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sandeepcon Show HN: Open-Source Food Delivery and Local Shopping Platform

My thoughts exactly. The market discovery service mentioned could be done off a distributed network. Making it P2P could also enable a host of delivery Entreprenuers to participate in the delivery in a seamless way with the shopkeeper or the customer setting a delivery bounty.

sandeepcon Elasticsearch Based Image Search Using RGB Signatures

If you're interested in searching photos with ES - I took a some what simpler approach focusing just on major colors in the image.

But with some of the machine vision API google cloud etc. you could extend to other "features"

Details: http://blog.sandeepchivukula.com/posts/2016/03/06/photo-sear...

sandeepcon Ask HN: Why does % of ownership matters more than number of stock options

After the transaction you will definitely know - for the reasons you mention and b/c uncle sam wants some of your recent gains.

The issue that people are generally raising is that sometimes unscrupulous characters try to impress naive candidates with job offers that only have the number of shares -- "You should sign today b/c you get XX MM shares.." which sounds great but could mean that you just accepted a worthless offer depending on shares outstanding.

sandeepcon Ask HN: Why does % of ownership matters more than number of stock options

Your method works if you know $/share of the sale price.

People generally don't know the $/share. Let's take the case where you only know the company valuation and the number of shares you have.

Eg: You know a company sold for $30MM and that you have 1MM shares. How much are your shares worth ?

Unless you know the outstanding shares you don't know if the price/share is $15/share (2MM Outstanding) or $3/share (10MM Outstanding) or some other number. In this case your portion could be worth 15MM or 3MM depending on the number of shares outstanding.

The percentage ownership lets you calculate the value of your shares directly through simple multiplication ie. your %ownership * Sales Price = Your Portion's Value

It also tells you number of shares outstanding. You can divide the number of your shares by your percentage to get shares outstanding.

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Your marketing ideas are great start. But to get things rolling don't underestimate the power of actually talking to people. You should consider some feet on the street marketing where you reach out to local landlord associations or apartment managers.