saran945

I have been using RSS for 12 years. It has been transformed by big players, Is n't it Facebook a RSS reader with social features? I only unsubscribed my friends rss and connected in facebook, other sources like news, releases etc still I am using RSS.

Configured it right. pls try now.

Thanks will fix it !

What other major components are missing? - Autosuggestion - web block detection and removal of header, footer, sidebars - Handling of Spam content - Learning to rank

based on my experience & reading . . each language has its own strength, its not easy to say which one is best for rapid development. For machine learning/AI - Python Web app - Nodejs/PHP Mobile - JS Enterprise apps - Java/c# Desktop - c# DSL - Racket

from last one week, I am working on topic2book, it generates a book for a given topic (or phrase). few books that generated are at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Q0FBmn8cRaZRGkDnRgxZ...

investment on startups could be seen as "countries growth engine", its exponential income, innovation, scale, employment, eco-system, fame, changing others life, etc. Gambling is an entertainment or for some its an addiction/disease.

Its a google alert for deep web sources. you will get alert when your "search term" matches the recent content of any website. Content could be anything (an entity - new article/product/post/house/car, etc). The web site has landing page, please signup for early access. Any questions are much appreciated.

I am from India, there is no doubt that devs/IT professionals generally are highly talented but

- The whole education system is totally messed up here, Things are changing slowly. the professors/lectures have no idea what is going on from rest of the world. the students are preparing for exams only in the last day. the exams are purely memory based. I did "Rote learning" during my school days.

- The interview process is highly questionable in most IT shops. Even Bill Gates can't get job here. (hint: its memory based interview process, it can be easily cleared by students who are well on it)

- There are lot of politics going on any IT firm (thats the worst thing)

- Most of the CEO do not listen. you have to follow their instructions.

- It was 2002, I applied my first job, friends who referred me for the job told me to change my resume to fit the requirement, instead of including my real skill set.

- It was 2005, my first interview in US, An interviewer who called me "how much US experience you have?" I told her "I do not have any US experience", I got lot of anger, what is going here?, I am doing coding for few years, now it has no value? latter I realized the purpose of the question.

- 90% of the students who are coming to IT industry are from poor/middle class families, they have lot of focus to improving their family, standards of life, unfortunately their skills/focus are not properly unleashed.

- Most IT people in India spending more time on traffic rather than coding.

- the list goes on. I do not see any use of listing/discussing these here.

I could not not answer 1-3.

"Who would be an ideal advisor for your startup?" someone who do not give advice. who really cares about the product, understand the problem/idea at deeper level. be as a helper or friend on various matters that helps to solve many chicken-egg problems, weighting on various assumptions, the area's where entrepreneur did not foresee it. accelerate the things where founders lack at, be with them in long term, and shares success or failure along with the founders emotionally. - from my point of view.

"no one will switch" - agreed on cent percent. If i switch to bing, I feel uncomfortable, something in me asking to google it. this happens may be due to my habit?. I guess, google's competitor may come from startup's (not from big companies) that too happen after couple of decades.

I do not think one can find successful formula, every product is unique, continuously trying with customers to engage and build habits so that, they start to love it. this book has good insights on building habit-forming products - "Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products".

for mass/consumer market - the idea must be usable to me before I expect others to use it, making money is not easy thing due to long waiting time. recently hybrid platforms (digital + physical) got good success than purely digital one's. I think, passionately working on by 'watching' what customers do with the product is key to success. Usually people have passion in the idea stage, deciding based on hype is always leads to failure. mass market is a marathon race, luck plays critical role.

for enterprise - may be able to make money earlier than consumer market. I think reading "startup" books provides good insights, process to follow.

for niche: domain knowledge, few early customer are critical for success. may be able to reach customers easily, may not be able to scale.

Generally, speed and assumptions decide fate for any idea. particularly "assumptions" are the #1 enemy of every idea/startup.

Though there are many better ideas like semantic search, entity search, Q & A, deep search, etc. Startups could crack some market share from big players. Building better search engine is not the big problem for startups, but from business perspective, It's a marathon race - in terms of scale, investment, making the user switching from google etc. also Google have billions of $$, thousands of researchers working to improve the results, competing them is not easy, hence many stay away from search engine development.

I started over with different idea, moved to a place where I can pay less, can live sparingly. what I learnt helped to develop/market 5x faster.