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pkc··on Subscription gateway options
Hi Mariust,

  Couple of things according to my research.
* Paypal recurring comes with only PayPalPro account. Will PayPro account work with Indian Bank Account?

* As far as I understand chargify is not a payment gateway. Correct me if I am wrong.

pkc··on Launched my startup into beta - wish me luck
Good Luck. I like the concept and waiting for other programming language support.
pkc··on Ask HN: Do you design your own website?
I second that.
pkc··on Ask HN: What are the best free and pay web charting libraries?
I have used fusioncharts and found it to be pretty awesome. http://www.fusioncharts.com/
pkc··on On Cloud: Show off your rails or merb app with free hosting
Great idea. Was looking for something like this to show some prototype. Was wondering is it necessary to be restricted only to rails app? For ex., I can host a wiki and try to get static address with your service. Might want to check dyndsn sort of services.
pkc··on Ask HN: Please review ebay mashup
I like the idea. Why the listings should be only from ebay? Aggregate listings from other popular shopping sites.
pkc··on Ask HN: Are you a single founder ?
1. 6 months

2. No. Haven't tried.

3. No.

4. http://roorky.com - Interactive ebooks (ibook??)

pkc··on Ask HN: Are you a single founder ?
Hi,

Is rankiac profitable?

pkc··on Ask HN: input on the idea please?
I like the idea. I think key to success of this idea - getting people already know the subject to participate in the service. Their input might be more valuable. So it also brings down to point to ranking various lists available on the same topic. Digg/reddit like voting might be useful here and in turn might improve engagement also.
pkc··on Ask HN: Review my app "Interactive Block Diagrams"
Hi Tichy,

Thanks for the feedback. Changed heading to "Interactive Block Diagram". Would you mean you prefer maps like interface?

pkc··on Ask HN: Review my app "Interactive Block Diagrams"
Hi jrockway,

Can you please elaborate more on this point.

pkc··on Ask HN: Review my app "Interactive Block Diagrams"
Hi Cubible67,

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah you are right. App and diagram are not polished. I put up quickly something that gives a feel of what I am thinking and get feedback is there really need for such thing. Surely I will consider all of your points and put up more polished one in some time. All of them are valid points except for interaction consistency. When you go deeper into Network you see "Virtual File System" which a sub component of Network. Double clicking on "Virtual File System" should take you to internal details of VFS. But they are none of details as far the diagram is considered. So it won't do anything.

Note: Indicating which of them are clickable is a very valid point. Will try to incorporate it in some time.

pkc··on Ask HN: Experience with Protocol Buffers
Protocol Buffers will work fine and their documentation is very clear. These are my findings based on my experience -

* Serializing data is ok but parsing takes quite a bit of time especially for large requests. (I am talking in milli seconds) * PBs always require a copy from your internal app data to its structures. Couldn't find a way to avoid that. * They have variable length encoding and it might be a good option if your data comprised of large percent of integers. From our experience don't use it if you are sending within your corp network as packing and parsing takes more time compared to savings in amount of data transfer. They might be a good option if you are sending data across slow networks.

Some of the metrics show that Thrift performs better than PBs. Also Thrift provides options of using different protocols. If Performance is prime criteria JSON + zipping should be a good option. Also they won't have an intermediate step of generating marshaling code.

pkc··on Ask HN: Rate a StartUp Zatista.com
Its awesome, extremely polished. Very well done. Though I am not interested in much in art it has the drive to make me buy something. Very good work.
pkc··on Ask HN: What small problems do you face frequently?
Hi Kleine2,

Please mail me at pk@roorky.com. We can discuss more on the same idea. :)

pkc··on Review our app: IntentBox (London Startup Weekend)
Isn't it similar to 43things.com?
pkc··on Ask HN: What small problems do you face frequently?
I have one problem - Recently launched products are always in need of spreading the word about them. One of the better ways to do it would be find blogs, articles or discussions going on to related to the product. I would like to setup a service which sends me some N urls everyday where I can go and add some useful insights to the discussions as well as put my service url there, so that it brings in some new users to my site. Let me know if you are interested in this.
pkc··on ForeUI: UI Prototyping Tool
I am currently using Balsamiq Mocksups. I can't see how is it different from Balsamiq Mockups. Why should I switch to another product which has nothing different to offer. In my opinion it looks a little worse.
pkc··on Ask HN: How can I find a designer to tweak my look for my unfunded startup?
If you are like me - A person knows basics of HTML, CSS and JavaScript but artistically challenged. For my site a bought a template from http://themeforest.net and tweaked it to meet my needs. It worked pretty well for me. Most of the templates costs you 10-15$. But you need to deposit 20$ to buy anything. (I hate this part). If you are willing spend around 20$ it might be a good option.
pkc··on Tell HN: 360 Voltage is out of Beta (10 PRO accounts to giveaway to HN)
I love this site. Please think of adding catchpa for signup. Its very easy for a script to scrape and create quite a number of accounts. Very useful guide to improve search results.

* Voltmeter - How is the keyword targeting decided? I got unexpected keywords for my site.

* RANDAL - I used to check where my site appears for given set of keywords. It solves the problem automatically.

Haven't checked other tools yet. Will be doing it soon.

pkc··on Ask HN: Compiled and Interepted language?
During development certainly I can iterate more quickly with interpreted languages than with compiled ones. It improves development time considerably.
pkc··on Ask HN: How do you go about spreading the word about your product or service?
Found an interesting app - http://listorious.com/. The directory of awesome lists on Twitter.
pkc··on Ask HN: what's the best business you've ever seen?
Google, Amazon, eBay
pkc··on Ask HN: How do you go about spreading the word about your product or service?
This is a very good video. Thanks a lot.
pkc··on Ask HN: How do you go about spreading the word about your product or service?
Hi,

That's a great insight from a person who already tried the things. Can you please tell me the name of the twitter app.

pkc··on Ask HN: How do you go about spreading the word about your product or service?
Hi Snorkel,

Thanks a lot for feedback. That's correct. Unfortunately we have only 2 books as of now. Talking with lots of authors and publishers to get more books on the store. Soon we should get some books and users should be able to browse through them.

What is your opinion about core idea/product? Feel free to write to us at support@roorky.com.

pkc··on Ask HN: What is best book or tutorial to learn how secure a website?
Hi Jackman,

Thanks a lot for the links. Do you know any book to read?

pkc··on I did it! I quit my day job!
Congratulations and Good Luck!! Just curios to know. Do you concentrate on specific domains like web site development, or RoR or PHP etc., Or are you planning to gain vertical expertise.
pkc··on Ask HN: Screencast software for demos?
http://www.jingproject.com/ - Works like a charm.
pkc··on Ask HN: Review my app Interactive Programming Books
Hi jsean,

Thanks for your feedback. iPUB also has a feature where in you can attach notes at each paragraph of the book. Also share these notes with other readers of the book. Would you think this feature is useful for you?

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