rrival

Not as old school and most of the startups are still alive:

http://www.startupschwag.com/

I've shut down the monthly subscriptions but leftovers remain. Take 70% off, use code: HN70

I tried to track down who owned webvan's art through a screen printer that worked with them to no avail. Also tried to find out who has kozmo.com's art. Didn't get anywhere there either.

If you don't already have a few apps to cross promote your app, check out Allify.com - we're building a free cross-promotion platform for iOS (and Android) to enable this kind of distribution boost.

Edit: initial distribution boost; I'm not saying "Join Allify, we'll guarantee 1m downloads in a month!" =)

Does this remind anyone of the marketing/PR around Cuil?

Is there a "acquired all the credits for a CS degree without humanities distribution requirements before dropping out" option? =)

Agree on copy and design but SurveyMonkey has done ok with this category (http://www.crunchbase.com/company/surveymonkey). Granted they have a 12 year head start.

Cool idea - is the % of foursquare users in a sample population consistent? What if Tuesday is "bus in the foreigners/elderly?" - valuable info regardless, but I'd be curious to know how that holds up.

Next step: Weather machine

Could probably find the domain for $200 =)

http://www.domaintools.com/reverse-whois/?email=ac6994646bd3...

Try Amazon's data itself via their API - http://aws.amazon.com/

Love new scientific discoveries, just haven't seen a lot of gallery links here and recall that that's a leading indicator of content noise ratio increase.

Thanks for posting the direct article link.

This isn't reddit

Read The Four Steps to the Epiphany, do a SWOT analysis on these ideas. Determine, with some degree of confidence, your ability to reach the markets your services target, the costs involved, and their propensity to spend on your solution once the technology is actually implemented. Then focus on the solution that has the greatest potential.

I'd be curious to see your stats on hn-books as well - it always seemed to me like the "right" solution for a HN bookshelf would somehow involve contributions to the EFF, or equiv.

Clickable: http://localstrange.com/

I question using a search box for this - wouldn't categories be much much easier for everyone?

Interesting - hope it grows.

I ran netstat.net back in the day - took it over when MCI threatened to sue its initial creator, then updated it and expanded it.

We tracked latency to common ISP nameservers from ~15 locations in the US and Australia. It seemed a little more important when we had to deal with non-broadband latency (dialup was awesome).

Interweather was another 'competitor.' As was the internet traffic report.

And this makes me feel old: http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/1998-06/msg00401.ht...

Bubble? Overheated? Aren't we recovering from a broader downturn? Or are you suggesting that we're in the 3rd or 4th quadrant of the VC investment-ease curve (~2000, ~2007)?

Ahh, love this idea. Was going to use PriceMyPC.com / PriceAPC.com for it and have it affiliate the parts efficiently. I never worked past the hw compatibility issue. Great to see it working.

Something that's kicked around here a lot: fail quickly.

If a project doesn't fit success criteria I give it about a month before it's pivoted or done.

Entrustet.com and Legacylocker.com are chasing this to some extent.

Lifehacker had a similar post recently: http://lifehacker.com/5617683/what-should-i-do-about-my-virt...

iStockPhoto - semantic, allows for moderately easy refining

I liked this one as well:

http://www.slideshare.net/jrosoff/scalable-event-analytics-w...

They're attractive designs, but you should probably mention you're Halogy's official rep, or someone might think you're gaming yc for commercial gain.

brilliant

on craigslist, scams/spammers

Why is no one talking about Fujitsu? =)

http://www.fujitsu.com/us/services/retailing/technology/hard...

So many new opportunities for 'First'...

I can confirm that this is the case. They're actually very reasonable if you're important/controversial/popular enough to get ahold of a rep.

also check out http://www.whatthefont.com

I've been here ~5 years - summer, this summer included, is preferable to what's about to happen until May.

"Chicago cannot compete with Y-Combinator for social capital, technology resources, or entrepreneurial connections."

Maybe it's time to head elsewhere? It's too bad, too; the summers here are great, cost of living is low...