top of the site, or mixed in somewhere, at a time. I dont think it would be too tough to get 100 feedback notes in a single day (with 60k users that love checking out new startups).

Let's say only one is shown each day, thats $15,000 per month in revenue for that service. That'll buy a lot of ramen.

oziumjinxon Ask HN: Could HN make it as a business?

Here's a revenue model: Offer users with certain karma levels discounts from startups that provide services. The more karma you have, the higher discount you may be able to receive from a variety of startups/services. When a user cashes in their karma for the service, HN gets a recurring affiliate fee based on the total fees paid to said startup. And of course users with lower karma can still get some kind of discount from the services. Once those users karma reaches a new higher level, another discount kicks in.

To personalize this a bit, show a simple survey link on the main nav bar that lets users select the types of services they are intereted in. This would then be used to populate a sidebar with dinky ads or other promotions from startups/events.

Here's another one: Have events/conferences sponsor specific threads in HN...Whichever comment receives the most points get a discount or free pass. Once again, affiliate fees on other users signing up for the event kicks back to HN.

And another: create an automated newsletter that sends you a roundup of the days highest voted stories (with topic personlization if you want [ie, only send me Ask HN or 'seeking feedback' type stories]). Sell a few ads in the sidebar to startups on a budget.

If HN is averaging 60k uniques/day, that newsletter could grow pretty quickly. Sell of small banners at a decent CPM and it should make some money. And then of course layer on a taxonomy binding ad server that shows ads relevant to the topic(s) that are displayed in the newsletter based on the users preferences.

oziumjinxon Ask HN: The Best Books to Keep the Entrepreneurial Mindset?

Ayn Raynd - Atlas Shrugged Founders at Work The Innovators Dilemma Lucky or Smart (quick read) Unleashing the Idea Virus

oziumjinxon Tumblr Is On Fire. Now Over 6 Million Users, 1.5 Billion Pageviews A Month

If i rewind correctly

oziumjinxon Ask HN: Review my status board startup

Reminds me a bit of metricly.com.

Any plans to include Google AdSense stats?

oziumjinxon To help the redesign of Firefox 4.0, Mozilla just released a heatmap

Multirow toolbar addon for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6937/

oziumjinxon THIS is why tools like adblock exist.

Don't you have to actually click the bookmarklet for these to work? That sounds like an annoyance to do on every page view for each site you go to.

oziumjinxon Ask HN: How do you advertise without spending money?

And it may be tough to register multiple google AdWords accounts for the same domain name. I think they check against that.

oziumjinxon Ask HN: Help/FAQs/documentation system, like Google's help?

Check out http://www.helpspot.com/ and http://www.knowledgems.com/

oziumjinxon Ask HN: does anyone here use wolfram alpha?

I use it for humor. It's nice to view a site that received a TON of press/hype but never really took off in a big way. Kind of like Cuil...

they are both good for an afternoon chuckle.

oziumjinxon How To: Get Your Startup Featured on Mashable

Speak for yourself. Plenty of bootstrapped startups grow very slowly over 3+ years and earn around $100k per month which would technically put them above $1m/year.

oziumjinxon Yahoo CEO gets $47.2 Million salary package for 2009

Isn't this slightly a reflection of her attitude towards the company she is steering? Could she have said "you know what, I'm already worth millions so this year I will only receive $1m and we'll use the rest of that money to help bring this company roaring back"....or are these execs just too far out of reality to realize that saving 40-something million dollars for their company would be helpful. I understand she was probably contractually aware of this salary, but c'mon!

oziumjinxon Ask HN: How can we make networking more awesome in a weekend?

Make the text NOT green on green background. I can barely read any of the survey questions.