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At most companies, that doesn't count for the things you do outside of work.

This looks like a freeairbnb.com in the making.

I don't think they have enough employees.

When I send them DMCA takedown notices, they only remove the content if I remind them 3 or 4 times. After weeks of reminding them, the content has been seen by thousands. That kind of defeats the purpose of them even offering to take down the content.

"sorry guys, can't give too many specifics yet"

Ideas are a dime a dozen. The real value is in the execution. Execution is nearly impossible to duplicate.

5 Hour Energy

I can supply you with the current conditions, daily forecast, hourly forecast, and severe alerts (US only) for nearly any city in the world for $0.02 per API call. I have access to more weather stations than any single source in the world. I can return the data to you using the conversion and format of your preference. If interested, you can find my email in my profile.

In my phpBB forums, I check all email addresses using the API at the website below. I'd say it eliminates about 90% of the spammers.

http://www.stopforumspam.com/apis

Who is the source of your weather data?

I wouldn't worry too much about people thinking the price is too cheap. I'd wonder how many of those people paying $2.95/month would also be willing to pay $9.95/month, $19.95/month, etc.

Startups are what the founders make of them. YC is just a stepping stone.

gilaniali, to answer your question, you do not need an SSL certificate to protect your PayPal checkout process. The security is all handled on their end. Sure, you could get an SSL certificate, but it seems like a waste of money to me.

I was just curious. From my experience writing weather apps, I know there are very few sources that will allow you to sell their data without some kind of written agreement.

Don't forget about users from other countries who prefer F over C.

Where does your weather data come from?

"We use the Etsy API to get the latest listings from Etsy multiple times a day. We then take the listings, index them by their titles, tags, materials, colors and price."

I would build Diaspora.

Do you have any plans to support IE8?

Customers from 32% of the businesses did not return. 32% of the businesses said customers did not return. Hmmm... seems like the same thing to me.

According to the article, less than 32% of the customers visited once.

"The 32% that said they didn’t make a profit from the program reported that customers rarely bought more than the coupon deal and few returned to the business at a later date."

If over 68% of the customers returned, then I'd call that a huge success.

We need a 5th option: "I was fooled into donating money"

"Not stop because they found somewhere they like"

I bet the average person would go back and/or recommend the restaurant to friends if they had a good experience though.

"I don't even know the name of mine"

That's kind of scary. I just got a Sarah Palin flashback.

"Groupon is very good at creating hoards of customers; what it lacks, I think, is the consultation that should be provided to businesses about how to limit and handle the crowd."

Maybe they just need to allow businesses to put a cap on the number of coupons that are sold? Since a lot of companies are only advertising to their local market, I wouldn't even think this would be an issue.

I doubt newspapers take a cut at all. They charge a fee to post an ad. Regardless, this article is describing the aftermath of Groupon coupons.

How is this any different than a company posting a 50% off coupon in their local newspaper? Groupon is just a different advertising route. I'm not sure why Groupon is being blamed for what follows after customers get the coupon in their hands.

You should make your site compatible with IE.

What happens when you acquire your 4th client?

You really think 10% of the users will donate? I'm thinking more like 0.01% will donate.

Watch your back Patrick. I think you have a new stalker. Seriously though.. this is one of the scariest blog posts I've ever read.

It's cheap, brah. Huh?